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At least we know Run-DMC won't be able to embarrass themselves on the soundtrack this time around.
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At least we know Run-DMC won't be able to embarrass themselves on the soundtrack this time around.
Maybe they can make it right with Huey Lewis and let him do the soundtrack this time around.
When the similarities between this song and the theme song of the 1984 film Ghostbusters were heard, Huey Lewis sued Ray Parker Jr. for plagiarism, claiming that Parker had stolen the melody from "I Want a New Drug". Lewis had been approached to compose the main theme song for the film, but had to decline because of his work on the soundtrack for Back to the Future. The producers of the film allegedly then hired Ray Parker and asked him to write a theme that sounded like "I Want a New Drug".
In 2001, in an interview on VH1's Behind the Music, Lewis mentioned the suit. This allegedly breached a confidentiality agreement in the aftermath of the first suit, and led to a countersuit by Parker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want_a_New_Drug
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