A 1980s funk band is suing Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson for allegedly copying parts of its song for use in their hit track “Uptown Funk.”
Collage’s lawsuit claims the Grammy Award–winning 2014 Mars/Ronson collaboration ― which has sold more than 6 million copies and garnered almost 2 billion YouTube views ― borrows heavily from its 1983 single “Young Girls.”
The complaint, which music website Pitchfork obtained on Saturday, alleges that “many of the main instrumental attributes and themes of ‘Uptown Funk’ are deliberately and clearly copied from ‘Young Girls.’”
I'm pretty sure I remember Bruno saying that he thought that he would be sued after writing the song because it was too good to not have been done before... But yeah the similarity is uncanny in some parts.
Never noticed the Jam similarities until now.