Viva La Vida

Coldplay has been sued for or accused of plagiarism by The Creaky Boards (“The Songs I Didn’t Write”), Joe Satriani (“If I Could Fly”), and Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens (“Foreigner Suite”) for alleged similarities to their songs, though none of the legal actions were successful. Music professor Dr. Lawrence Ferrara noted that all of the above songs were similar to a piece entitled “Se tu m’ami” by the eighteenth-century Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.