28 Songs That Are Based On Classical Music
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- Check out my other two videos on songs based on classical pieces...
14 Songs That 'Rip Off' Classical Music: • 14 Songs That 'Rip Off...
Songs Inspired By Bach: • Songs Inspired By Bach
Classical music can be a great source of inspiration for songwriters of all styles as, most of the time, even the most famous classical works are in the public domain, and therefore, free for us to use however we please! Countless pop and rock songs have been based on classical pieces, with some of the most influential pieces spawning multiple songs!
NOTE: March 2022, I had to remove the section about Pavane and Little Mix due to copyright issues.
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SOURCES:
Classical FM analysis of Bernstein’s “Somewhere”: www.classicfm.com/composers/b...
Jimmy Page interview with the BBC: • Jimmy Page: How Stairw...
Elton John interview with iHeartRadio: • Elton John Demonstrate...
Elton John interview with Classic FM: • Elton John on Classica...
Mike Oldfield interview with Jools Holland: • The origin of Tubular ...
Black Sabbath interview for Classic Albums: • How Heavy Metal was Bo...
Ray Manzarek interview with NTR: • Ray Manzarek & Robby K...
Billy Joel discussing Beethoven: • Billy Joel - Q&A: Who ...
Barry Manilow discussing “Could It Be Magic”: • Barry Manilow - Could ...
Paul McCartney talking about Bouree: • Paul McCartney - Jenny...
Paul McCartney discussing Penny Lane: • Video
Analysis of John William’s “Battle of Yavin”: • Star Wars: "The Battle...
Ray Mazarek describing writing the intro to “Light My Fire”: themuser.blog/2013/05/22/ray-...
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That Beethoven song Joel uses is also used by KISS on their song Great Expectations from Destroyer.
The verse has that exact melody.
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Inerestingly, Billy Joel actually credits Beethoven on the original album notes. Great show of respect.
Very cool. I love his "Innocent Man" album.
My mother and I were just talking about the album *and* the song yesterday. She didn't realize that Billy had lifted part of the melody from Beethoven.
Hurray! Someone finally noted this! I've been saying this for years!
also ,hes tagging himself with Beethoven for reflected glory,trying to put himself into a class were he don't belong
That is entirely subjective and (possibly) completely out of line,@@edfisher6434 You can imagine that if Mozart were alive and had been the one that Billy had referenced in his original music, Mozart would not have scoffed at all. He would have applauded Billy. It's easy enough to imagine that if Beethoven had lived in the same time, he would have thanked Billy for having referred to his compositions for a mainstream pop audience.
That's why The Beatles wrote Get Bach.
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Very crunchy and crispy...
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Also the song "All by myself" by Eric Carmen is based on Rachmaninoff's Piano concerto no. 2 in C minor, opus 18
One of my favs, both of them
Was the first song I expected to be on this list.
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Yup - he left that one out.
Plus "Boats against the current" is based on "Row, row, row your boat".
It's hard to believe that this set doesn't include probably the bigest copy of classical music I know: "All by myself" - this whole song (whole!) is based on the leitmotif from the 2nd part of the 2nd piano concerto by Rachmaninov.
Eric Carmen had to credit Rachmaninoff in the songwriting, as that particular piece was not yet in the public domain.
Same with " Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" : third movement from Symphony no. 2 by Rachmaninov
That was in the first part
There's a lot of similarity between a slow Rachmaninov movement (forget which one at the moment) and "Song of Bernadette" by Leonard Cohen.
As a Disney historian, I was reminded of the quote by a Disney composer from the 1950s: "We've been stealing from Tchaikovsky for years."
Just listen to Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty and compare it to the score for the Disney film 😉
@@giasharie274 yep. Basically, the score is lifted almost directly from the ballet.
Did that come from the Sherwood brothers? Love the anecdote🙂
@@RR-qv8uz No, "The Art of Animation" by Bob Thomas (1959).
*coughs* sleeping beauty
Bach, the real rock star
a bachstar, if you will
Horizon (Genesis) from a C Cello suite
Then there's Beethoven!😊
YEP.
@@mariashouse5492 Yes, very true but even Beethoven recognized his predecessor as one of the masters. His own favourite composer was Handel (The Messiah), however.
Amazing that you did not mention Emerson, Lake and Palmer who based so many of their songs on Classics, Sometimes note-for-note, "Barbarian' (Bartok's "Allegro Barbarro"), "Knife-Edge" (Janáček's "Sinfonietta" and Bach), "The Only Way" (Bach), "Pictures at an Exhibition" (Mussorgsky), "Nut-rocker" (Tchaikovsky), "Hoedown" (Copland), "Toccata" (Ginastera's 1st piano concerto), "Fanfare for the Common Man" (Copland),...
The Court of Crimson King (King Crimson) have introductory melody based on a classic composition, but I don't remember which one and by which composer. Eruption, by Focus, is based on Bartok´s concert for piano.
Very complete answer.
I was familiar with the musical tracks on The Nice, Keith Emerson's band before ELP, and also before my knowledge of classical music expanded significantly. I was stunned time after time to discover classical music riffs that had been unapologetically appropriated by The Nice. I'm not saying they didn't do a good job with them. I just had no idea where they got so many of their musical ideas.
Actually, some of these songs you mentioned were just renditions--not copies/rip offs.
Prokofiev
As for Procol Harum the Hammond organ line of “A Whiter Shade of Pale (1967)” was inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach's “Sleepers, Wake!” and “Air on the G String” 🙂
"These songs aren't protected from copyright"
TH-cam: *I'll fix it don't worry*
For TH-cam to get involved, there needs to be artists or labels making claims.
@@BillyBraga There's a lot of fear mongering in the youtube comments from people who don't understand copyright law. Literally no one wants artists to be exploited. Yet, using their copyrighted music in your (not you Billy) dumb ass reaction video which takes no effort to make whatsoever and expecting to do so without being de-monitized is doing just that - stealing from the artists you love. "But people aren't complaining about that..." YES THEY ARE YOU DUMB FUCK
@@BillyBraga someone can upload a non-copyrighted song on youtube and pass it off as an original work and copyright it , it has already happened before , I think it was a tobu song but I'm not sure , but basicaly someone downloaded the non-copyrighted song , then reuploaded it , then copyrighted it , and then claimed a bunch of people that used it , another case of that happening is someone copyrighted a cover of a video game ost I think and then claimed a bunch of people that used the ost
@@Chris-MusicTheoryAndFretboard How do you know? Not everybody is the same or so you only see that kind of comment on lazy reaction channels? I'm just curious
@@thefakepie1126 happened to me, i played eccles sonata on my saxophone which is too old to be copyrighted and it got struck down. I appealed and nothing
What I've learnt from this is that Gustav Holst is directly responsible for the invention of heavy metal...
Friend you have no idea how much ....... =^>
I'd argue that Bach is bigger father figure to metal than Holst
Holst: The Riffs
Bach: The Shred
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The theme music for a Japanese drama "Rikuo," about a Tabi maker breaking into the athletic shoe market: th-cam.com/video/T08ZQPPQjko/w-d-xo.html
So true, Deep Purple musicians Jon Lord and Ritchie Blackmore were both classically trained. The majority of Purple songs are based around some form of Classical music.
Makes sense now why a lot of rock music fans like listening to classical music. A lot of it is influenced from it. I really appreciate such great musicianship. Its really a testament to their craft.
A lot of metal uses classical progressions, rock not so much.
And rap
5:45 "consciously or not, he might've been inspired by Bach" I think that's really important to remember, that people get subconsciously inspiration too.
I feel like many people that often say "oh they just completely stole it from this and that," especially when 'stealing' from classical music but also in pop songs, don't realize this. It's so easy to get a tune or melody stuck in your head, and to write a song with it. It's very easy to pick this up from anywhere really, even subconsciously.
I love it when people say they don't like classical music. I tell them you do, you just don't know it.
Touché.
I say the same to some of my music mad friends, Inc those who like rock!!
Personally I don't really like classical, but I do respect it for it's place in history. I appreciate and actually enjoy the music built and expanded from it.
Music evolves and just because I like one rendition doesn't mean I like all or the original compositions.
By that logic everyone likes everything yet that's just not really the case
Or, they don’t like classical music.
When I was in college, a friend borrowed my STYX music book cz she was a music major and said that she was sick of playing Bach. She gave me the book back and annoyingly said ‘It’s Bach’
Fuckin hell man
How did she even get the music major?
Bach is the fibonacci sequence of music.
I'll be Bach
She was just telling you where it was :)
I really like it when modern songwriters / composers borrow form classical pieces . In many case people become curious about the source and start to appreciate classical music more
I'm sorry, but listening to Tubular Bells, now 50 years after I first heard it, STILL gives me the chills. Same chills I had as a teenager.
@@TheCommentsWhisperer I followed the Police very closely in the early 80's. I still have my vinyl of Reggata d'Blanc, Outlandos d'Amour, Zenatta Mondatta, and Ghost in the Machine. In my opinion, Ghost in the Machine was a drop off compared to the prior three albums. I believe Bring on the Night is their greatest song.
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Tubular Bells has some weird powerful magic in it and I have never quite been able to describe its effect on me. It triggers a feeling that can't be triggered any other way. It reminds me, not of the 1970s in which I grew up, but of some idealised, nonexistent version of that time instead. The Welsh word "hiraeth" almost fits... but I'm not longing for the past, I'm longing for a version of it that I know never really existed.
over the years, I have become partial to tubular bells 2, but my fave is Ommadawn.
@@TheCommentsWhisperer I think Sting let fame get to his head. That his music became intentionally esoteric. Don't think that much of their music has "legs." On the other hand, I've been listening to a lot of Jim Croce and James Taylor the past month and their music is as fresh now, as it was 50 years ago. What Jim did with words is stunning.
These are all the songs he mentions in this video:
This Night - Billy Joel (2nd Movement Sonata Pathetique - Ludwig van Beethoven)
Blackbird - The Beatles (Bourrée in e minor - JS Bach)
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin (Bourrée in e minor - JSNBach)
Bourrée - Jethro Toll (Bourrée in e minor - JSNBach)
Friends - Led Zeppelin (Mars - Gustav Holst)
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (Mars - Gustav Holst)
The Last Battle - John Williams (Mars - Gustav Holst)
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes (Symphony No.5 in Bflat major - Anton Bruckner)
Light My Fire - The Doors (Invention no. 8 - JS Bach)
Penny Lane - The Beatles (Brandenburg Concerto No.2 - JS Bach)
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield (Toccata and Fugue in D minor - JS Bach)
Plug in Baby - Muse (Toccata and Fugue in D minor - JS Bach)
Jane Seymour - Rick Wakeman (Toccata and Fugue in D minor - JS Bach)
Brainless - Eminem (Toccata and Fugue in D minor - JS Bach)
The Real Thing - 2 Unlimited (Toccata and Fugue in D minor - JS Bach)
Russians - Sting (Romance Theme - Sergei Prokofiev)
Party Like a Russian - Robbie Williams (Dance of the Knights - Sergei Prokofiev)
Somewhere - Leonard Bernstein (Piano Concerto No. 5 mvmt. 2 - Beethoven & Swan Theme - Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky)
Annie's Song - John Denver (5th Symphony in E minor, 2nd mvmt - Pytor Illych Tchaikovsky)
Because - The Beatles (Moonlight Sonata mvmt. 2 - Ludwig van Beethoven)
Better Than Yourself - Lukas Graham (Moonlight Sonata mvmt. 2 - Ludwig van Beethoven)
Neon Gravestones - 21 Pilots (Moonlight Sonata mvmt. 2 - Ludwig van Beethoven)
Could it be Magic - Barry Manilow (Prelude in C minor - Frederic Chopin)
The Globalist - Muse (Nimrod Theme - Edward Elgar)
Tous Les Maux D'Amour - Norma Ray (Pavane in Fsharp minor - Gabriel Fauré)
Natural - S Club 7 (Pavane in Fsharp minor - Gabriel Fauré)
Little Me - Little Mix (Pavane in Fsharp minor - Gabriel Fauré)
A Groovy Kind of Love - Phil Collins (Sonatina No.5 - Musio Clementi)
I Need You to Turn to - Elton John (
The Greatest Discovery - Elton John (
Breathe Me - Cia (Metamorphosis no.1 - Philip Glass)
I was expecting Smoke On The Water to be here, oh well
Mike Oldfield-Guilty (Étoile Polaire (North Star)-Philip Glass)
They're called Light My Fire and Penny Lane.
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You should write a book.
Watching your videos feels like I'm failing a class but enjoy attending
omg exactly
So accurate!!
Right? I had no idea music theory was this fun-
LOL my thoughts exactly 😄
Hats off to you, Master Bennett, for identifying so many borrowed melodies and demonstrating them in both written and audio formats.
it is a way to desmythify the composers, they are just men like you and me who know how to rip other songs.
I know nothing about music, and am a thrash metal fan, but classical music has always fascinated me. This is a great video and makes me realize how timeless it is.
Another good example is “All By Myself” by Eric Carmen, which is a carbon copy of Rachmaninov’s 2nd piano concerto in C# minor, the second movement!
Yes, a very basic example, doesn't the video contain it? :O
He has discussed that on a previous video of his.
Its not "carbon" copy. You cant play one's melodies on other one but they're bssically the same piece yes.
Muse's Butterflies and Hurricanes has a middle piano part what actually IS a "carbon" copy of the same Concerto's first movement.
I actually covered both of Eric Carmen's liftings from Rachmaninov in my previous video on the topic: th-cam.com/video/yknBXOSlFQs/w-d-xo.html 😀
I believe the estate of Rachmaninoff did in fact sue Eric Carmen. Not enough time went by when he borrowed from the Russian composer.
As we say in the Netherlands "Better stolen well than conceived badly"
Or. As Robert Plant said. "BE ORINAL, OR AT LEAST STEAL ELOQENTLY, Or " PETE TPWSEND "EVERY MUSICIAN IS A LIAR AND A THIEF" But , the Netherlands were probably first. hahaa
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works well for babies
Or Steve Jobs: “Good artists copy, great artists steal”
OP how does the saying go in dutch?
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Beter goed gejat, dan slecht verzonnen.
The melody in Bach's bourree is almost exactly the melody for Jack's Lament from Nightmare Before Christmas. Can't believe that's a coincidence.
One composer/artist you neglected to mention led me years ago into a much greater understanding of both classical and jazz and that is Frank Zappa who used short clips of excerpts of Holst's "The Planets" woven directly into his compositions. That is only one example among many. He also on the Mothers of Invention's first album listed names of the people who had influenced him, stating "Please don't hold it against them". As I was a fan of his, I followed his advice, and looked them up. I've been grateful to him ever since.
I'd need to check, but I'm pretty sure that Zappa weaves a passage from Stravinsky's "Petrushka" (played on a celesta) into "Status Back Baby".
@@Khayyam-vg9fw Thanks for the heads-up. That would be absolutely typical of him...I'll check on it myself.
everybody has borrowed from The Planets.
George Martin was truly the fifth Beatle. Not only did he translate classical music into Rock music for them. He also played different instruments on some tracts.
Maybe that’s why it’s taking him so long to finish book 6
There is an excellent BBC radio documentary on George Martin out there somewhere. I wish I could find it.
He absolutely was
And Billy Preston ...
@@ctihodnymuz72 Not even close. He played piano on a just a few songs and wrote none. Martin wrote, arranged, and was the most innovative engineer ever.
Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that Billy Joel credited Beethoven for “This Night”. Even though it was already public domain. Pretty admirable, in my opinion.
Tbf as it's not public domain so he doesn't own Beethoven any money so it's not as suprising
the effort you put into creating these contents are impressing and greatly appreciated
This is amazing. I played Swan Lake as my wife and I were working last night and told her that the exact passage you mentioned always reminded me of Somewhere, from WWS. To hear you confirm my connection one night later is incredible. Also, there are enough examples to do a second part, such as Procol Harem's A Whiter Shade of Pale. Thanks for you dedication to music!
Sting's "Russians" deliberately borrows from Prokofiev's "Lieutenant Kijé". :)
best part of lifting inspiration from classical songs is you don’t get sued by marvin gaye’s family
I'm honestly waiting for the day the Gaye family tries to get Beethoven exhumed so he can face a copyright lawsuit
@@SamuelKristopher Careful guys, you might give 'em ideas XD
Classical songs. Okay.
When Star Wars came out in 1977, the planets were only 57 years old and their creator just 43 years dead. And i know that the Holst foundation has sued people over copying from the work in the past... Curious how John Wiliams avaoided that. But I'm glad he did. Strict copyright is a pain for creativity.
I lol`ed. It’s funny because it’s true, it’s sad because it’s still true.
You know the best part of this video? You spliced in interviews with basic analysis and commentary. It flowed wonderfully, and was enjoyable to watch. I am terrible at theory, and a lot of what you included made so much more sense.
Thanks for making such a wonderful video!
Thank you so much - I've been loving Light My Fire for 25 years, and never heard Ray Manzarek's explanation of where it came from, and the circle of fifths graphic makes it so clear. Really nice to learn something new about a song I love 🙂
I'd like to add "Joybringer" (Manfred Mann's Earth Band) to the list please. An absolutely beautiful pop version of Holst's Jupiter, one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, and the words do full justice to the theme too. A truly up-beat feel-good anthem of a song!
I wish there were more 'rip-offs' of "Swan Lake." That is my favorite classical song.
Pretty long song
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@@Biotechen Cool. Thank you!
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It's not a song
Mars, Bringer of War is also immediately apparent in:
- Children of the Grave - Black Sabbath
- Call Me - Blondie
- Am I Evil - Diamondhead (maybe more famously covered by Metallica)
"The Iron dream" Hawkwind
The Devil's Triangle - King Crimson
They commonly performed the piece in live shows and they wanted to put it in the album, but they didn't allow it then, so they just changed the name, slowed it down, and covered it with a bunch of improvised noise and samples.
@@user-wx2ek3uv1i Steven by Alice Cooper
And in the 2009 Star Trek film.
"Ramses, Bringer of War" by Nile 😉
Super interesting video! I’m terrible at theory and completely illiterate in classical music, but I instantly recognized metal core songs I know in these, amazing how they’ve influenced these artists.
Toccata - Unholy Confessions by Avenged Sevenfold, you can immediately hear it the moment it starts, as well as
Moonlight Sonata - Sweetheart, You are Sadly Mistaken, by Alesana. Again, could almost be note for note. Very cool!
While it was actually more of a Belgian act, as a Dutch 90's kid I feel a certain pride you're featuring 2 Unlimited in one of your awesome videos 😁
I believe my first cassette tape was from them, my second being a copy made from my dad's Beatles records. Now I finally see the link ♥😃
Absolutely loved this video. Way to go David.
Thank you Aimee! That means a lot 😃 I hope you’re well 🙂
I know it’s not really pop, but king crimson’s the Devil’s Triangle is heavily influenced by Gustav Holst’s Mars.
Tons of prog is famously based on classical music - it's almost a feature
And Diamond Head's "Am I Evil," covered by Metallica.
It's more than heavily influenced. They wanted to actually call it Mars, but the estate of Gustav Holst refused.
And so is Black Sabbath’s track Black Sabbath.
I saw the original King Crimson play Mars in Sept 1969. At that time they were open about using it.
Oh, John Williams swiped from a lot of different classical bits -- Zimmer's soundtrack for Gladiator is a pretty heavy swipe from Holst's Mars. Elvis's song Its Now or Never is O Solo Mio, and I Can't Help Fallig in Love is a direct use of Martini's Piacer d'amor
John Williams swiped everything from everybody. Even the famous and much hailed Star Wars was a rearrangement of the "633 Squadron" score by Ron Goodwin! The only two original notes he ever wrote were the TWO notes that make up the entire music for "Jaws". TWO FREAKIN notes is all he ever really thought of! Crikey!
@@owenlaprath4135Pretty sure even those were swiped from Rite of Spring, you can find a few of his themes “borrowed” from it.
Super high quality work, so much archive work and background study! I feel that You could actually have 3-4 channels, as You have several major fortes at Your side. This is like musical history documentary, then You have soothing voice, distinguished but pleasant facial features + search engine said that You play also
I always thought Sting's Russians sounded like "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen". It was even a hit around Christmas time!
I was just about to say the same thing!
It does! I thought that too 😂
I was actually thinking that...
Actually Sting credits Prokoviev in the sleeve notes for Russians, so not exactly hidden
Didn't Greg Lake also borrow from this Ballet for his Christmas song 'I believe in Father Christmas'?
Anyone else notice that the Prokofiev/Sting piece sounds like “God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen”?
I did too
Same here. Also thought it sounded like the theme from the last Harry Potter movie.
" smoke on the water " according to Ritchie Blackmore is Beethovens 5th done in the style of a medieval tune done in 4ths, all will be revealed if you search it.
The Knight Rider theme song is partly based on part of Léo Delibes' "Procession of Bacchus" from the ballet Sylvia.
I listen to classical music on my car radio and my daughter would borrowed my car on some days to drive to college. She would usually change the radio station, but one time she didn’t. When asked why she left the radio on classical; she told me she found it to be relaxing and did not encourage speeding. I considered her to be another convert and a personal victory for me.
This has sort of slo-mo blown my mind. I think of pop and rock artists as organic, starting in their garages with their mates. It never dawned on me that so many of them have strong classical foundations.
Only the good ones.
One of your most delightful videos David!
Wonderful video. I have to mention my favourite examples .Eric Carmen’s two hits ALL BY MYSELF & NEVER GOING TO FALL IN LOVE AGAIN. Based on beautiful works of Rachmaninov who was given co-writing credits.
"Moonlight Sonata" was also the basis for "Schroeder" in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown." And Chopin's Fantasie-Impromptu became "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" in 1917, which has been recorded many times by many artists over the years, Judy Garland among them.
I’ll take a wild guess before watching and assume pachabel is going to be half the video
I've already exhausted all the Pachelbel examples in my previous video: th-cam.com/video/yknBXOSlFQs/w-d-xo.html ☺
Canon in D is the despacito of the classical world
@@miguelpereira9859 I hate you because I love the Canon in D but you're absolutely right...
just noticed my comment might sound harsh, I just wanted to say that it was a bold statement, but a very true one
@@applehack97 I'm not that serious about it lol. I actually took this comment from TwoSet. It's a wonderful piece but it has been overplayed to death unfortunately. Oh and it's also hell if you're a cellist
Diamond Head's "Am I Evil" is another song with Holtz's "Mars" melody. Thank you for all your videos!
Holst.
@@Valvicus thank you for correcting my typo!
Cheers
It is so much work preparing these videos! Thank you effort and the great result associated.
Jimmy Page: "Stairway is inspired by Bach"
SPIRIT HAS ENTERED THE CHAT
Spirit probably also influenced him on an unconscious level as they gigged together. Not more than that. He didn't steal Spirit's song
@@jebatman756 are you joking
How about Soldier of fortune from deep purple?
SPIRIT HAS ENTERED THE CHAT
hello spirit my name is Davey Graham, how you doin ?
@@LoneShot95 That's been through all the American courts with expert witnesses and they say that Led Zep didn't rip-off Spirit's song. Do you know better? It sounds as though Spirit were also "influenced" by J. S. Bach. Nothing wrong with that, as long as you create something new, as Led Zep did with Stairway.
You've probably mentioned this one in other videos, but "Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum, based on a Bach Air, is one of my favorites.
Goddamn it I watched 14 minutes of this fucking video thinking the song was gonna be in it
I was wating the whole time for this, but it never came
Missed one of my favorites! “A Lover’s Concerto” is Minuet in G but in 4 instead of 3! Great video
Thank you for your excellent and forensic look into music. I learned a lot which is always a great thing to experience.
I swear, you are absolutely brilliant at this "explaining music" thing.
A huge amount of work to put this together, thanks very much! Some of those comparisons are a bit of a stretch, but it does serve to demonstrate that good music can appear and be interpreted in different ways. "Whiter Shade of Pale" and "All By Myself" are two that I was previously aware of, but I see both have been covered by other comments.
Kudos for an excellent presentation on an intriguing topic. This brings me more up-to-date on popular music swiped from classical composers. Like beyond A Lover's Concerto (Minuet in G Major, Christian Petzold, probably).
I always love listening to anything DBP presents. So pleasant to listen to. So intelligent. We learn so much from him.
Hats off to those who identify these songs and also to the performers who acknowledge the contribution
and not least to David Bennett for making these videos.
And now we know why metal and symphonic work so well together.
Romanticism with guitars vs. romanticism with oboes.
I’m 1:27 minutes into this video and can I just say, it’s super intelligent how you structured this information for us to understand.
It’s sharpened the way I listen to classical music.
You are impressive, so well rounded with different music styles, well done! you even mention Rick Wakeman and I had the same idea about his work on Seymour, thanks for the video
If you play a rock song backwards your more likely to get a classical tune than a message.
Always wanted a comprehensive list somewhere on the internet. But now you’ve made this, and I’m so happy!! Thanks!
Paul Simon's, "American Tune" a personal favorite, is based on Bach's hymn “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded” from his St. Matthew Passion. I got busted when I began humming the lyrics at a classical concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Yes, and interestingly, the triumphant final chorus of Bach's Christmas Oratorio is the *same* melody as "O Sacred Head" - but transposed up into radiant major and with lyrics about how God has promised us to take vengeance on Satan through Christ. The connection is thinly veiled but must have been obvious to 18th/19th-century audiences. How does God achieve his vengeance on Satan? By the suffering of Christ, of course.
Really interesting and enjoyable video. SO many songs with classical influences or direct copies!
Nice video. You can do an entire part two just on Yes. "Astral Traveler," "The Prophet," "Madigral,", the Stravinsky quotes throughout "The Ancient," the fugue in "Close to the Edge," the medieval unison chant in "Machine Messiah," and soooooo may more.
King Crimson's "The Devil's Triangle" (one of the scariest pieces of music ever written, if you ask me) was heavily inspired by Holst's "Mars" as well. It actually started as a cover of the classical piece they would do in live shows. I have heard that this particular version of "Mars" played by King Crimson around 1969-70 was also the main inspiration for Black Sabbath's eponymous song.
"Mars" is an absolute banger. It's also been directly included in at least two heavy metal songs - the beginning of "Am I Evil" by Diamond Head, which Metallica often covers, and in Symphony X's "Divine Wings of Tragedy."
Yes, King Crimson's second album "In The Wake Of Poseidon", contains "The Devil's Triangle".
And don't forget Rick Wakeman's "Cans And Brahms" from Yes's "Fragile", and his Mellotron-drenched arrangement of Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" from "The Messiah" on his "Six Wives Of Henry VIII".
Great & interesting video. More please!
I found this video well produced and though out. A big thank you. I hope you do more songs like The Beach Boys 'Lady Lynda' and the brilliant 60's song The Toys 'A lovers concerto' oh and Manfred Mann's song 'Joybringer'...
We could go on and on and on... 👍👍
Jimmy Page almost always directly quoted a couple lines from Bach's Bourree at the end of of the Heartbreaker guitar solo when performing live with Zeppelin. Page also recorded an adaptation of Chopin's Prelude, Op. 28, No. 4 in E Minor (titled simply "Prelude") for the soundtrack to the Deathwish II movie and performed it frequently as a solo artist in the 1980s.
I was looking for the Bach/Zeppelin comparo. My buddy blew my mind sitting me down and showing me a ton of Zeppelin songs but with Bach albums.
Your channel is AMAZING, I can see how much effort you put on researching and making your videos. I had no idea about Bach's influence on Penny Lane, how cool was that.
Thanks so much! This video in particular was a real slog!
As a classically trained composer and guitarist, I truly enjoyed this video.
A thoroughly enjoyable podcast with some great tips for future listening. I would also pick out “One Day Like This” by Elbow and “Over The Hillside” by Blue Nile as tracks used to test speakers etc. Thanks Rick.
I just came across your channel the other day and started watching some other videos and your videos are actually very interesting
Barry Manilow practices Chopin, drinks some wine and writes one of the most dramatic songs. It was nice to hear his honesty. So it's a great song.
It’s nice to be featured!
Such a great job, David. Guess we all have to brush up on our classical music history. Has anyone ever contemplated adding all the songs written reaching a mathematical point of no possible new melody progressions available?
There are a couple of jazz standards that have chord progressions that start on a minor triad and have a descending moving voice starting on the root, then going to major 7th, then going to b7 and then to bb7. My Funny Valentine and In a Sentimental Mood are examples. There are others. Page may have got the Stairway intro from there. There seems to be a possible jazz influence in Page’s playing that has never been talked about much. For example, the Wanton song goes into a jazz like chord progression. Also, the Rain Song chord progressions can be analyzed as founded in jazz.
This is awesome! Thank you so much - so well researched - love how eclectic your taste is.
The first song that came to my mind was "Memories" by Maroon 5.
Edit: And basically any song that uses Canon's chords lol
I've already got a video comparing Canon and Memories actually: th-cam.com/video/yknBXOSlFQs/w-d-xo.html 😀
@@DavidBennettPiano Yeah I saw it haha
Reminds new of this standup routine th-cam.com/video/JdxkVQy7QLM/w-d-xo.html
Taking inspiration is one thing. Lazily copying the whole damn melody is another, shame on Adam Levine
@@jebatman756 Yeah the first time that I heard Memories I inmediatly said "That's Canon in D"
I think that if the melody wasn't so obvious, I would like it more and we could call the song an "inspirstion from Canon in D" and not a "Rip Off of Canon in D".
Once again, you have given me a deeper appreciation of music. Thank you.
Excellent and enlightening work, enjoyed it!!
Awesome video. That "Little Me" song intro triggered a nostalgia bone, and I finally figured it out. Not sure if Little Mix used the same sample, but a very similar sample can be heard to the intro of Xzibit's "Paparazzi", which also uses Pavane as the melody of the song.
Fascinating. I wasn't aware of the Classical influence on many of these songs. I learn a lot from your videos!
Thanks Aidan 😃
There is also the end of the Overture movement of Rush’s 2112. They lift the end of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture and Alex Lifeson uses it in his guitar solo
One of the more obvious influences was Procol Harems Whiter Shade of Pale which took from Bach’s Sleepers Awake and Air on G String.
Paul Simon's "American Tune" takes the tune from a Bach piece that Bach stole from someone before him.
The old Lutheran Hymn was used for the folk standard "Because All Men Are Brothers" which Paul Simon knew very well.
Great example! I actually covered “American Tune” in my “Songs inspired by Bach” video: th-cam.com/video/4E8HUjxroFA/w-d-xo.html
4:46 I swear I could hear the Death Star exploding
I thought the same myself.
Just found your channel, will watch all the vids, great stuff
I can add two more pop songs that owe to Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique: Midnight Blue by Melissa Manchester (an easy-listening hit from the mid 70s); and Ace Frehley's guitar solo from the song "Great Expectations" by KISS, on their Destroyer album. Another thing to take note of, it sounds to me that the intro to Prokofiev's "Romance Theme" might've been inspired by "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen". Maybe.
Im so glad you brought up Mars and Star Wars, I have been sitting on that knolwedge for so long im glad its finally seen the light of day
6:10 this invention by Bach is played incidentally on another Beatles song: All You Need Is Love
Absolutely amazing video! Thank you so much!!!
This is an Outstanding video. Well done!
David is so knowledgeable. I learn a lot studying these videos.
I love these videos! It's amazing how, to me at least, the original classical pieces are so much more beautiful than the songs based on them.
You are a trusted source for this monstrously large and key part of the human consciousness- well done!