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DID YOU EVER get a niggling feeling in the back of your head that Sam Smith’s Stay With Me sounded a little bit like something else?
Tom Petty did. The track sounds an awful lot like a single of his, I Won’t Back Down.
The Sun reports that following a claim over the similarities of the track settled out of court in October of last year, Smith must now pay a share of royalties to Petty and co-author Jeff Lynne.
Both are now listed as co-writers of the song.
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It is reported that Sam Smith wasn’t too put out by the whole experience, with a statement from his representatives saying ‘all involved came to an immediate and amicable agreement’, but that Smith didn’t actually know Petty’s 1989 single.
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The statement called it “a complete coincidence”.
Check out Petty’s track below:
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