There are so many songs that quote others. At the risk of hi-jacking this thread, Led Zeppelin took the intro of Stairway from Spirit and "working from seven to eleven every night" from Moby Grape, both are acknowledged by them as influences. They were sued successfully by Willie Dixon. How about Lennon's appropriation of Chuck Berry's "here come old flattop..." in Come Together? Morris Levy temporarily got an album out of Lennon for plaigarising "Chuuk." Levy owned the publishing rights to "You Can't Catch Me." Harrison's My Sweet Lord/He's So Fine debacle is well documented. I've heard PDQ Bach quote many of the masters and they never sue. why? lol!!
Linda
Linda
Although U2 did release a song called "Beautiful Day" and it does have the lyric "It's a Beautiful Day", in it, it isn't about the group.
I want to mention that It's a Beautiful Day's debut album is also very good. It has their best known song on it, "White Bird" and it is a stunning, beautiful song. I remember the first time I heard it and I knew I HAD to get the record.
A tidbit about this album - Deep Purple stole the main theme from "Bombay Calling" and used it in their song, "Child in Time" on the album "Deep Purple In Rock"
Doug