John Lennon lashed out at Rod Stewart after 'using Beatles song'

Tonight Rod Stewart will hit BBC 2 at 8pm in a feature that will show off some of the star's biggest performances from throughout the years. While he has some legendary songs under his belt - such as Maggie May, Sailing and Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? to name a few - he was caught in controversy in 1980 by The Beatles star John Lennon. The Fab Four singer claimed Stewart had "used" some of the band's last-ever recorded songs.

Lennon said Stewart's song The Killing of Georgie employed the same melody as The Beatles hit Don't Let Me Down. The star told journalist David Sheff in 1980: "By the way, Rod Stewart turned that [Don't Let Me Down] into ‘[Georgie] don’t go-o-o.’ That’s one the publishers never noticed."

He jokingly asked: "Why didn’t he just sing Don’t Let Me Down? The same reason I don’t sing other people’s stuff: because you don’t get paid."

Source: Callum Crumlish/express.co.uk

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