separated at birth...

We were inadvertently listening to Queen of New Orleans by Jon Bon Jovi the other day when Mrs McMuffin recognised the guitar riff as being from one of our favourite songs, Hey, Johnny Park! by The Foo Fighters. It doesn't just sound similar, it's a total ripoff. The Jon Bon Jovi song was released on an album called Destination Anywhere in June 1997 and the Foos' song was released on the album The Color and The Shape in May 1997. It's bad enough that Jon Bon Jovi has stolen a great riff, although he always was a bit derivative, so it doesn't come as that much of a surprise. The sad thing is that Dave Stewart apparently co-wrote the song.

Just interesting. That's all.