Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck reviewing claims they stole lyrics from a poem

Representatives for Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck have stated the duo will evaluate allegations they stole lyrics from a poem on their collaborative album ’18’.

The poem Hobo featured in a 1974 e book about toasts, Get Your Ass In The Water And Swim Like Me, by Bruce Jackson, reviews Rolling Stone.

It revolves round a person named Slim Wilson who additionally vocalised the poem and featured the next lyrics: “Women of tradition and wonder so refined, is there one amongst you that might grant me wine?/ I’m raggedy I do know, however I’ve no stink/ And God bless the woman that’ll purchase me a drink/ Heavy-hipted Hattie turned to Nadine with fun/ And stated, ‘What that funky motherfucker really want, youngster, is a shower.”

Depp and Beck’s collaboration ‘Unhappy Motherfuckin’ Parade’ has allegedly pulled a variety of traces from the poem together with: “I’m raggedy, I do know, however I’ve no stink,” “God bless the woman that’ll purchase me a drink,” and “What that funky motherfucker actually wants, youngster, is a shower.”

Jackson claims that he hasn’t been credited by Depp or Beck.

Now, a spokesperson for Depp and Beck stated: “We’re reviewing the inquiry referring to the track Unhappy Motherfuckin’ Parade on the 18 album by Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp. If applicable, further copyright credit will likely be added to all types of the album.”

Jackson advised Rolling Stone: “The one two traces I might discover in the entire piece that [Depp and Beck] contributed are ‘Huge time motherfucker’ and ‘Bust it right down to my degree’. All the pieces else is from Slim’s efficiency in my e book.

“I’ve by no means encountered something like this. I’ve been publishing stuff for 50 years, and that is the primary time anyone has simply ripped one thing off and put his personal title on it.”

Jackson’s son, Michael Lee Jackson added that he was trying into attainable authorized choices, however confused {that a} lawsuit hadn’t been filed. However he claimed that the present credit on ‘Unhappy Motherfuckin’ Parade’ are incorrect.

“They don’t replicate the precise authorship of these lyrics,” he stated. “It’s simply not believable, in my view, that Johnny Depp or anyone else might have sat down and crafted these lyrics with out virtually wholly taking them from some model of my father’s recording and/or e book the place they appeared.”

Depp made headlines on Might 29 when he made a shock look at Beck’s present in Sheffield. He went on to affix Beck on stage at a handful of different gigs regardless of awaiting the decision in his defamation trial towards his ex-wife Amber Heard on the time.

The pair then introduced their collaborative album which was launched on July 15 after three years of recording.