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From Esquire
Donald Trump has a number of long-running feuds within the music biz over his unauthorised use of various artists' music at his campaign rallies. Rihanna, Pharrell, Neil Young, George Harrison's estate and the Rolling Stones have all tried to get him to stop playing their tunes, with varying degrees of success.
Now it turns out that Trump went one step further and hoped to rewrite artists' songs to celebrate his presidential campaign in 2016. According to the O'Jays' Walter Williams, Trump attempted to rewrite the lyrics to the group's most enduring hit, 'Love Train', to praise himself.
"Yeah, he wanted to change the words to 'Trump Train'", Williams told the Guardian. "We had to send him a cease-and-desist letter."
Sadly we don't have any more detail on the proposed new Trump-centric lyrics beyond that - or whether he intended to rerecord the new words himself and release it as a single - but it's safe to assume it would at least have extended to something like: "People all over the world / Join hands / Start a Trump train, a Trump train".
https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-tried-rewrite-o-111400991.html?ncid=facebook_yahoonewsf_akfmevaatca&fbclid=IwAR0F0C1EkPtm81Ckp8fo8ZMi2_WOZ9jlqV7Cn9_HKD51fTrk0HTa1StRJpM
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,509 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Those guys are amazing!
Still making great, socially conscious music.
tanyev
(42,693 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)have been made redundant!
MontanaMama
(23,369 posts)Way to ruin one of my all time favs.
Kath2
(3,089 posts)More like a hate train.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)That is becoming my go to response for the maggot squatting in our White House.
I seldom use offensive language in real life. When I do it's usually in jest.
I'm not kidding now. Just fuck the POS.
Skittles
(153,321 posts)misanthrope
(7,436 posts)this is the O'Jays tune that most fits Trump.
superpatriotman
(6,256 posts)Those royalties are okay, right?
Mc Mike
(9,118 posts)Best spoken word album.