GARY MOORE Loses German Plagiarism Case

December 3, 2008

Reuters reports that German court has ordered former THIN LIZZY guitarist Gary Moore to pay damages after ruling the guitar solo in his 1990 hit "Still Got the Blues" had been plagiarized from a German song written in 1974.

A court in the southern city of Munich said on Wednesday the solo in Moore's song was too similar to the one in "Nordrach" by the band JUD'S GALLERY not to have been copied — even though the German song was not available on record at the time.

In a statement, the court ordered Moore, 56, from Northern Ireland, and his record label to pay damages to band leader Juergen Winter who brought the case. The amount has yet to be fixed.

Read the entire report from Reuters.

GARY MOORE – "Still Got The Blues":

JUD'S GALLERY - "Nordrach" (listen beginning around five-minute, 23-second mark):

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