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I can attest to that too, the main musical theme more than anything else

lol no need to say sorry Tom! Run To The Hills - Iron Maiden

interesting, neither of you seemed to notice that I moved away from states, instead deciding to interpret Georgia as a girls name lmao I thought you would have noticed "Caroline" wasn't a state.

sweet caroline - neil diamond

Wow, so long ago I can't remember what got me started. Probably my mum. She was an opera singer and taught piano. For all that I started on a piano I quickly moved to violin. It was my main instrument as a child, though I went through a number of instruments from singing to drums, bagpipes, bugle... eventually at 15 I arrived at the guitar as my main instrument for the last 30 years. Quite apart from music I started writing occasional poems sometime around 11 years old, and some rudimentary songs not long afterwards, though I only shared those with family until I was 16 or so. My influences are very broad, and have always been that way. I did go through a folk writer phase, mainly because of the lyrics to be honest, the other main influence being heavy rock and progressive rock, and a degree of classical music (I've always been a sucker for Beethoven, Chopin and Rachmaninov piano sonatas). Individual popular artists are also broad, from David Bowie to Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin to Free, Groove Armada, Air, Zero 7, Jethro Tull, Crosby Stills and Nash, Massive Attack and Radiohead and many more.

Welcome to Songstuff Jamen

Hi and Welcome to Songstuff Kris!

Have you tried the Musician's Union? As a member I believe you are entitled to legal support. If you are determined to release it, why not release your original and video, make no specific case, simply the date you recorded it, and tell a story of submitting it to a named artist (without naming them). No mash ups, so direct references, simply leave it up to the listener to make any connections. You will need to prove when your song was written, and that you wrote it. If you can't do that (providing documented evidence of publication etc.) then you won't get anywhere at all. It's not just about demonstrating similarity or even exposure to the song, the fundamental are the timeline proof and proof of ownership. If you cannot prove both of those with substantial proof and there is a strong similarity then I would not release your song. Their lawyers would have a field day. I am not legal counsel, nor legally trained so please don't rely upon my comments or consider it legal advice. There are a few music lawyers that are members but they might not be willing to offer advice. I am not sure if we have any members who are specifically forensic musicologists, but we might, who knows