I stopped paying attention many pages ago. Forgive me, for this may have been covered.
Buthow specifically is mike love comparable to johnny johnson? Did Johnny Johnson write lyrics?
I haveread elsewhere online that there was a similar trial analogous to the bri vs mike one with johnny b goode vs chuck wth them on the stand playing songs and such. Anyone got those transcripts?
No, Johnny Johnson came up with much of the music, not the lyrics.
So his lawsuit was just as I imagined and completely without merit.Uh,the words were pretty important.
No, the lawsuit was not without merit at all -- he lost just because of the length of time between the songwriting and the court case. Just as with Mike's case, he never claimed to have written *everything*, just to have been a co-writer. In Johnson's case he wrote music and someone else wrote the lyrics. In Mike's case he wrote lyrics and someone else wrote the music. Since *both* words and music are "pretty important" to a song, both were unfairly denied credit.