19 Songs Based On Classical Pieces

📌UPDATE: I've had to remove the clip of "Today, Tomorrow & Forever" by Elvis Presley due to copyright issues. Sorry!
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Because most classical music is in the public domain, it makes for a great source of inspiration for new songs. You can "rip off" any Bach, Beethoven or Brahms piece as extensively as you like and you'll never have to worry about any legal consequences. I've already made four entire videos looking at pop and rock songs based on classical pieces and yet there are plenty more examples to take a look at!
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[@DavidBennettPiano]

📌UPDATE: I've had to remove the clip of "Today, Tomorrow & Forever" by Elvis Presley due to copyright issues. Sorry!

[@joaovitorpires3184]

I always come back to hear your accent

[@RockandRollWoman]

I just used that link and created a new account, and got a message that I have 14 days left in a trial. No place to put a discount code. What did I do wrong?

[@losthor1zon]

I heard a song on the radio in the late '90s or early '00s that was (I think) a motown style song, sung by a male voice, but it was about the same time as I started to listen more closely to Brahms, and I recognized it as the 3rd movement of his 3rd symphony. However, it wasn't "Love Of My Life", or if it was, it was done differently, because the timing of the melody was identical to Brahms (3/8 or 3/4), rather than being stretched into 4/4 time. I still haven't figured out what it was.

[@BixenteFabregas]

Many many Serge Gainsbourg's composition (who was also a plagiarist, but this is another matter entirely)

[@BrankoVT]

Imagine if old music kept its copyright even after a few hundred years. It would be a jurisdictional hell.

[@BenjaminKassel]

Don’t give UMG ideas...

[@whynotanyting]

The world would catch fire

[@ftumschk]

Indeed. Bach's music might be immortal, but luckily his lawyers weren't ;)

[@alfonzog_music]

The piece enters Public Domain after 70 years have passed since the composer has

[@robhogg68]

@@alfonzog_music Which means that works like Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, composed in 1913, won't be out of copyright until 2041... seems excessive. Also, not set in stone - e.g. in the US, there was the law variously known as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act or the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which extended copyright terms back in 1998.

[@PutingPinoy]

It bothers me sooo much that I didn’t ever make the connection between “For the Damaged Coda” to Chopin’s Nocturne! That was one of my top 3 piano pieces since 2005 when I got suuuuper into Chopin.

[@Halo_Legend]

Yeah but they sound nothing alike. I can understand you musical people may be able to tell notes from hearing them, but at least I can't, so don't worry.

[@krztvl_v2]

I made the connection right away and I was so bothered by the comments on the Damaged Coda video saying Oh this sounds exactly like Moonlight Sonata 🙃

[@dr.vonfunkulusthecrimsonho6794]

Yeah, same. Thats my favorite Chopin piece and I just died when I realised I never made the connection

[@eplecor]

David = musical knowledge : on point, sweater game: on point

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thanks! 😂

[@NicolasCharly]

I really will never understand fashion. 10 years ago, that type of sweater would have been ridiculed and considered "Has been". Not that it is, just that fashion trend are about perpetual recycling of previous trends, updated and regurgitated.

[@atomiccritter6492]

I think Bach wore a sweater like that :)

[@redcreed_]

@@NicolasCharly Looks like someone used a thesaurus

[@NicolasCharly]

@@redcreed_ Contact me again when "recycling", "updated" and "regurgitated" share the same meaning.

[@SangahNoona]

Wow, I didn’t know my voice was so low

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Hi Sangah! Great cover! 😁 Sorry that I had to pitchshift it down a semitone!

[@Em4gdn1m]

Haha you know, when your version does the key change down a half step...

[@joshua2400]

God Christ Jesus bless you all and have a wonderful day today my family :" )

[@Thegoldenringsyt]

@@Em4gdn1m lol

[@weakw1ll]

I lol

[@singerofsongss]

I love this series! One of the underrated things I take away from this channel is that I get to experience more music that I often hold onto and listen to later - both classical and modern!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Great! 😁😁

[@bipbipletucha]

That rick and morty one just blew my mind wow

[@youtubecommenter2]

Mine too, I was especially surprised that I didn't know about this before considering I'm such a Chopin fan.

[@michaeldd8948]

Funny how I realize this long ago by clicking a link in the comment section of this song

[@moofmoofnguyen1175]

yeah, nocturne Op.55 No.1 was my fav by Chopin, was feel it weirdly simiar to something but never make the connection

[@oofyalDAMMIT]

Looking at the thumbnail alone, I was intrigued...and am a Chopin fan as well!!

[@Xplayer007]

I always appreciate how you don't bury the lede and put the song from the thumbnail as the first example in the video

[@andreasfrost-blade4689]

It’s probably the other way around but yeah it’s pretty great

[@geckogeico2212]

@@andreasfrost-blade4689 no it's not

[@andreasfrost-blade4689]

@@geckogeico2212 I don’t think you understand my comment. I believe he records the video and puts the first song in the thumbnail rather than composing the thumbnail first or editing the video in such a way that the thumbnail song is first.

[@vanessafrey3557]

You could probably do a whole video about modern songs based on the Canon in D by Pachelbel lol

[@DavidBennettPiano]

I have actually! 14 Songs That 'Rip Off' Classical Music kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5zRc4uFiNF5h9U 😃

[@dylanvickers7953]

This is a bit by a guy named Rob Paravonian who jokes about being relentlessly followed by Cannon in D hiding in pop music.

[@shooting6lasers]

@@DavidBennettPiano I believe Hook by Blues Traveler is also based on Canon in D. I didn’t notice it mentioned in the original song, so I could be wrong but to me at least, there’s a huge resemblance to Pachelbel.

[@DevilboyScooby]

@@dylanvickers7953 Axis of Awesome's Four Chords is also the same principle, only they don't mention Pachelbel.

[@atomiccritter6492]

Indila - Feuille D'Automne --- kzbin.info/www/bejne/emqXpp-Yeqatibs

[@thefugue1298]

There’s something poetic about how music is passed down, borrowed, and still inspires new music to be made. Old tunes are modified to fit a new narrative for a new generation. These videos always wow me with how much passes on to new generations and such,

[@thegoalistheplan3868]

I’m also 99,9% sure gemnopede No.1 is used in the soundtrack for Minecraft

[@dcurry7287]

There's a very similar/heavily inspired track called Sweden.

[@AidanXavier1]

This channel actually has a whole video about the minecraft music, featuring Mumbo Jumbo

[@thegoalistheplan3868]

@@AidanXavier1 I know and I’ve seen it. Still, I feel like it’s at least worth mentioning

[@Inertia.]

yeah I thought it was 100% the same too

[@tristinbell]

I really thought that was where he would take it

[@arielkars6150]

I could not believe how good was for the damaged coda when I heard it for the 1st time. Now I understand... took some Chopin for my own arrangements too... his stuff is too good to be true

[@BehdadPiano]

I many times tried to figure out the Chopin E minor prelude chord changes and glad you put it in this video!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Brilliant chord progression!

[@WayneKitching]

It's in the public domain. Just google it.

[@prototypeinheritance515]

btw. if you're looking for classical music just go to imslp.org, they have thousands of classical pieces available free of charge

[@aaronclift]

We need a full video on how many people have borrowed from Holst's "The Planets" and Stravinsky's, "The Rite of Spring."

[@georginatoland]

Heck yeah!

[@peterkelley6344]

Or Even Edvard Greeg(sp?) and the Hall of the Mountain King.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Agreed!

[@aaronclift]

@@DavidBennettPiano do it!

[@nickn2794]

Only John Williams comes to my mind. Are there others? I don't consider it copying though, more like quoting/beeing influenced. Past composers did that a lot to show ammiration and musical erudition. Mozart, Beethoven, all of them.

[@Polyphemus47]

I just now discovered your channel. This subject has fascinated me for many years, being a music lover of nearly all genres.

[@tiemenscholten3755]

Awesome series! These videos are more like quizzes to me: ‘what song is used in this modern song’ and so many times it’s clear, but when it’s not you can really make the connection between the two

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Glad you like them 😃😃

[@tiemenscholten3755]

@@DavidBennettPiano I really do! You’ve inspired me to get back behind the piano too, after stopping for about 6 years now

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Tiemen Scholten excellent! Keep it up!

[@ftumschk]

Sting's "Russians" quotes the "Romance" from Prokofiev's _Lieutenant Kijé_ suite, and Greg Lake's "I Believe in Father Christmas" uses the "Troika" movement from the same work.

[@vicnutt6742]

Blood, Sweat, & Tears quoted Prokofiev's "Romance" back in the 1970s on their BS&T 3 song, "40,000 Headmen". The melody gets a lot of mileage!

[@Woodsaras]

I think he covered this in his previous video

[@peterkelley6344]

This series of comparisons is what brought me to your channel. I think I am sticking around.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Cheers 😀

[@videosefilmes22]

"Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" by Spiritualized borrows simultaneously from Pachelbel's Canon in D and Elvis' Can't Help Falling In Love

[@funkyman423]

Oh man I never realized I could “steal” from my favorite classical pieces...I suppose that’s just how music works. I can’t wait to play with this idea David. Wonderful video, well researched and well produced I love your work so much 🥲

[@stravinskyfan]

That's called having no honor.

[@vaakdemandante8772]

An artist claiming to have any tangible rights to a piece of music is a sign of stupidity at best and of evil soul at worst. Music is discovered not invented. Those sounds and melodies already exist. One cannot make any sounds that aren't inherently possible in this Universe.

[@Testgeraeusch]

4:21 please tell me i'm not the only one looking out for creepers when this tune plays...

[@00SNIVY00]

Maybe C418 drew inspiration from it when composing for Minecraft, but Gymnopedie no. 1 is not actually a piece in the game :P

[@phillipwalk3r]

@@00SNIVY00 I swear it is

[@00SNIVY00]

@@phillipwalk3r it certainly sounds similar to some of the pieces in the game, but that's all it is, I've never heard it once while playing. Sweden perhaps is the closest thing to it? I would have to listen to a few of the pieces to know which one it's similar to.

[@ferowaw]

oh, so that's why i thought i had already heard it

[@Testgeraeusch]

@@00SNIVY00 i haven't played in a while, but that brought back memories. But it is probably the timbre and general harmizing technique, not the exact melody.

[@tubebydefault]

Great video again, David. Love the connection between the classical and modern. Makes you wonder if anything is really new.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thanks Hugh 😃

[@clifftownsend3027]

That's a good point, Hugh. I don't think anything is really new. It's all been done before in some form or other.

[@chiconildo]

Serge Gainsbourg did this a lot. He took the same prelude Jobim used to write Insensatez and wrote Jane B. He took another piece by Chopin (Étude Op. 10, No. 3 in E major) and wrote Lemon Incest. My Lady Heroine is based on an excerpt from In a Persian Market. He even makes a reference in the lyrics ("un marché persan"). And many more.

[@spindriftdrinker]

The French kind of lost their taste in music after World War II. George Brassens was one exception.

[@clifftownsend3027]

Tchaikovsky is a much-adapted popular song source. Many of his melodies have been set to lyrics. "Our Love" is from Romeo and Juliet; "Moon Love" and "Save Me a Dream" are both from the 2nd movement of his 5th Symphony; "The Story of a Starry Night" is from the 1st mvt. of the 6th Symphony; "On the Isle of May" is the Andante Cantabile of his 1st String Quartet; and there is "Once Upon a Dream" from Sleeping Beauty. Did you mention Chabrier's España, which Perry Como turned into "Hot Diggity, Dog-Ziggity, Boom, What You do To Me"? "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" is from Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu. Della Reese used to do "Don't You Know?", which is Musetta's Aria from Puccini's La Boheme. You missed Elvis Presley's "Surrender", which is from another Italian street song, "Return to Sorrento." And his "Love Me Tender" is actually "Aura Lee." Barry Manilow uses a Chopin Prelude for his "Could It Be the Magic?" The tune "Easter Eggs" is from a passage in Stravinsky's Petrouchka, but I don't know which came first. These are enough to get you started, David. I'll probably think of more later.

[@smallpseudonym2844]

Everybody's Making Money But Tchaikovsky - 1941 - KZbin - :)

[@nathanielwallace7970]

These classic songs inspiring modern music is the reason I’m a subscriber. (Although I watch all your videos and love them) Thanks!!!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thanks! 😃😃😃

[@judih.8754]

Excellent David! I love these comparisons and contrasts. You do a great job explaining them. Cheers!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thanks 😃😃

[@alfred4264]

0:35 this explains why I found this music sounds familiar to me upon hearing it for the first time.

[@joeymurphy2464]

Can't forget about Rush's "2112" - a modern 7-movement song which contains a small piece of the 1812 Overture (note the 300 year gap!) in the first movement. I love the fusion of some classical themes with a lot of futuristic qualities too.

[@gael852]

Yes!! You mentioned Billy Joel! He really has many examples from classic music. He likes It.

[@georginatoland]

The Piano Man is the best, man. 👍🏼

[@johnrottler4000]

@@georginatoland It seems to be very closely related to Pachelbel’s Canon

[@npetrikov]

I saw him in concert about a year ago, and he quoted a lot, although all I remember now is his quoting some Puccini at one point. Went right over the crowd's head, probably. :-)

[@WesCoastPiano]

David I have three more Chopin songs for you: Hyacine House by the Doors has a direct reference to Chopin's Op 53 Polonaise in A Flat Major. Till The End Time an old Perry Como song is based on the same Polonaise. And Jo Stafford - No Other Love is directly lifted from Chopin's Etude #3 Op 10 in E Major. I hope that helps!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Interesting! I’ll take a look at these, thank you 🙂

[@TaffmanGuyo]

Fabulous video Mr B., have shared this on Facebook & my muso-mates are loving it!

[@Soda-bu5jk]

Love the videos

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thanks!

[@vladoleksa6239]

Perfect video, I just add some, Eric Carmen - All by myself (Rachmaninov), Sting - Russians (Prokofiev), Beatles - Because (Beethoven)

[@holycheeseburger]

It was confusing me that "What is a Youth" sounded so much like another song I remembered from long ago, and I realised it was an alternate version, called "A Time for Us", with lyrics by Larry Kusik and Eddie Snyder, recorded by Johnny Mathis, Shirley Bassey, Andy Williams, and Stevie Wonder - and generally known as "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet".

[@fsinjin60]

Same piece. Same actual use in Romeo and Juliet, just “A Time for Us” are the English lyrics.

[@greob]

"All by Myself" by Eric Carmen was based on Rachmaninoff's Piano concerto n°2 in C minor (great piece too).

[@krztvl_v2]

And Eric Carmen's "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" is based on Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2, 3rd Movement!

[@senc1971]

Thanks for another well-researched video! An added bonus for me that it includes both Ode to Joy and Tales from the Vienna Woods....

[@LA_O_CO_ON]

Chopin's Prelude No. 4, Op 28 sounds a lot like Radiohead's "Exit Music (For a Film)", from OK Computer.

[@aymanekouera2302]

If you listem to it carefully you could sense chopin melancholy

[@Axe19909]

man, I love how you build up your info on the damaged coda at the beginning of the video and then punch in with the info about how it's based on Chopin just before the climactic verse kicks in. It made me smile and repeat the into several times actually XDXDXD

[@OboeCanAm]

10:35 That melody is from an old German Drinking song called "Fuchslied". In 1880, many German university students would have been familiar with the song when they heard the Brahms overture.

[@jonathanscherpenbach9913]

Thank you! I basically only know "Can't help falling in love with you"; but upon hearing "Liebesträume 3" I'm somehow always thinking of Elvis. Now I know.

[@creativitytoolkit6719]

Love this series!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thank you 😁

[@frankzelazko]

David, you are doing an amazing job. yet another very educational video

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thanks!!

[@presterjohn7789]

There's a fine line between film and classical music, especially when composers, such as Nino Rota, were also 'classical' composers (he wrote a lot of chamber music, some great symphonies, many concertos, and a few ballets, operas and oratorios). I have heard Rota studied from the Italian renaissance long before R&J. Also, at least some music was composed for the Zefferelli (same director as the movie) stage play from the early '60s. I have never heard that music, so I don't know if it is the same, but I think it might be assumed that the music he wrote was originally for the stage, not film.

[@Nevermindhorror]

The intro to the song "Will You Be There" by Michaël Jackson is an extract from Beethoven's Ninth ! Great video as always ! I love to hear you talk about classical music being an inspiration to nowadays music. A proof that classical music will live on forever !

[@biggiecheese5328]

Difficult To Cure by Rainbow also uses Ode To Joys melody

[@samsongwriter3437]

Love for videos Dave! Cheers from Brazil

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thanks! 😃😃

[@EpifanesEuergetes]

I never realized It's Now Or Never counts as a song in its own right. I always just thought of it as a translation of O Sole Mio.

[@petrapavicic]

same!

[@plamp3216]

A WHOLE David Bennett video with no trace of Beatles and/or Radiohead? The end is nigh, I tell you... ... but, yes, a great video nonetheless -this channel is a veritable goldmine, thank you for your work and for putting your great musical knowledge to great use.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thanks! 😀😀

[@harripalomaki8796]

Just in case you haven't covered this yet: All Together Now by The Farm is based on Pachelbel's Canon.

[@handreieiacasa]

Great video!! Thanks you as always for your accurate work, we love it.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Cheers! 😀😀

[@lennylorenz4511]

Hey David, really nice Video as always. You could look up the song "Questions" by Manfred Mann. You can hear it is influenced by Schubert's Impromptu Op. 90 No.3

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Interesting! I’ll have to check that one out!

[@homiepr8]

Thankyou you have made me found more tunes for my classical Spotify playlist.

[@seaweedstache1501]

Glad to see Bright Eyes and Conor Oberst getting some love.❤️

[@septima_de_dominante]

3:08 Ooooh!!! Thanks!!! XD I was trying to find "that song with one of the Gymnopédie (I'm not big fan enough of Satie to remember exactly which one LOL 😅) as background" and here it is!! Thanks again!!

[@leonhardeuler675]

David: 'O Sole Mio Every British person ever: "JUST ONE CORNETTOOOOO...".

[@DavidBennettPiano]

I considered including that in this video actually 😂😂

[@PaulandAdam]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIWvd31_a6d7jKc

[@davincent98]

Jim Carrey: I'll stay out of this one.

[@WayneKitching]

That ad and song also made it to South Africa.

[@DevilboyScooby]

Embarrassingly that was the first version I think I heard 😂

[@RupayanBasu]

Great video! Another example: ‘All by Myself’ by Eric Carmen (and covered by Celine Dion) was taken from Rachmaninoff’s 2nd piano concerto.

[@Malor666]

That popped in my head before the video even started.

[@nicolassalmon824]

Hi ! I'm surprised you never mentionned Serge Gainsbourg in your videos, who wrote dozens of songs based on classical music. I recommend "Lemon Incest", or "Initials BB" as the most obvious and interesting uses, but there are plenty of others

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Interesting! I recognise the name but I’ll have to look up the music! Thanks 😃

[@jeromebasson2096]

Oh yes for sure one of the most important songwriter in modern French music. As well as William sheller's uses of his classical studies in his pop works.

[@linerondard5417]

Yesss, you should take a look at french music ! Concerning Serge Gainsbourg, you've mentionned the Brahms symphonie N 3, which he transformed into "Baby alone in Babylon" and Chopin prelude N 6 Op 28, which is used in "Jane B". If Serge Gainsbourg doesn't ring a bell, maybe Jane Birkin does, and those 2 pieces of music are dedicated to her 😉 Thank you for your videos there are great !

[@galagasjay6544]

Yesterday I heard a similarity between the guitar in "Underground" by Tom Waits and Tchaikovsky's Seasons, Op 37a: VI. June, Barcarolle. Maybe it's just a coincidence on scales but knowing that Tom Waits is a piano player maybe he took inspiration from there, great video and cheers mate.

[@munteacher]

I've no problem with popular music basing their pieces on classics or just borrowing a little here and there. I just wish they would give a little credit where credit is due: "Inspired by..." or "based on..." It would take nothing away from the pop artists and might get their listeners to give the originals a try as well.

[@idletimerap]

So I haven't seen the whole series of these videos so forgive me if this has been covered but I've been obsessed for a while with the progression of the song "Daydream" Claude François has "Reveries" which was inspired by Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Which then inspired "Daydream" - Wallace Collection Then to "Squares" by the Beta Band Which inspired the popular "Daydream in Blue" - I Monster (where I first encountered it) To then again be re-popularized by Lupe Fiasco in "Daydreamin'" It's just a super cool multi-genre journey of a single theme including Swollen Members and other unnamed versions

[@CarCar75]

The Beatles “Because” is based on moonlight sonata played backwards

[@user-hu3iy9gz5j]

Because the world is round it turns me on

[@jsbachrachs]

Love these videos! This is kind of a deep cut, but I remember the first time I listened to Many Lives ---> 49 MP by Owen Pallett, the last 15 seconds flipped a switch in my brain because it's a quote from the ending of the fourth movement of Bach's Violin Sonata #1 in G minor. I felt like I knew what I was talking about for like a full 30 seconds when I discovered that one.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

5:01 Hey there's another song to the tune of that called Joyful Joyful from Sister Act 2.

[@Georgeth-kb6rg]

Yvonne Keeley & Scott Fitzgerald - If I had words (1977) / Symphony for Organ - Camille Saint-Saëns

[@frankfrank7921]

Three takeaways here: classical composers can't sue so go right ahead and lift away, if you're an aspiring songwriter start listening to a lot of classical music and it is virtually impossible to write something truly original and unique especially when someone uses two bar snippets for comparison.

[@ebin7906]

Your videos are always such great quality :)

[@MinusMOD98]

I like how the first names of the read list fell in time with the background music :D

[@lucyj8204]

"Pitchshifted to aid comparison" - transposes into D flat because why not. TIL a lot about Rach/Pag, one of my indulgent favourites, so thanks!

[@underroot2545]

Minecraft's music (Sweden by C418) also follows a simmilar chord progression as of Gymnopédie No. 1

[@papawoody9597]

Hayley Westenra's Never Say Goodbye is lifted from Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess, and River of Dreams is the 2nd movement of Vivaldi's Winter with lyrics added. Both are beautiful, as are the works they're based on.

[@Galantski]

"Cans & Brahms" by Yes is a repurposing of the end of the 3rd movement of Johannes Brahms's 3rd Symphony. It is a note-for-note synth adaptation with Rick Wakefield soloing. As for the title, one plausible explanation is that "cans" refers to the headphones he wore in the studio for the recording. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ombLapiAj5lrm6c'

[@cwize]

You may have previously covered this, but the Sibelius 5th Sympnony lick is also the French Horn bridge in First Class’s “Beach Baby” (1974)

[@pablosalgaddo]

Great series!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thanks Pablo 😃

[@christophergetchell6490]

Awesome to see one of my favorite piano streamers, Sangah Noona, used here as an example!

[@stapler942]

Pop composers: quoting a couple bars from an older piece is a neat way to pay homage while creating something new. Charles Ives: Hold my beer.

[@annoschreier1860]

Mick Ronson's guitar solo in Bowie's song "Time" also quotes the Ode to Joy melody.

[@franciscoraccanello647]

You know you are weird when you have never hear any of the songs but you recognize all the pieces

[@DeGuerre]

Gounod's Ave Maria was probably a university exercise. For about 150 years, it was a standard exercise for every student at the Paris Conservatoire to set a tune to Bach's WTC Book 1 Prelude in C Major. Speaking of which, it's worth mentioning "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga. The opening is a literal quote from the Fugue in B minor from Book 1.

[@georginatoland]

My memory may be a bit faulty, but isn’t Barry Manilow’s “Could It Be Magic?” based on a Chopin death march? (Prelude in C minor, Opus 28, Number 20.)

[@Neal_Schier]

I believe you are correct. Good catch.

[@matthewbrown3133]

David, thank you for all your amazing content and insight! I find myself watching and rewatching your videos when I want to learn more about music theory and the amazing interconnected nature of music creation. One recent song that appears to lift from classical music that I really haven't seen anyone mention is "High Hopes" by Panic! at the Disco. The opening four note progression is identical to the beginning of Puccini's "Vissi d'arte", just lowered by a half tone. I was listening to some opera while doing some work recently, and was like "Wait a second, I've heard this same lick somewhere!"

[@MrKanga34]

Radioheads "exit music for a film" sounds very similar to the chopin piece in this video.

[@dhpbear2]

3:31 - "Someone To Call my Lover" opens with the guitar riff from America's 'Ventura Highway', however the 'call' and 'response' phrases are swapped, just like that 'G' and 'D'! :)

[@DavidBennettPiano]

I’d clocked “Ventura Highway” but not noticed that the phrases had been swapped around! Very nice!

[@pantheon777]

Someone made a song from my favorite Chopin Nocturne, and I didn't know about until now? Well, at least it's not in 80s metal style which is what is usually done

[@1000sofrobins]

Super video David. I recently noticed you can also hear the melody from Gymnopédie No.1 in Pink Floyd's song The Scarecrow opening vocal...x ben

[@APH1991]

Could Paint it Black by the 'Stones use Ode to Joy?

[@VeigarEUW]

Nice the brahms symphony no. 3 recording was from the Franz Liszt Musikhochschule, I only live a kilometer from it. So cool when this small german city is mentioned in a youtube video!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Nice!

[@ametohmau8988]

I think a good short documentary about the topic is “everything is a remix”

[@f.hounderclay1368]

Tony Martin also reworked the melody from Tchaikovsky's famous piano concerto into the song Tonight We Love. Also, Allan Sherman's Camp Grenada (hello mudda, hello fadduh) is lifted from Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours. Then a really famous example that must've been in your first video (which I missed)... Eric Carmen taking the theme from the 2nd piano concerto of Rachmaninoff for his song All By Myself.

[@Gusrikh1]

Very, very educational and interesting..

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thank you 😃😃

[@drazenzupancic912]

12:42 Chopin's _Prelude No. 4, Op 28_ was also featured in Rob Dougan's _Clubbed to Death II_

[@DonDueed]

"I know I've probably covered all of them now..." Hahahahahaha!

[@npetrikov]

I once heard that "Yes! We Have No Bananas" begins with the Hallelujah Chorus, followed by a phrase from "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean." And Elvis's "Love Me Tender" is taken from "Aura Lee," which, for anything I know to the contrary, might have been considered an "Art Song" in its day.

[@FreakyFeline88]

I can't believe that someone to call my lover has a melody from Gymnopedie no 1, I am mind blown

[@joeyhardin5903]

just wait until you find out the verses are also sampled

[@H4SLP]

Reminds me of one part in two headed Boy neutral milk hotel

[@klingermusic]

Check out 'The Great Conversation' by Charlie Winston. It´s my favourite song based on a classical piece.

[@lukewragg8061]

There is a part of the song “The Globalist” by Muse which uses the theme from nimrod from the Enigma Variations by Elgar which is so cool!

[@ftumschk]

My nephew, a Muse fan, tells me that classical music is a big influence on the band.

[@saintmaura1089]

This doesn't surprise me at all. Their music is so thick.

[@richarddoan9172]

Earth Wind and Fire -- Fantasy. Chorus is based on Gabriel Faure -- Pavane.

[@Tsnafu]

The Rachmaninov inversion piece I recognise from the end of Groundhog Day - uncultured swine that I am :D

[@williamwallace4170]

I was brought to your channel by your upload "14 songs that rip off classical music." I have to say that after seeing so many examples of downright plagiarism, I really feel let down by the slap in the face of reality. It diminishes the respect I've had for some artists and adds a level of disgust for others that I thought were talentless to begin with. I never knew it was this widespread and common....my musical red pill moment. ugggghh. However, all is not lost. Being a musician myself, I find your uploads diving into theory really interesting and have subbed.

[@lrmusic931]

Lmao, since I’m listening to Japanese Songs, NEWS’s “Yonjuushi”’s intro is based off of Paganini’s Caprice No.24. Now I know.

[@dr.westwood]

If you slow the tempo of Libesträum No. 3, you can also hear the influence of "Love Me Tender".