Did anyone else ever notice that Nick Drake ripped off Judy Collins?
By the looks of the YouTube one would think that it was the other way around – but I believe “Suzanne” was first released in 1966 (NOT 1972). Fly was released in 1970. You only have to listen to the first few bars of each song to see how similar they are.
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Good ear! BTW Suzanne was not written by Collins. Just thought I would clear that up for the non-nit pickers out there.
Leonard Cohen?
Yep—just went to wiki and in a weird sort of what-have-you it says that “suzanne” now lives in Venice Beach in her car—check it out!
did anyone notice that Judy Collins looks like a robot with that Play button on her face?
robots… destroy…
“Who knows where the time goes…..”