French musician accuses Malcolm McLaren of plagiarism

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2005

ANGERS, France (AFP) — Malcolm McLaren, former manager of the punk group the Sex Pistols, was accused of plagiarism for allegedly copying the work of a French musician for the song "About her" which appears on the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill 2."

A court in the central town of Angers heard evidence from the musician, known as Lancelot, who said that in 2002 he sent McLaren a tape of his song "Smith Ballade" as part of a planned album project that failed to get off the ground.

"A friend told me that the (Kill Bill 2) soundtrack was really like one of my songs. So I bought the CD and what I heard was exactly my song," Lancelot said.

McLaren's song "About her" is an electronic mix including samples of songs by the 1960s group the Zombies and the...