Talk:Streets of London (song)

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Hey, It would be great if someone help out and put these street in the street map of the world, it will help fellow travelers in London to find their way.. Sorry for the shameless plug but that site need people who know that copyrighted stuff doesn't belong in an GFDL database... -- Emj

[edit] Based on Pachelbel's Cannon?

The article implies that RMcT nicked the chords and harmonic structure from Pachelbel. Is there any evidence that he did so, rather than just hitting on the same chord sequence by chance? The Canon wasn't much heard in the 1960s. Bluewave 16:30, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah that's the first thing I thought when I read the article; it's really a ridiculous statement. I can think of 4 or 5 songs just off the top of my head that use that same progression - it's a very common one. Given the limits of western music, you could draw these same sorts of parallels with virtually any song, and compare similarities it has with others. Completely redundant, and I've removed the reference as it tells us nothing useful about the song. --Bri 23:20, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

An earlier version of the article (at the time that I wrote my comment, above) stated that the song was "based on" P's canon. This seemed to imply that Mctell deliberately used the same structure. Bluewave 08:59, 24 July 2006 (UTC)