Paul Anka Claims This Is It is a Rip-Off
12th October 2009
If you think Michael Jackson‘s “This Is It” sounds familiar, it’s because the song is a rip-off that was released nearly two decades ago by another artist … and the man making this claim is none other than music legend Paul Anka.
Anka tells TMZ in 1983, he wrote a song with Jackson called “I Never Heard” — and the demo of the song was recorded in Anka’s studio in Carmel, CA. Anka says he took the tape to a studio in Hollywood to put the finishing touches on it for Anka’s duets album, “Walk a Fine Line.” Anka claims Jackson — who was just blowing up at the time with “Thriller” — got a big head and
“stole the tapes”
from the studio.
Anka tells us he called the lawyers who repped both he and Jackson — ironically one of them was John Branca — and threatened them with a lawsuit if he didn’t get the tapes back. Anka got them back but insists Jackson made a copy of the tapes and used the track with his voice from “I Never Heard” — and simply retitled it, “This Is It.”
Anka gave”I Never Heard” to another artist — Safire — who recorded it in 1990
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