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Yes it is, though Se A Vida E` would have been Top 5 if they had released both cd singles the same week.

Se A Vida E wasn’t a complete self write. It was a semi cover, if there’s such a thing

Still consider it a psb song , they were a bit generous with writing credits, fair enough of them.

Generous? Weren’t they sued?

Like with Go West, they are credited with additional music and lyrics, but gave all publishing rights to Moralo/Belolo/Villis.
They could have fought that a bit, if they wanted to.

Luke Colorado wrote: Thu 04 May 2023, 6:08 pm Generous? Weren’t they sued?

No.

You sure? Was there not at least a threat? I remember reading something, but it was 25 years ago.

Pretty sure, never heard they were sued because of that.

Someone sued them over Opportunities…A t first he would take something like £ 15,000 to drop it, but they refused, and it went to court, and then it turned out that it was a totally different song, he “thought “ he had written, by another band, it was all a bit sad as Neil at the time said.

I could be misremembering or thinking of It's a sin… but I swear there was talk of this years ago.

Jonathan King, accused them of copying Cat Stevens Wild world for Its A sin that went to court, and they won and he had to apologize publicly, through the newspaper The Sun( Where he worked) and had to pay a substantial sum, which went to charity.

Disco. wrote: Thu 04 May 2023, 7:57 pm Jonathan King accused them of copying Cat Stevens' Wild World for It's a sin

It's a sin
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJ_wlyHGiU

Se a vida é
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vGyzyJaXpkk

So Disco 5 is likely to be yet another album of remixes of other peoples work - a shame if so as we had this with Disco 4 and that was a bit meh.

Anyway, what would we expect to see on it? I would think at least:

Paul Weller - Cosmic Fringes
Noel Gallagher - Think of a number (there was a remix that was 'too PSB' for Noel so that might make an appearance)
Sleaford Mods - West End Girls

Must be some other stuff they've cooked up recently ...

Some thoughts shared here:

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yikes! didn't check for threads!

Mods nix this one please