Ryan’s Red Rock Trivia 4/26/21

Question: It was this day in Rock History in 1988, this guy was in court to fend off a copyright infringement case and played some of his music to demonstrate his innocence. Who was it?

Answer: It was Mick Jagger! The case was brought by reggae singer Patrick Alley, who claimed the Mick Jagger solo track ‘Just Another Night’ was a plagiarism of his own song of the same name. Alley was claiming $7m in profits from the track. During the case Sly Dunbar played drums to the court to show how the beats were different in each song and Mick sang and played demos of his song to show the court the development of the track. At the end of the week-long trial, Jagger won the case.