Last summer an unknown band from Brooklyn accused the biggest band in the world of ripping off one of their songs. The story didn’t get much attention, but it was hard to ignore the striking ...

Hapless soft-rock combo Coldplay has been accused of plagiarizing their 2008 hit “Viva la Vida” — again! Following similar claims by guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani and Brooklyn band the Creaky Boards, ...

Coldplay were on a roll - a new album going to No 1, 300,000 sales in three days, concert sellouts and now this! A damn plagiarism claim from a band called Creaky Boards. Who ever heard of Creaky ...

When Andrew Hoepfner, singer and songwriter with the little-known New York band Creaky Boards, thought he spotted Coldplay's Chris Martin in the audience at one of his gigs he was flattered. But his ...