Jon Bon Jovi sued for $400bn

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Jon Bon Jovi sued for $400bn

A Boston songwriter claims that Bon Jovi's hit I Love This Town is borrowed from his song (Man I Really) Love This Team. We think he could be waiting a long time to collect his compensation

• <LI class=byline>Sean Michaels <LI class=publication>guardian.co.uk,
• Tuesday October 14 2008 09.59 BST
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Livin' on a prayer ... Boston singer wants $400bn out of Jon Bon Jovi. Photograph: AP/Stephen Chernin

Somewhere in Boston, a songwriter is angry. And he's suing Jon Bon Jovi for $400bn.
Yes, 400 billion dollars, roughly 200 billion pounds, an amount that recalls the number of stars in the Milky Way and brings us halfway to Gordon Brown's bank bail-out plan. Even if Bon Jovi lived forever, we scarcely think he could collect that much dosh.
But Samuel Bartley Steele may not accept any less. In a federal lawsuit brought this week, Steele claims that Jon Bon Jovi stole the lyrics and chorus to his song (Man I Really) Love This Team, using them for his hit I Love This Town.
"I know I'm the little fish and they're the big fish, but they fucked with the wrong piranha," Steele said to the Boston Herald.
Samuel Steele, 37, lives in the Chelsea area of Boston. He is also the frontman for the Chelsea City Council, which is a band and not an actual city council. According to his thinking, Jon Bon Jovi either received a copy of (Man I Really) Love This Team, or else heard Steele busking outside Fenway Park while the star was campaigning for John Kerry in 2004.
When questioned, Jon Bon Jovi's management told journalists that they had not yet seen the lawsuit.
"I know that I'm right," Steele insisted. "I want credit, acknowledgment and an apology." Either that or ... 400 billion dollars.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008...-bon-jovi-sued

[Thrush]

400 billion

[evilsatan]

What a dickhead, someone is desperate for a bit of limelight. $400bil, good luck

[Zippeyrude]

pfft dreamer

[Nikki]

is the guy in a dream world or what lol

[Greyfox]

What a nob.

[beerman]

"I want credit, acknowledgment and an apology."

He's just another leacher trying to make a fast buck. It would be funny as fuck if the judge ruled that Bon Jovi put out a press release saying he wrote those lyrics, credited him on the song and apologised but gave him no cash.

Anyone got the lyrics to his crappy song?