Babyshambles' song 'Baddie's Boogie' turned out troublesome when a guitarist claimed it was his composition and another band detected similarity in lyrics.
- December 29, 2007
AceShowbiz -
Only two months old, Babyshambles' recent release 'Shotter's Nation' has faced a problem with its credit. While frontman Pete Doherty did not fail to include his ex-girlfriend Kate Moss' name in the songwriting credit, he did so for Wayne Kenyon.
The band is accused of stealing a song after Kenyon, who is a guitarist and a former friend of Babyshambles' guitarist Mik Whitnall, claimed he penned the song 'Baddie's Boogie'. Kenyon insisted that he wrote it in 1997 for his former band The Ferrymen where Whitnall was in too.
"Baddie's Boogie is a tune I wrote for The Ferrymen," Kenyon said. "I have footage of me playing it at three gigs in Germany in 1997. I have written to Babyshambles' record company and they said they were passing it on to their lawyers. But I have heard nothing since."
The same song is also being questioned by an '80s punk band Britanarchists who believed that one of the lines sounds similar to their song 'Stiff With a Quiff' which was written by poet Nick Toczeks. The similar lyrics are: "A lousy life for a washed-up wife of a permanently plastered p****d up b*****d."
