Yusuf a.k.a. Yusuf Islam a.k.a Cat Stevens is reportedly giving serious thought to suing Coldplay over "Viva la Vida," the title track off its latest album, due to alleged melodic similarities with Stevens's 1973 song "Foreigner Suite."
The folk bard-turned-Muslim philanthropist, who has won a series of distinctions in the past decade, including the World Social [...]

According to the BBC, Coldplay has denied in a federal court that "Viva La Vida" was inspired by or originated from Joe Satriani's "If I Could Fly" off the 2004 album Is There Love In Space? (For the last time, Joe, no: astronauts can't love.) Satriani makes a decent living off the instrumental rock circuit [...]