Nov 29, 2005 • 1 min read

Madonna faces royalty claim over Confessions track

Songwriter Dominic King claims Madonna's Get Together uses a riff from Chaka Khan's Fate, which he and Frank Musker used on Music Sounds Better With You.

Talking of legal type shenanigans, Madonna might be about to face another copyright battle, this time over a track on new album 'Confessions On A Dancefloor'.

I don't completely follow this myself, but songwriter Dominic King claims that the track 'Get Together' uses a riff from the Chaka Khan track 'Fate'. King and co-songwriter Frank Musker used that riff on that track released by Stardust, 'Music Sounds Better With You'. Because they used the riff on their track, King reportedly says that he is now due a royalty from Madonna because she used it on hers.

I've no idea if he's right, but the Sun quote King as saying: "Her song uses my riff. I'm surprised myself and co-writer Frank Musker didn't get a call. It would have been nice to have been asked. I am almost certain a discussion about money will happen with her people. These things can be settled in retrospect and something will definitely be happening, believe me."

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