To be fair, the second "phrase" of the Lion Tamer song is a little different, but whenever I hear this part of the Genesis song I think of the song from The Magic Show, which you heard a fair amount when the show was a hit -- I'm guess it was on things like "The Mike Douglas" show.
Have we mentioned yet the Yes version of Richie Havens' No Opportunity Necessary ("or whatever it was called" as Bill Bruford once called it)? The instrumental bits are lifted directly from a western called The Big Country. If you've ever seen the movie, you'll recognize the hijacked material instantly.
Bruford also claimed that Yours Is No Disgrace was appropriated from the Bonanza theme, but I think he had his American western TV show mixed up. If I remember correctly, Big Valley had a similar staccato cadence as the beginning of Yours Is No Disgrace, so I'm thinking maybe that might have been where...whoever it was in the band who came up with that intro got it from.
Cream's Tales Of Brave Ulysses (and White Room, for that matter), I believe uses the same unconventional chord progression as Lovin' Spoonful's Summer In The City.
Didn't Tony Banks admit somewhere that after he wrote Afterglow, he realized he had unintentionally purloined the melody from Have Yourself A Merry Christmas?
"Beware the Ides of March" borrows a theme of the fugue of "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach (Bach BWV 565), but most people hear it as borrowing from Procul, Harum: A Whiter Shade of Pale.
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Grossmann seems to have 'lifted' some of the theme.
Compare the guitar intro to the Beatles’ “Dear Prudence” to the guitar intro here:
And compare the “Sun is up, the sky is blue...” bit to the “Sun comes up on a windy day...” bit from this:
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
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