It's One for the Money: The Song Snatchers Who Carved Up a Century of Pop & Sparked a Musical Revolution by Clinton Heylin - book review
We've all heard of the higher-profile musical plagiarism cases – "My Sweet Lord" and its "unconscious" appropriation of the Chiffons' "He's So Fine" is probably the best-known example. But George Harrison is only one member of popular music's light-fingered legions. Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Jimmy Page, John Lennon, Paul Simon – the larcenous list is truly extensive.