thinking about songs that "inspired" other songs 2 more came to mind :
a whiter shade of pale
https://www.theguardian.com/music/mu...col-harum-bach
of which you can download the stems from here :
https://literecords.com/showthread.p...t=whiter+shade

and
PROUD MARY !!! apparently was inspired by Beethoven's "5th Symphony "


Fogerty came up with the famous chord riff on guitar when he was playing around with Beethoven's "5th Symphony." That one goes "dun dun dun duuunnnnn...," but Fogerty thought it would sound better with the emphasis on the first note, which is how he arrived at "do do do do."

This part reminded him of the paddle wheel that impels a riverboat. "'Proud Mary' is not a side-wheeler, it's a stern-wheeler," he explained.



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