Episodes

  • Stolen Riff Stories: Musical Borrowing - Uncover the hidden origins of your favorite songs with Lenny Vaughn

    Stolen Riff Stories: Musical Borrowing - Uncover the hidden origins of your favorite songs with Lenny Vaughn
    May 2 2026
    Host Lenny Vaughn exposes the line between musical inspiration and theft through borrowed riffs, courtroom battles, and career-ending lawsuits. From George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" to the Blurred Lines case, discover how sampling and plagiarism have reshaped songwriting credits, royalties, and music history—where melody meets money and influence collides with law.

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    1 min
  • Stolen Riff Stories - Follow the Money: How Riff Theft Changed the Music Business

    Stolen Riff Stories - Follow the Money: How Riff Theft Changed the Music Business
    May 2 2026
    Lenny Vaughn explores how the 1976 "My Sweet Lord" verdict transformed music into a legal minefield, where melodies became litigable assets and copyright protection meant to help songwriters now stifles them.

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    32 mins
  • Stolen Riff Stories - The Grey Zone: Homage, Influence, or Straight-Up Stealing?

    Stolen Riff Stories - The Grey Zone: Homage, Influence, or Straight-Up Stealing?
    May 2 2026
    Host Lenny Vaughn explores music's blurry line between influence and theft, from Delta blues to Led Zeppelin to hip-hop sampling. Tracing borrowing through Bach, jazz standards, and Robert Johnson, this episode examines how musical conversation built America's greatest art forms and why modern copyright law may be suffocating creativity.

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    27 mins
  • Stolen Riff Stories - The Courtroom Hits: When Melodies Went to Trial

    Stolen Riff Stories - The Courtroom Hits: When Melodies Went to Trial
    May 2 2026
    Host Lenny Vaughn explores landmark music plagiarism cases that reshaped songwriting, from George Harrison's "subconscious theft" of "My Sweet Lord" to the Blurred Lines verdict. These courtroom battles reveal how lawsuits transformed musical inspiration into legal liability, leaving creators paranoid about their melodies and establishing inconsistent standards haunting the industry.

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    21 mins