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Lindsay Buckingham gives retroactive credit and payment to songwriters after accidental plagiarism

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Lindsey Buckingham has given retroactive credits to two songwriters whose track he’d accidentally plagiarised after forgetting that it wasn’t his demo.The former Fleetwood Mac guitarist/vocalist, who released his seventh solo album in September, has paid Blinker The Star’s Jordon Zadorozny and Medicine’s Brad Laner a flat monetary sum.

He also provided them with co-writing credits and a portion of publishing for his song ‘Swan Song’, which was found to have plagiarised the pair’s ‘Mind’s Eye’.Zadorozny noticed that Buckingham’s song, which appears on his new self-titled album, sounded remarkably similar to the collaborative track that he wrote with Laner more than 20 years ago [via Spin].It even had similar lyrics.

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