I wonder if he ever felt a tiny pang of guilt sending bailiffs round to squeeze the last drops of blood out of his former friend.
it doesn't seem like it - he was probably wealthy enough to let it ride, or at least come to one of those "pay back £3 out of each giro" arrangements, but no, he let his former friend rot
I have to say that I'm bothered by the judge's statement that it was "impossible" to tell if Vangelis consciously or subconsciously copied the tune - does this mean I can copy any tune and pass it off as mine? After all, it would be
impossible to tell that I copied it, even if a 5 year old could mistake my tune for the one that it's
impossible to say I copied
which reminds me of a Fall biography I read where one of the ex-members recalled that, allegedly, Brix Smith would rush into rehearsals and breathlessly announce "hey lads, I've come up with a killer riff, listen to this!", and then play it, only for the band to say, "Brix, that's Rebel Rebel by Bowie" or "Brix, that's Search and Destroy by the Stooges" - maybe Vangelis should have stayed in a band so that they could say, "hey Van, that's City of Violets by your former flatmate"...he could have avoided the bother of being sued if he had someone around to tell him "no"