Has the AV Club ever enabled him? He's only recently come up, around here, and primarily in regards to this very case.

I suppose I'm trying to find some human empathy…is there something we can do, as a community, to help these kids?

Can you really say they'll "undoubtedly" be better off? These poor kids have to deal with being reduced to publicity tokens and we all know that the Bloviator-2099 is going to continue to be made a very public mockery of (don't get me wrong, it's his own fault). It sucks enough growing up without a Dad, I can only…

You should probably talk to someone about that

Your last point first: absolutely correct, and you flag one of the biggest flaws in the American criminal justice system. Juries are regularly shown evidence that will certainly influence their judgment, when the evidence (which includes testimony) is deemed inadmissible, the jury is told to 'disregard' it. No human…

Lennon & McCartney similarly benefitted from being around Harrison…who benefitted from being around Ringo? Besides Thomas…

So…Lennon learned from Harrison? Oof, needs improvement.

First of all, thank you for your thoughtful response :)

You have your timeline a touch skewed, as far as I can tell: The initial action was presented by the Gaye family against Thicke/Pharrell. Thicke/Pharrell took a surprisingly aggressive counter — I presume because Pharrell was high but still realized Thicke was never going to have another hit again (ba-dum-cha).

Applause

Awesome, thanks :) As a proven Beatles amateur, I'd still like to say that Harrison is among the least-appreciated rock stars of all time, and I don't suspect he ever cared about the status in the first place.

The reaction from people who lived and died by it

Not many people get to do that in their entire lives, regardless of industry…to some degree I think that Cash's persona (a hard-timer who found fame) gave some desperate people hope, at the time…it was pretty punk rock for him to perform in prisons, regardless of whether he had spent time there or not.

So that I feel less stupid: "Let it Be" is McCartney and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is Harrison?

Don't the writing credits change at a certain point? I'm clearly not a Beatles scholar…but for whatever reason I thought that Yesterday was a Lennon song that Paul sang, even though they tended to sing the songs they more directly wrote.

I feel like I must be getting a whole bunch of information wrong if it was Thicke and Pharrell that initiated the lawsuit…either that or there's a miscommunication. It doesn't make sense that Thicke/Pharrell would go after the Gaye's if the endgame is them paying them off and giving up half of their royalties. (I've…

Interesting take! I actually really like Johnny Cash, from an old school country/jamming with pre-electric Bob Dylan perspective, so I feel the pain of the hipsters of almost 15 years ago (!!) suddenly deciding he's cool. In the context of his time he was kind of an original punk rocker, so it makes sense that a…

Wasn't it credited as a Lennon-McCartney song? I know there were legal kerfuffles about credits, but please forgive my ignorance if I'm wrong.

John Lennon. He was a wife-beating, cheating, self-important asshole who didn't give a fuck about his children and spent his time either lying in bed in "protest" or giving voice to such revolutionary ideas as giving peace a chance. But Yesterday is a pretty great tune.

The fact the Gaye family got anything is frankly bullshit and sets a difficult precedent for artists who already rely on sampling (which does have its own protection; but let's not get into that here). I can't pretend to be able to read music or have listened to either song enough to really tell how close they are,…