Billy Bragg got it in one in his song "Waiting For The Great Leap Forward":Micky wrote:Joe was taken to court for plagiarism for his 'hit single' TELSTAR by a French musician in France who claimed that Joe had stolen the tune, Joe claimed that he had never heard of the Frenchman's tune.
After Joe had killed his landlady with Heinz shotgun he then blew his own head off with the same shotgun at 304 HOLLOWAY ROAD.
3-weeks later a letter arrives to say that he had won his court case against the French musician over plagiarism on who wrote TELSTAR and was awarded £3.MILLION quid in damages (thats £3.MILLION in 1967 money).
Meantime poor old Heinz sinks into obscurity soon after and over the following decades develops motor neurone disease and eventually dies in 2000 alone in his flat in Southampton with £18.quid in his pocket and nothing else to his name!
Thats Rock& Roll...
"Here comes the future and you can't run from it
If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it
It's a mighty long way down rock 'n roll
From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole
If no one seems to understand
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman"