In 2006 the signature keyboard riff from " Smalltown Boy " and part of the vocals from " Why?

The track has a relentless pounding bass line and guitar riff coupled with orchestral arrangements and narrated excerpts from the United Kingdom Public Information Film series Protect and Survive peppered throughout the song and its various mixes.

His 1976 single " Hot ( I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved )" ( R & B # 31 ) used the main riff from " Fame " by David Bowie, not the other way around as was often believed.

Arguably the first influential classic electric blues slide guitarist is Elmore James, whose riff in the song " Dust My Broom " is copied from Robert Johnson and is held in particularly high regard.

His appearance on stage always brought a roar of delight from the kids in the audience and Spike had soon left the text far behind as he went off into a riff of sublime absurdity.

The opening horn riff in Arthur Conley's 1967 hit " Sweet Soul Music " is borrowed from the theme.

", as well as the main riff from " Black Sabbath " and the bridge from " Children of the Grave " by Black Sabbath, are loosely based on " Mars.

" Get Back " is unusual in the Beatles ' canon in that almost every moment of the song's evolution has been extensively documented, from its beginning as an offhand riff to its final mixing in several versions.

A piano riff then introduces a jazzy, trumpet-heavy instrumental theme tune (" Home to My Emily ," composed by series co-creator Lorenzo Music with his wife Henrietta ), as numerous brief shots document Bob's journey home from work, ending with a shot of Emily greeting Bob at their apartment.

The riff and parts of the song was also shortly featured live by Pantera in their song " Cowboys from Hell.

The main riff from this song was worked into an instrumental piece played during some shows on the tour in support of this album and eventually morphed into the track " Anarchy-X " on the " Operation: Mindcrime " album.

The piano riff for " Rikki " was lifted directly from the title track to Song for My Father by hard bop pianist Horace Silver.

Glenn Danzig has mentioned in interviews the very noticeable similarity between the main riff from " Snakes of Christ " and that of the later Stone Temple Pilots song " Sex Type Thing ".

In August 2008 Burke recalled that he'd hired musicians from Charlotte, North Carolina, to play at a gig in Long Island and he drafted them in to play the instrumental riff on " Everybody Needs Somebody to Love.

" Moovin ' n ' Groovin '" reached # 72 on the Hot 100 in early 1958 ; the opening riff, borrowed from Chuck Berry's " Brown Eyed Handsome Man ," was itself copied a few years later by The Beach Boys on " Surfin ' U. S. A .".

Marriott and Lane are credited with creating the instrumental to the song, " borrowing " the guitar riff from the Solomon Burke record " Everybody Needs Somebody to Love ".

Their successful and critically acclaimed albums White Blood Cells and Elephant drew them attention from a large variety of media outlets in the United States and the United Kingdom, with the single " Seven Nation Army " and its now-iconic guitar riff becoming a huge hit.

The album, featuring Jourgensen's electric guitar work on several tracks, drew mixed reviews, although the singles " Tin Omen " and " Worlock ", the latter of which paired a riff sampled from The Beatles ' " Helter Skelter " with a clip of Charles Manson singing the song, became enduring favorites among many fans.

He stayed long enough to drum on the band's next single, the disco-friendly " Promised You a Miracle " ( based on a funk riff cadged from one of the cassettes he would play on the band's tour bus ) which hit the UK Top 20 and the Australian Top 10.

For a moment their musical worlds coincided: a TV cigar advertisement, a long track from Chapter Three's first album and " A " B " Side ", the flip of the old group's last single, all used the same riff.

The 1980 Adam and the Ants song " Killer in the Home " ( from their Kings of the Wild Frontier album ) is based on the same ominous, descending three-chord glissando riff that is featured in " Rumble " ( Ants ' guitarist Marco Pirroni, an avid Wray fan, has described the song as " Link Wray meets Col. Kurtz " — the latter being a reference to Apocalypse Now ).

The riff from " Ghost Rider " was sampled extensively in M. I. A.

* 2006 The main riff of Lil Scrappy's song " Money in the Bank " took samples from part of the beat of " Tainted Love.

" Ed Sander of DPRP compared the album's sound to that of Porcupine Tree: " the album features both the dreaminess of some early Porcupine Tree material, as well as the aggressive riff based approach of tracks like ' Up The Downstair ', ' Signify ' and ' Wedding Nails ' and other trademark Tree elements like distorted vocals and catchy bass parts.

( One riff was first used by Winter in the song " Hung Up ", on his jazz-oriented first album Entrance.

The track " Shut Up Already " borrows a riff from the Led Zeppelin song " Black Dog ".

Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford from the band Squeeze appear as background vocalists and musicians on " That's Just What You Are ", " Frankenstein ", and " It's Not Safe ", and they allowed Mann to use a riff from their song " Up the Junction " on " Long Shot ".

" The song, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ", written solely by Jackson and recorded the same year as " Shake Your Body ", took even more of Gaye's approach with the entire song, using percussive instruments as the basis of the song and a continued funk guitar riff, that was also present on " Got to Give It Up ".

The band he assembled for the tour generally serves him well, if without inspiration ... Dylanologists will savor the heavily revised, third-person lyrics for ' Tangled Up in Blue ' ( although they scuttle the original song's compelling intimacy ), and some fans may get a giggle out of the rhythm riff – lifted from Ray Charles ' ' I Believe to My Soul ' – that graces ' Ballad of a Thin Man.

Notably, Wire's " I Am the Fly " has a chorus similar to Elastica's " Line Up " and the intro synthesizer part in Elastica's " Connection " ( later also repeated on guitar ) is lifted from the guitar riff in Wire's " Three Girl Rhumba " and transposed a semitone, and The Stranglers also passed comment that Elastica's " Waking Up " bore a marked resemblance to their song " No More Heroes ".

The backing track was built around many samples, primarily the main riff from Herbie Hancock's track " Bring Down the Birds " from the Blowup soundtrack, Vernon Burch's " Get Up ", which provided the drum track and also formed the basis for the famous breakdown featuring a slide whistle, and the horn riff from Eddie Jefferson's " Psychedelic Sally ".

The demo for the Move hit " Blackberry Way " was recorded in Lynne's front room and borrowed motifs from the Idle Race ; the chorus of Lynne's 1969 rocker " Days of the Broken Arrows " lifted part of a riff from the Move's " Wild Tiger Woman ".

The opening guitar riff on " Johnny B. Goode " is essentially a note-for-note copy of the opening single-note solo on Louis Jordan's " Ain't That Just Like a Woman " ( 1946 ), played by guitarist Carl Hogan.

The McFly song " I Need a Woman " from 2010's Above the Noise album samples the riff from " Supreme ".

On an episode of the VH1 show TrueSpin, Gerald V. Casale revealed that the lead guitar riff from " Whip It " is based on the riff from " Oh, Pretty Woman " by Roy Orbison with the beat moved to the back.

The album included " U-Mass ", which has been described as being about college apathy, and whose guitar riff was written years before at the University of Massachusetts before Francis and Santiago dropped out.

A significant error on the Kingsmen's version occurs just after the lead guitar break ; as the group were going by the Wailers ' version, which has a brief restatement of the riff, two times over, before the lead vocalist comes back in, it would be expected that Ely would do the same.

Ely, however, overshot his mark, coming in too soon, before the restatement of the riff ; he realizes his mistake and stops the verse short, but the band does not realize that he has done so.

The riff in " Silhouettes " has been variously credited to Jimmy Page, Big Jim Sullivan and Vic Flick ; however, according to Keith Hopwood and Karl Green, Leckenby replaced Flick in the studio and played the signature riff under Most's direction.

Mentasm, co-produced with Mundo Muzique, became iconic within rave culture, as it was the track that gave birth to the " mentasm riff " ( also known as the " Hoover sound "): a churning, dirgelike synth pattern that wormed into techno's communal genome and has since been mutated and reused in literally thousands of records.

In his autobiography, Stone Alone, Bill Wyman has claimed that he came up with the song's distinctive main guitar riff on an organ without being credited for it.

The opening drum riff from the Led Zeppelin recording, played by drummer John Bonham, has been repeatedly sampled in in hip hop and other music since the 1980s, as a result of its distinctly " heavy " sound.

The band has stated since that the way their writing process works, is that someone comes up with a " riff " and everyone else adds onto it and perfects the song around it.

The writing process for all OSI's albums has been the same, with Matheos sending Moore an idea " from just a guitar riff to elaborate, almost completed songs ", which Moore then edits and sends back to Matheos.

Furthermore, the riff has been incorporated into many blues and jazz songs.

" Ward additionally noted that " Make My Head Go Pop ", "... has everything and the kitchen sink thrown into it-keyboards, techno beats, the guitar riff from the Stones ' ' Satisfaction ' and strings.

"< ref name = popmatters > Ben Greenbank from Sputnikmusic wrote that the song " has a country meets dance feel to it, although the beats are very trip hop infused the acoustic riff sounds very folksy and to her credit the combination of two rabidly different genres works excellently.

( 1992 ) all have the duet characteristic of Eurodance, and " Everybody's Free ( To Feel Good )" by Rozalla ( 1991 ) has the characteristic synthesizer riff.

This is most notable on " Ogre Battle ", as it starts right away with its riff ( without any long intro ), does not have any effects that the version on Queen II has and sounds much less polished.

Since 1990, the opening riff to Megadeth's " Peace Sells " has been the main opening theme for The Week In Rock.

" You Know You're Only Dreaming " uses the riff and feel from Steve Miller Band's " Jackson-Kent Blues " from Number 5, an artist Brock has acknowledged as being an influence upon him.

The sample noticeably features a signature dueling guitar riff from Duane Denison, which has already earned high praise from fans, drawing comparisons to King Crimson.

* Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready sometimes plays the riff from Little Wing during Pearl Jam's own " Yellow Ledbetter ", and Pearl Jam has also played the song in its entirety during concerts.

The riff has been described as a mischievous quote of Gary Glitter's " Rock and Roll ".

Several remixes of the track exist, and its riff has been widely sampled.