" BDP used this riff in the song " Remix for P is Free ," and it was later resampled by artists such as Black Star and dead prez.

The keyboard riff was used again in 2006, in the September song " Cry for You " along with a version by Trance artist ESS-K.

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.

In February 2010, the Australian judge ruled that " Down Under " did contain a flute riff based on " Kookaburra " but stipulated that neither was it necessarily the hook nor a substantial part of the hit song ( Colin Hay wrote the song years before the flute riff was added by a later member of the band ).

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.

The track featured many memorable elements – a catchy synthesizer riff, an easy whistle solo, and an unusual bass run in which the second half was a reversed recording of the first half.

While this comparison might initially seem unlikely, there are in fact some similarities worth noting — the music of early Swans was often based on a single riff, played repeatedly to hypnotic effect.

The song was based on a guitar riff by Jody Williams.

The guitar riff was also used by Dave " Baby " Cortez in his 1962 instrumental song " Rinky DinK ",

Pitbull samples part of the song's guitar riff in his song " Back in Time " for the film Men in Black III, which was released in April 2012 by RCA.

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

The tune was written originally as " Amarren Al Loco " (" Tie up the crazy guy ") by Cuban bandleader Rosendo Ruiz Jr. – also known as Rosendo Ruiz Quevedo – but became best known in the arrangement by René Touzet which included a rhythmic ten-note " 1-2-3 1-2 1-2-3 1-2 " riff.

A broadening ( and darkening ) of lyrical subject matter was shown in the B-side, " Hearts and Crosses ," which told the story of a date rape, with an upbeat keyboard riff providing an ironic counterpoint.

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.

" The riff to " Good to Be Alive " drew a comparison to Chuck Berry while the musicianship on the album was praised.

" The riff was the money march he did at church where the congregation marches down the aisle to the front to make offerings.

" 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 .".

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.

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

Its sole riff was inspired by the Jethro Tull song " Minstrel in the Gallery ".

Although he initially offered the song to other bands – The Human Expression, for one – Born to Be Wild was first recorded in 1967 by Steppenwolf in a sped-up and rearranged version, that the All Music Guide's Hal Horowitz described as " a roaring anthem of turbo-charged riff rock " and " a timeless radio classic as well as a slice of ' 60s revolt that at once defines Steppenwolf's sound and provided them with their shot at AM immortality.

Mike and the Bots move into an apartment nearby, and are last seen starting to watch and riff The Crawling Eye, the movie which provided the first nationally broadcast episode of the series.

With a Vox Continental organ riff provided by Augie Meyers and soulful vocals from Flaco Jimenez, and lead singer guitarist Sahm, the track has a Tex-Mex sound.

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 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.

Other Mountain fans included Johnny Ramone, Karma to Burn, and John Frusciante ( the Red Hot Chili Peppers track " Readymade " off 2006's Stadium Arcadium features a Mountain-influenced riff ).

Glover said, " I wrote the riff to " Maybe I'm a Leo " after hearing John Lennon ’ s " How Do You Sleep?

Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones cited Electric Mud as the inspiration for the riff of " Black Dog ".

Because bass player and keyboardist John Paul Jones had been late for the recording sessions, Page used the time to work on the riff with drummer John Bonham.

Only Page and bassist John Paul Jones play the tune's Drop-D blues-based riff with Bonham's drums — as a power trio — at the very beginning and the very end of the tune, leaving the remainder open for Bonham alone.

John Lennon also admitted the same Parker riff had been a big influence on The Beatles ' 1964 single " I Feel Fine ".

* Under John Petrucci's guitar solo in " To Live Forever ", he plays the main riff from The Beatles ' classic Within You Without You.

* John Mayall uses the opening riff ( played by Eric Clapton, then his band's featured guitarist ) as a sequeway between Hughie Flint's drum solo and the closing section of the song " What'd I Say " on the album Blues Breakers by John Mayall with Eric Clapton, recorded in March, 1966 and released that year ( also known as " the Beano album ".

* The Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante plays the main riff as the outro on their song " Give It Away ".

John Lennon said that the riff was influenced by a riff in " Watch Your Step ", a 1961 release written and performed by Bobby Parker and covered by the Beatles in concerts during 1961 and 1962.

" The Rover " opens with a heavy drum beat from John Bonham, and throughout the song, Page plays a distinctive riff using a Phase Shifter effect.

In this case, John would have played the riff and solo on his Rickenbacker 325 12-string while George played the acoustic guitar on his Gibson J-160E, but this argument has never been resolved.

Primarily by John Lennon ( credited to Lennon – McCartney ), and finished in the studio by Lennon and McCartney, the song was recorded during the filming of the " Lady Madonna " promotional video, and like " Lady Madonna " is one of the few Beatles ' songs to revolve around a piano riff.

It is notable for its sparse combination of guitar and bass notes in the main riff ; guitarist John Frusciante drew inspiration from The Cure song " Carnage Visors ".

In response to McCartney's Lennon-esque track " Let Me Roll It " on the Band on the Run album, Lennon took the guitar riff note for note and incorporated it into " Beef Jerky ".

Lennon wrote the guitar riff while in the studio recording " Eight Days a Week ".

" Birthday " begins with an intro drum fill, then moves directly into a blues progression in A ( in the form of a guitar riff doubled by the bass ) with McCartney singing at the top of his chest voice with Lennon on a lower harmony.