TIL Kraftwerk thanked Coldplay for asking if they could use one of their riffs by saying something like: 'Yes, you can use it, and thank you very much for asking my permission, unlike that bastard Jay-Z'

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(song)



Submitted February 22, 2015 at 10:01PM by reddit_mars http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2wrqtb/til_kraftwerk_thanked_coldplay_for_asking_if_they/