Apparently there’s a Republican candidate running for congress from Illinois named Joe Walsh who thinks he’s….Joe Walsh.
A lawyer for singer Walsh named Peter Paterno wrote to candidate Walsh to demand he stop using the music from “Walk Away” , a song Joe Walsh penned while with the band James Gang — in a campaign music video.
The Walsh campaign changed the lyrics and renamed the song “Lead the Way.” The line “seems to me, you just turn your pretty head and walk away” was changed to, “seems to me, Joe Walsh is just the perfect guy to lead the way.” The song and video can be found on YouTube, the candidate’s Web site and in a message to supporters.
Copyright law bars the use of “someone else’s song for your political campaign promotions unless you get permission from the owner of the copyright,” the attorney wrote to the campaign. “Maybe you got so busy with the campaign that you just forgot. But that’s not OK.”