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Geoff Barrow Accuses Gone Composer Harry Escott of Copying His Devs Score

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Danielle Chelosky

17d ago· 2 min readenNews

Summary

Geoff Barrow (Portishead) has publicly accused composer Harry Escott of plagiarizing his and Ben Salisbury's score for the 2020 FX series Devs in Escott's new score for ITV's Gone. Barrow posted a creative "Score Police" video on Instagram to highlight the similarities. This is part of a pattern for Barrow, who has previously made plagiarism claims against the Weeknd, Phantogram, Lil Pump, Kanye West, and Ty Dolla $ign.

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StereogumGeoff Barrow Accuses Gone Composer Harry Escott of Copying His Devs Scorestereogum.com

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Some say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but Geoff Barrow definitely wouldn't.
He, at the very least, is having fun with it. On Instagram, he posted a creative video explaining the situation with a 'Score Police'
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Some say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but Geoff Barrow definitely wouldn’t. The Portishead member was not flattered when he accused the Weeknd and Phantogram of plagiarism over a decade ago, nor when he alleged that Lil Pump sampled him wi

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