'Girlfriend' was the lead single from Avril Lavigne's third album 'The Best Damn Thing'. It was Avril's highest ever single debut and her first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100.
SAN FRANCISCO - AVRIL Lavigne faces a lawsuit by the members of a 1970s rock band who claim her hit song Girlfriend rips off one of their tunes.
Songwriters Tommy Dunbar and James Gangwer alleged in a lawsuit filed in US District Court that Lavigne and her co-writers lifted their 1979 song I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend, which was originally performed by new wave band The Rubinoos.
'We are not so naive as to chalk it up to some sort of cosmic coincidence,' Dunbar said on Thursday.
'The lyric, the meter, the rhythm - they're identical,' he said.
The first court date has been set for Aug 28 in Oakland.
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