The music biz can be a cruel world. For Coldplay, though, things are going pretty well right now–with a new album at number one in 36 countries and a sold out North American tour coming up.

But such news is less than pleasant for Radford’s native son Michael Gregory (of The Gregory Brothers and Kapluckus). Watch this video to hear his saga of the song that got away. By way of contrast, here’s Creaky Boards’ version of the story–accusation ammended but without completely coming clean.

So here I’ll repeat the moral of the story as pointed out by Michael: musicians, copyright your music!