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A California songwriter has filed a $4.5 million breach of oral contract lawsuit against Tom Petty and Los Angeles-based disc jockey Jim Ladd, claiming they swiped his concepts for the basis of Petty's 2002 title track and album, The Last DJ.
The suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by Jim Wagner, alleges the musician sent a demo tape of his song about the deejay titled "The Last Great Radio DJ" to Ladd in 2000. Ladd liked what he heard and asked to use it as the theme to his nightly radio program at L.A.'s KLOS.
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