You'll recall back in April that an average Joe piped up and reckoned he'd written Alex Lloyd's megabucks-earning hit Amazing on the back of a coaster in a pub's front bar. Well, Mark O'Keefe seems to have cooled his heels somewhat (you know, after waiting roughly 16 years to even take the matter to court in the first place), changing his story just prior to the matter hitting the courts. That's the spirit, Mark! Keep up the legal cats!

Mark O'Keefe, who originally said he wrote the song Amazing with Lloyd at the Bridge Hotel in Rozelle in November 1989, now says he got it wrong and it was up to two years later.

 

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But seven months after suing Lloyd, Mr O'Keefe has changed his version of events, saying the pair must have collaborated "in or about mid 1991".

This is great, and makes me feel even more confident for my upcoming court case. I'm suing some dudes because I reckon I invented Velcro when I was hanging out playing pinball at Timezone in 1988, but now I think it might have been 1973. Either way, gimme gimme summa dat money, Velcro dudes! It's a watertight case.

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