How I Met Your Mother has paid compensation to a little-known Canberra rock band called Tonk. The Us sitcom, which stars Jason Segel and Allyson Hannigan, used Tonk's track 'Golden Girl' twice on the show without asking their permission. Tonk drummer Tristan Davies told triple j's Hack show that they found out that their tune had been stolen when their friends kept writing to congratulate them. He said: "We just kept getting all these messages on our Facebook page - people were saying, 'Oh congratulations, heard you guys on How I Met Your Mother - that's amazing'. "We were trawling through all these episodes going, 'What the hell are they talking about'... eventually someone said season six, episode six and sure enough it was our song, but not us. They've got the guitar (more)...
- 3/19/2012
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
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