When we googled some few archives, the name Jimmy Scott-Emuakpor came up, he was a friend or an acquaintance of Paul McCartney who is credited to have given the phrase "ob-la-di, ob-la-da....life goes on" to the Beatles, In one interview, Paul McCartney confessed: "A fella who used to hang around the clubs used to say in Jamaican accent "ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on". McCartney admitted picking the phrase from him and turning it around into an internal song. The tag line "ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra" was an expression used by Nigerian whom is a conga player. He later tried to claim a writer's credit for the use of his catch phrase in the song; McCartney claimed that the phrase was "just an expression". Scott argued it was not a general expression, but merely an expression that was exclusively used in the Scott-Emuakpor family. Scott agreed to drop the case when McCartney agreed to pay Scott's legal expenses for an unrelated issue.
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