10 Rock Album Covers That Led To Massive Lawsuits
7. Yourself Or Someone Like You - Matchbox Twenty
When talking about the biggest controversies in rock history, no one in their right mind is going to talk about people like Matchbxox 20 as prime candidates. Given their pedigree for their adult alternative brand of rock, you'd probably think the extent of their bad side was them getting home past curfew one too many times. In this case though, it involves an album that has managed to go Diamond.
After becoming the staples of rock radio off the strength of songs like Push and 3am, Frank Torres came to Matchbox Twenty demanding some sort of compensation for damages. Who is Frank Torres? Just the dude that everyone calls attention to on the album cover. Before he had even heard of Matchbox 20, Torres was not even aware he was on the cover of one of the best selling records of the '90s.
No...we had to wait until almost a decade later in 2005, when he finally decided to come forward and ask Matchbox to drop some coin into his bank account for what he considered to be mental anguish for using his image. I know that the legal side of music can be a bit like the Wild West, but the idea of calling a guy like Rob Thomas a heathen for doing this is stretching things a little bit.