While he’s a big fan of Weird Al’s music, guitarist Jimmy Page declined Yankovic permission to turn Led Zeppelin songs into a polka medley. I haven’t approached him in 20 years,” Yankovic told Access Hollywood in 2014. “The only person who’s consistently said no has been Prince. It wasn’t for lacking of trying: Yankovic tried to do spoofs of “Kiss” and “1999” starting in the 1980s without success. Over the many decades of Weird Al’s career, Prince was the one recording artist who never let him parody one of his songs. He wanted to make sure the image would remain intact.” 3.
He doesn’t mind him doing the song, but he didn’t want to change kids’ visual perception on what that image was. In response, Interscope Records spokesman Dennis Dennehy said on Eminem’s behalf, “It’s an important personal piece of music for him, a piece of art. “Eminem was fine with me having the parody on my album but said he was afraid that a Weird Al video might detract from his legacy, that it would somehow make people take him less seriously as an important hip-hop artist,” Yankovic said in an interview. While Eminem gave Weird Al permission to parody the song, the rapper denied him permission to use it as a single or make a music video. The song was a parody of Eminem’s Academy Award-winning song “Lose Yourself” from 8 Mile. In 2003, Weird Al intended " Couch Potato" to be the first single off his then-new album, Poodle Hat. Weird Al still plays bits and pieces of the parody song during his live performances, but he has yet to get permission from McCartney to record it. I don’t want to condone the eating of animal flesh.’” But “It wouldn’t work with ‘Tofu Pot Pie.’" “He said, ‘I would love for you to do this, but could you not make it about chicken because I’m a vegetarian. “I wanted to do ‘Chicken Pot Pie,’ and Paul was a good sport,” Yankovic explained. Weird Al wanted to parody the Wings song “Live and Let Die,” but Paul McCartney turned him down. Which means that he has gotten the occasional “no,” as these examples prove. For more than 40 years, "Weird Al" Yankovic has been making hit songs by putting his own, spoofy twist on chart-toppers like “Eat It,” “Like a Surgeon,” “White & Nerdy,” and “Amish Paradise.” While the First Amendment and fair use copyright laws mean that Yankovic doesn’t have to get permission from the original recording artists to record a parody song, out of courtesy and respect he always does.
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