Originally Posted by Captain_jovi

Oh this is back from the dead eh? Sorry, I whole-heartily disagree. You're not really wrong about common chord progressions and just luck of the odds but Jon went out of his way to make sure the (early) version of Saturday Night sounded like Runaway Train. The producer confirms it, the original lyrics confirm it, jesus both have the words "Cut and dry".

You did a LOT of work and talked about your song being like it by coincidence which doesn't apply to this specific situation. Listen to the demo back to back with RT and tell me it's not an intentional choice. Im not sure what I said in the original post but if I used plagiarism it's too harsh a word but it's a real bandwagon-jump of a move that they're doing to this day.