Desire Avenue

Someone else made this comparison on YouTube and having just re-discovered this beautiful song,they may well have a point.

Was the intro riff to Steely Dan's 1974 classic 'Rikki Don't Lose That Number' an inspiration for Stina's 'Get On With Your Life'?

Hmmm........

Well, you need to go back a bit farther than that.
'Rikki' famously took the opening riff from Horace Silver's 'Song for my Father', a direct act of homage. Dan (one of my favourite bands!) referenced a lot of jazz in their time (and have been sued for plagiarism because of it).

Whether or not Stina borrowed it consciously is another matter. I spotted the riff the first time I heard 'GOWYL', but since it's using root and 5th in a fairly simple rhythm, anyone could have come up with it independently.

Here is the original original, worth hearing on any count, but especially for Joe Henderson's great sax solo-I use it with my pupils as a classic example of how to build an improvisation.

sound world wrote:'Rikki' famously took the opening riff from Horace Silver's 'Song for my Father', a direct act of homage.

I see (or rather hear) what you mean.