Do these songs sound similar?

[Bounty]

I was watching Cold Case and one of the songs on the soundtrack jumped out at me - it sounded the same as a song I vaguely knew, but by a different band, with different lyrics in a different language.

So I unleash my Google-Fu and find that there are two distinct songs which are, as far as I can tell, unrelated:

In 1968, Status Quo do Pictures of Matchstick Men, the one in the series.

In 1971, Les Poppys do Non, Non, Rien A Changé, the one I remembered; the intro ends at about 00:30.

Now, is it my imagination, or do these songs sound eerily similar? Does anyone know if the second one's supposed to be a remake or a cover, or is it a coincidence? Or is the second one just a rip-off?

[Mobius]

i'm pretty sure that french music used to license foreign song and play it for french public because Exception Culturelle

exhibit :
Johnny Hallyday-Les Portes du pénitencier which is definetely House of the Rising Sun

i'll try to find some other case if you want.

[Bounty]

So this is a sort-of cover?

Is this another one of those ultra-conservatives tricks of Les Immortels?