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From: Geoff <geoff@nospamgeoffwood.org>
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Subject: Re: Dylan's Mishearing of "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 23:46:00 +1300
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On 21/02/2025 8:49 pm, W.Dockery wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:34:13 +0000, Norbert wrote:
> 
>> Same here.
>>
>> I need to correct myself on something.  I wrote, sincerely but mistaken,
>> that Albert Goldman attributed the change in the Beatles' songwriting
>> style to their marijuana use.  No; Goldman actually wrote that Peter
>> Brown ascribed the guys' stylistic changes to pot.  Goldman, in fact,
>> devoted several eloquent paragraphs to his own argument that the change
>> in style was due to McCartney's copping of black musical styles.
>>
>> And he was right.  McCartney has owned up to this -- to, e.g., his
>> efforts to play bass like "the Motown Guy," James Jamerson.
> 
> That's fascinating information.

There is nothing to 'own up about' in being influenced by a particular 
or different style or performer of music.

-- 
geoff