RE: Writing Someone Else's Song (was: Pagey vs the Beatles)

["Timothy Mungenast" <mungenast@earthlink.net>]

"And then there was George's "My Sweet Lord" (!)"

Post-Beatles, but I see your point. Great song, though ;-)

"Also of note: something in the way she moves is a lyric from James
Taylor--"

Really? From which record?

"And what about "Golden Slumbers"?"

I dunno; what *about* "Golden Slumbers"? Clue me in...




> [Original Message]
> From: Gary Lehmann <hqr@cox.net>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Date: 5/9/2005 11:14:22 AM
> Subject: Writing Someone Else's Song (was: Pagey vs the Beatles)
>
> >>The difference is that the Fab Four never earned Pagey's reputation as 
>a
> plagiarist. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Beatles never pretended to
have
> written someone else's song....<<
>
> Duncan wrote in reply:
> not, certainly, to the same degree as page & some of the other blues/rock
> artists, but lennon did come a cropper over a line in "come together"
which
> resulted in his having to appease chuck berry by recording at least one 
>of
> the latter's songs for "rock & roll", post-beatles. & whilst not strictly
> musical magpies in the same sense as led zep et al, the beatles were
> certainly at least influenced by what they heard- byrds, dylan, varese,
> stockhausen, cage......
>
> --->And then there was George's "My Sweet Lord" (!)
> Also of note: something in the way she moves is a lyric from James
Taylor--
> And what about "Golden Slumbers"?
>