Sorry - Late to the party...But when I see multiple
digests coming in a day, I have to see what's up - I'm
just glad no one died.

The Beatles just stole everything from Motown / Soul
and made it ok for white kids to like it...The same
way bands we love on this list steal from the Beatles
catalog (AND other souces). If The Beatles didn't do
it, someone else would've - The timing was everything.
The Beatles would never have been what they were
without John - Paul would've had them writing Broadway
Musicals...or at least covering more of that sort of
tripe ("Till There Was You"). So the fact that Macca
is receiving this sort of reverence just for being in
The Beatles is kind of perplexing. His post-Wings solo
work is pretty much proof of what a hack he has
become.

Ok - Truth be told, *some* of that was playing the
Devil's Advocate. I personally would take Elvis
Costello's post-Attractions work over Paul's
post-Wings work anyday. I'm sure many/most don't agree
with me. It seems a fair comparison though - I think
they've followed similar paths or muses. 

Now, if this discussion was about Lennon, I might tend
to agree more...but there are a big-heaping-handful of
artist more deserving of this adulation than
McCartney. Someone already mentioned Ray Davies for
one.

Dan FrankE 
(Born with The Beatles in 1963 - Educated by The Clash
- Still listening to the music that "the kids" like)

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