On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:29:35 +0000 "Kurt Gottschalk" <ecstasymule@hotmail.com> wrote:
nevertheless, i think that he might be bigger about it. he made the deal, and his name's on 'across the universe', 'lucy in the sky with diamonds', 'all my loving', 'rain', 'i am the walrus', 'strawberry fields forever', 'she said she said', 'i want you (she's so heavy)', even 'the ballad of john and yoko' for shit's sake. and just like i wish he could have found something deeper inside him than "what a drag" when he heard his former partner had been killed, i wish he'd be thankful enough for the brilliance of his career and associations to overlook not being happy with a deal he made.
McCartney has no problem with Lennon having primary authorship on the Lennon songs. He just wishes that the Lennon estate would have the grace to allow him primary authorship on the songs that he wrote. As for the "What a drag" statement, imagine this scenario: You have just learned that your primary collaborator and best friend has been murdered. You receive a phone call from a journalist to inform you and get an instant reaction that is then splashed into worldwide headlines. What are the odds that the first words out of your mouth will be something profound? Glass houses, again. -- | jzitt@josephzitt.com http://www.josephzitt.com/ | | GPG: A4224EFA http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt/ | | == New book: Surprise Me with Beauty: the Music of Human Systems == | | Comma / Gray Code / VoiceWAVE Silence: the John Cage Discussion List |