On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:39:57 -0800 Jim Flannery <newgrange@talmanassociates.com> wrote:
Joseph wrote to zorn:
JZ> Why is it go terribly important to others that he go to his grave JZ> with this issue unresolved? Could it possibly be more important JZ> that remote people get a sense of comfort from the mantra JZ> "Lennon/McCartney"?
I think it's important to people because it functioned as some kind of statement at the time: that nobody creates in a vacuum, that collaborators are always collaborating, even when they're doing something "under their own steam". That's a larger statement than just "who should get the royalties", it's a statement about community; and it's a statement that resonates with what a large number of people who were around in the sixties considered the sixties to be "about". (And yeah, it's a statement like a marriage, and remember that it was Paul who described the breakup as a divorce.)
But remember that McCartney is *not* insisting that Lennon's name be dropped entirely.
So I think it looks, from out here, like a final disavowal of principle. Especially since he's waited until twenty years after the person he made the agreement with died to renege on it, just to make sure he's dead enough not to argue.
Note that this is, of course, not the first time that he has raised the issue. I suspect it's just the first time that the complaining about it has gotten loud enough for the press to start carping on it. -- | 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 |