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   "Joe"  wrote in message news:mZ-dnaHjeeUqskncRVn-hA@rcn.net...   
   > Elmer Pintar wrote:   
   >   
   > > would pop music had changed differently? Would people not have   
   > > understood the concept?  Would Sgt. Pepper have been different, given   
   > > McCartney's professed love for Brian's music?   
   >   
   > I don't know why Sgt. Pepper would be any different.  McCartney's   
   > influences were too diverse, and his own ego and creativity would hardly   
   > succumb to the influence of just one person or one album.   
      
   Maybe they would have made it more cohesive, it seems to be but it's a kind   
   of autosuggestion.   
      
   >   
   > > I feel that "Smile" would have inspired more concept albums  because of   
   > > its American theme.  The one-hit wonders would have become one-album   
   > > wonders, with no hit singles but great concepts.   "Days of Future   
   > > Passed" by the Moody Blues with the "nights in white satin" is much like   
   > > the "heroes and villains" recurring refrain, you know?  Well, anyway,   
   > > there would have been more albums like that.   
   > >   
   >   
   > Just like "Smiley Smile," "Smile" would have wound up in the same   
   > cut-out bins alongside "Pet Sounds," and sold to a largely indifferent   
   > public for 97 cents apiece.  Then, years later, Rolling Stone would   
   > begin writing articles about what an underrated "classic" it is.   
   >   
   > I believe its influence on other pop artists would be roughly comparable   
   > to the influence of Van Dyke Parks's "Song Cycle" (with its American   
   > theme), creating hardly a ripple.   
      
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