From: geoff@nospamgeoffwood.org   
      
   On 19/02/2025 1:52 pm, super70s wrote:   
   > On 2025-02-18 23:34:14 +0000, Norbert said:   
   >   
   >> Same here.   
   >>   
   >> I need to correct myself on something.  I wrote, sincerely but mistaken,   
   >> that Albert Goldman attributed the change in the Beatles' songwriting   
   >> style to their marijuana use.  No; Goldman actually wrote that Peter   
   >> Brown ascribed the guys' stylistic changes to pot.  Goldman, in fact,   
   >> devoted several eloquent paragraphs to his own argument that the change   
   >> in style was due to McCartney's copping of black musical styles.   
   >>   
   >> And he was right.  McCartney has owned up to this -- to, e.g., his   
   >> efforts to play bass like "the Motown Guy," James Jamerson.   
   >   
   > Did you catch him doing Golden Slumbers/The End on the SNL special?   
   >   
   > Poor guy can't seem to hit those high notes anymore but hell he's 82.   
   >   
      
   General strength and 'weight' behind the voice not the same.   
   Understandably ...   
      
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   geoff   
      
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