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Re: (TV) Ray/Beatles



Well put.

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>From: "Raymond" <ray@wavewalker.freeserve.co.uk>
>To: <tv@obbard.com>
>Subject: (TV) Ray/Beatles
>Date: Tue, May 23, 2000, 10:29 AM
>

> Hi again all,
>                   My earlier remarks,like Keith's before me, really seem to
> have put the cat among the pigeons-I must say it's great though to see so
> much activity on the list again!
> I feel like I still need to qualify something I forgot to add earlier.As I
> said before I remain a huge Beatles fan to this day as well as obviously
> being an ardent Ray admirer.As someone born in '61 the fabs were the first
> pop music I ever remember hearing on the radio so they obviously made a
> massive early impact on me as a youngster and then later as a musician -of
> course I recognise their immense social and cultural impact yet perhaps
> because this is so I find a portion of their recorded material constantly
> overpraised and over-hyped as a result.People's critical facilities seem to
> go out the window a lot of the time....
> Meanwhile here's old Ray who doesn't have any writing partner to spark off
> or help him finish material, getting shafted big-time on various dodgy
> publishing/business deals and not even allowed to tour the US at the height
> of popularity of the Kinks!...and he stills manages somehow to keep churning
> out an incredibly high standard of wonderful songs all the while -by
> himself-incredible!!!
> I just think he deserves a hell of a lot more respect than he is currently
> accorded-he's one of those folk who should be lionised every bit as much as
> the Beatles are-glad to see so many listers agree....R.
>
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