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Thread #26493   Message #331381
Posted By: GUEST,Matt_R
31-Oct-00 - 04:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: Paul Mc Cartney ?
Subject: RE: BS: Paul Mc Cartney ?
Oh, don't you go near ELO! Them's MY boys. I never got this "John Lennon" thing. Jeff sounds NOTHING like him. As for "Hold On Tight"...it's influenced by rockabilly, as is "Rock & Rock Is King", etc. Lennon did not create rockabilly. And I wouldn't call 6 years "immediately". ELO's last hit was "Calling America", in 1986, off their final album "Balance of Power" a very sad and very beautiful work. Listen to "Boogie No.2: In Old England Town" and tell me if that sounds like John Lennon. More like Bob Dylan on acid. The last thing I need after today is people slagging off on ELO. Go back to your folk music, and try to figure out why Nanci Griffith, Emmylou Harris, and Iris Dement all sound exactly the same.