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dillwyn Megastar Posts: 1,813	BBC Article - 10 times JL saved Rock n Roll Oct 11, 2016 13:21:01 GMT Horacewimp, queenofthehours, and 2 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by dillwyn on Oct 11, 2016 13:21:01 GMT This is fun www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/17603tvv6KdVz2hSVhZ2wgw/ten-times-elos-jeff-lynne-secretly-saved-rock-n-roll?ns_mchannel=social&

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BBC Article - 10 times JL saved Rock n Roll Oct 11, 2016 17:31:58 GMT queenofthehours and unomusette like this

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Post by Helmut83 on Oct 11, 2016 17:31:58 GMT

Great article. Before reading it I thought "hey, to write an article title like this you've got to be more of a biased fanatic than anyone of us on the forum", but after reading it I was thinking "damn, Jeff Lynne was freaking important in the history of music" (despite the fact that I already knew most everything about those 10 points).

This also made me indignant again about that Paul Weller guy and his blatant plagiarism of 10538 Overture. With what face do you play such a song live in front of an audience acting as if it were your fantastic creation? What a swindler!

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dillwyn Megastar Posts: 1,813	BBC Article - 10 times JL saved Rock n Roll Oct 11, 2016 18:15:59 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by dillwyn on Oct 11, 2016 18:15:59 GMT nothing new there, so many bands 'recycle riffs' ...actually the riff on 10538 is pretty much pulled from the Beatles. Hell led zep made a career sampling this way.

Helmut83 Supergiant Posts: 8,658	BBC Article - 10 times JL saved Rock n Roll Oct 11, 2016 19:12:04 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Helmut83 on Oct 11, 2016 19:12:04 GMT From which Beatles song exactly? I can hear a riff in "Stairway to Heaven" that is really similar to a riff from "You never give me your money".
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dillwyn Megastar Posts: 1,813	BBC Article - 10 times JL saved Rock n Roll Oct 11, 2016 21:05:09 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by dillwyn on Oct 11, 2016 21:05:09 GMT dear prudence would be my call. as for LZ.... www.musictimes.com/articles/6250/20140520/7-songs-other-than-stairway-to-heaven-that-led-zeppelin-stole.htm
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BBC Article - 10 times JL saved Rock n Roll Oct 23, 2016 14:47:16 GMT

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Post by queenofthehours on Oct 23, 2016 14:47:16 GMT

I didn't know that about Knebworth. And Jeff shouldn't be credited for Weller, it isn't really an achievement is it?

All those other reasons in the article I didn't know at all until I saw the Mr Blue Sky doc. Finding out that the beardy guy in glasses simply wasn't the cheesy, unknown one in the Wilburys but was in reality the most important man in rock changed my life.

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BBC Article - 10 times JL saved Rock n Roll

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