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[Dave Monroe]

You don't have to, er, sell ("No puns where none ...")
me on this one, Otto.  I'm all about the British
Invasion and the American collaboration therewith
(shoulda been a band called The Benedict Arnolds, but
... well, I'll get to work on it, though my current
fave name is The Roddy McDowells).  For an interesting
 counterhistory, however, see ...

Kelly, Michael Bryan.  The Beatle Myth: The British
   Invasion of American Popular Music, 1956-1969.
   Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1991.

And excellent thinking through there, all these
seemingly marginal elements--Tupperware, The
Paranoids, what have you--really do seem to have been
painstakingly chosen.  But i still wanna know, Miles
(Davis), Leonard (Cohen), Serge (Gainsbourg), Dean (?)
...


--- Otto <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:
> 
> With all this "Beatles haircut" (16) and "English
> accent" (17) a little later I always took this line
> (in my book on p. 14) as an reversal of "I Want to
> Hold Your Hand," and the way Miles is described as
> an ironic comment on the dominance of British pop
> groups even in the USA in the middle of the
> sixties.  The copy is causing copies in the land of
> its origin. Cause becomes effect and effect becomes
> cause.

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