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Sunday, July 12, 2009

How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll (NY Times Book Review)

From The New York Times:

By PETER KEEPNEWS
Published: July 10, 2009


A book that asks why is it that the Beatles and others who “built on the work of black precursors but took the music in new directions” in the 1960s have been routinely praised for accomplishing this feat, while Whiteman has been roundly condemned for doing essentially the same thing 40 years earlier?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/books/review/Keepnews-t.html?ref=books

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