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From: Danny Caccavo 
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Subject: Re: "Come Together" and "You Can't Catch Me" (again)
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In article ,
 "ddavis99"  wrote:

> In the Wenner interviews in 1970, and later in the Playboy interview
> (1980) JL was pretty consistent in his recollection of writing "Come
> Together"
> 
>     "Come Together" is me - writing obscurely around an old Chuck
> Berry thing. I left in the line "Here come old flat-top." It is
> nothing like the Chuck Berry song, but they took me to court because I
> admitted the influence once years ago. I could have changed it to
> "Here comes old iron face," but the song remains independent of Chuck
> Berry or anybody else on earth.
> 
> In talking with Wenner, he uses the word "stylistically" in place of
> "writing obscurely around" in the above. By that time - December 1970,
> I think-  Levy was already suing them or threatening to sue them.
> 
> http://www.rollingstone.com/lennonpodcast
> 
> What I would like to know is, in what 1969 interview (possibly in the
> context of the Sept release of AR) did he first "admit the
> influence" ? What did he actually say, the first time out of the box?
> 
> DDD
> 
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Morris may had been looking for any reason to sue Lennon or The Beatles 
(btw, I always wondered why he threatened to sue Lennon, when 
technically the song is "Lennon/McCartney").  I believe Levy got screwed 
out of Beatles merchandising back in '64, and I think he was also 
involved in VJ or Swan. I'll see what I can find.

dc

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