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From: ian{at}beathoven.com (paramucho)
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Subject: Re: Who Wrote "It Don't Come Easy"?
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:12:17 +0000 (UTC), Raymond Arritt
 wrote:

>paramucho wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 03:24:29 +0000 (UTC), cividale99{at}hotmail.com
>> wrote:
>
>>>So..... who wrote, "It Don't Come Easy"?
>> 
>> Both of them although I think the lyrics are mainly Ringo. There are
>> very distinctive "George" features in the chords. 
>
>Hmmm.  Not just "George" features in the chords, as it turns out.
>
>The chord progression to the verse part of "It Don't Come Easy" is
>precisely identical to the chord progression to the verse part of "Let
>it Rain" from Eric Clapton's first solo album.  George and Clapton were
>friends during the general time when these songs were being worked up
>(they were recorded at nearly the same time in early 1970), so it's very
>possible that one of them borrowed from the other.
>
>And we know that George had a tendency to "borrow" melodies...

A one-off case doesn't make a tendency, it makes a glitch -- unless of
course there are other cases I don't know about.

George generally had his own thing going musically -- chords and
tunes, from the very beginning. 

 

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