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> And I dont. I said it before, The Glimmers needed
> to be strong against Beatles and they could not
> give co credits to Wyman for his riff, Jumpin Jack
> Flash (today he would have gotten it) or Brian
> for, let's say Little red rooster, a song he
> totaly changed from the original song
Huh? Give Brian credit for LLR?
I think you don't seem to understand how song writing credits works. LLR is a plain cover of LLR written by Willie Dixon. If you play a cover you can perform it any way you want, you can ad strings or whatever instrument you want, in the end you can fart the melody: you did not write the song. The only way you can earn song credits is by writing a melody or chord changes. So, if you added a totaly new bridge, chorus or verse you would be able to claim you 'wrote' a part of the song. If you ad a great 15 minute virtuoso solo on slide guitar in open Cminor7: that's great, but you will not get any song writing credits.
> or Ruby
> Tuesday for adding a signature melody on
> recorder/flute.
The recorder does NOT ad a signature melody: it plays the same melody as the piano and vocals, and the cello plays a counter melody to the recorder. Still this doesn't say anything about whom wrote what. It could be that the song is based on Brian's recorder, but this would mean that Brian wrote an entire melody of an entire song on his own, something he has never done in his musical career as far as we fans know. Still, there is only one source claiming brian wrote RT, against numorous claims that Keith wrote it.
> How do I know this? Because they
> give credits to unknown people who write songs
> with them today (have a look at BT
.
So they give credit to Ron Wood, Wyman and a dozen of unknown people, but NOT to Brian. This sounds like a conspiracy theory.
> think Mick and Keith has written the majority of
> their songs but I also believe many others have
> made contributions that are significant and i
> think the Glimmers have been like a mafia (didnt
> Keith describe it that way?).
Isn't this because the Glimmer Twins simply write the best songs? I think it's the same as with Lennon/McCartney: how on earth can you compete with these writing teams? Bill Wyman has made a couple of solo albums, and all he shows is that he won't ever to be able to compete with Jagger/Richards.
But in the end, Steve Jordan earned plenty of credits with Keith, Dave Stewart with Jagger, Ron Wood got a dozen songs through with the Stones. But poor old Brian was treated badly....
Mathijs