Thanks....I think that was indeed the film :). That criticism is pretty common - what really angers people is that guys like Elvis made mega millions while the people who inspired him stayed in poverty. I had one friend get absolutely ballistic on me about Steve Winwood's popularity in the US in the late 1980s -- the guy knew exactly where his riffs came from and hated to see them lifted like that ;).
Without due credit.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: "Scottie Bowman" <rbowman@indigo.ie>
To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 21:52:40 +0100
Subject: in the ghetto
I don't very often find myself in sympathy with strident
black lady writers. But I did a couple of weeks ago,
reading in The Guardian on the great anniversary, an article
headed: 'He ain't MY King.'
The woman in question, whose name I failed to register,
was protesting violently at the theft of 'her own people's
music' by this acneous greaser from the world's trailer park.
Someone with a provenance such as his could hardly avoid
being a humourless vulgarian subject to manipulation &
exploitation by the equivalent of a pimp for prepubescent
girls. But to see the con trick perpetrated on a bunch of
elderly, white middle class jerks into the condescending delusion
that they're communing in some kind of original, primitive
experience - well, that's just sad, if it weren't so nauseating.
PS - I suspect the film was 'The Committments' - though I
wouldn't have been caught dead attending it either.
Scottie B.
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