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billy joel and paul are too close to the same piano/singer guy-the piano should be used sparingly in rock music because we all know how bad they are compared to recording classical guys and it's comic.

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Agreed in the main, but let's not forget Jerry Lee Lewis, who arguably had "more Elvis in him" than Elvis.

Sure they were overhyped, but I still think many better bands wouldn't have gotten their shot without them. It may be, as you said, because they were in the right place at the right time, but the fact remains.

As for Nanker/Phlege?


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The Beatles are The Beatles because of George Martin. Without his production techniques, they're in the same class as The Kinks.*

*Not that The Kinks aren't awesome, but they are rightly not considered "the greatest ever" by most so-called experts.

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