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Old 10-26-2011, 09:16 PM   #392 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by blastingas10 View Post
Yes, Buddy Holly did it in the late fifties. My point was The Beatles were one of the first to add those instruments to rock n roll, thats a fact. Not the first, but one of the first. I havent modified my points. I never said they were the first. He proved that The Beatles werent the first to do it, and that never was my claim.
So the Beatles most important innovation was repeating something Buddy Holly did seven years earlier which, even when he did it, was hardly revolutionary as it was something that had been done in pop music since at least the 1940s. Glad we got that straightened out!
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