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Re: Pete's Women



>> What about the woman in A Legal Matter?
>> That is a situation that holds true today....
>
>B:
>
>I think I'd better leave it to Yellow to place her into a catagory.
>Actually, the only thing we know about this girl is that she wants to
>get married, and is thinking about having a kid. Placing it in context
>with the time, this was a fairly common feeling after finishing
>school...it was the next step for women, who weren't so much a part of
>the workforce then. And it could be linked to Nora, who perhaps (like 
>a
>lot of women) felt incomplete without a man.
>Pete's attitude was also fairly common, during the time.
>
>-- 
>
>            Cheers                ML

I also think it would be best to remember that most of the songs Pete
wrote in 1964/65 were written "in the voice of Roger" (even 'tho it's
Pete that sings this song).  Roger ran the group then and liked "cock of
the walk" songs, in a manner of speaking.

			-Brian in Atlanta