[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Pete's Women
- Subject: Re: Pete's Women
- From: briancady@juno.com (Brian S Cady)
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:24:43 -0400
>> 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