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« Reply #495 on: 14:48:35, 14-11-2008 »
No, I know it's not a remotely amusing story, but as an example of the sort of lengths to which defendants and lawyers will go in court, this, from the BBC news website, takes some beating:

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Loyalist killer Michael Stone has been found guilty of trying to murder Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams at Stormont in November 2006.

He was also convicted of seven other charges, including possession of weapons and explosive devices.

Stone had denied the charges, claiming the incident was performance art.

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However, a judge at Belfast Crown Court said this was "wholly unconvincing".

Really?
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« Reply #496 on: 17:14:20, 15-11-2008 »
Not actually today's story, but I've only just noticed it. Peter Maxwell Davies says Paul McCartney is "as great as Schubert".

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article5151459.ece
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« Reply #497 on: 17:19:39, 15-11-2008 »
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« Reply #498 on: 17:24:42, 15-11-2008 »
Blimey.

Personally, I think it's a bit early to be making that kind of judgement.

Comparisons are odorous. What does 'great' mean anyway? Is it relevant to compare two song-writers in dramatically different eras, with dramatically different contemporary forms of dissemination for their work? etc. etc. etc.
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« Reply #499 on: 16:24:14, 16-11-2008 »
Quote from: Mary Chambers on 17:14:20, 15-11-2008
Not actually today's story, but I've only just noticed it. Peter Maxwell Davies says Paul McCartney is "as great as Schubert".

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article5151459.ece

I think Wilfred Mellers was peddling that line back in the 1970s...
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« Reply #500 on: 17:19:23, 16-11-2008 »
Quote from: martle on 16:24:14, 16-11-2008
Quote from: Mary Chambers on 17:14:20, 15-11-2008
Not actually today's story, but I've only just noticed it. Peter Maxwell Davies says Paul McCartney is "as great as Schubert".

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article5151459.ece

I think Wilfred Mellers was peddling that line back in the 1970s...

Actually it was Tony Palmer who started it all, with his "If there is still any doubt that Lennon and McCartney are the greatest song writers since Schubert, then next Friday---with the publication of the new Beatles double LP---should surely see the last vestiges of cultural snobbery and bourgeois prejudice swept away in a deluge of joyful music making, which only the ignorant will not hear and only the deaf will not acknowledge", in 1968, in response to the 'White Album', in The Observer.
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« Reply #501 on: 17:57:53, 16-11-2008 »
If only he had know about Ruskin vs. Whistler!
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« Reply #502 on: 08:57:37, 17-11-2008 »
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