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Yeah. Hello and welcome to I am the Eggpot with me Chris Shaw.

The Eggpot take a jaunty stroll through Pepperland, discussing the Beatles and

solo Beatle albums with a potpoury of delicious guests. In this episode, I'm joined by

Editor Media Desk at the New York Times, and a writer whose profiles range from Elvis Costello

and Robert Plant to Rufus Wainwright and Nick Lowe. It's Jim Windorf. Hi, Chris. Thanks so much

for having me on. Thank you. I've been reading a lot of your stuff. I've been reading your

silly love songs appraisal. Oh, good. Thank you for reading that. There's a story to that you were saying.

Yeah, I wrote this kind of ode to silly love songs because I felt

like it was unfairly maligned. I am a big defender of silly love songs. It was the number one,

the highest selling song of 1976 in the United States. And so I wrote this thing about it where I

partially used it to defend Linda as a singer. and I think she adds so much to post-Beedles Paul McCartney, you know.

And on that song, I love when she sings in the rounds section where it's, you know, I love you.

How can I tell you about my loved one?

And kind of made this argument that her lack of professional singer's tricks

makes you believe the words more because it's just there's no vibrato, there's nothing,

it's just I love you.

And I'm sure like Paul is like the way James Brown was with his band.

I'm sure Paul is like telling her, hit this, do this, do that.

You know, that I think he's on top of her.

I mean, you can read about that where he takes her through these vocal parts very strictly in a way.

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