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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Why my favourite group broke up
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Date: Tue, 16-Aug-83 12:37:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 16 12:37:46 1983
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  Oh, boy, another opportunity to plug my favorites! Good counterexamples
to the break-up syndrome are the Grateful Dead, Rolling Stones, and the Who
(it's only a rumor!). These guys never seem to grow old. The Dead are still
writing new and different material, Jagger is still a sex symbol at 40+,
and Townshend is still doing pinwheels on his guitar. All these groups have
gone through personnel changes but still hang tough, and in all cases none of
the original creativity that made them great has been lost. I, too, would
be interested in hearing people's theories as to why these particular groups
have held together for 15+ years, while other great groups, like the Beatles,
have been unable to hold it together.

-- 
                        GREG
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