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Originally Posted by quadro2000
I don't know the answer - but can you explain the stylistic relation of Let Me Roll It to John? I've never heard that before.
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I've read it a few places, and found this one on-line via Google:
http://www.bandontherun.com/content/letmerollit.html
Let Me Roll It (4.47)
It has been suggested that this song is Paul doing an imitation of the production style of his former songwriting partner John Lennon, the so-called 'bathroom tile' echo especially evident on Lennon's 1970 Plastic Ono Band. Paul has said that he can't see the resemblance:
PAUL: I still don't think it sounds like him, but that's your opinion. I can dig it if it sounds that way to you (McCartney, qtd. in Gambaccini, 83).
He appears to soften this position somewhat in Club Sandwich, his fan newsletter:
PAUL: My use of tape echo did sound more like John than me ... But tape echo was not John's territory exclusively! And you have to remember that, despite the myth, there was a lot of commonality between us in the way that we thought and the way that we worked (McCartney, qtd. in Rosen, 173).