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Old 05-26-2009, 10:38 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by C Perauto View Post
you can rule out Dave Clark, he never wrote a lyric in his life. He owned the band the "Dave Clark Five",he employed the other four guys and paid them a weekly wage. As such they were contacted to write songs and he was always credited as co-writer even though he never wrote a word.
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Well that Rotten Tottenham charlatan, all this time I thought he wrote the lyrics, I'm stunned...
Well, not that I'm challenging the veracity of your statement but how do you know?
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