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Pardon if this is in any way daft, but I'm looking for suggestions: I'm trying to develop a longer article about overshadowed "secondary" songwriters--call it the George Harrison syndrome--exploring the issues inherent to collaboration as competition, and attempting critical comparison between the work of the second banana and that of the more dominant partner.

Any suggestions of folks to talk about/talk to? Looking in any of the various "pop" song-based genres, early-60s through today. No points taken away for obvious suggestions.

Thanks for the help. (Sorry if this got posted twice.)

― WL (wl), Monday, 29 August 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

How abut Glen Frye of teh Eagles?

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 29 August 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

grant hart
tobin sprout

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 29 August 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

izzy stradlin (who was probably more primary than secondary, but i'm not sure the world sees him that way)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 29 August 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)

bryan mclean

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 29 August 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

dave davies

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 29 August 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

third fiddle, just like harrison: bunny wailer

― oops (Oops), Monday, 29 August 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

Mike Mills?

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 29 August 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

Tommy Stinson -- only one song to his (sole) credit during his Replacements days, and it was (I think) a b-side.

― Alex Pareene (Pareene), Monday, 29 August 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

Colin Moulding

― Sith Vidious, Monday, 29 August 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

awesome suggestions so far! thanks and keep 'em coming, pls...

― wl (wl), Monday, 29 August 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

Bruce Foxton!

― late adopter, Monday, 29 August 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

Hard to say who the "secondary" writer was among the Airplane: Kantner, Balin, Slick, or Kaukonen. Probably Jorma, and he came up with some fine stuff.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 29 August 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

Big Star's Andy Hummel ("The India Song"), Jody Stephens ("For You") and (it must be said) Chris Bell (the whinier songs on #1 Record). Though, admittedly, that was more of an early Lennon/McCartney collaboration thing.

― Alex Pareene (Pareene), Monday, 29 August 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

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