Haha, some good comments, have to agree with most, Layla and other jukebox hits do tend to grate these days. Right too, about session musicians who never got/get the credit they deserve, like Jon Herrington in Steely Dan, or those guys that work with John Mclaughlin currently (Mbappe? and a lad from Leeds) and many, many others, like James Jameson on all those Tamla hits. Mind you, I still like that Jackson/McCartney song Say Say Say – especially the strong, tight brass on it. The stuff Macca did with Wings got terrible criticism at the time but needs revision, even Band on the Run (though not Mull of Kintyre)! ELO seemed a natural extension of that furrow, at least for a while.
