Mitch Friedfeld ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >In the November issue of the BBC Music Magazine, Adam Sweeting interviews >Pete Waterman, who is billed as "one of the most successful and prolific >writers and producers in British pop over the last 20 years." Waterman >maintains that WSoP is derived from Air on the G String, for what that's >worth. I'm chagrined to admit that I am not familiar with this famous >Bach piece, at least to the best of my knowledge. This has come up previously, either here or in r.m.c (or both). Nobody I know has ever identified, to my satisfaction, a genuine Bach source - and PW's talking through his hat, it's not the Air from the Third Orchestral Suite, (known as Air on a G String because of an arrangement made in the 19th century by the famous violinist August Wilhelmj), which you may well know. >And I do mean "for what that's worth," as Waterman claims that the Beatles' >Because is a crib from Moonlight Sonata. I don't see that at all. Perhaps he's deaf? deryk barker ([log in to unmask], http://www.camosun.bc.ca/~dbarker)