Well yeah, obviously it didn't literally happen. I knew someone would object. When you play something you heard someone else play, it is going to sound partly l

Well yeah, obviously it didn't literally happen. I knew someone would object. When you play something you heard someone else play, it is going to sound partly like their work, and partly like you, unavoidably being you. That is what I meant; it was a shorthand meant to save us this tedious excursion. Chuck Berry tried to sound like Pat Boone. The Beatles tried to sound like Chuck Berry. And so on unto infinity. How about this: Two races whose artists had theretofore not collaborated much artistically due to an artificial separation (segregation), started to come into closer contact, in the context of the civil rights movement, new sound recording/reproduction technology, and a burgeoning youth population, and began to influence and imitate each other; and like a boulder rolling down from an unstable perch, managed to release a lot of energy. I know I know... no such thing happened!