Yeah, I think that’s where the gap starts, because the older division of labor on the recording industry (song writers often not being the main performer of a song in public, but professional performers doing that) was giving way to the post-Beatles concept of rock (Elvis was also primarily a performer of other’s songs and the Beatles shifted to singer-songwriters pretty soon after their rise to fame), which was all about this kind of image of authenticity and the song writer being the performer of the music. This is more about public perception, I think, than reality - even in the singer-songrwriter age, song writing and then recording an album is more complicated and involves more people than just the genius individual writing the next great heartfelt hit. You can see several artists from that era that seem to straddle that change as it was happening, I’m thinking of people like Carole King who started out as a songwriter for others, and who later had her own high profile career… Lou Reed, too, who entered the recording industry as a song writer, before starting VU with Cale…
Yeah, the music industry remains one of the most misogynistic industries with us today.
