"Professional songwriting ceased to be a respected occupation with the emergence of the Beatles, the band that forever commingled self-expression with authenticity and independence. For the past 20 years, however, the division of labor established in New York's Brill Building in the late 1950s and early 1960s—songwriters on one side, singers on the other, and never shall the two meet—has been revived by a slew of European hit-makers."
Slate's Elizabeth Vincentelli charts the rise of such pop producers as Xenomania.
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