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Anyone who asserted 'just by listening' that Hatto was the real deal.

No, this was the first I had heard of Hatto. But praising the work of
real artists even though that work was misrepresented by a plagarist
as their own doesn't make the listener a fool. It makes the "author" a
liar.

Precisely. Those were real performances of real music and were apparently
quite good. They just weren't by Hatto.

Now if you said the same performance was great when credited to Hatto and
bad when credited to its real performer, you have a problem...