grahamg
Old codger
- Location
- South of Manchester, UK
Last night on BBC radio to help celebrate 100 years of the BBC a recording of the then well known northern England reporter called Keith Fordyce, interviewing Paul McCartney and John Lennon at Paul's home in Liverpool, (recorded in 1966).
One of the first questions he asked them both was whether they minded other artists releasing versions of their songs, and what did they think of them. Paul answered first and said he thought they did a better job, but John Lennon said he disagreed. However when Paul went on to say he was referring to individual artists covering their songs not other bands, John quickly changed around and said, "In that case I agree".
It was a quite brilliant interview and meeting in Paul's house, there was joking between them all, with very quick wits, including when some cups of tea were brought into the room, and the two Beatles joked about who was serving them, (Mrs Higgins Paul said, though they then said it wasn't Mrs Higgins and so on). A dog was barking quite loudly in another room, proving this interview was being done in Paul's home, but the interview carried on without difficulty, as they were asked about their style of composing music and lyrics, and how much each helped the other, and why, (both making positive comments though these were made only about a year before the Beatles split permanently),
Here is the first artist who covered one of the Beatles most famous early songs and was chosen by them as someone who they admired, (I'll perhaps come back with a few more, as I so agree now with their view, that these artists, "doing their ow versions, or arrangements" did improve the songs):
One of the first questions he asked them both was whether they minded other artists releasing versions of their songs, and what did they think of them. Paul answered first and said he thought they did a better job, but John Lennon said he disagreed. However when Paul went on to say he was referring to individual artists covering their songs not other bands, John quickly changed around and said, "In that case I agree".
It was a quite brilliant interview and meeting in Paul's house, there was joking between them all, with very quick wits, including when some cups of tea were brought into the room, and the two Beatles joked about who was serving them, (Mrs Higgins Paul said, though they then said it wasn't Mrs Higgins and so on). A dog was barking quite loudly in another room, proving this interview was being done in Paul's home, but the interview carried on without difficulty, as they were asked about their style of composing music and lyrics, and how much each helped the other, and why, (both making positive comments though these were made only about a year before the Beatles split permanently),
Here is the first artist who covered one of the Beatles most famous early songs and was chosen by them as someone who they admired, (I'll perhaps come back with a few more, as I so agree now with their view, that these artists, "doing their ow versions, or arrangements" did improve the songs):
