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Happy Boxing Day…and the Birth of the Beatles
Written by Jimmy
It’s Boxing Day. After our traditional Boxing Day walk, I settled down to watch some of the shows I’ve recorded and are now clogging up the Sky Hard Drive. Started with Ronnie Wood’s Radio Show (fantastic!) and he’s interviewing Paul McCartney. A little fact. Paul confesses that he thinks he ‘got into the Beatles’ (i.e., John was willing to have him join John’s group) because he new all the words to Eddie Cochran’s Twenty Flight Rock.
So, here’s to Boxing Day, here’s to Eddie who helped the Beatles get moving…
To continue with Boxing Day Trivia, Ronnie and Paul talked about the cover the Beatles did of the song Arthur Alexander’s Anna (you”ll probably win a pub quiz on this one):
And Paul then spoke quite a while about Brian Wilson while he played God Only Knows. Paul’s quote: “I just think its a great song. Melodies. Harmonies. Great words… Its my favourite Beach Boy song. .. I got to sing it with Brian once. I lost it at the sound check. Oh my god. I’m singing it with Brian! Its the little vibrations meeting your heart. Its the little things in music that touch your heart…”
And if you remember my last blog, today we got another God Only Knows of day light…
And Paul is still talking. They are playing Get Back and talking about Billy Preston’s piano solo. Turns out Paul and John met Billy Preston in Hamburg in the early sixties – Billy was the 16 year old piano player for Little Richard who was in Hamburg! Why do I love all this stuff?
Sorry. But he’s still bloody chabbering on… Paul’s talking about John and the fact that John was blind as a bat but would never wear his glasses if he thought there would be ‘girls’ around that might see him. So Paul and John are writing music together at Paul’s house and at about 1130 John leaves to walk home to his house, a couple blocks away. Next day he talks to Paul and says, ‘Paul, your neighbors are insane. I walked by them late last night and they’re all still outside in the freezing air playing cards.’ Paul couldn’t believe this and walked ’round to his neighbors to ask. In front of their house was a nativity scene, with Joseph and Mary bent over the baby Jesus. The royal card game!
Jimmy