Keith Richards names the "most superb, lucky song ever"
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Keith Richards names the "most superb, lucky song ever"
- I love to hear the embryo of a classic song. Here in this case he had the chords and timing down right off the bat. It didn't need "improving" or shape. To their credit the others knew not to touch it as it sounded whole and complete. They could have said things like, "what if you went to a major chord there" or "slow it down" or "shorten it", etc.
from The moment Paul McCartney played ‘Let It Be’ to the rest of The Beatles, 1969 by World Inspiration
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They had become friends four years before because Meche had been listening to Alan Parsons Project’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination and she didn’t get the references. So she decided to ask the only person in her class who might have the answer. At first Sebastian had been offended she didn’t know Edgar Allan Poe, but she had been equally offended
... See morefrom Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Margaret Leigh added
When Brian Wilson first heard the Beatles’ Rubber Soul, his mind was blown. “If I ever do anything in my life, I’m going to make that good an album,” he thought at the time. He went on to explain, “I was so happy to hear it that I went and started writing ‘God Only Knows.’ ”
from The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin