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.
World Inspiration • The moment Paul McCartney played ‘Let It Be’ to the rest of The Beatles, 1969
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“The best songs are written against your will - with minimal intervention, because you happened to have one hand up in the air while the other touched the ground and were alive with desire.” — Laura Marling
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For his first 6 years of trying to be a songwriter, Paul Simon wrote terrible songs. “They were all terrible,” his biographer Robert Hilburn said, “I found his old demos—there’s about 50 of them—and it’s unbelievable: there isn’t one good song.” Finally, in the fall of 1963, Simon made a vow: After spending those first 6 years mostly “copying what
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Yet for all their changes between 1962 and 1970, one constant is that they did not hold back. They bashed out their first album in a mammoth all-day
Rob Sheffield • Dreaming the Beatles
A great guitar solo is not about how fast you can play, or your degree of technical skill. It comes from a deeper place.
Now, one could point out that Prince didn’t spend a lot of time on that solo. He just stepped up and killed it in the moment, but this ignores the innumerable hours of purposeful practice Prince put into becoming Prince, the kind
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This tale is extremely famous, but much less well-known is the fact that Paul plays drums on it. And the reason: Ringo just quit the band.
Rob Sheffield • Dreaming the Beatles
One of Lou’s songwriting maxims was ‘to be terrific, be specific’,
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