Read an excerpt from PeterAsher's new book, where he talks about quartets, how they related to TheBeatles & more
"After I'd been doing the From Me To You [radio show] for a while, I had this idea of trying an alphabetical system, taking a leaf out of 's book. And so I did it letter-by-letter. Not just song titles but people, instruments and all kinds of different stuff using a particular letter. I did 26 of those shows and it was at that point that I was approached by a publisher.
He talks about his own career with Peter & Gordon, which intertwined with the Beatles. EMI A&R man Norman Newell asked the duo if knew of any songs they could record for their first album. "He had picked out some songs from our live show that he wanted us to record. He was thinking that we probably would be a bit folky. I think we were going to be Britain's answer to the Kingston Trio. The Kingston Duo as it were.
which he raves about, saying it "will lead to a reassessment of Linda's genius" and working with film composer Hans Zimmer. He will be on tour with his A Musical Memoir of the '60s and Beyond solo performances including Dec. 15 at Bimbo's 365 in San Francisco. "You know, any one of them would have been a giant star on their own without a doubt. What's so amazing is that the four of them were a band. It is just one of those perfect storms of art that happened when all the right people all get together and create something that's more magical than anything that's been before or since."
The string quartet the Beatles used most famously appeared on the song "Yesterday." That has become the exemplar of how to marry a pop song and a string quartet. No one did it better before, and I do not think anyone has done it better since. It is a masterpiece of a record and a great string arrangement by George Martin, who was essentially following direction from Paul McCartney and then applying his own genius and skill for orchestration.
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