27 October 2022
It was always about honesty. There was the honesty of the four mop top Beatles singing fab little songs which now sound like big little songs. By listening to those early records, we discovered black artists like The Marvelettes, the Miracles, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and the art of writing commercial pop songs like Carole King and Gerry Goffin- and Lennon-McCartney. They were sharing and we were absorbing. There was the “We’re more popular than Jesus” moment, the trippy B