I’m writing this early in the morning with the Beatles playing in the background, listening to some of their earliest originals and wondering how they wrote and produced all the music that they did and swept many of us up in a groundswell of awe and joy while also asking us why we couldn’t write a song like “Girl” or “I’ll Follow The Sun” or the very much overlooked “I’ll Be Back” or, well, just something that came even close to what they were doing before Strawberry Fields F

We called ourselves “Walter and Jack” after the two characters in “The Odd Couple”, and the name stuck because it was true: We were Asia’s odd couple of the music industry, and also, very possibly, the most successful. It worked to have one of us who talked softly and carried a big stick and the other who enjoyed being a big stick and having some thinking he was a whack job who had a short fuse.  Norman (Cheng) and I read the tea leaves extremely well. We almost magically and

Once upon a dim sum  We heard the bells  go Ding Dong We knew we were back  And chilling in the Kong The city called Hong Kong  There was music playing  And people singing  There were beats  out in the streets Music was heard everywhere  This was the soundtrack  to our being and lives  And living the coolest  Cheongsam life style   Copyright ©️ Hans Ebert, 2026 It’s tough growing up, and, sometimes, when having to grow down to fit in with others and “network”, which is a stra