Friday, July 31, 2015

Lennon and McCartney Possibly Lost Dozens of Beatles Songs


Over the years Paul McCartney has worked hard on a catalog that expands out to hundreds upon hundreds of songs. Many with the Beatles and plenty more on his own. In a recent interview however, McCartney reveals that when he and John Lennon would work together to write songs, they had to do their best to remember what they wrote due to lack of recording devices. This caused them to forget and lose dozens of could have been classics.

In an interview with Evening Standard (via NME) McCartney says:

“Things have changed quite a bit. You’ve got recording devices now which change the songwriting process. For instance, John [Lennon] and I didn’t have them when we first started writing, we would write a song and just have to remember it. There was always the risk that we’d just forget it. If the next morning you couldn’t remember it, it was gone. In actual fact, you had to write songs that were memorable, because you had to remember them or they were lost! There must have been dozens lost this way. … So you would have to form the thing, have it all finished, remember it all, go in pretty quickly and record it.”

McCartney is grateful for modern technology making it so easy to record and remember your ideas on things like pocket recorders, saying “Now, because you can get things down on a device, I’ve got millions of things I want to record and do.”

I can only imagine what those lost songs from the early days of The Beatles would have sounded like. Sadly the world will never know. At least now whomever becomes the next big sensation has all of the modern conveniences that are necessary to remember all their ideas.

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