John's letter to MM

[JoJo]

John wrote this open letter to Bill via Melody Maker, and it's pretty harsh. You may have seen this before, but there are some interesting points.



The "first bit of hype" he mentions was from the British release, "Please Please Me", and here is what he is talking about, and the whole cover is shown first because of the autographs. (don't have any way of knowing if they are totally reliable)







Here's the "hype" from LIB:



So, what does he mean when he seems to compare Tony Barrow's effusive comments on the album cover to Bill's Life mag article? ("Paul Is Still With Us")

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And what does he mean about the writing inside the Wild Life not being "exactly the realist"? I couldn't find a decent scan of the inside cover after a fair amount of searching, best I could come up with is this pic from an Ebay sale:



Bill has "wings", and is holding the guitar right handed?? Wonder what the writing says, probably something in the self promotion vein, which is why John got so sarcastic.

[-Wings-]

I've actually got the Wild Life record on hand, and yeah, the type above the sketch of them as angels is just self-promotional gibberish.

When Paul and Linda McCartney were in New York recording 'RAM' they needed a drummer so they found a sweaty old basement in the West 40's and invited some drummers to play on a battered old drum kit. One of those who turned up and went straight for his tom toms was Denny Seiwell, a tall type with eight generations of drummers in his family, who played well and left the drum kit throbbing. After that, Paul, Linda and Denny played together on 'RAM' and then each took off for a holiday.

The Macs returned to Britain and during the time following wrote a bunch of songs at their country retreat.

When the time came to go recording again they rang Denny Laine, a Birmingham lad, and asked him if he was coming out to play. Replying in the affirmative he brought his faithful guitar, and he and the Macs, along with Denny S. (who had arrived from the States as if by magic carrying his wife who was drunk again) and his drums, proceeded.

They rehearsed for a while, sang some old songs, wrote some new ones and in time headed for the big city studios.

In three days they had laid down most of the tracks and by the end of a couple of weeks the album was finished.

In this wrapper is the music they made. Can you dig it?

CLINT HARRIGAN

[eyesbleed]

wings said:

I've actually got the Wild Life record on hand, and yeah, the type above the sketch of them as angels is just self-promotional gibberish.

Hey thanks Wings....
I thought I was gonna have to go dig thru those stacks of records in my closet again.!