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Three versions of songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles enter the UK singles chart on the same day - Girl by The St Louis Union, Michelle by The Overlanders (which will go to No1) and another version of Michelle by David And Jonathan.Full article:
Paul McCartney (The Beatles) : Michelle was a tune that I'd written in Chet Atkins' finger-picking style. There is a song he did called "Trambone" with a repetitive top line, and he played a bass line while playing a melody. This was an innovation for us; even though classical guitarists had played it, no rock 'n' roll guitarists had played it. The first person we knew to use finger-picking style was Chet Atkins ... I never learned it. But based on Atkins' "Trambone", I wanted to write something with a melody and a bass line in it, so I did. I just had it as an instrumental in C.
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Bob Dylan : A song like Yesterday or Michelle ... it's such a cop-out, man ... if you go to the Library of Congress you can find a lot better than that. There are millions of songs like Yesterday and Michelle written in Tin Pan Alley.
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Bob Dylan : A song like Yesterday or Michelle ... it's such a cop-out, man ... if you go to the Library of Congress you can find a lot better than that. There are millions of songs like Yesterday and Michelle written in Tin Pan Alley.
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