Fact #99142
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Short story:
Peter And Gordon release a new single, A World Without Love, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles, in the UK.
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Peter Asher : We were singing in a club every night called the Pickwick Club and Norman Newell, who was an A + R man for EMI Records, came down one night and very traditionally called us over for a drink. He asked if we'd ever made a record and we said no. So he said, "Well, come and do an audition." He gave us his card and it was all for real. We went to EMI Records and cut some of the tunes we were singing in the club. They said, "Great, we like it, you've got a record deal." A terrible record deal, I may add! We didn't know that at the time.
Peter Asher : We didn't know what we were going to record. Paul had been playing this song to us. It was a piece they weren't recording, or it wasn't finished. It didn't have a bridge, so when we were given a record deal, I asked him to finish that song, and he did. At the time Paul lived with our family on Wimpole Street in London and was going out with my sister Jane, so I certainly knew him well. He would sing different songs to me all the time.
They brought in studio musicians to play on it. I remember a guitar player was named Vic Flick, who was a heavy studio guy at the time. Jimmy Page played on a few of our records but I can't remember which ones. So did John Paul Jones. On one of our albums we had Brian Jones playing harmonica, but not on a single.
Gordon Waller : Peter's tastes were more jazz and folk-oriented than mine, but when we got together we realised that our voices suited each other, so we started doing a bit of work in local clubs
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Peter Asher : We didn't know what we were going to record. Paul had been playing this song to us. It was a piece they weren't recording, or it wasn't finished. It didn't have a bridge, so when we were given a record deal, I asked him to finish that song, and he did. At the time Paul lived with our family on Wimpole Street in London and was going out with my sister Jane, so I certainly knew him well. He would sing different songs to me all the time.
They brought in studio musicians to play on it. I remember a guitar player was named Vic Flick, who was a heavy studio guy at the time. Jimmy Page played on a few of our records but I can't remember which ones. So did John Paul Jones. On one of our albums we had Brian Jones playing harmonica, but not on a single.
Gordon Waller : Peter's tastes were more jazz and folk-oriented than mine, but when we got together we realised that our voices suited each other, so we started doing a bit of work in local clubs