Post by petrolino on Oct 20, 2021 21:15:46 GMT
Violinist and viola player Kenneth Essex has died at the age of 101.
Thanks for the music.
"You have heard Kenneth Essex, though you have probably not heard of him. His descending notes on the viola linked the bridge and verse of Yesterday by the Beatles and he was part of the string quartet that performed the theme music to Fawlty Towers ..."
- Patrick Kidd, The Times
“Yesterday” didn’t come to Paul McCartney completed. It took eighteen months before it was ready to be recorded. He had to verify that it was in fact an original song.
He said, “I didn’t believe I’d written it. I thought maybe I’d heard it before, it was some other tune, and I went around for weeks playing the chords of the song for people.”
McCartney had the creative flexibility to accept imperfection in the song for a very long time. Placeholders are valuable for busting through creative blocks, and McCartney used placeholders to keep working on “Yesterday.”
For more than a year, the song was called “scrambled eggs.” The placeholder lyrics were absurd: “Scrambled eggs. Oh my baby how I love your legs.”
McCartney had the creative flexibility to accept imperfection in the song for a very long time. Placeholders are valuable for busting through creative blocks, and McCartney used placeholders to keep working on “Yesterday.”
For more than a year, the song was called “scrambled eggs.” The placeholder lyrics were absurd: “Scrambled eggs. Oh my baby how I love your legs.”
- David Kadavy, Medium
Jean Shrimpton boards Paul McCartney, photographed by Richard Avedon in 1965
'Yesterday' - The Beatles
R.I.P.
