George Martin on The Who's Tommy + Beatles - Later 7/21/93 Chris Connelly interview

Record producer GEORGE MARTIN was the guest on the July 21st 1993 broadcast of "Later with Bob Costas". Chris Connelly was guest host for this episode and his interview touched upon Shirley Bassey (Goldfinger), The Who's Tommy, and The Beatles (including stories about signing the band, "Please Please Me', "Yesterday", and "Strawberry Fields Forever"). A great interview! WKYC-NBC to SuperBeta2 to Video8 LP to mp4. #georgemartin #chrisconnelly #interview #thebeatles #johnlennon #paulmccartney #shirleybassey #petetownshend #tommy
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[@gabriellew6467]

Fascinating interview, so much unexpected background to those iconic songs - who could imagine "Yesterday" any other way than as the lyrical gentle song it is. All sorts of information provided in this marvellous interview. Great!

[@sadielampduo3762]

Great blast from the files in music history

[@tomsauer3830]

Great stuff! George Martin is really cool.

[@ClevelandLiveMusic]

I was surprised it was not already uploaded

[@bucksdiaryfan]

At 9:01 George Martin claims the only "Lennon" song that Paul McCartney sang lead on was "Please Please Me". I just went on Spotify and played "Please Please Me"... that's clearly John Lennon singing the lead, not McCartney. Was George Martin thinking of "Love Me Do" instead? But I think that is a McCartney penned song

[@TuberOnTheLoose]

He may have misspoken there. It is a legendary story that John originally sang the lead on "Love Me Do," but since he couldn't sing and play the harmonica at the same time he reassigned the lead vocals to Paul.
Paul has pointed out on numerous occasions that you can hear the nervousness in his voice on the take with Pete Best on drums at the June 6, 1962 audition session.

[@kevinsmith9691]

So the interviewer (asking when George first heard "Tommy") says, "didn't you say to yourself, this is just a lot of nonesense here?" Wow, great assessment of a landmark album, Chris.

[@Gibbo1]

He was pointed out to me on the Island of Alderney in 1999 for the solar eclipse, up to that point i'd never heard of him

[@zaz214]

George was years ahead of his time. What a set of ears.

[@Theactivepsychos]

2:00

[@anthonymcnamee6297]

SF sorrow pretty things album was the first rock type opera not the who