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Likes Come and Get It.

16 Apr 2025 Conversations with Tyler Ian Leslie on McCartney, Lennon, and the Greatest Creative Partnership of All Time

“I like “Come and Get It.” I don’t think there’s a truly great song that should have been released.”

— Ian Leslie

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Ian Leslie
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16 Apr 2025
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Unreleased during their tenure. All the demos have come out, but is there one where you hear it and you think, “My goodness, they should have put that one on one of the albums?” I don’t have a strong candidate. I think my lead would be, “What’s the New Mary Jane,” that if you had given Paul his way with it over the course of a week, he might have turned it into something great, even though it’s a John song. But I don’t have a clear nomination. Do you? I like “Come and Get It.” I don’t think there’s a truly great song that should have been released. Some of the songs that — just to refer to our previous bit about that — ended up in solo albums, like “Maybe I’m Amazed.” Not “Maybe I’m Amazed,” but “Backseat of My Car” were floating around and maybe they could have been on one of the final albums, but — “[Getting] Better” is a pure Paul song, I think. Just Paul and Linda deeply in love, and John and George would get in the way.…

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