Tyler Cowen: prediction

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…He was very professional and workmanlike, which is slightly surprising, but in a sense, not surprising because he’d grown up as a recording artist in the Abbey Road Studio where everything ran like clockwork. Harry Nilsson said he was always in the studio in the morning then, saying, “Right, let’s get to work.” They did work, but then in the afternoon or the evening, they would go crazy and go on drinking bouts and take drugs. I think he was a pretty efficient and professional producer. I’m not sure they produced great work together. What was Paul like collaborating with his brother, Mike McGear? People have forgotten about that album somehow, but it’s quite interesting. I don’t know that it’s good. Paul is deferring too much. I think he should have just taken over, but he does, I think, only in the one song called “All My Loving,” which sounds quite like Paul, and the title itself tells you something. [laughs] Exactly. I think it sounds much more of its time than anything the Beatles did. That’s probably because, as you say, Paul was not really pushing it and perhaps was being a little bit careful not to be the dominant voice in the room with people who he didn’t know very well. Perhaps he was eager not to be the big guy in front of his brother. I don’t know, I think your answer is as good as any.…

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