“The McCartney home always had a piano of World War I vintage because Paul’s father Jim (1902-76), the son of a brass band’s tubist, had been a musician, playing trumpet and piano in leading semiprofessional local bands…While none of the Beatles received any sort of formal instruction in an instrument, theory, or composition, Paul’s home was musically richer than that of the others; he has said, ‘I had a little bit more knowledge of harmony through my dad. I actually knew what the word harmony meant” (Walter Everett, The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul, 2001).
The Beatles “Please Please Me”
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