“There can’t be many number one hit singles on which the French nursery rhyme ‘Frere Jacques’ is sung. But ‘Paperback Writer’ is one. It was Paul’s idea that John and George should rekindle childhood memories with this unusual backing vocal…Eighteen-year-old Richard Lush, another Abbey Road apprentice with a promising future, made his recording session debut as Beatles tape operator on this day. ‘I was pretty nervous. I’d worked with Cliff and the Shadows and they were very easy going but I knew that Beatles sessions were private…It certainly took a while before they knew me as Richard. Until then it was Who is that boy sitting in the corner hearing all of our music?’” (Mark Lewisohn, The Beatles Recording Sessions, 1988).
The Beatles “Paperback Writer”
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