From: mayancastledvd@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 3:01:49 PM UTC-4, Willie wrote:   
   >    
   > But I'm really enjoying the book. The Beatles have just appeared (Bob missed   
   their Ed Sullivan appearance, seen by 78 million, because the four travellers   
   were in a fleabag motel with no TV). I liked this passage:    
   >    
   > "As with most musical trends, McCartney had the jump on Lennon, who gamely   
   admitted, 'Paul had heard of him [WW: Dylan] before, but until we played   
   Freewheelin' his name did not really mean anything to the rest of us.' Macca   
   could well have brought the    
   album with him to Paris, having 'borrowed' it from his brother, Mike McGear   
   [WW: I'd never heard of Paul's brother!], who who had borrowed it from a girl   
   he had been (vainly) trying to impress, someone hip enough to own an import   
   copy. McGear's first    
   reaction on hearing Freewheelin' at her place - or so he claims - was 'This   
   guy can't sing.' But he was real keen on this Liverpool gal, so he persevered;   
   to the extent that he eventually asked to borrow the album to listen to at   
   home, where he was    
   caught in flagrante by his brother, who opined, 'What is this shit? This guy   
   can't sing.' Mike replied, 'It kinda grows on you.' Fast-forward to January   
   1964. Mike has come to raise the siege of George Cinque [WW: A hotel in Paris   
   referred to earlier],    
   only to be stunned to hear, upon entering the boys' palatial suite, Dylan's   
   dulcet tones. He challenges Paul. 'Hey, I thought you said he couldn't sing.'   
   The remark engendered a slightly sheepish, 'It kinda grows on you.' "    
   >    
   > I wonder which Freewheelin' song had the dulcet tones. Girl from the North   
   Country? bob Dylan's Dream? Corinna, Corinna? Don't Think Twice?   
      
   Hmmm....  This is different from the story I've been familiar with and has   
   been told repeatedly, that George Harrison picked up FreeWheelin' in Paris and   
   introduced it to the rest of the band.    
      
   If Mark Lewisohn ever gets around to publishing Vol 2 of his Beatles'   
   biography it will be interesting to see what he has to say about it.   
      
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