Yesterday

Younger Than Springtime came out first. Paul was inspired by me to pitch it. I was doing that with Rodgers and Arlen and Martin in 2017. In the Fiction Room gig, I scrupulously explained their origins to head that off. The movie came out after that gig, so Danny may have seen it. Why? It was a stall. He was buying time to get his rights back from Sony. He's been buying them back since 2017, in reverse order. So have the others. That's why they needed a signature. Until a year or two ago, they had the early hits. Sony's movie was positioning them as the first stadium rockers. Even considering the psychedelic era has got the powers-that-be very nervous. Sir David corrected a detail: Paul did dress as a woman in public. For Magical Mystery Tour, he directed as a woman. - Paul told me something much stranger. He's really Jack Gray - that's a pseudonym. Like with Don and Peter Jones. Sold his first song at 10, to Hugh Martin. I Never Dream When I'm Asleep is one of his. High Spirits is one of my favourite musicals, and I loved Jack Gray's voice. He really was something in my eyes. Hugh Martin was a songwriter of the time. From Birmingham, Alabama. Paul hasn't read his memoirs. - For show people: Paul was a founding partner in MTI. That's why he owns the bulk of the catalogue.