Catanddogguitarrr
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There is a rumour or an hoax of Linda McCartney back up vocals on Hey Jude. One of my friend who had a great collection of Beatles bootlegs, (he might have 100 of them) told me that in London there was a telephone number, you call that number and the tape plays Linda's vocal alone when Wings plays Hey Jude, or the original recording, he wasn't sure. It's just a rumour but it tells how out of tune she can sing and it tells how far UK Beatles fans go when they don't like a singer. And if that singer does sacrilege to a Beatle song,Oh yeah. Right up there with Rita Marley.
Paul did say in some documentary that Linda wrote the 'badge' (see a previous post, heh heh) of "Live and Let Die" ("What does it matter to ya" etc). Still my wild guess is that the Paul and Linda McCartney writing credits on those '70s Wings/McCartney albums are mostly a bit of a joke. (This is terrible misogyny, I know.)
Audio Hoaxes and Urban Legends, Part One
Since it's April Fool's Day eve, I thought I would kick off a new series on audio hoaxes and urban legends, dedicated to those pieces of sound that get passed around as something they ain't. (Don't forget, radio people, the...
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