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“I actually wrote the riff on piano and then Paul Kossoff transposed the chords to guitar ... In his 2001 book The Beatles as Musicians, musicologist Walter Everett said the iconic riff drew ...

Paul McCartney revealed that The Beatles' "Let It Be" is actually about someone who was close to him, not a biblical figure.

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And let’s just say that Paul McCartney is a lot less diplomatic now than he was sixty years ago. When a present-day McCartney is asked how he felt about the less-than-warm welcome the Beatles ...

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