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In a new interview, Beatles veteran Paul McCartney spoke about the songwriting process of the 1960s and how he and John Lennon would remember their songs.
McCartney spoke about the "dozens" of Beatles songs that escapes the recording process or were merely forgotten.
In talks with the Evening Standard, the bassist said of songwriting in the days of yore: "Things have changed quite a bit," said Paul: "You've got recording devices now which change the songwriting process. For instance, John and I didn't have them when we first started writing, we would write a song and just have to remember it."
He continued: "And there was always the risk that we'd just forget it. If the next morning you couldn't remember it – it was gone. In actual fact you had to write songs that were memorable, because you had to remember them or they were lost! There must have been dozens lost this way."
"We didn't have tape recorders. Now you can do it on your phone. So you would have to form the thing, have it all finished, remember it all, go in pretty quickly and record it. Now, because you can get things down on a device, I've got millions of things I want to record and do."
Listen to The Beatles performing 'I Forgot to Remember to Forgot' live at BBC below
Speaking in an interview with Esquire, Paul McCartney has revealed that he felt frustrated that John became a "martyr" after his death, he said: "When John got shot, aside from the pure horror of it, the lingering thing was, OK, well now John's a martyr. A JFK."
