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The Beatles’ “Hey Jude” battled a song produced by Paul McCartney on the charts.The latter song was performed by a singer who was not a member of The Beatles.The tune in question was based on a Russian song. Paul McCartney | Fiona Adams / Contributor
Paul McCartney gave a song to another 1960s singer. Subsequently, The Beatles‘ “Hey Jude” stopped the song from hitting No. 1. The incident might not have happened without the advice of the supermodel Twiggy.
Twiggy told The Beatles’ Paul McCartney to watch a certain Welsh singer perform on television
In the 1997 book Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, the “Band on the Run” singer said Twiggy told him to watch a singer named Mary Hopkin on television. “So I tuned in next week to see her and she did have a very nice, very soft, well-controlled Welsh voice,” he said. “And she looked very pretty,...
The Beatles’ “Hey Jude” battled a song produced by Paul McCartney on the charts.The latter song was performed by a singer who was not a member of The Beatles.The tune in question was based on a Russian song. Paul McCartney | Fiona Adams / Contributor
Paul McCartney gave a song to another 1960s singer. Subsequently, The Beatles‘ “Hey Jude” stopped the song from hitting No. 1. The incident might not have happened without the advice of the supermodel Twiggy.
Twiggy told The Beatles’ Paul McCartney to watch a certain Welsh singer perform on television
In the 1997 book Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, the “Band on the Run” singer said Twiggy told him to watch a singer named Mary Hopkin on television. “So I tuned in next week to see her and she did have a very nice, very soft, well-controlled Welsh voice,” he said. “And she looked very pretty,...
- 1/30/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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