Ian Leslie: in praise of “intelligent, literate and very pretentious pop”
Ian Leslie – “author, adman, speaker, spy” – wrote the scintillating “64 Reasons to Celebrate Paul McCartney” last year having fallen in love with the Beatles as a child, a story so perfect that “the God of Narrative didn’t want them to reform”. Here he talks about Lennon/McCartney’s romantic love affair, which one's still underrated and why "George Harrison is the band’s Irish Border question”. Arriving at college with his Wings and Billy Joel, Melody Maker directed him to Scritti Politti and Prefab Sprout in the profound belief that “pretension is a force for the good”. Also featured … Tom Petty, Dylan at the O2 (“a man apparently suffering from a terrible respiratory condition”), Frank Sinatra, Bertrand Russell, Georgio Chiellini and the Greatest Record Ever Made.
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