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“It was the early Jimi Hendrix days. I was persuading George to do something feedback-y and crazy. I was showing him what I wanted and he said, ‘Well, you do it’”: On the trail of...

Throughout the Beatles years, the guitar remained Paul McCartney's clandestine obsession

“It was the early Jimi Hendrix days. I was persuading George to do something feedback-y and crazy. I was showing him what I wanted and he said, ‘Well, you do it’”: On the trail of...
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Throughout the Beatles years, the guitar remained Paul McCartney's clandestine obsession

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