the biggest marketplace in the
world. He was ok with that.
would just have a deeper experi-
ence that I wasn’t having before,
and it was great to see it from
Did you sort of relive the expe- his eyes. When he says “I was
rience of hearing Beatles’ songs in love” the first time he heard
for the first time through Mar-
“Strawberry Fields Forever” that’s
tin’s experience?
magic. And that’s why I was inter-
Oh sure. And I would often re-
ested in writing the book. It was
live different takes of a song that to have his point of view and also
maybe I didn’t think that much
show just how many hours were
about but I had heard in boot-
put in. You truly experience the
legs or the Anthology series and sheer number of hours and ses-
I would have a stronger sense of sions it took to do what they did
what they were and why they’re
and how they were often doing it
valuable. That happened a lot. I in a compact period of time.