New Jersey Stage 2017: Issue 40 | Page 72

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.