Paul McCartney

places like that.

And it was only later that you learn that this was slave trade, that there was a lot of that.

Only thing we would see would be the local Caribbean.

Yeah.

And, you know, sailors came back from a particularly merchant navy.

A lot of them that we would know came back from America, whether they'd been to like New Orleans or, you know, down south.

And they had records that nobody else had.

So how would you get hold of them?

You just, you know, you borrow them off somebody.

Somebody would know the sailor who had it and the sailor would let them borrow it.

You'd borrow it off them.

So it was like a little culture where you'd, the record would go around and we'd all learn it.

Yeah, that was what it was.

You would know certain chords and then someone would know an extra chord.

So you would go to his house and learn this extra chord and you build up your knowledge through things like that.

None of us ever learned to read or write music.

which is kind of an interesting fact about pretty much all the groups out of the 60s.

I remember talking to Jeff Lynn of ELO.

He says, oh, we just made it up.

And that's what it was.