Paul McCartney

I mean, I learned the riff to That'll Be the Day, Buddy Holly.

I think Little Richard and Buddy Holly were your great favorites.

They were part of the thing.

Buddy Holly was great because he played guitar and he sang and he was out front, which not many of the singers did.

Elvis had Scotty Moore, who played guitar for him.

But Buddy played the lead and did the riffs.

So you'd learn off him.

And he wore glasses, which I always loved.

And he wore glasses, which suddenly made life okay for John.

John was embarrassed.

Anytime he saw girls, he took the glasses off, you know.

I wrote my first song when I was 14, and I suppose that's when I discovered it.

I remember the things that appealed to me about that song.

The song was called I Lost My Little Girl, and someone pointed out to me, my mom had died

not too long before that.

So probably at the back of my mind, a therapist would probably say, that's what this was about.

And the guitar was the therapist, really.

So, you know, I had a couple of musical ideas.

The chords went down, went from G to G7 to C. So there was a bam, bam, bam.

And then my melody went bam, bam, bam, bam against it.