Peter Asher
speaker
359 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Peter Asher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I had a friend of mine called Richard Hewson, who was a jazz guitar player and a classical music composer.
To write some arrangements for us, because I was most anxious that people take James seriously, that they not think he's just, yeah, oh, it's another long-haired folky, because he definitely wasn't and isn't.
Because that was the thing of that era.
You know, if you sang and played the acoustic guitar, you were a folk singer, whether you sang folk songs or not.
But in this case, that's why we made the first album.
And that album, as you probably know, was not tremendously successful.
It just laid the groundwork for the first album we made when we got to America.
Yeah.
Correct.
No, if I hadn't left, by the way, I would have got fired.
Why?
Because Alan Klein came in.
Well, because Alan Klein was coming in and firing everybody.
I could see the writing on the wall.
So I wrote Alan a letter of resignation, but he was in charge of Apple overall at the time.
And I'm sure you've read about the fights between John and Paul about whether Alan Klein was evil or not, or whether he could be a good manager.
And Paul lost the argument in this instance, and they hired Alan Klein to be the head of Apple.
And it was clear that he was going to fire everybody, and he did fire most people.
So if I hadn't quit, I certainly would have been fired pretty in short order.
It interfered with his music a lot.
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