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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The final version owes a great deal to the genius of Andrew Gold, a fantastic guitar player and keyboard player and drummer and bass player, that he played most of the instruments on the final version of the record that we did.
And we finally thought that we'd got it right.
And I remember playing that back and kind of rarely does one actually super confident that a record's a hit.
But in this case, we were listening to You're No Good and kind of went, if that's not a hit record, you know, I don't know what is or I'll eat my hat or whatever the idiom is.
Apparently it had a substantial impact, according to the musicians, and I'm very glad if it did.
Because, yes, I mean, Motown Records, for example, you had no idea who anybody was.
I never saw any Motown players listed on any album.
Supremes, Four Tops, nothing.
And so that seemed to be fairly consistent throughout the industry.
And I remember looking at records as a fan back in London...
I would always wonder who was playing on it and couldn't find the information.
The guy who took the album cover photograph was more likely to get a credit than the people who played all this breathtaking music.
So it seemed to me entirely logical.
I wasn't doing anything magical and I just thought they should be listed because they played so well.
So we put them on the back of the record.
And apparently it did make a difference to those musicians because they would obviously get hired based on, I want something that sounds like that.
And that's a good thing.
So I still do that to this day, but it's more common these days.
Thank you very much indeed.
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