Post by rockinronnie on Mar 2, 2014 14:59:48 GMT
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As an impressionable teenager growing up in the 60s, Francis Rossi can recall the first time he saw The Beatles bring 'colour' to his black-and-white TV. Here, Rossi tells TG about the night he met his hero, the opportunity he had to write with Lennon, and why he let it pass…Words: Greg CookeEven now Lennon continues to be a hero to successive generations. What's behind his enduring appeal?"What I've always loved is simple, catchy pop tunes. And what I've always loved about John Lennon – ever since the first Beatles stuff – is that feeling that a song had just arrived without him having to think too hard about it. His solo albums are like that, too. You put one on and that voice sounds like all this only just occurred to the bloke a few minutes ago – and he's been gone 30 years now! To this day, I can't imagine what it takes to write a song like 'Imagine', but to be fair, if you see me sitting behind a piano it's usually for a kip…." Tell us what it was about him that you felt was so unique…
"To start with, Lennon caught my eye just with how he looked and how he moved. It seems tame now, but I think people have forgotten what a properly dreary, black-and-white old world we lived in before Lennon and The Beatles came along. The next two things I realised after seeing him on the telly was that I wanted to be in a band and play guitar, but I'd got no proper interest in being a lead guitarist. He showed me what you could do and the energy you could get from just getting up there and strumming the thin
As an impressionable teenager growing up in the 60s, Francis Rossi can recall the first time he saw The Beatles bring 'colour' to his black-and-white TV. Here, Rossi tells TG about the night he met his hero, the opportunity he had to write with Lennon, and why he let it pass…Words: Greg CookeEven now Lennon continues to be a hero to successive generations. What's behind his enduring appeal?"What I've always loved is simple, catchy pop tunes. And what I've always loved about John Lennon – ever since the first Beatles stuff – is that feeling that a song had just arrived without him having to think too hard about it. His solo albums are like that, too. You put one on and that voice sounds like all this only just occurred to the bloke a few minutes ago – and he's been gone 30 years now! To this day, I can't imagine what it takes to write a song like 'Imagine', but to be fair, if you see me sitting behind a piano it's usually for a kip…." Tell us what it was about him that you felt was so unique…
"To start with, Lennon caught my eye just with how he looked and how he moved. It seems tame now, but I think people have forgotten what a properly dreary, black-and-white old world we lived in before Lennon and The Beatles came along. The next two things I realised after seeing him on the telly was that I wanted to be in a band and play guitar, but I'd got no proper interest in being a lead guitarist. He showed me what you could do and the energy you could get from just getting up there and strumming the thin