In Dreams - Sir Paul McCartney
It was while he was a-kip that Macca had one of his best, and one of his worst, ideas.
It happened on Wimpole Street, an attractive avenue just north of Oxford Street. That's where Paul McCartney had the strangest of dreams at the very height of his Beatles fame.
As rock writer Roy Coleman explained in his book McCartney: Yesterday And Today, the bass player and songwriter woke up with a tune running through his head that felt incredibly familiar. After rushing to the piano to ensure that he didn't forget it, McCartney asked his then girlfriend Jane Asher whether it rang a bell with her, which it didn't.
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