I Saw Rock N' Roll Future And

My Ambition Was To Be A Record Producer, And I Had Started Doing That In The Late '60s With My Work With The Mc5 And My Friend Livingston Taylor.

Bob Dylan Was The Source Of Pop Music's Unpredictability In The Sixties. Never As Big A Record-seller As Commonly Imagined, His Importance Was First Aesthetic And Social, And Then As An Influence.

When The Beatles Cut Old Rock N' Roll, They Were Recording Music Still In Their Performing Repertoire, And Besides, They Never Thought Of The Music As Old.

The Beatles Never Sounded Intimidated By Their Idols. They Never Interpreted Old Rock; They Simply Played It As Well And As Joyfully As They Knew How. On 'rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon Does Nothing But Interpret Old Rock.

While The Beatles Always Had George Martin Around To Clean Up Their Act, The Rolling Stones Had Andrew Loog Oldham To Coarsen Theirs.