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The young, pre-LSD & Yoko John might have rivalled McCartney's vocal on
"Oh! Darling," but -- in spite of John's comments to Playboy's David
Sheff -- McCartney did an amazing, unforgettable job on the vocal.

Speaking of David Sheff, I was told many years ago that Yoko had agreed
to let Sheff write her autobiography in exchange for his ludicrous
article in Playboy, "The Betrayal of John Lennon." Guess what? The bio
is out.
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On 2025-07-05 10:04:55 +0000, Norbert said:

The young, pre-LSD & Yoko John might have rivalled McCartney's vocal on
"Oh! Darling," but -- in spite of John's comments to Playboy's David
Sheff -- McCartney did an amazing, unforgettable job on the vocal.

Speaking of David Sheff, I was told many years ago that Yoko had agreed
to let Sheff write her autobiography in exchange for his ludicrous
article in Playboy, "The Betrayal of John Lennon." Guess what? The bio
is out.

Is the autobiography credited to "Yoko Ono with David Scheff" or
something like that? You don't need someone's permission to write a
biography (hello Albert Goldman). Of course you need their permission
to give you interviews.

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It's titled: Yoko: A Biography, by David Sheff.

I browsed it and found that it says what Yoko would want him to say -- a
lot of nonsense about how famous Yoko supposedly was before she met
John, etc.
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Fourth verse, at about 2:48. Tellingly, Paul continues: also sings:
"Please believe me/I'll never LET YOU DOWN." He's alluding to John's
song of that title; he is *singing to John*.
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Those quotes are from John's Playboy interview. Lennon's criticisms of
Paul's vocal on "Oh! Darling" are strange. He says that Paul didn't
perform the vocal too well an that he (John) could have done it better. Perhaps as a younger man John could have rivalled Paul's performance,
but there is no way he could approached it in hi post-acid phase. John
had lost the power in his singing. Yes, there's screaming on Plastic
Ono Band, but he sounds more pathetic than compelling.
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On 30/06/2025 9:27 pm, Norbert wrote:

Those quotes are from John's Playboy interview.-a Lennon's criticisms of Paul's vocal on "Oh! Darling" are strange.-a He says that Paul didn't
perform the vocal too well an that he (John) could have done it better. Perhaps as a younger man John could have rivalled Paul's performance,
but there is no way he could approached it in hi post-acid phase.-a John
had lost the power in his singing.-a Yes, there's screaming on Plastic
Ono Band, but he sounds more pathetic than compelling.

I imagine John doing the intense bit would have been painfully
ear-shredding, rather than gutsy.
--
geoff
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