Playing Favorites

Rock Legends Keith Richards and Paul McCartney (among others) have occasionally listed their favorite songs and artists. Here are some of them:

Keith:

Paul:

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Both:

Keith:

Paul (for James Jamerson on bass):

Paul:

Keith:

Keith:

McCartney's omission of the Rolling Stones wasn't a snub. His list was limited to "underappreciated" artists, so the Stones obviously didn't qualify.

 

Comments

[cory]

Regarding James Jamerson on bass, the super talented bassist Carol Kaye just made news for refusing to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and going off on the sobriquet of the studio cats she played with, The Wrecking Crew. It was a sort of bizarre rant by a supremely talented lady who was the only female member of the Crew (the name was not insulting as she insisted, it referred to the fact they wrecked the model for studio musicians who before then had generally been straight-laced players who followed scripted scores).

Carol has been saying some strange things in her advancing years, including taking credit for some of Jamerson's best performances with the Motown studio cats, The Funk Brothers. She claims to have played on a number of Motown classics that are clearly and definitively credited to Jamerson, who, despite his genius, died largely unknown and under appreciated outside certain circles of the music community.

[anon]

McCartney's list was limited to "underappreciated" artists, like Little Richard, Carl Perkins, and Harry Nilsson.