Throughout a current look on QFM96‘s “Torg & Elliott” radio present, legendary rocker Alice Cooper, whose Seventies “Hollywood Vampires” superstar consuming membership included THE BEATLES members Ringo Starr and John Lennon, was requested if he thinks THE BEATLES would have reunited in some unspecified time in the future for at the least one live performance had Lennon not been murdered again in 1980. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Completely. Here is the factor about them. After they had been after one another’s throats, when it got here to the breakup and all that stuff, if anyone within the ‘Vampires’ again in these days — that was our consuming membership — if anyone mentioned something dangerous about Paul [McCartney], John would take a swing at you. As a result of that was his greatest good friend. If anyone mentioned something about John to Paul, Paul was not like that, however Paul would stroll out of the room; he’d simply stroll out. As a result of you aren’t allowed to speak about their greatest pals. They had been greatest pals it doesn’t matter what was happening in the entire thing. One went a technique and one went the opposite. I believe John needed to be extra political; Paul was not into that that a lot. John was all the time attempting to get me into politics, and I mentioned, ‘John, you are attempting to avoid wasting the world. I am simply attempting to entertain them.'”

Again in 2017, Alice instructed NME that THE BEATLES was one among his largest influences. Cooper added that he heard “She Loves You” as a baby, saying it was “the primary tune by THE BEATLES I ever heard and it actually modified one thing in my mind. It impressed what Alice Cooper grew to become.”

In 2020, Alice included “Meet The Beatles! in his listing of high albums of all time, telling Rolling Stone journal: “It was the primary one that absolutely knocked me out as a result of I might by no means heard something like that earlier than. We had been listening to the BEACH BOYS and the FOUR SEASONS, and rapidly, this is this band coming together with all this hair and Beatle boots and these fits, they usually had been singing these songs that you may hear them one time, and also you knew them.”

He continued: “I’ve all the time mentioned this, and other people may disagree with me, but it surely’s simpler to put in writing one thing like ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ than it’s to put in writing one thing like ‘I Need To Maintain Your Hand’. I am nonetheless fairly positive they’re aliens. I do not suppose they’re from this planet.”

This previous June, McCartney introduced that he had employed AI expertise on an unreleased BEATLES demo from the Seventies, telling BBC Radio 4‘s “Right this moment” program that AI had been used to “extricate” Lennon‘s voice from a cassette recording of the demo. The monitor is extensively believed to be a 1978 Lennon composition titled “Now And Then”. The tune was included on a cassette labelled “For Paul” that Lennon had recorded shortly earlier than his demise in 1980.

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