McCartney Times

The Beatles, they are the standard. You measure everything by the Beatles. Every musician I know… I mean, I’ve talked to Ozzy and Steven Tyler. And it doesn’t matter what our music turned into. We all look at the Beatles and go ‘That’s how to write a song.’ So as scary as Alice Cooper is, [producer] Bob Ezrin would never let us put a song on the album that wasn’t a song. It wasn’t just a riff with a bunch of lyrics on it. It had to be a song with a verse, a B section, and a chorus to it. Because that’s what The Beatles did. Now, we could twist it into an Alice Cooper song, we learned how to write listening to McCartney and Lennon.

And you also got to kind of know them over the years because you John Lennon, you were part of a kind of a pretty riotous drinking gang who would include Harry Nilsson and Keith Moon, and you would go around the bars in Los Angeles when Lenon was on his famous 18-month-long lost weekend. What kind of man was he? How well did you get to know him?

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