McCartney Times

The Beatles may have been a quintessentially British band, but their influences were global. With strong roots in African-American rhythm and blues as well as in rock and roll, the Fab Four also drew on elements of Indian music to inform their later sound following their famous 1968 visit to Rishikesh.So it was no wonder that when Paul McCartney touched down in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1973 to record his next album, Band on the Run, there was some suspicion amongst local musicians that he had come to the country to look for a new sound and to incorporate, or, in their eyes, steal, elements of African music for his new record.

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