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The Beatles met Elvis Presley solely as soon as, at his house in Los Angeles whereas they had been on their second US Tour in August 1965.
“It was just like a dream, really, meeting Elvis. We’d fantasized about him since we were kind of young teenagers and here he was in the flesh. So it was great. It was lovely,” says McCartney.
They talked and performed Elvis’s guitars. But McCartney says it was the King’s TV he remembers finest.
“I think the most amazing thing besides actually just meeting him was he had the first remote television channel changer that we’d ever seen, ’cause you know, it was that year when they came out,” McCartney remembers.
“He was just aiming it at the TV, and the channels were changing and we go ‘Whoa! He is indeed the mighty God. He can turn the channels without approaching the television set!’ So we were very impressed by that.”
In reality, the first wi-fi distant, Zenith’s Flashmatic, was launched ten years earlier, in 1955. It managed sound and channels by flashing a beam of sunshine at the tv. The solely downside? On good days, daylight would generally change the channel on you.
But remotes had been sluggish to take off. In 1961, after they had switched from gentle to ultrasound to management televisions, folks had been nonetheless fairly impressed by the expertise, as is evidenced by an exuberant RCA business that WIRED wrote about in 2013. And even by 1979, solely 17 p.c of houses in the US had distant controls for his or her televisions.
So for McCartney, the clicker was a revelation. And talking of clicking, he says the Beatles did not use click on tracks, both.
“Drummers notoriously speed up. I don’t really think Ringo ever did—he held a really good tempo—but if he did, we’d just go with him,” he says. “He was a great drummer so we didn’t need a click track. Also, we didn’t have one even if we had needed one.”
Hear rather more from Sir Paul, together with what he remembers about being knighted, in the video above.
