Other bands also gave McCartney incentive -- in an interesting aside to [Playboy Magazine writer Joan] Goodman, he admitted his first reaction on hearing unfamiliar music is jealousy. Paul told Musician [writers Garbarini & Baird] that he'd felt one-
upped upon hearing the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds: "That album just flipped me out. Still is one of my favorites -- the musical invention on it is just amazing. When I heard it, I thought, 'Oh, dear. This is the album of all time. What the hell are we
going to do? Our ideas from Sergeant Pepper took off from that standard.' Paul was further inspired by a Pete Townshend interview in Melody Maker; he said the Who had made some track that was the loudest, the most raucous rock & roll, the dirtiest
thing they'd ever done. "It made me think right. Got to do it. I like that kind of geeking up. And we decided to do the loudest, nastiest, sweatiest rock number that we could. That was 'Helter Skelter.'"

-- from McCartney's 1985 Musician Magazine interview

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Norbert K <[email protected]> wrote:

Paul was further inspired by a Pete Townshend interview in Melody Maker; he said the Who had made some track that was the loudest, the most raucous rock & roll, the dirtiest thing they'd ever done. "It made me think right. Got to do it. I like that kind of geeking up. And we decided to do the loudest, nastiest, sweatiest rock number that we could. That was 'Helter Skelter.'"

I always thought "Helter Skelter" had more of a Zeppelin influence (The
White Album came out in Dec. '68 and Led Zepp's debut in Feb. '69 but he
could have heard them gigging around England).

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