In an interview with New Musical Express, he himself spoke about it this way: “When we got together to record these songs, we just wanted to play, just sing, shake the old days, get ready to record a long-playing album. I needed the carefree atmosphere of a coffee shop, you know – “come on, bring an instrument, maybe we’ll sit down and play – like that. (…) And I just told the guys: ‘Kansas City’ in the key of G, a little carelessly, showed where to pause in the middle, and how to end – and that’s it. And then: “…two, three, four, and…” And they began. Well, and with a nod showed who to join with the solo. They played great. No one had time to think – that’s the secret. Two takes was our maximum, and then only if the first one did not suit us at all. We recorded 18 songs in one day. And 18 more for the next one!(…) The guys kept asking: “Are we going to play your songs?” And we played “I Saw Her Standing There’, but most of all I wanted to play old, prehistoric rock. I only thought about it. And we started with ‘Twenty Flight Rock’, then ‘Lawdy Miss Clawdy’, a little bit of Fats Domino, Sam Cooke and etc. We even dared to play ‘It’s Now Or Never’ from the Elvis repertoire. (…) We recorded 18 songs in a day, and I thought, hell, that’s how the Beatles usually recorded. Often it is thanks to mistakes that a piece of music becomes outstanding. If in a friend where something was wrong, we left it, did not touch it, so that the record would have its own characteristic aftertaste. When you try to fix something, you can only spoil everything. The musicians worked hard, nobody’s conceit interfered. We played and didn’t think about whether the drummer tapped the third measure correctly or not.”
>Альбом СНОВА В СССР, 1-е издание (11 песен). >На жёлтом заднике обложки в аннотации написано, >что Маккартни давал интервью New Musical Express >о том, как записывался альбом. Можно ли где-то >найти англоязычный оригинал этого интервью?