Professional consecrated by work with Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Aerosmith, Run-DMC and many others is in love with Liverpool band
Regardless of personal taste, the Beatles They are still the most popular band in history to this day. Even with activities closed 55 years ago, the group – whose history is celebrated on June 25 with the World Beatles Day – He continued to be very successful with his compositions, classified as timeless and very influential.
Rick Rubin It goes beyond. Celebrated in rock and hip hop for producing Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallic, Aerosmith, BEASTIE BOYS, Johnny Cash, Run-DMC, Public enemy and Linkin Parkamong others, the studio professional understands that the existence of the Liverpool group is proof of the existence of God.
In a 2013 interview with NewsweekRubin recalled his origins in music by saying that he first heard the Beatles at the age of 4. Interestingly, the producer’s initial contact was not through an authorial music of the group, but by a cover: “Rock and Roll Music”original Chuck Berry.
The feeling was so unique that Rick remembers to this day of what happened to him when he first heard that song in the distant year of 1967. He said:
“I remember feeling electrified. This was the first true rock ‘n’ roll I heard in my life.”
From there, the fascination with the Beatles only increased. Even discovering so many other artists and making history by itself in music, the producer still puts the band of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr on the highest level.
In this interview, he even puts them as proof of divine existence-and explains why.
“They transcended everything. It’s something much bigger than four Liverpool boys. For me, The Beatles are proof of the existence of God. It’s so good and so superior to everyone else. ”
Rick Rubin and the Beatles
The relationship between Rick Rubin and the Beatles is so strong that, in 2022, the producer was invited by the BBC to choose the eight songs he would lead to a deserted island (via website Igor Miranda) – And of course a song from Liverpool’s Fab Four was quoted right away. “Across the Universe”track present on the album Let it be (1970), occupied the first place on the list.
“During my childhood, the Beatles were everywhere and all over my house. And somehow printed how beautiful this song is, at a very deep level, before knowing that I was looking for what it was.”
The admiration became friendship, as Rubin established a bond with Paul McCartney and recorded a documentary with him: McCartney 3, 2, 1 (2021), available in Disney+. And guess who is the best bassist of all time in the producer’s opinion, as revealed in an interview with Foolish (via NME)? Paul, of course.
He stated:
“Everything I’ve ever seen to Beatles is about composition or beatlemania. With Paul McCartney, either the bassist Paul, or is Paul musician, because he touches everything, but this is just a part of the story. You just think about it as one of the Beatles, but in my opinion, he is the best of all bassists, he is number one.”
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Source: Rollingstone
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