[beaversmom]

In Yesterday, an unknown singer gets launched into fame thanks to a Lennon-McCartney windfall.
Fifty-five years ago, that really happened to Peter Asher.

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Paul Mac and Peter Asher

[Red Badger]

The premise of the movie is a rip-off of a Sliders episode from the 90's.............

[OldNewYork]

Beautiful song.

[Terry L Smith]

Bollywood and hollywood in bed together,
with plagiarization allowed. Go back to bed.

[beaversmom]

A World Without Love

[Moonman62]

Wow. Good article. I did not know that song was written by McCartney.

[bigbob]

Peter Asher later guided the career of Linda Ronstadt, as her manager and producer for her best and most successful albums. Quite a career!

[Michael.SF.]

A World Without Love” was written for Peter and Gordon by Paul McCartney

According to Peter Asher, that is not quite true.

Asher is still making the rounds, playing shows with long time friend Jeremy (from Chad and Jeremy). Asher told the story at a recent show:

McCartney was dating his sister, who was still living at home in her parents house (as was Asher). Paul, who would occasionally spend the night, was tinkering around on the piano working on "A World w/o Love". He played it for Asher, and Asher liked it.

Some time went by, Asher was now recording his first album and needed one more song. The next time he saw Paul, Asher asked how that song was coming along. Paul said he had stopped working on it, because "John hated it" and did not want to record it.

Asher said he needed one more song for his album and asked Paul if he could record it. Paul agreed, but said he needed to finish the bridge because it was not right.

He later completed the bridge and Asher recorded the song.

The song was written for the Beatles, but rejected by John

[Fiji Hill]

My favorite Beatles song:

The Girl That I Love (1965)