“I didn’t know their tunes, but we played some Chuck Berry and reggae, then Paul McCartney said, ‘What are you doing for the next few years?’” How Laurence Juber went from winning a Grammy with Wings to landing a hit record with Harry Styles

Laurence Juber.

The Beatles’ I Want to Hold Your Hand was released in the United Kingdom in November 1963. That same week, Laurence Juber started playing guitar. A little divine providence might be in evidence, given that he’d later join Paul McCartney in post-Beatles band Wings.

But as Juber points out, he’d been trying to get a guitar for some time. “My dad wanted me to play saxophone because he was a big band fan. I signed up for clarinet in school – but I put my name at the bottom of the list to make sure they ran out of instruments before they got to me!