“We decided that our audiences would come along with us, rather than it being down to us to feed them a conventional diet”: Paul McCartney on how the '60s avant-garde influenced the Beatles

Paul Mccartney Smoking A Cigarette At London In England On June 19Th 1967.

Paul McCartney has been talking about how exposure to avant-garde music enhanced the Beatles in the late '60s and coloured some of their greatest work.

Macca has been interviewed by Radio 3 presenter Elizabeth Alker for her upcoming book Everything We Do Is Music, which explores the links between pop and classical music. In a piece in the Guardian, Alker describes meeting the ex-Beatle in his office as he remembers how he educated himself about experimental music.