There's an interesting article about a recent release, The Smith Tapes, on the Mojo site.
JOHN LENNON WAS constantly bugged by fans congratulating him for writing The Beatles' Yesterday, a song he had nothing to do with.
"Yesterday drove him crazy," veteran New York journo/broadcaster Howard Smith told MOJO. "People would say, 'Thank you for writing Yesterday, I got married to it, what a beautiful song...' He was always civil. But it drove him nuts."
Smith's intimacy with the Lennons began in 1969, when he first interviewed the couple for the ABC-syndicated radio show he hosted in New York. He was to ...