Tape is Silent as in Wings

 Tape is Silent as in Wings

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Newcastle Evening Chronicle

September 18, 1975

    Radio Newcastle reporter Ian Penman thought he had got the scoop of a lifetime when he persuaded ex-Beatle Paul McCartney to be interviewed. He rushed the tape back to the studio, but when he played it back, all he got was the sound of silence.

     "McCartney had been playfully fiddling around with the tape recorder and must have accidentally pressed the rewind button." Radio Newcastle disc jockey Dick Godfrey said today.

     Penman had been reviewing the wildly successful concert by McCartney's group Wings at Newcastle City Hall last night. It was to have gone out on Godfrey's Bedrock Program on Monday, 

    Penman refused to take no for an answer when the ex-Beatle's aides banned interviews after the Show. "He toured the Newcastle hotels, and he found McCartney," Godfrey said today. "Paul gave him an excellent interview, but it all came to nothing."

     Penman has put down notes from the interview from memory and will read them out on the Bedrock Program on Monday.