Musician, manager and producer Peter Asher interviewed by Joan Quinn on the Beverly Hills View

Musician, Singer, Manager, and Producer Peter Asher interviewed by Joan Quinn on the Beverly Hills View, 2018. Peter Asher is a prominent figure in the music industry. He was part of the musical duo Peter & Gordon and was also the head of A&R for the Beatles’ Apple Records label in the late ’60s. After that, he had a successful career as an artist manager, working with artists such as James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt. In the ’70s and ’80s, he also worked as a record producer. He later returned to management, producing, and even performing. Additionally, he authored a book about the Beatles and worked as a radio broadcaster. Peter’s sister, Jane Asher, dated Paul McCartney and he offered the song "A World Without Love" to Peter, which he recorded in the 60s.

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What a great interview! And a timely one at that, as I am in the middle of reading the biography ‘Peter Asher: A Life in Music’. I got a chance to meet and work with Peter in 2011, when he produced the woodwind recording sessions for ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ at Hans Zimmer’s studios. I was one of 2 flutists that week, and the other flutist and I brought our Peter & Gordon LP’s and a ‘Best-Of’ CD for Peter to sign. He was genuinely gobsmacked that we even remembered who he was, from the ‘British Invasion’ and such. We all had a nice chat, and he was a perfect English gentleman and an efficient and knowledgeable producer for our woodwind sessions, thanks to his having played the oboe in his formative years under the tutelage of his oboist mother, a Prof. at the Guildhall School in London.
Thanks for posting this marvelous interview!