BEATLES LIVERPOOL GUITAR SHOP FRANK HESSY'S CLOSES.
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From time to time, the teenage John Lennon took the bus into Liverpool and stared longingly at the guitars in the window of Hessy’s, a music store in Whitechapel that carried the city’s best selection of instruments. If you bought a guitar there, John knew, Frank “Hessy” Hesselberg threw in free instruction, with classes of three or four beginners taught by his showroom manager. And yet, despite the opportunity to study with a teacher, Mimi steadfastly refused John’s appeals. She wouldn’t hear of it, arguing that guitar playing pertained to teddy boys and “was of no worldly use” to him.
My parents took me to the same shop when I was about 12 or 13 in about 1982 to buy my first Fender Acoustic guitar.Jim Gretty was still there then and helped me pick the right instrument.Paul McCartney: “The other interesting point was there’s a very jazzy chord in it: ‘Michelle, ma belle.’ That second chord. That was a chord that was used twice in the Beatles: once to end George’s solo on ‘Till There Was You’ and again when I used it in this. It was a chord shown to us by a jazz guitarist called Jim Gretty who worked behind the counter at Frank Hessey’s where we used to buy our instruments on the never-never in Liverpool. So Jim Gretty showed us this one great ham-fisted jazz chord, bl##dy hell! George and I learned it off him.”
The free lessons where still on offer,but I had taken music in school as one of my options and also had separate guitar lessons in school every week during double maths...that was bliss!
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And then the last verse leaves us wondering — did the girl really find all she longed for, or did her "fun" turn to something more painful along the way? The lyrics really are so sparse and simple that they leave a whole lot unanswered and up to our imagination, which is probably one of the reasons why the song is so poignant.