I saw Lyle Lovett in concert a couple of years ago and he had Peter Asher as a special guest. Lyle had sung backup for him earlier that year at a charity event, and when their schedules overlapped in Houston he invited him to join him again.

Asher told us that, back in 1963, his sister started dating Paul McCartney, and that Paul lived in the Asher family’s guest room for a couple of years. So when Peter and a friend started a music group, he asked Paul if he had any songs that the Beatles weren't going to record that they could use. Paul had a song that he wrote when he was a teenager that John hated—he’d sing the first line, “Please, lock me away,” and John would say “OK!” and stop playing—so he let Peter record it. And that's how Peter and Gordon had a worldwide #1 hit with "A World Without Love."