"Paul Clay, yeah, I mean... he had never produced a rock band before. He did some TV series, I think he worked on 'The Saint' or something like that and he was used to record orchestras, I don't know how the hell we ended up with that. And there was another guy who was going to produce us, a guy called John Anthony, who was a DJ at The Speakeasy club and we were worried about that because John Anthony... I think he produced the second Genesis album. And I don't think he produced any other band, so we would be worried about that. We desperately wanted to get Paul McCartney, that's what we tried for and we did an audition for Apple Records, which we recorded the stuff and nobody ever found that, and Peter Asher was the producer and he used to be all of the time reading the newspaper and he kind of walked out, to hell with that! So, the Apple thing never happened. I mean, it would have been great. It might have been great! With Paul McCartney would have been great, yes. But the first album was just lots and lots of problems. And I don't think any of us were happy with the finished result. Of course now, I think half of the songs are O.K." -- Peter Banks

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Wednesday, April 12, 2017 10:14 AM

This is a listing in Peter Banks's diary on the same day as the Camber Sands photo session. Apple Studio was a Beatles property that opened in or about June 1968.