Sting has said that he is thankful to the Beatles for inspiring songwriters to try.
Speaking in an interview with Rick Beato on his YouTube channel, the singer has said that he appreciates the Fab Four for opening the "floodgates for songwriters to have an attempt at writing songs".
This comes as Sting's tourist guitarist, Dominic Miller released a songbook of 14 of the Beatle's songs for classical guitar titled. The Beatles arranged by Dominic Miller: Guitar Solo Songbook.
Dominic Miller had revealed that he and Sting had often discussed the music and career of the Fab Four, and that Sting believes the compositions of McCartney, Lennon, Harrison and Starr have helped to pave the way for aspiring musicians like himself, to follow in their footsteps.
"As Sting has often said, actually – and we talk about this sometimes – is that the Beatles, by doing those songs and coming up with those compositions, they kind of gave a license for everyone else to have a go", Miller said.
“These guys from Liverpool, if they can do it, everyone should try, and so it opened the floodgates for a lot of songwriters to have an attempt at writing songs, which had never really happened before in England, like pop songs – verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge".
Miller feels that The Beatles are on of the few household names whose music still sounds great when played badly.
"So there's a neighbour of ours about three or four doors down who's probably a piano teacher, and they're teaching this kid to play Bach, but it's the most beautiful thing I could ever hear. So I look forward to that moment when they have their lesson, and I hear Bach played badly with no real tempo, but that's the most beautiful thing that you can hear", he said.
“And I think it's the same for The Beatles. If someone were to play Michelle or Yesterday badly, the magic would still come through. So that was the biggest discovery for me – how indestructible this harmony is", he added. “Like Bach, I think the Beatles are one of the only composers that you can play badly, and it still sounds good".
Back in September it was announced that Sting was being sued by his former Police bandmates Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers over alleged unpaid royalties for their back catalogue. Find out more on this story from Nova here.
