In David Sheff’s “ All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono” and an interview with Playboy, Lennon claimed, “It was a throwaway. Interestingly, in 1963, the Beatles released another version of “I Wanna Be Your Man,” but instead with Ringo on lead vocals. Upon learning that the Stones were in the recording studio, Lennon and McCartney headed over and turned a verse into the second single the Stones ever released and a song that would reach No. In the same year, John Lennon and Paul McCartney ran into Andrew Loog Oldham, the Stones’ manager and producer. A few weeks later, the Stones signed with Decca Records. At a Beat Group talent show, Harrison spoke to the president of Decca Records, Dick Rowe, about a band he had just gotten to see, a group he claimed was better than any of the talent at the competition. It was this meeting that motivated Beatles guitarist George Harrison to personally recommend the Rolling Stones to Decca Records despite the label having passed on the Beatles. The bands first met April 14, 1963, following the Stones’ show in Richmond at the Crawdaddy Club, at which point the Stones were actually a blues cover band. Was the relationship between these two bands always rooted in competition? Or was this an imagined conflict forced into existence by the media and polarized fans? I think our net was cast a bit wider than theirs.” This statement follows a decades-long feud that has been given new fuel. In a recent interview with David Remnick from the New Yorker, former Beatles frontman, Paul McCartney made the following comment: “I’m not sure I should say it, but they’re a blues cover band, that’s sort of what the Stones are.