According to the principal editor of the journal, Leonard Lewisohn: " Although a number of major Islamic poets easily rival the likes of Dante, Shakespeare and Milton in importance and output, they still enjoy only a marginal literary fame in the West because the works of Arabic and Persian thinkers, writers and poets are considered as negligible, frivolous, tawdry sideshows beside the grand narrative of the Western Canon.

According to Mark Lewisohn and Alan W. Pollack

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According to Mark Lewisohn in The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, on 4 July 1969, The Beatles paused the dubbing session for their song " Golden Slumbers " to listen to Haydon-Jones beat King for the Wimbledon title, live on radio.

* McCartney, who had just released his own album, London Town, always answered, “ No comment .” According to Innes: “ He had a dinner at some awards thing at the same table as Eric one night and Eric said it was a little frosty .” Idle claimed McCartney changed his mind because his wife Linda thought it was funny.

According to biographers of McCartney and the Beatles, McCartney composed the entire melody in a dream one night in his room at the Wimpole Street home of his then girlfriend Jane Asher and her family.

According to McCartney, during a rehearsal Harrison played an answer to every line of the vocal.

According to the group's website, McCartney got the inspiration for Promise Keepers on March 20, 1990, while he was attending a Fellowship of Christian Athletes banquet in Pueblo, Colorado, during a conversation with Dave Wardell, who was also in attendance at the event.

According to interviews, the idea of bringing in a younger producer was for McCartney to challenge himself, and accordingly Godrich fired McCartney's touring band on the first day's sessions, and demanded the star abandon songs Godrich felt to be clichéd, over-sentimental or subpar .< ref >

According to the book FAB: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney by Howard Sounes, the school portrayed in the film was a direct inspiration for the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts ( LIPA ), of which Sir Paul McCartney is the lead patron.

* According to McCartney, " Tell Me What You See " was written 60 % by him, 40 % by Lennon.

According to disc jockey Jimmy Savile, McCartney wrote the song in response to a request from an aunt who asked if he could " write a single that wasn't about love.

According to sound engineer John Kurlander, McCartney said, " I don't like ' Her Majesty ,' throw it away.

According to Entertainment Weekly in December 2008, McCartney was negotiating to play against type in the role of the Fire Nation's Prince Zuko in M. Night Shyamalan's feature film adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

According to McCartney, "' Drive my car ' was an old blues euphemism for sex ".

According to Bert Reuter, who negotiated the sale of ATV Music for Holmes à Court, " We had given Paul McCartney first right of refusal but Paul didn't want it at that time.

According to McCartney, the reason was that " he didn't like avant garde music " and referred to avant garde as ' avant garde a clue ' (" haven't got a clue ").

According to McCartney, " John had a semi-acoustic Gibson guitar.

According to McCartney the song might have been excluded from The Beatles album, but Pattie Boyd " liked it very much so we decided to leave it on the album.

According to some sources, the song emanates from when a female traffic warden named Meta Davies issued a parking ticket to McCartney outside Abbey Road Studios.

According to McCartney, he contributed the lines " Was she told when she was young that pain would lead to pleasure " and " That a man must break his back to earn his day of leisure.

According to James, Lennon called for a break and " within half an hour and McCartney wrote ... a very constructive middle to a very commercial song.

According to journalist Bill Harry, McCartney thought of the lyrics whilst shaving, though McCartney told biographer Barry Miles that he wrote them while on a tour bus.

According to various accounts, either the Rolling Stones ' manager / producer Andrew Loog Oldham or the Rolling Stones themselves ran into Lennon and McCartney on the street as the two were returning from an awards luncheon.

" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

According to the E. J. Erickson the Greek Navy also played a crucial, albeit indirect role, in the Thracian campaign by neutralizing no less than three Thracian Corps ( see First Balkan War, the Bulgarian theater of operations ), a significant portion of the Ottoman Army there, in the all-important opening round of the war.

" According to West and Sanders, when talking about conspiracies in the Vietnam era, Pipes includes within the fringe element anyone who entertains the thought that conspiracies played a role in the major political scandals and assassinations that rocked American politics in the Vietnam era.

According to Robert W. Peterson in his book Pigskin The Early Years of Pro Football, the " passer was George W. ( Peggy ) Parratt, probably the best quarterback of the era ", who played for the Massillon, Ohio Tigers, one of pro football's first franchises.

According to sociologists Marc Mormont and Christine Dasnoy, Greenpeace played a significant role in raising public awareness of global warming in the 1990s.

According to tradition, Brian Boru, ' High King ' of Ireland ( d. at the Battle of Clontarf, 1014 CE ) played the harp, as did many of the gentry in the country during the period of the Gaelic Lordship of Ireland ( ended c. 1607 CE with the " Flight of the Earls " following the Elizabethan Wars ).

According to tradition, Rumi was himself a notable musician who played the robāb, although his favorite instrument was the ney or reed flute.

According to Mel Hein, " If he hadn't been killed, he could have been the greatest tackle who ever played football.

According to Young, either due to personal or professional distractions, Coubertin played little role in planning, despite entreaties by Vikelas.

According to legend, Scrabble's big break came in 1952 when Jack Straus, president of Macy's, played the game on vacation.

According to college tradition, Thomas Gray left Peterhouse for Pembroke College after being the victim of a practical joke played by undergraduates.

According to Barrington, whist was first played on scientific principles by a party of gentlemen who frequented the Crown Coffee House in Bedford Row, London, about 1728.

According to the statistical record used by CricketArchive, Grace's final first-class appearance in 1908 was his 870th and concluded a first-class career that had lasted 44 seasons from 1865 to 1908, equalling the record for the longest career span held by John Sherman, who played from 1809 to 1852.

According to Martin Gardner, some of the Princeton University students also referred to the game as John ( according to some sources this was because they played the game using the mosaic of the bathroom floor ).

According to Whedon, Buffy " had been brewing in for many years " before finally appearing in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer film played by Kristy Swanson.

According to Robert Irwin, Galland " played so large a part in discovering the tales, in popularizing them in Europe and in shaping what would come to be regarded as the canonical collection that, at some risk of hyperbole and paradox, he has been called the real author of the Nights.

According to the findings of Dr. Christian Davenport of the University of Notre Dame, Professor William Moore of Florida State University, and David Armstrong of Oxford University during their torture research, evidence suggests that non-governmental organizations have played the most determinant factor for stopping torture once it gets started.

According to rumor, Waller played for three days.

According to the For You album notes, Prince produced, arranged, composed and played all 27 instruments on the recording.

According to Diane Bornstein, one way to reconcile the differences between the references to courts of love in the literature, and the lack of documentary evidence in real life, is that they were like literary salons or social gatherings, where people read poems, debated questions of love, and played word games of flirtation.

According to Operabase, he has more operas played worldwide than any other composer born in the twentieth century, and only Puccini and Richard Strauss come ahead of him if the list is extended to all operas composed after 1900.

According to John Leguizamo, who played Master Sergeant Carlos " Rat " Lopez in the movie, Steven Seagal had punched the air out of him during film rehearsals.

According to her, Mostel is " overacting grotesquely " while co-star Wilder is " wonderful " playing his part " as though he were Dustin Hoffman being played by Danny Kaye.

According to Georgian historians, the Cimmerians played an influential role in the development of both the Colchian and Iberian cultures.