Footnotes!!

I'm fascinated by uber-footnotes in history; either in pictures (ie. who's the woman in the picture they always show kneeling over the body at Kent State?) or otherwise (Raymond Jones walking into the NEMS shop and asking Brian Epstein for the "My Bonnie" single, which made Epstein curious about The Beatles) Who are these people? Has anyone ever interviewed them? That should be a whole book, interviews with these footnote people.

HERE'S A LINK TO ALL THE FOOTNOTES POSTS SO FAR

I stumbled into this mostly-unwatchable 1968 documentary All My Loving - released 56 years ago today, which is probably why I keep seeing it pop up, now that I think of it - and a highlight is Paul McCartney talking about his aversion to classical music:

I was always frightened of classical music. And I never wanted to listen to it because it was Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, and sort of, big words like that… and Schoenberg. I mean, like… A taxi driver the other day had some sheet music of a Mozart thing, and I said ‘What’s that?’ And he said ‘Oh, that’s the high-class stuff. You won’t like that. No no, you won’t like that.’ And I said, ‘well, what is it?’ He said ‘No, you won’t like it. It’s high-class, that. It’s very high-brow!’ And uhh, that kind of way I always used to think of it. I used to think ‘Well you know, that’s very clever, all that stuff.’ And it isn’t, you know. It’s just exactly what’s going on in pop at the moment. Pop music is the classical music of now.

Who is this taxi driver who got into a hi-falutin' MAYBE squabble with Paul McCartney? And just how extremely pleasant WAS this exchange?