057: It's Not Only Rock 'n' Roll

Living Villa Cappelli

We move outdoors to sit among the olive trees for our second part of our interview with rock ’n’ roll royalty Jenny Boyd. We talk music, creativity, and her book It’s Not Only Rock ’n’ Roll.

Topics we cover:

• We talk about Jenny’s second husband

• The British invasion

• How Brits saw America a land of opportunity

• What musicians drive was during the creative process, what they experience when writing a son

• What part drugs and alcohol played in the creative process

• If they believed everyone has the potential to be creative and how to express yourself

• How they musicians are just like normal folks

• How the Beatles never knew their music would live on and be so popular for so long

• How they came from very simple lives in Liverpool

• How Jenny’s new book is a memoir of her life growing up in the 60s and 70s with all these musicians

• How George Harrison was most influenced by their experience in India

• Carpool Karaoke with Corbin

• The reason some groups have stayed together or come back together

• How Jenny interviewed Keith Richards for the book

• Keith’s take on creativity

• How all the artists were willing to talk about their muse

• How they all had a sense of destiny and knew they were going to be famous

• Paul’s breakfast with Pete Townsend

• Pete’s take on people feeling he was selling out by using his music in advertising

• How people feel they have ownership over of the music and even the artists

• The most interesting Don Hendly, Joni Mitchel, David Crosby, Graham Nash

• How all of the artists were really encouraged by someone when they were young

• How you have to be you to be creativity

• How Paul hated seeing work that was imitating other work in advertising

• How you need to find your own voice and find the courage to use it.

• A book on the subject: The Courage to Create

• Paul’s description of showing creative work to clients and how it feels like you are exposing yourself to them

• How Eric Clapton described it as looking into the face of God

• How Ringo described presenting songs to the rest of the group

• One of Paul’s favorite quotes about creativity: “Big ideas are so hard to find, so fragile, and so easy to kill. Don’t forget that, all of you that don’t have them.”

• How Jenny was inspired by her stay at Villa Cappelli

• How she stayed “in the now” while here and enjoying

• How she was inspired by the food and cooking at Villa Cappelli

• Steven’s take on cooking and how there are no rules

• Jenny’s take on our creative expression at Villa Cappelli

• Steven’s appreciation of Italian’s “living in the now” and definitely enjoying each moment and each day

• Italians don’t just each to nourish, but sit down, relax and each with the family

• Paul really wants to create a sign that says, “Just calm down!” for guests that come to the villa

• How tours have changed here at the villa from guests really interacting with each other to everyone sitting on their phone posting pics to Facebook

• How one of our guests did something amazing while staying here. She wouldn’t take a camera with her when she went out. She instead took her sketch pad and would sketch whatever she saw and then watercolor it.

• Jenny said she was inspired to draw while staying here

• The famous picture of everyone “enjoying” the Pope’s visit

• How we hope to do an unplugged tour at some point

• This great Nature Valley commercial

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• Again, enjoy Jenny’s book. Check it out here.

• Again, you can follow Jenny here at her website.