Sounds Nice

When Decca Records' A&R representative Tony Hall heard Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg's ‘Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus' at the Antibes festival in the South of France, he immediately recognized the potential of an instrumental version. When the song was duly banned in Britain in 1969 this newly formed and as yet unnamed group recorded a non-sexy version retitled ‘Love At First Sight' which later became a Top 20 hit. After the recording session, Hall played a finished tape to Paul McCartney who casually remarked, ‘sounds nice', thereby giving the group a name. Although the hit d...