TONY YARDLEY
by Kelsey Wilhoite
T at me,’” He laughed. “It didn’t quite work out
that way, but my interest in music grew as I
started aging.”
Yardley, 67, remembers being fascinated by
The Beatles, “The next thing that came to my
mind was, ‘I need to be able to do that’ and
‘I want to have a thousand girls screaming Yardley didn’t study music while attending
Jacksonville State University in the 70s. “I
was an art major. I was a graphic artist for
a long time. But I still always wanted to be
a rock star, then I wanted to be a studio
musician, and now I just really just want to
just write and teach.”
ony Yardley says he fell in
love with music the same
as everyone his age, “I saw the
Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show
and it just blew me away.”
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February 2020
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