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An hour conversation with musician Paul McCartney about his time with "The Beatles", his career since their break-up, his forays into classical music, painting and poetry and his first book "Blackbird Singing", an anthology of poems and lyrics. McCartney also discusses the process of writing, compiling and publishing his poetry and an upcoming album in the works.
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buktu42 01/07/2009 02:01 PM Report
First off... I'm a Beatles fan and a songwriter... and nobody can deny the Beatles influence over the music industry and prolific songwriting skills.
Paul - is an egomaniac... John - was disgusted with having needs of this kind... and caused the rift between them. Both contributed to each other's songs... however, the influence on the songs by each other was felt also just by working together.
I've studied their songs over the years... and generally.. you can tell who really came up with the main idea for a song between them.
Paul - wrote alot of social commentary usually in the 3rd person... outside looking in, and uses a colorful named symbol i.e. Eleanor Rigby, BlackBird, and Hey Jude.
John - Liked to write like a painter on a canvas... and usually the critical commentary was directed at himself... i.e. Help, Nowhere man, Ballad of John and Yoko. Basically, alot of self Crucifiction... Or the proverbial Man in the box... clawing to get out.
Obviously one could write a book on the study of these two styles, but if you look close, yes they always had their fingers in each others pies, but you have to give way to the originator of the idea... 9 tenths of the inspiration.
So, even though they both put there names on everything, that certainly is not the case most of the time, especially on their later work.
Before your judge Paul so harshly... get your facts straight, and don't take everything you're read at face value.
Eleanor Rigby definitely sounds like Paul all the way... Social Commentary.
At least if you make a statement like that... Please quote a reference to back it up. Otherwise, you do sound as if you just hate the guy because ...?
take a wild guess.
Stu
http://www.thisdayinrock.com
buktu42 01/07/2009 02:01 PM Report
First off... I'm a Beatles fan and a songwriter... and nobody can deny the Beatles influence over the music industry and prolific songwriting skills.
Paul - is an egomaniac... John - was disgusted with having needs of this kind... and caused the rift between them. Both contributed to each other's songs... however, the influence on the songs by each other was felt also just by working together.
I've studied their songs over the years... and generally.. you can tell who really came up with the main idea for a song between them.
Paul - wrote alot of social commentary usually in the 3rd person... outside looking in, and uses a colorful named symbol i.e. Eleanor Rigby, BlackBird, and Hey Jude.
John - Liked to write like a painter on a canvas... and usually the critical commentary was directed at himself... i.e. Help, Nowhere man, Ballad of John and Yoko. Basically, alot of self Crucifiction... Or the proverbial Man in the box... clawing to get out.
Obviously one could write a book on the study of these two styles, but if you look close, yes they always had their fingers in each others pies, but you have to give way to the originator of the idea... 9 tenths of the inspiration.
So, even though they both put there names on everything, that certainly is not the case most of the time, especially on their later work.
Before your judge Paul so harshly... get your facts straight, and don't take everything you're read at face value.
Eleanor Rigby definitely sounds like Paul all the way... Social Commentary.
At least if you make a statement like that... Please quote a reference to back it up. Otherwise, you do sound as if you just hate the guy because ...?
take a wild guess.
Stu
http://www.thisdayinrock.com
JK 07/30/2008 04:08 PM Report
Why is at people who say they love the beatles always cynically dismiss Paul McCartney? If you know anything about the Beatles you know how seminally important he was to the group, and to John Lennon particularly. So in other words CJ, if you don't like McCartney, you don't like the Beatles.
studlydorightmuffin 07/18/2008 11:13 AM Report
The volume was too low
I've heard all four of the Beatles contributed lyrically to Eleanor Rigby and though I love John he was a notorious liar. Peace
CJ Price 06/26/2008 01:30 AM Report
Paul conveniently omits the fact that John wrote alot of Eleanor Rigby, while loves bragging abuot his contributions to "John" songs like Help In My Life and If I Fell.