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Paul McCartney named his favorite love songs of all time. His list includes songs by Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, and The Beatles.
He revealed why he writes love songs so often.
Paul McCartney‘s favorite love songs are primarily by artists who got their start before The Beatles. Some of the songs are by Frank Sinatra. In addition, one of them is a song by The Beatles.
In the 2015 book Conversations With Paul McCartney, Paul was asked to name some of his favorite love songs of all time.
“I’ve always loved ‘Stardust,’ it was one of my all-time favorites, by Hoagy Carmichael,” he said. “A great melody.
“A song that’s become one of my particular favorites is ‘The Very Thought of You,’ which interestingly was written by Ray Noble, a British guy,” Paul continued. “It’s not often that you get these classics that Sinatra and Nat King Cole and Tony Bennett would sing as part of their regular repertoire, written by a British guy. So, well done our team.” Noble was a bandleader known for his recording of “Midnight, the Stars and You” that was featured in The Shining.
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Paul McCartney said a song from The White Album was a love song about John Lennon’s mother. He revealed what he thought about John’s mother, Julia Lennon. Paul discussed what he thought of the musicianship on the track.
Paul McCartney felt one track from The Beatles‘ The White Album was a love song to John Lennon’s mother, Julia Lennon. Subsequently, Paul discussed what he thought of Julia. Similarly, John revealed his interpretation of the song in question.
The 2015 book Conversations With Paul McCartney includes a section where Paul is asked about love songs. “There’s a kind of timelessness [to love songs], because people are always falling in love,” he said. “There’s people now who aren’t even dreaming of it, who tomorrow will be in love, and there’s people in school who in five years’ time might be in love.
“There’s people now whose hearts are broken, who might find love,” he added. “So they’re very useful things on a practical level, love songs. But more importantly, they touch you.”
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If you’re going to steal, steal from the best.
For most of humanity, this might mean nabbing a lick or two from Paul McCartney’s playbook.
For Paul McCartney, it meant borrowing from Bach – the fifth movement from Suite in E minor for Lute, to be specific.
As he explained during the above 2005 appearance on the Parkinson Show, when he and his buddy, George Harrison, used to sit around teaching themselves basic rock n’ roll chords, their show off move was a bit of semi-classical fingerpicking that Sir Paul modestly claimed to be “not very good at:”Thusly did the chord progressions of Bach’s Bourree in E minor – a piece which “I never knew the title of, which George and I had learned to play at an early age; he better than me actually” – inspire Blackbird:
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The relationship between John Lennon and Paul McCartney is legendary. Yet John and Ringo Starr had a strong bond, too. Even though John bossed Ringo around in The Beatles, the two bandmates grew close over the years. Ringo visited John just before his 1980 murder, and the drummer could help but compliment his friend’s mentality.
Ringo left his London apartment for a sprawling suburban estate while The Beatles were still active. John lived less than a mile away. Yet the drummer still held the lease and let his former abode become a playground for his famous friends.
Jimi Hendrix lived there. Paul recorded some experimental works there. And John and Yoko Ono stripped naked and shot their Two Virgins album cover in Ringo’s former digs.
John became Ringo’s neighbor when the drummer vacated central London. Later, the drummer moved into his former bandmate’s mansion — and burned some of John’s possessions that were left behind. Ringo roomed with John in California for a period in the mid-1970s. When Ringo visited John just before his murder in late 1980, he was blown away by his mindset, which led to him giving him the ultimate compliment.
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In 1960, The Beatles began playing a series of shows in Hamburg, Germany, but authorities ended their run when they discovered George Harrison was underage. They deported Harrison and, almost immediately after, sent Paul McCartney and drummer Pete Best packing. Soon, John Lennon and guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe followed. Harrison didn’t realize this, though. He was so embarrassed to have been sent home that he didn’t speak to his bandmates for several weeks. In August of 1960, The Beatles arrived in Hamburg to play a residency at several different clubs in the city. Per the LA Times, their contract stipulated that they would play six nights a week, adding up to 30 hours a week. Each of them received the equivalent of $51 a week for their performances. Their stint in Hamburg allowed them to grow as musicians. “They were never again as free as they were in Hamburg,” musician and Beatles tour guide Stefanie Hempel said. “As John Lennon said, ‘We could try anything and the audience liked it, as long as it was really loud.'”
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Paul McCartney said a song from The White Album was a love song about John Lennon’s mother. He revealed what he thought about John’s mother, Julia Lennon. Paul discussed what he thought of the musicianship on the track.
Paul McCartney felt one track from The Beatles‘ The White Album was a love song to John Lennon’s mother, Julia Lennon. Subsequently, Paul discussed what he thought of Julia. Similarly, John revealed his interpretation of the song in question.
The 2015 book Conversations With Paul McCartney includes a section where Paul is asked about love songs. “There’s a kind of timelessness [to love songs], because people are always falling in love,” he said. “There’s people now who aren’t even dreaming of it, who tomorrow will be in love, and there’s people in school who in five years’ time might be in love.
“There’s people now whose hearts are broken, who might find love,” he added. “So they’re very useful things on a practical level, love songs. But more importantly, they touch you.”
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John Lennon was raised by his Aunt Mimi, and, by many accounts, the pair had a complicated relationship. Lennon’s first wife, Cynthia, witnessed their dynamic. She noted one experience in particular when Lennon bought her a new coat. His aunt was so upset that she began throwing things at the couple. Cynthia shared the way this impacted Lennon. A black and white picture of John Lennon wearing sunglasses and playing guitar.
Lennon was born in 1940 to his mother, Julia, and father, Alfred. His parents eventually ended their relationship, and after his Aunt Mimi complained to Social Services about Julia twice, Julia gave her custody of Lennon. According to his bandmates, Lennon’s life with Mimi was more “posh” than the rest of The Beatles’ upbringings.
“He was in Menlove Avenue and I was off an avenue called Madison Avenue,” McCartney told Lennon’s son Sean in a BBC Radio 2 broadcast called John Lennon at 80 (via Express). “Compared to the rest of us in The Beatles, he was the posh one.”
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Paul McCartney discussed John Lennon’s “Imagine” and John’s post-Beatles work. Paul discussed whether John had writer’s block during the final five years of his life. Artists ranging from David Bowie to Avril Lavigne covered “Imagine.”
Paul McCartney revealed his opinion on John Lennon‘s “Imagine.” Subsequently, he revealed John had no interest in writing other songs like “Imagine.” Notably, the tune is referenced in a memorial to John’s activism.
John released the covers album Rock ‘n’ Roll in 1975 and his final album, Double Fantasy, in 1980. During a 2002 interview with Hot Press, the interviewer asked Paul if John had a difficult time writing songs between 1975 and 1980 because he didn’t have Paul as a writing partner anymore.
“It could be,” Paul replied. “It was great to write together ‘cos it just made it easy. Y’know I’d say a line, he’d say a line. He’d say one of his songs, I’d suggest an idea for it. I’d say, ‘It’s getting better all the time,’ he’d say, ‘It couldn’t get no worse.'” This is a referen details
Paul McCartney’s Band on the Run didn’t inspire much thought from the singer after it was done. Someone gave him advice that was supposed to make the album more successful. Band on the Run and two of its singles were big hits in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Paul McCartney‘s Band on the Run is one of the most famous albums of the 1970s. A record executive told Paul to do two things to make the album a hit. Subsequently, Paul listened to him.
The 2015 book Conversations With Paul McCartney includes information about Band on the Run. “It’s always good to have an independent pair of ears listening to your music,” Paul said. “They can tell you what you’ve done, whereas you don’t always see it. So that was the case.
“We’d done Band on the Run and I said, ‘Well there it is, I’ve made an album, you put it out, thank you, end of story.’ But [record executive] Al [Coury] rang and said, ‘Hey Paul, I can really make this a more successful album, if you want.'”
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George Harrison didn’t want to imagine a world without his friend and bandmate Bob Dylan. It would be one of his nightmares. The former Beatle greatly loved the “Like a Rolling Stone” singer.
In Here Comes The Sun: The Spiritual And Musical Journey Of George Harrison, Joshua M. Greene wrote that as a teenager, George first saw Dylan in Liverpool on a Granada television program about New York’s beat poets.
“While appearing in Paris in 1964, the Beatles picked up two of Bob Dylan’s albums at a radio station and were so mesmerized by his wise lyrics and simple chords that they played the albums constantly in their Hôtel George V suite,” Greene wrote.
The admiration was mutual. It was clear to Dylan that The Beatles were “doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous and their harmonies made it all valid, but I kept it to myself that I really dug them,” he told biographer Anthony Scaduto.
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George Harrison said he wasn’t bitter about his first wife, Pattie Boyd, leaving him for his friend, Eric Clapton, when he covered The Everly Brothers’ “Bye Bye, Love.” The new couple even helped George record the song.
Since the day they met on the set of The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night in 1964 and fell in love with each other at first sight, George and Boyd were inseparable. Later, they embarked on a spiritual journey together.
However, George became more spiritual than Boyd. The pair said their vows in 1966, but George started leaving Boyd behind, dedicating most of his free time to learning more about God-consciousness.
Boyd felt left out and abandoned. However, Boyd loved her husband, although she claims he started being unfaithful. Meanwhile, George and Clapton started hanging out. It didn’t take long for Clapton to fall in love with Boyd.
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George Harrison believed the 1970s destroyed most of the innovative people of the 1960s. He’d come out of the 1960s “shell-shocked” from his time with The Beatles. However, he recognized that the decade brought a cultural revolution and many great things. Then, there was nothing left in the 1970s.
Being a Beatle wasn’t always easy. Once Beatlemania started, the Fab Four had a hard time getting to places without being mobbed by hoards of fans. Touring was exhausting. George and The Beatles experienced unimaginable things over a short amount of time.
During an interview with Creem Magazine, George said the years that followed The Beatles were challenging because they were all “shell-shocked” from the 1960s.
In 1979, George told Rolling Stone, “The Beatles fortunately did that hit-and-run. But every year we were Beatling was like twenty years; so although it might only have been five or six years it seemed like eternity. That was enough for me, I don’t have any desire to do all that.
“It might have been fun for everybody else, but we never saw the Beatles… We were just four relatively sane people in the middle of madness. People used details
The daughter of pop megastar Paul McCartney has given an intimate peek into the hallowed halls of Abbey Road, the studio where he -- and many other music stars -- recorded masterpieces.
Mary McCartney directed the new documentary, "If These Walls Could Sing", which gets a worldwide release on Disney+ on January 6 after premiering in North America in December.
The London studio gave its name to arguably The Beatles' most beloved record, 1969's "Abbey Road", and it was on the nearby zebra crossing that the Fab Four shot their legendary cover photo.
"I have a personal connection with the studio," Mary McCartney told AFP.
"I grew up coming here, we lived nearby. I have a very funny picture that I love -- my mum (Linda McCartney) leading a pony across the zebra crossing."
Inevitably, The Beatles occupy a major part of the 90-minute documentary, since they recorded no less than 190 of their 210 songs there.
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The Beatles often incorporated other genres of music into their work, including the blues and folk music. Songs like “Yer Blues” show the band’s interest in experimenting with different sounds to create a versatile catalog. Paul McCartney said that one Beatles song was inspired by Motown and a Motown bass player who he had tremendous respect for.
Motown is a record label that was founded in 1958 by Berry Gordy, Jr. in Detroit. The label found tremendous success in the 1960s through primarily African American artists who produced soul and blues music with mainstream appeal. Many of the artists who propelled Motown in the 1960s included Diana Ross & The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder.
While The Beatles dominated the U.K. before becoming popular in the U.S., Motown was topping the charts in the U.S. Since its inception, Motown has incorporated many genres, including rock, hip-hop/rap, R&B, and country. The label was absorbed into Universal Music Group in 1998 and was relaunched in 2011.
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The Beatles’ career was full of major milestones so for any of the Fab Four to name one as the biggest must be monumental. That’s exactly what Beatles drummer Ringo Starr did, though. Starr continues to have a solo career decades after The Beatles disbanded, but this Beatles moment remains on top.Starr was a guest on the Broken Record with Rick Rubin podcast on Sept. 21, 2021 to promote his pandemic EP Zoom In. The drummer pinpointed the biggest moment in his life. The British Invasion kicked off proper when The Beatles played The Ed Sullivan Show in February of 1964. Beatlemania was already kicking off in Europe with their first album, but New York took The Beatles to the next level. “When we landed in New York, there was no bigger moment in my life than that,” Starr said on Broken Record. “We’re actually in America, all the music we love is from America and America is big. Talk about coincidences, we got off the plane from Sweden at Heathrow. Ed Sullivan got off a plane from New York, didn’t know anything about us. We didn’t know him either and he sort of booked us.”
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