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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 18, 2021 21:18:25 GMT
... and the origins of The Beatles. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/25/paul-mccartney-writing-eleanor-rigby-beatles?utm_source=nlIf such things are of interest to you... you probably won't learn very much here that you didn't already know. Still, it's fun to see what he says about it - and intriguing that he bothered to write the article at all. (Although he does have a lyrics book coming out soon, so this could be an excerpt from that.) For my part, I was unaware (spoiler alert!) that William Burroughs was around for some of the time McCartney was working on it, and praised the final product. |
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Post by Sneelock on Oct 18, 2021 22:33:37 GMT
man, I'm still as big a Beatles fan as ever but I've gone off listening to what Macca has to say in a pretty major way recently.
I suppose I'll come back around. I always do.
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Post by loveless on Oct 18, 2021 22:52:40 GMT
Paul is my guy, and I'm pretty unabashed about it. That said, when he went off the road (like everyone else) in 2020, a part of me thought "Oh my God, I'm FREE! I'm finally free from his six half dozen most well worn anecdotes." He's my Dad's age, so...that explains it IN PART, but...it's a long standing "Paul problem".
And, with a guy from his generation, they never seem to understand that anytime you DO go off script (as he occasionally does), it's gonna be click baited to death ("Stones a blues cover band...Beatles' legendary sex crazed circle jerk parties...etc.").
That said, I pre-ordered the book ages ago in the hopes that he'll accidentally reveal something of himself that isn't part of his "repertoire".
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Post by Sneelock on Oct 18, 2021 22:59:40 GMT
If I ever see him chew on a fingernail again I might just lose my shit.  |
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Post by loveless on Oct 18, 2021 23:17:52 GMT
My kids both do an imitation of "thoughtful Paul" (LOTTA stresses - "ER...you KNOW, the thing IS...")
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 19, 2021 7:44:21 GMT
Needed more “doooo’s!”
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Post by DarknessFish on Oct 19, 2021 8:08:34 GMT
Did Mark E Smith ever write about how he wrote How I Wrote Elastic Man?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2021 11:43:49 GMT
I enjoyed reading that. He does rather exclude the collaborative way it was composed though.
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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 20, 2021 4:33:04 GMT
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Post by loveless on Nov 3, 2021 0:45:10 GMT
The book is fantastic. He goes off script a LOT (which is what I'm here for), and it's just generally far heartier than I'd have ever predicted.
Illustrations/photos also not remotely "the same old shit".
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2021 6:01:38 GMT
I know nothing about the book Charlie O however Eleanor Rigby is one of the Beatles most original songs, so strange yet instantly memorable and I write this as someone who is not really a fan of their work.
Forget about an album a day you literally could write books about the song structure here....
Finally that line "all the lonely people where do they all come from" is a thing of beauty.
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