![]() ![]() And I thought, y’know what, I couldn’t give it all up.” He told himself, “You’ve gotta decide now: give it all up or be happy with it. On holiday in Greece in 1963, McCartney realised he would probably be famous everywhere, for ever. After cutting their teeth in Hamburg, they released Love Me Do in October 1962, launching themselves on a rocket trip that didn’t touch down for seven years. In 1957 McCartney joined Lennon’s skiffle band the Quarrymen, who evolved into the Beatles three years later. He has said that he considers retiring a prelude to expiring.īorn in Liverpool in 1942, James Paul McCartney lost his mother, Mary, when he was 14 – an experience that strengthened his bond with the similarly bereaved John Lennon. ![]() Next weekend he will headline Glastonbury for the second time, seven days after his 80 th birthday. ![]() He recently released a quasi-memoir, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, and embarked on yet another stadium tour. Five decades later, he is still forging ahead. He knew better than any of them what an irreplaceably precious thing they had together. Sometimes this made him a pain but, as Get Back illustrates, a necessary pain. More driven and more cautious than the others, he became a kind of parent and taskmaster. ![]() “He used to be the one to get things moving,” Starr said after the band’s break-up in 1970. The song they are merrily ignoring is Let It Be. In this particular scene he’s at the piano, guiding the band through a hymn-like new number while his fiancée Linda Eastman chats to Yoko Ono in the foreground. John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr are at best semi-detached but McCartney is grafting away, writing from scratch songs good enough to make them believe in the band again. It’s another day in Twickenham studios, where McCartney is single-handedly wrestling the Beatles into recording a new album. That felt like closing an emotional circle, as McCartney moved on alone.T here’s a lovely scene in Peter Jackson’s recent documentary The Beatles: Get Back that sums up the taken-for-granted brilliance of Paul McCartney. Now recording alone, he perhaps unintentionally returned to the melody of "You Never Give Me Your Money" during this song's wordless bridge. McCartney ended up completing a solo version in February 1970 on the same day he cut "Maybe I'm Amazed" at Abbey Road. Instead, failed January 1969 attempts at "Every Night" included some unfortunate slide contributions from John Lennon. This stirring holdover from the Beatles era would have fit perfectly on any of his former band's late-period albums – if they'd ever gotten a take with this much distilled emotion. In this way, our list of the most overlooked songs from each Paul McCartney album might just reveal something knew about an act we've known for all these years. The idea was to dig more deeply into his mainstream original recordings. We stayed away from covers-only albums like 1988's Choba B СССР and 2012's Kisses on the Bottom, as well as genre records focusing on classical (1991's Liverpool Oratorio), general weirdness (1977's Thrillington) and instrumental electronica (1993's Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest). Other times, these songs remain just inexplicably underrated – perhaps because those smash songs take up so much of the spotlight. Occasionally, McCartney deep cuts are overlooked because he goes to creative places that simply wouldn't be suitable for radio. ![]()
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