Beatles songs covered by ex-Beatles
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As I said before: Pipes of Peace, Say Say Say, So Bad, The Other Me, No More Lonely Nights, It's Not True, Tough on a Tightrope, Good Times Coming/Feel The Sun, and so on and so forth
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Pawel:
moptops:
JoeySmith:
graystoke:
Let's not forget Paul's insipid remakes in Give My Regards To Broadstreet (Good Day Sunshine, Here There and Everywhere, Long and Winding Road, Eleanor Rigby, For No One and Yesterday). On second thought's, let's do!!
I agree with George Harrison's assessment - those were remakes? I couldnt tell the difference. Horrible career move by Paul when he was still on top. Nothing about GMRTB makes any sense.
The Girl Is Mine. Pipes Of Peace. GMRTB... His career nadir. He never recovered from it.
I don't agree. Paul's last Number Ones come from exactly that era. "Say Say Say" off Pipes of Peace was number two. The song "Pipes of Peace" was also a huge success, another number 1. So was "No More Lonely Nights" off GMRTB In the UK, "McCartney II", "Tug of War", and "Give My Regards" were all numbers one. Later, "Flowers in The Dirt" (1989) was again number one, while "Flaming Pie" (1997) reached number two on UK album charts. Not that bad. As for the music, it's all a matter of tastes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney_discography
Commercially, things went quite differently in the U.S. than in Europe. On my side of the pond, Paul never had a #1 single after "Say Say Say" and only cracked the top 10 a couple times, and never had a #1 album after "Tug of War." On commercial radio, he was shunted from Top 40 to Adult Contemporary. Here, "Flowers" represented an artistic comeback but not a commercial one, peaking at #21 on the Billboard 200 -- though his first tour in many years kept the album bubbling along in the bottom half of the chart for as long as he was on the road.
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moptops:
Pawel:
Well, it is true that in the 1980's he became pretty much a plain pop performer, but if you take off all that heavy poppish production off his songs of that time then they are still some really good tunes and songs
Average Person? The Man?
I am going to be in the minority here when I say this, I know.... I am already pulling my hoody over my head.... but... I.... I... kinda... always liked.... THE MAN.... (he did always play the game of life so well)... I do like the song.... I think it has delicious melody.... I like it.
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Pawel:
As I said before: Pipes of Peace, Say Say Say, So Bad, The Other Me, No More Lonely Nights, It's Not True, Tough on a Tightrope, Good Times Coming/Feel The Sun, and so on and so forth
"It's Not True".... an underrated beauty. Love it.
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Paul did a sort of mash-up cover: PS Love Me Do
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The Beatles "Not Guilty" 1968
George Harrison "Not Guilty" 1979 -
This is not really a cover per se as it never made it to a Beatles album--it was rejected by them for some reason. I always wondered why they rejected this song which I think would have been on the white album as it's so much better than that throwaway dirge Long, Long, Long which I can't bear to listen to. Not Guilty is actually a pretty catchy tune and I remember it well when it was released on the GH album entitled "George Harrison." I think they even did something like over 100 takes of it in the studio back then in '68. Anyone know the story behind this one??
Pawel:
The Beatles "Not Guilty" 1968
George Harrison "Not Guilty" 1979 -
George preformed "In My Life" during his Dark Horse tour in 1974.
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SimplyShady:
George preformed "In My Life" during his Dark Horse tour in 1974.
A song that McCartney wrote the melody for?!?! He must have run out of his own good songs
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Erik in NJ:
SimplyShady:
George preformed "In My Life" during his Dark Horse tour in 1974.
A song that McCartney wrote the melody for?!?! He must have run out of his own good songs
And he changed the lyrics to "In my life, I loved God more."
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JoeySmith:
graystoke:
Let's not forget Paul's insipid remakes in Give My Regards To Broadstreet (Good Day Sunshine, Here There and Everywhere, Long and Winding Road, Eleanor Rigby, For No One and Yesterday). On second thought's, let's do!!
I agree with George Harrison's assessment - those were remakes? I couldnt tell the difference. Horrible career move by Paul when he was still on top. Nothing about GMRTB makes any sense.
I did like seeing Ringo in the studio in the film. However, so funny how they had him searching for brushes instead of playing on the first two songs.
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John Elton Lennon John "I Saw Her Standing There" rehearsal