Who wrote what??
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RMartinez:
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RMartinez:
LiveForever:
Here is what Paul had to say fairly recently in Rolling Stone on Kite: What made you want to revisit those particular songs? Well, for instance, "Mr. Kite" is such a crazy, oddball song that I thought it would freshen up the set. Plus the fact that I'd never done it. None of us in the Beatles ever did that song [in concert]. And I have great memories of writing it with John. I read, occasionally, people say, "Oh, John wrote that one." I say, "Wait a minute, what was that afternoon I spent with him, then, looking at this poster?" He happened to have a poster in his living room at home. I was out at his house, and we just got this idea, because the poster said "Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite" ? and then we put in, you know, "there will be a show tonight," and then it was like, "of course," then it had "Henry the Horse dances the waltz." You know, whatever. "The Hendersons, Pablo Fanques, somersets?" We said, "What was 'somersets'? It must have been an old-fashioned way of saying somersaults." The song just wrote itself. So, yeah, I was happy to kind of reclaim it as partially mine. But like I said, you've got to look what you're doing when you play that one. Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/q-a-paul-mccartney-looks-back-on-his-latest-magical-mystery-tour-20130725#ixzz3Gnw0zMRi
Maybe Paul should set the record straight once and for all. John did a few interviews over the years when he said who wrote what, and Paul never chimed in to contradict him, except on a couple of occasions. Why didn't he say back in 1973, "I helped write Mr. Kite." And it's not "people" saying John wrote it, John Lennon himself said he wrote it. I tend to favor John's take on it, since Paul is, all of a sudden, "re-claiming" songs fifty years later. John isn't here to say, "Hold on." I do know Paul is a bit obsessed with his legacy, and so is starting to say things he never said in fifty years of interviews. Getting Better is a Paul tune mostly, but John said from the get go he wrote a verse or so. Some of the words. What's next? Paul co-wrote I Am The Walrus because he was in the room when John brought it around? If that's the case, then maybe John helped write Yesterday for the same reason. But he never claimed that. I think George Martin co-wrote Mr. Kite as much as Paul did.
Of course, in those days, John was more likely than Paul to be on LSD, so maybe his recollections aren't as ironclad as we'd like to think.
But you think people who smoke truck loads of marijuana for decades have sharp memories?
I thought it was just suitcases full?
That was just for a week in Japan!
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RMartinez:
LiveForever:
RMartinez:
I know this has been seen somewhere, but I still found it interesting. I hope you do too. http://www.beatlefan.net/b208394-lennon-mccartney-who-wrote-what.html
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Though, now Paul contends he wrote some of Kite as well (which is why he introduced it on the Out There tour).
I think both Paul and John had some memory lapses at times, like all humans. John even says he's not sure about some songs. What I struggle with is Paul has NEVER claimed to have written part of Mr. Kite until 2014. Doesn't mean he didn't, but it seems John's memory in 1973 would be more clear than Paul in 2014. Or maybe not. John claimed in that interview to have written 70% of the lyrics of Eleanor Rigby, which I find surprising.
Well up and until he left Cynthia for Yoko Paul and John did get together to write their songs together. In Paul's Many Years From Now bio he recounts his drive out to Weybridge for his regular writing sessions and it was quite frequent when deadlines were tight. So I'm not surprised Paul had a hand in 'Kite' And he's not claiming 100% ownership in this song, he probably made a few suggestions here and there.
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dcshark:
RMartinez:
LiveForever:
RMartinez:
I know this has been seen somewhere, but I still found it interesting. I hope you do too. http://www.beatlefan.net/b208394-lennon-mccartney-who-wrote-what.html
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Though, now Paul contends he wrote some of Kite as well (which is why he introduced it on the Out There tour).
I think both Paul and John had some memory lapses at times, like all humans. John even says he's not sure about some songs. What I struggle with is Paul has NEVER claimed to have written part of Mr. Kite until 2014. Doesn't mean he didn't, but it seems John's memory in 1973 would be more clear than Paul in 2014. Or maybe not. John claimed in that interview to have written 70% of the lyrics of Eleanor Rigby, which I find surprising.
Well up and until he left Cynthia for Yoko Paul and John did get together to write their songs together. In Paul's Many Years From Now bio he recounts his drive out to Weybridge for his regular writing sessions and it was quite frequent when deadlines were tight. So I'm not surprised Paul had a hand in 'Kite' And he's not claiming 100% ownership in this song, he probably made a few suggestions here and there.
That logic can be applied to any song written by either of them. John maybe made a suggestion on Here There and Everywhere, or Lovely Rita. But those are considered McCartney songs, not Lennon and McCartney songs. If we want to get technical, every song they wrote while in the Beatles was a Lennon-McCartney song, so technically each had SOMETHING to do with each song. At least technically. Each collected the same amount of royalties for each song, so I guess, technically, Paul can play any song in the Beatles canon he wants to and claim to have been involved. But so can Ringo.
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Ringo would only play a Ringo-penned song. I can't see him even wanting to play a Lennon-McCartney tune. And I don't see Paul adding any "classic" John songs to his setlist anytime soon (In My Life, Help, etc.). Some of the others are a little easier to pull off.
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LiveForever:
Ringo would only play a Ringo-penned song. I can't see him even wanting to play a Lennon-McCartney tune. And I don't see Paul adding any "classic" John songs to his setlist anytime soon (In My Life, Help, etc.). Some of the others are a little easier to pull off.
True. Though Ringo does sing Yellow Submarine and With A Little Help From my Friends, which technically are Lennon-McCartney tunes. But I get your point. Though he does end the show with Give Peace A Chance!
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Nancy R:
Speaking of Paul's "memory," he said on Twitter that he had the Walrus head on, when clearly it is the Hippo head he wore, and John was the Walrus!!
I saw that! I hoped he was kidding, but probably not.
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dappa-macca:
Nancy R:
Speaking of Paul's "memory," he said on Twitter that he had the Walrus head on, when clearly it is the Hippo head he wore, and John was the Walrus!!
I saw that! I hoped he was kidding, but probably not.
He didn't sound like he was kidding on that one. We know his history better than he does unfortunately.
