The Beatles songs Paul McCartney wrote that John Lennon loved most
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The Beatles songs Paul McCartney wrote that John Lennon loved most
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That was sensitive of Lennon, to love and appreciate the gorgeous, spiritual "Let It Be" (smiley face).
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I've seen this article before or others similar. John also liked Paul's "Fool on the Hill" quite a lot too.
What frustrates me more about these types of articles is that they are always about Paul's Beatles' and 60's songs. Many great ones for sure but Paul has written many, many great songs after the Beatles too. And I'm not just talking about Maybe I'm Amazed and Band on the Run. Thank God on this Website we talk about his great songs over the last 30-40 years.
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B J Conlee wrote:
I've seen this article before or others similar. John also liked Paul's "Fool on the Hill" quite a lot too.
What frustrates me more about these types of articles is that they are always about Paul's Beatles' and 60's songs. Many great ones for sure but Paul has written many, many great songs after the Beatles too. And I'm not just talking about Maybe I'm Amazed and Band on the Run. Thank God on this Website we talk about his great songs over the last 30-40 years.
You have to realize John died in 1980 and a lot of his interviews were pre-1975, so it's only natural that he would be asked about Beatles songs Paul wrote.
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I read a remark by Yoko that John would actually tear up whenever he heard "My Love." Cry a little bit.
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Nancy R wrote:
B J Conlee wrote:
I've seen this article before or others similar. John also liked Paul's "Fool on the Hill" quite a lot too.
What frustrates me more about these types of articles is that they are always about Paul's Beatles' and 60's songs. Many great ones for sure but Paul has written many, many great songs after the Beatles too. And I'm not just talking about Maybe I'm Amazed and Band on the Run. Thank God on this Website we talk about his great songs over the last 30-40 years.
You have to realize John died in 1980 and a lot of his interviews were pre-1975, so it's only natural that he would be asked about Beatles songs Paul wrote.
You are right Nancy. Poor response to this article on my part since John died in 1980. I remember that John was critical of the songs on the Back to the Egg album in general but he did love "Coming Up" on McCartney 2.
I guess my criticism of many of these articles (and the writers) pertaining to Paul in general is that they are totally fixated with Paul's career as a Beatle and his relatlionship with John, George and Ringo. It's like Paul's career ended in 1970.
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B J Conlee wrote:
I guess my criticism of many of these articles (and the writers) pertaining to Paul in general is that they are totally fixated with Paul's career as a Beatle and his relatlionship with John, George and Ringo. It's like Paul's career ended in 1970.
I understand where you're coming from. Unfortunately (or fortunately), Paul was a member of the biggest band in the history of rock and roll. A band that truly (imho) changed the world. Nothing he did after the Beatles could compare, in some people's eyes. It is what it is.
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Nancy R wrote:
B J Conlee wrote:
I guess my criticism of many of these articles (and the writers) pertaining to Paul in general is that they are totally fixated with Paul's career as a Beatle and his relatlionship with John, George and Ringo. It's like Paul's career ended in 1970.
I understand where you're coming from. Unfortunately (or fortunately), Paul was a member of the biggest band in the history of rock and roll. A band that truly (imho) changed the world. Nothing he did after the Beatles could compare, in some people's eyes. It is what it is.
Well said, Nancy.
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B J Conlee wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
B J Conlee wrote:
I guess my criticism of many of these articles (and the writers) pertaining to Paul in general is that they are totally fixated with Paul's career as a Beatle and his relatlionship with John, George and Ringo. It's like Paul's career ended in 1970.
I understand where you're coming from. Unfortunately (or fortunately), Paul was a member of the biggest band in the history of rock and roll. A band that truly (imho) changed the world. Nothing he did after the Beatles could compare, in some people's eyes. It is what it is.
Well said, Nancy.
True, however, I always enjoy turning on my BeaTles friends on to Paul's post BeaTle songs. It's a pleasure to watch them get excited over hearing great songs they've never heard before.
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I don't understand why anybody cares about this at this point. This topic maybe had some mild interest when Lennon gave his opinion in the early 70's but that was almost 50 years ago.
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Yankeefan2 wrote:
I don't understand why anybody cares about this at this point. This topic maybe had some mild interest when Lennon gave his opinion in the early 70's but that was almost 50 years ago.
You're more than welcome to just scroll on past.
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Nancy R wrote:
Yankeefan2 wrote:
I don't understand why anybody cares about this at this point. This topic maybe had some mild interest when Lennon gave his opinion in the early 70's but that was almost 50 years ago.
You're more than welcome to just scroll on past.
And while scrolling past, I am more than welcome to make a comment.
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love2travel wrote:
B J Conlee wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
B J Conlee wrote:
I guess my criticism of many of these articles (and the writers) pertaining to Paul in general is that they are totally fixated with Paul's career as a Beatle and his relatlionship with John, George and Ringo. It's like Paul's career ended in 1970.
I understand where you're coming from. Unfortunately (or fortunately), Paul was a member of the biggest band in the history of rock and roll. A band that truly (imho) changed the world. Nothing he did after the Beatles could compare, in some people's eyes. It is what it is.
Well said, Nancy.
True, however, I always enjoy turning on my BeaTles friends on to Paul's post BeaTle songs. It's a pleasure to watch them get excited over hearing great songs they've never heard before.
Good point Love2travel. The best example I can think of in my own life is with my wife of less than 2 years. She is not the kind of obsessed Beatle fan I am but at 65 years old she is certainly well familiar with just about all the universally known Beatle songs. She, of course, likes most of them but when we are driving in my car that has Sirius radio she would rather hear the broader Sirius stations like the 60's, 70's, and their Bridge channel (channel 32) than hearing the "all Beatles' Channel". More than Sirius, she prefers using Spotify and Pandora for her music and selecting various artists that she particularly likes.
One day I asked her to select the Paul McCartney channel on Spotify which I had already been familiar. I wanted to hear some Paul Solo material. While we were driving they began playing some songs from Flaming Pie. She had never bought the Flaming Pie CD so she had never heard several of the songs including Beautiful Night, Little Willow, Calico Skies and Great Day. I told her about Flaming Pie and that the album was released in the mid-90's. After hearing the songs (and I stayed totally quiet) she turned to me and said, I never knew that Paul had written such great songs after the Beatles and Wings. She had always liked MIA, BOTR and Silly Love Songs but surprisingly, she thought those Flaming Pie songs were just as good. It just proves my point that Paul's career after his 70's run of Hits during Wings is hardly known to the average public.
Now that we are starting to close out the month of May, I'm hoping we will get some more information about the status of the new Archive/Remaster edition of Flaming Pie from this Website. I had read that it would be released in July of 2020. Since Paul's record company seems to have a good relatlionship with Target (Target had the wonderful special 2 CD package of Red Rose Speedway's Archive/Remaster in 2018 for under $20). I'm hoping that Target will carry a similar inexpensive new package of FP also. From Paul's point of view, just about all Target stores are open so they would have at least full retail distribution in the US and Canada. I've got my fingers crossed for some updates possibly this week.
