@jimmix said in The furious letter John Lennon wrote about Keith Moon and Harry Nilsson’s wild antics:
The furious letter John Lennon wrote about Keith Moon and Harry Nilsson’s wild antics
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@jimmix said in The furious letter John Lennon wrote about Keith Moon and Harry Nilsson’s wild antics:
The furious letter John Lennon wrote about Keith Moon and Harry Nilsson’s wild antics
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The first time I heard "Free As A Bird", I noticed the song evokes the visual of a bird soaring and/or floating high up in the sky. Then I got an inspired image in my head that could be a music video, a way to capture the unspoken, indefinable note of sadness in the song. In my imaginary video for this song, there would be images of birds soaring, and also a recurring image of let’s say a young boy’s face and shoulders close up, with a background of a blue sky, and maybe the background would shift around, with clouds and trees indicating that the boy is hang-gliding up in the air, and he’s enjoying the thrill of it. Then only at the end, the camera pans back from the boy’s face and shoulders to reveal that he is in a wheelchair with a crippling condition, and his family has taken him out to a high bluff overlooking the sea and seabirds flying around, so that he can enjoy the vicarious experience of the freedom of a bird. As the song draws to a close, family members (sister, brother, mother, father) dance around him in his wheelchair.
@littlewillow Cool! What medium is that? I'm guessing chalk?
@wandy said in Lesser-known McCartney Gem:
Return To Pepperland
I've never seen this before, thanks. Will have fun browsing through the tracks. (I like the song title "Squid")
I don't understand why Paul doesn't just release everything he's done. I can sort of understand why he didn't many decades ago, when the record industry was different and there was no internet. But now that there's an internet, it seems there's no reason not to. He can divide up his oeuvre any way he wants: The first major division Beatles/Post-Beatles, then further subdivisions (by decade, or whatever). He can create a special section on his official website, call it All McCartney, and just have everything there -- everything previously un-issued or not on the main albums -- and he can subdivide it, label it, package it, any way he wants. But just put it out there.
Hey that would be a good title for a new Paul McCartney song: Put It Out There. In fact he could write that song and debut it as a formal introduction of the All McCartney website. If Paul is reading I'm available at reasonable rates as a consultant on brilliant ideas...
@njr said in Lesser-known McCartney Gem:
@fast-city-line said in Lesser-known McCartney Gem:
This is a great song, never heard it before in my life until just now, after 71-81-91-2001-2011-2021 ... 52 years of listening to McCartney. No doubt there are other songs along the way I also never heard, but this one is actually inspired. I like the way he plays with his voice, and at key points uses his voice with the power that he has. I also like the instrumentation and arrangements with woodwinds, sounds like some clarinets. He lets loose with the lyrics, and doesn't worry about heavy meaning or making sense, just has fun up in the air, disportively.
I think John would have called this a “granny song.”
What does @wandy think?P.S. I have the picture sleeve 45 of this (Take It Away/I'll Give You A Ring) so it was actually properly released.
That was one of my thoughts on listening to it, that it has a little bit of a granny sound to it. I wonder if Lennon wrote any granny songs? I can't think of any contenders at the moment.
You should take a picture of that 45 (A & B) and put it up on the internet so that when people Google images related to this song it will pop up.
This is a great song, never heard it before in my life until just now, after 71-81-91-2001-2011-2021 ... 52 years of listening to McCartney. No doubt there are other songs along the way I also never heard, but this one is actually inspired. I like the way he plays with his voice, and at key points uses his voice with the power that he has. I also like the instrumentation and arrangements with woodwinds, sounds like some clarinets. He lets loose with the lyrics, and doesn't worry about heavy meaning or making sense, just has fun up in the air, disportively.
In Think For Yourself, Paul's "fuzz bass" stairsteps down after the 2nd line, bridging into the 3rd line:
Do what you want to do,
and go where you're going to [fuzz bass down]
think for yourself cuz I won't be there with you
@b-j-conlee said in Junior's Farm:
Kestrel wrote:
According to the Wings Official Fun Club booklet No. 3 1974 (published December 1974), 'Junior's Farm the new Wings single was composed by Paul and Linda on their farm in Scotland.' Other sources have Wings rehearsing the song in Scotland too before flying to Nashville. I guess it"s possible that it had another 'name' title and Paul changed it to Junior while in Nashville? Equally likely though it could just be a coincidence and was just wishful thinking on Curly's part? Remind me,how many people now are claiming to be that guy on the pavement on the 'Abbey Road' cover?
Thanks for your imput Kestrel. Who knows when Paul actually wrote and finished the complete song. As the article says, when Curly Putman Jr. was over in London in the 2000's, he went into a Record Store and found a 45 of Junior's Farm which he bought and showed it to the Interviewer at the Tennessean Magazine. On the 45 itself, it said "recorded on a farm in Lebanen TN". Curly's farm is in Lebanen TN. The interviewer then asked Curly if Paul and Wings recorded Junior's Farm in his garage or one of his houses on the farm. Curly emphatically said No and that Paul and his Band recorded it at the "Sound Shop" one of his Publisher's (Tree Music Publishing) studios. Don't know exactly where it is but it was somewhere locally in Tennessee. Just guessing, I would think it was probably a "rough" mix of Junior's Farm they recorded that Paul took back to him when he returned to London. I'm sure it would help him remember the song better. I have no idea what months Paul was in Nashville or when he had gone back home to London or Scotland. The point is that the "rough mix" that Paul had still needed more work on it with the rest of his Band. No where did Curly say that Paul wrote "Junior's Farm" completely (and also played it) on his farm. He's just saying that he knows it was written about him (his last name is Putman Jr) and that Paul and Wings stayed on his Farm to rehearse for approximately6 months. Sounds very believable to me that the song originated in Tennessee and was written with Curly Putman Jr. and his Farm in mind.
Maybe when Paul was conceiving the song and fleshing it out in Scotland, he temporarily named it "Julian's Farm". Then later when he got the Putnam farm deal, knowing Putnam is a Junior, it hit him that Junior would be a much better name in the song title.
@wandy Excellent list of songs!
@njr Oh yeah, I love I Will. Maybe I wasn't clear but I said I like I Will better (even) than Michelle or Yesterday. Here There and Everywhere also right up there almost on a par with I Will. I Will definitely one of my top faves of his.
@njr Thanks -- I'm usually a stickler for details, but I got lazy.
@njr
I hear you. When it comes to the songs we like and why we like them, at a certain point it's kind of pointless to try to persuade the person who disagrees. Although it can be fun sometimes to try to articulate why I like a song, it's probably impossible to persuade someone who disagrees.
Yesterday is a very good song and I think it is one of the inspired songs, it's just that I've grown weary of it, and even many years ago I was only revitalized by it by hearing the Ray Charles version. There's another song that to me has a similar style and sort of what I would call a "flat affect" -- which for a poignant song I think can be a compelling device, sometimes better than operatically getting over-emotional -- and that is Michelle, which melodically and musically I much prefer to Yesterday. Even better than those two, with that same flat affect style: I Will.
@njr That shows you what a green Beatles fan I am! D'OH!!! Not only should I have known that -- I actually now remember him saying that, and that would have bolstered my case because now I recall he talked about the sound of the "K" in "MacKenzie" which he liked.
@njr I don't hear the "You know" but it sounds plausible.
@wandy I hear there's a "Keith Richards is alive" conspiracy theory.