Hi everyone, the missing song is: Just The Way You Are by Billy Joel, but we had the segment removed due to copyright. If we make a part two, we will include it again.
@@SET_Studios I don't get it! Paul McCartney has written some really terrible songs! I would say 80% of his output is absolute crap! I mean "Monkberry Moon Delight?
I think he hugely admired Strawberry Fields by John. In the Get Back movie he plays and sings it in front of John, and in several occasions he cited this as probably the best song John had ever written
Paul really picked some good songs. I can understand him wishing he had written them. They are 5 of my very favorite songs too. God Only Knows is my favorite Beach Boys song too. When I hear that I melt. Fields of Gold...most everything from Sting is so outstanding; loved him from The Police and Roxanne up to present day. My one and Only Love is magical. The first verse and my heart sings. I'm glad Paul was able to perform these wonderful songs. Just the Way You Are, beautiful love song; the tunes are perfect in all these songs but it is the lyrics that touch your heart.....thanks
I loved Sting's beautiful words for Paul. Gratifying to know two of my favourite song writers have such high regard for each other - although I can't imagine how anyone wouldn't be in awe of our Pauly.
"God Only Knows" makes me cry every time I hear it. Just like he said it does to him. I heard that song the first time it came out over fifty years ago. I figured after the first ten or twenty years I'd stop shedding a tear every time I hear it. But God only knows why I still do after over fifty.
@@vi0letcr1me Yes. I heard an interview with Noel and apparently Paul told him how much he admired that song. I reckon, apart from the clever structure, it is the sincerity of the lyric that makes it a stand-out. NG dismisses many of his own words as simply something to sing along to, but patently that song is about a former love and it's tangible. It is my favourite of theirs and the best version for me is the one in a circus tent in Paris with an exquisite Gem guitar solo and Noel on vocals. It is on youtube and it is superb.
@@alipanroosendaal9503 I'll check out that version. My favourite version is one of the demos (I can't remember which) because it is a bit less polished and the outro is longer which is my favourite part. It's a beautiful song.
Good Lord😳.....God Only Knows, Just the Way You Are, and Beautiful Boy: Three Beautiful pieces I grew up listening to and loving.... Thank You for reviving sweet memories..
I always thought I knew everything that was worth hearing from Paul's post-Beatles career. i.e. everything from the "Wings Greatest" album and all his hits from 1980-84. He lost me after "Give My Regards to Broad Street". My tastes changed and I moved on to other artists. I've only just realised how great his first 2 solo albums are and how good some of his later albums are (Flaming Pie, Driving Rain, Chaos & Creation, Memory Almost Full, New). I've also only just realised there are some amazing deep cuts from all his Wings albums, which I've never properly listened to. Silly me! Anyway I made a playlist last night on Spotify of 100 songs from Paul's solo career and with Wings (leaving out all the hits from 1973-84). It is just mind-boggling how many good tunes he wrote & recorded... in addition to all the Beatles classics.
Billy Joel said in an interview that he played "Just the Way You Are" so many times that although the crowd was swooning, HE was thinking " CHEESEBURGER"... a cheeseburger sounds good right now"!! Amazing what goes through one's mind at the weirdest moment!!
The fact that Paul loved Brian Wilson's "GO ONLY KNOWS" great ballad in 4/4 time and incredible haunting lyric line ..... is no surprise to me. I played in bands then and it was incredible if you could pull off that great tune - by the way, off THEE GREATEST ALBUM ever recorded by a Popular Song artist / group ..... Pet Sounds ! That disc was praised by a BRITISH PRODUCER of pop songs then .... and he RENT$ a Billboard in PICCALILLI Square, London with his own money ....proclaiming it the BEST ALBUM EVER by a brilliant Brian Wilson ! That says it all. Genius. Pure GENIUS! Beach Boys harmonies - Great. jj
*Here’s my list of Beatles songs that I think we all wish we had written.* *Eleanor Rigby* This song still gives me chills after all these years. Number one on this list. *And I Love her* Beautiful jazz/ Bossa Nova style song. *Back in the USSR* Straight punk classic. *Tomorrow Never Knows* *A Day in the Life* *Norwegian Wood* *Across the Universe* *You got to hide your love*
I expected “A Whiter Shade of Pale” to be on the list. I seem to remember Paul saying that that was the best song of the year-the year in which he wrote “Hey Jude”!!!
And it came out in 1967. Hey Jude was the summer of 1968. However, Paul said the night he met Linda they heard Whiter Shade of Pale played for the first time.
My One And Only Love, sung by Johnny Hartman and saxophone by John Coltrane was suggested to me by my music history teacher during my first delvings into classic jazz as a part of my studies in college. It's so pure and lean and simple and gorgeous in form and melody and lyrics. Sublime is how my professor described it and it took a while for me to realize what the song was. Knowing now that it's one of Paul's favorites is a validation of the beauty of this song. It's as near a perfect love song as there ever was.
The entire album is brilliant. It has been said that Hartman and "Trane were in a taxi heading to the studio when Nat Cole's version of Lush Life came on. Hartman quickly wrote down the lyrics and they supposedlt did the song in ONE take!!!
@@Jdaniel2000us I don't doubt that - these two seemed to interact in their performances like familiar souls that understood what to do, how to do it and nothing else - perfection, really.
All good and fine. But why are people so shy or desinterested to give credits to the writers? This song is by Guy Wood(1911-2001). You don´t find his name,as mostly in such cases,in any comment. Here in none of the 491
On their appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in '64, the Beatles played, 'Til There Was You', from The Music Man. McCartney used to play it in his live performances, into the 21st century.
I can understand Paul picking God Only Knows as it's like the perfect pop song. Although i'm not a fan of Pet Sounds, i know that's sacrilege to a lot of people. I like Field's of Gold by Sting and I'm glad he picked a Lennon track. As a huge fan of the Beatles for more than 40 years i prefer Lennon's work to McCartney's, but that doesn't mean i don't like Paul's work, as i've said i'm a huge Beatles fan. I love George's songs like Taxman, I Want To Tell You is great, While My Guitar Gently Weeps is 1 of my all time favourite Beatles tracks, Something and Here Comes The Sun are true classics. I think Paul has written so many brilliant and beautiful melodies it's difficult to count the amount of Paul's golden melodies he's written. He also wrote Helter Skelter while in the Beatles which is not what you would expect from him so he can be versatile. I love his Beatles tracks like All My Loving, And I Love Her, Yesterday, I've Just Seen A Face, We Can Work It Out, his songs on Revolver, Penny Lane, Fixing A Hole, Hey Jude, Blackbird, Martha My Dear, Helter Skelter amongst a lot more and his great solo work. He was in the greatest songwriting partnership ever in the Beatles-Lennon & McCartney who really brought the best out of each other. They balanced each other out perfectly it was like it was fate. Also, if you add George Harrison who started slowly but he started writing the likes of If I Needed Someone, Taxman, I Want To Tell You, Within You Without You, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Something and Here Comes The Sun, then you have a band with 2 of the greatest songwriters in it and another who was just starting to peak when the Beatles broke up. There's many songwriters wish they could have just written 1 of McCartney's classics or Lennon's. I my opinion A Day In The Life is the greatest track ever. It a geniune Lennon and McCartney collaboration with John writing the brilliant sad verses and Paul writing that great middle eight "Woke up.." and both of them agreeing on 'I'd love to turn you on' and i think Revolver is the greatest album ever with both John and Paul writing some incredible songs and George writing 3. What an album. ✌️
Another song to add to the list is probably "Daydream" By The Lovin' Spoonful. I remember reading that "Good Day Sunshine" was Paul's attempt at writing a similar song.
I read that…about the Spoonful song too somewhere I forget where. For sure, though him the rest of the Lads as well as a few other English bands at that time were fans of the Lovin Spoonful.
Whilst I have always been a huge fan of the Fab 4 & Wings, from day 1, surely just because he is the World's most successful.... doesn't mean that his likes & dislike are any more important than any other person......too much time & consideration is given to celebrities in this world
Coming from a life-long Beatle fan(I was there when it all happened), Paul's magic waned after the break-up. He Came through heroically with "Band on the Run" but and he no longer had John as a sounding board and by the 80's has not produced anything to come close to the magic.
@@flemingcourtNah terrible take. Paul made so many great albums in his solo career like McCartney, Ram, Band on the Run, Venus and Mars, McCartney II, Tug of War, Flaming Pie, Chaos and Creation, Electric Arguments, etc. He’s made at least one great album in every decade of his music career
There was no special thing that Paul did with the BBC. The programme to which you refer to is 'Desert Island Disck's!'. It a long running series, that invites the person who is in the hot seat for whatever episode it maybe! They are then invited to give 6/7 songs or pieces of music. That have inspired, recalls happy memories or whatever the music does for the said person. So whilst Paul was asked for his choices. He said that 'Beatiful Boy' summed up the whole Beatle thing with this track by John Lennon. Whilst it is specifically a radio programme. The cameras where, for whatever reason where there & captured Paul in a visibley moving moment, listening to the track 'Beatiful Boy!'. I think it was awesome the cameras where the to capture this moment for prosperity!!! He clearly loved & admired his songwriting partner. For me, this moment captured on camera is a blessing. Also a really genuine & moving moment! Gb Paul & all the Beatles for their awesome songs, both within & without the Beatles, & their collective solo careers!!! I am a fan!
Love the idea! Paul McCartney has been so honest with music, and open about how he was happy that the Beatles were so professional, fast learning in the last year - with all those good songs. Of course there are tons of songs he did not write and which are good. Those four are just samples. Now my question: The grand in the pictures at 00:15, and forward, did they put a blanket, or quilt, duvet, down comforter on the grand? So that it is easier to record the other instruments? 😇🤣
@@Paul-dw2cl I like both. But we all have our favorites. McCartney agrees with you by the way. Big fan of Brian Wilson, they wrote the Vegetable Song together in London. And dont forget those Beach Boy like harmonies on Back in the USSR. Room for both groups at the top!
I'm pretty sure George's 'Something' is another Beatles' song that Paul holds in this sort of esteem too. Maybe 'In My Life' as well. He often speaks extremely highly of both those, especially Something. He even jokes sometimes that Something is Frank Sinatra's favourite Lennon-McCartney song ...
Actually he should've been credited as co-writer for 'Something' since he wrote some of the lyrics, as did John, came up with the killer bassline and sang the incredible harmony vocal as he did in almost 90% of George's songs.
@@ndlouder Oh yeah? Why aren't you crediting John Lennon as co-writer of Pauly's supposed classics? I'm sure you're of the opinion that Paul wrote 100% of his songs! His songs were CO-WRITTEN with JOHN LENNON! I'll bet if you were to cite your favourite "Paul McCartney" songs you'd include mainly Beatles songs a a couple of his solo songs.
@@raulmacias6146 Which ones? Yesterday, Let It Be, Hey Jude, Michelle, The Long And Winding Road, Penny Lane, Blackbird, Here There and Everywhere, The Fool On The Hill, For No One... - this is McCartney only with no input at all from Lennon. What are you saying??
"My one and only love" was written by Guy Wood(1911-2001) To be honest: I never heard of this song and its writer.And,with 62,heard some music of all genres
I wish I had written Eleanor Rigby ONE of the amazing things about that tune is that it is only a 2 chord song. Tell any musician that Eleanor Rigby is only a 2 chord song and they won't believe you until they work it out themselves.
You missed one. He also has stated he would have liked to have written 'The Very Thought of You' a beautiful standard by Ray Noble. He said this on Larry King. Paul sang with Tony Bennett on a cover of the song.
God only knows is a beautiful song. Fabulous arrangement and production by Brian. Played perfectly by the Wrecking Crew. And beautifully sung by Carl. The lyrics too are nice until the part where he sings. . . "If you should ever leave me. Though life would go on, believe me. The world could show nothing to me. So, what good would living do me?" Or, to put it another way, he's like that psycho girlfriend you still have nightmares about, who cried, "If you ever leave me - I'll kill myself!" Sheesh! 😆
I guess you would have Alanis Morissette arrested for singing "Does she know how you told me You'd hold me until you died ♪ but you're still alive!!!" ♫ or Elvis "I'd rather see you dead little girl ♫ than to see you with another man" Its a song and if you never felt like someone never being around anymore was going to Really suck, good for you, sociopath.
I see what you’re saying, but these lyrics have always landed different for me. I feel the singer is talking to himself, journaling out loud not necessarily to his love….plus Carl’s ethereal gentle delivery drives home not a threat, but just the sad truth of the limitations on what life can offer him without his love by his side as a conduit to experience full beauty within his years. Less of a threat and more of a requiem on what’s lost without her in his life.
I always thought that Billy Joel's song, "Don't Ask Me Why," "Steppin' Out" by Joe Jackson, and "Don't Answer Me" by The Alan Parsons Project are very McCartneyesque too. I think Paul would love to have written those as well.
It`s many songs i wishes i wrote like:Jumping Jack Flash,Gimmie Shelter,(I can’t Get No) Satisfaction,American Pie,Brown Sugar,Monkey Man,2000 lightyears from home,Anti-Hero,Bejeweled,August,Betty,I`ll Feel Whole Lot Better,Picture To Burn,Vær Glad i Den Nasen Du Har,Heart Of Stone,Don`t Look Back in Anger,Morning Glory,Beetlebum,Song 2,This Is My Life,Joanna,Papirsklip,Remedy,D`You Know What i Mean,Fiskarlåt
All four a particularly beautiful love songs. I certainly agree with the first two ("God only Knows" and "Fields of Gold"), however I'd put "For No One" in there - which he can't do.
@@sureshmukhi2316 Exactly - and IMO it's the best love song ever written, and maybe Paul thinks so also... but he can't include it in this list, which means the list is, IMO, incomplete.
@@stephenhosking7384 this list is about songs Paul McCartney wishes he had written. For No One was written by Paul so it does not fit the category of this list.
God Only Knows is a song every songwriter wishes they wrote. Try writing a song thats not in any key; not that it changes keys, but that it is ambiguous in its chord structure and melody. There has never been another pop hit that has done that.
Hi everyone, the missing song is: Just The Way You Are by Billy Joel, but we had the segment removed due to copyright.
If we make a part two, we will include it again.
When did McCartney say he wished he wrote just the way you are? Or is that just BS
@Music Box USA
Sorry music box usa we strictly do 80's Joel only !
Ugh. BJ makes my skin crawl.
It is very much a McCartney-like song.
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The world wishes they could have written pretty much any of Paul McCartney's songs.
Oh yeah, I cry every night wishing I could've written "Wild Honey Pie" and "Why don't we do it in the road?"
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@@SET_Studios I don't get it!
Paul McCartney has written some really terrible songs!
I would say 80% of his output is absolute crap!
I mean "Monkberry Moon Delight?
Except for ‘why don’t we do it in the road?’ in my opinion one of the worst Beatles songs.
Two of my favourite Macca songs are probably ‘with a little luck’ and ‘no more lonely nights’.
I think he hugely admired Strawberry Fields by John. In the Get Back movie he plays and sings it in front of John, and in several occasions he cited this as probably the best song John had ever written
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Paul is one of my favourite musicians 👍🏻🎸. He's brilliant..
He's my favourite!
All four Beatles enjoyed listening to Whiter Shade of Pale, as I read somewhere. One of the best songs ever.
Yes a whiter shade of pale and like a roling stone#1
Paul really picked some good songs. I can understand him wishing he had written them. They are 5 of my very favorite songs too. God Only Knows is my favorite Beach Boys song too. When I hear that I melt. Fields of Gold...most everything from Sting is so outstanding; loved him from The Police and Roxanne up to present day. My one and Only Love is magical. The first verse and my heart sings. I'm glad Paul was able to perform these wonderful songs. Just the Way You Are, beautiful love song; the tunes are perfect in all these songs but it is the lyrics that touch your heart.....thanks
Wow. You mentioned every song but Beautiful Boy by John Lennon. It happens to be my personal favorite of them all.
I loved Sting's beautiful words for Paul. Gratifying to know two of my favourite song writers have such high regard for each other - although I can't imagine how anyone wouldn't be in awe of our Pauly.
"God Only Knows" makes me cry every time I hear it. Just like he said it does to him. I heard that song the first time it came out over fifty years ago. I figured after the first ten or twenty years I'd stop shedding a tear every time I hear it.
But God only knows why I still do after over fifty.
Brian Wilson said it was the first song with God in the title 😊
God only knows why all these beautiful songs came to be.
Sixty years later, my tears flow involuntary every time I listen to "I saw her standing there". Must be muscle memory.🤷♂
@Micjael Castro How about the song “God Bless America” ?
@@db5757 Var daring at the time.😅
It is so wonderful to experience the respect that some of the greatest composers of the 20th century have for one another.❤
Sir Paul clearly is a very wonderful sympathetic man that is in touch with emotion and great romantic music.
I recall Paul once saying how much he admired "Just the way you are" by Billy Joel.
(Also "Slide away" by Oasis)
I didn't know he liked Slide Away by Oasis. That is one of my favourites too.
@@vi0letcr1me Yes. I heard an interview with Noel and apparently Paul told him how much he admired that song. I reckon, apart from the clever structure, it is the sincerity of the lyric that makes it a stand-out. NG dismisses many of his own words as simply something to sing along to, but patently that song is about a former love and it's tangible. It is my favourite of theirs and the best version for me is the one in a circus tent in Paris with an exquisite Gem guitar solo and Noel on vocals. It is on youtube and it is superb.
@@alipanroosendaal9503 I'll check out that version. My favourite version is one of the demos (I can't remember which) because it is a bit less polished and the outro is longer which is my favourite part. It's a beautiful song.
@@vi0letcr1me I think I wrote off Oasis primarily for their arrogance.
@@flemingcourt I can definitely understand not liking them as people but I do really love some of their music
"God only knows" is my fave Beach Boys tune as well.The chord progression and production is amazing..sens a chill down my spine...thats's art for ya!
Very generous of Paul. My One and Only Love is on the John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman album (1963), along with many other gems.
Good Lord😳.....God Only Knows, Just the Way You Are, and Beautiful Boy: Three Beautiful pieces I grew up listening to and loving.... Thank You for reviving sweet memories..
Also “Go now” by The Moody Blues, with Denny Laine, his collaborator in Wings and co-writer of “Mull of Kintyre”.
I always thought I knew everything that was worth hearing from Paul's post-Beatles career. i.e. everything from the "Wings Greatest" album and all his hits from 1980-84. He lost me after "Give My Regards to Broad Street". My tastes changed and I moved on to other artists. I've only just realised how great his first 2 solo albums are and how good some of his later albums are (Flaming Pie, Driving Rain, Chaos & Creation, Memory Almost Full, New). I've also only just realised there are some amazing deep cuts from all his Wings albums, which I've never properly listened to. Silly me! Anyway I made a playlist last night on Spotify of 100 songs from Paul's solo career and with Wings (leaving out all the hits from 1973-84). It is just mind-boggling how many good tunes he wrote & recorded... in addition to all the Beatles classics.
Billy Joel said in an interview that he played "Just the Way You Are" so many times that although the crowd was swooning, HE was thinking " CHEESEBURGER"... a cheeseburger sounds good right now"!! Amazing what goes through one's mind at the weirdest moment!!
Lennon liked this song too
Billy Joel also said, while singing piano man for the umpteenth time, in front of 18,000 people, that he was thinking about his dentist appointment.
@@gregoryyoung8819 thank God it wasn't his proctologist!!
Guys guys guys c'mon now !
We strictly do 80's Joel only
The fact that Paul loved Brian Wilson's "GO ONLY KNOWS" great ballad in 4/4 time and incredible haunting lyric line ..... is no surprise to me. I played in bands then and it was incredible if you could pull off that great tune - by the way, off THEE GREATEST ALBUM ever recorded by a Popular Song artist / group ..... Pet Sounds ! That disc was praised by a BRITISH PRODUCER of pop songs then .... and he RENT$ a Billboard in PICCALILLI Square, London with his own money ....proclaiming it the BEST ALBUM EVER by a brilliant Brian Wilson ! That says it all. Genius. Pure GENIUS! Beach Boys harmonies - Great. jj
*Here’s my list of Beatles songs that I think we all wish we had written.*
*Eleanor Rigby*
This song still gives me chills after all these years. Number one on this list.
*And I Love her*
Beautiful jazz/ Bossa Nova style song.
*Back in the USSR*
Straight punk classic.
*Tomorrow Never Knows*
*A Day in the Life*
*Norwegian Wood*
*Across the Universe*
*You got to hide your love*
Bellissimo video grazie
Paul also said in the Jeff Lynne doc that he wishes he had written “Mr. Blue Sky” 😊
He also said this about You Are My Love by Liverpool Express
I expected “A Whiter Shade of Pale” to be on the list. I seem to remember Paul saying that that was the best song of the year-the year in which he wrote “Hey Jude”!!!
Actually it was John who loved the song A Whiter Shade of Pale
@@ravenbonanza1522 yeah John and George loved it
@@ravenbonanza1522 doesn't everyone?
And it came out in 1967. Hey Jude was the summer of 1968. However, Paul said the night he met Linda they heard Whiter Shade of Pale played for the first time.
@@ravenbonanza1522 yeah it was John..
What a lovely man.
My One And Only Love, sung by Johnny Hartman and saxophone by John Coltrane was suggested to me by my music history teacher during my first delvings into classic jazz as a part of my studies in college. It's so pure and lean and simple and gorgeous in form and melody and lyrics. Sublime is how my professor described it and it took a while for me to realize what the song was. Knowing now that it's one of Paul's favorites is a validation of the beauty of this song. It's as near a perfect love song as there ever was.
The entire album is brilliant. It has been said that Hartman and "Trane were in a taxi heading to the studio when Nat Cole's version of Lush Life came on. Hartman quickly wrote down the lyrics and they supposedlt did the song in ONE take!!!
@@Jdaniel2000us I don't doubt that - these two seemed to interact in their performances like familiar souls that understood what to do, how to do it and nothing else - perfection, really.
All good and fine. But why are people so shy or desinterested to give credits to the writers? This song is by Guy Wood(1911-2001). You don´t find his name,as mostly in such cases,in any comment. Here in none of the 491
On their appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in '64, the Beatles played, 'Til There Was You', from The Music Man. McCartney used to play it in his live performances, into the 21st century.
I can understand Paul picking God Only Knows as it's like the perfect pop song. Although i'm not a fan of Pet Sounds, i know that's sacrilege to a lot of people. I like Field's of Gold by Sting and I'm glad he picked a Lennon track.
As a huge fan of the Beatles for more than 40 years i prefer Lennon's work to McCartney's, but that doesn't mean i don't like Paul's work, as i've said i'm a huge Beatles fan. I love George's songs like Taxman, I Want To Tell You is great, While My Guitar Gently Weeps is 1 of my all time favourite Beatles tracks, Something and Here Comes The Sun are true classics.
I think Paul has written so many brilliant and beautiful melodies it's difficult to count the amount of Paul's golden melodies he's written. He also wrote Helter Skelter while in the Beatles which is not what you would expect from him so he can be versatile. I love his Beatles tracks like All My Loving, And I Love Her, Yesterday, I've Just Seen A Face, We Can Work It Out, his songs on Revolver, Penny Lane, Fixing A Hole, Hey Jude, Blackbird, Martha My Dear, Helter Skelter amongst a lot more and his great solo work. He was in the greatest songwriting partnership ever in the Beatles-Lennon & McCartney who really brought the best out of each other. They balanced each other out perfectly it was like it was fate. Also, if you add George Harrison who started slowly but he started writing the likes of If I Needed Someone, Taxman, I Want To Tell You, Within You Without You, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Something and Here Comes The Sun, then you have a band with 2 of the greatest songwriters in it and another who was just starting to peak when the Beatles broke up.
There's many songwriters wish they could have just written 1 of McCartney's classics or Lennon's. I my opinion A Day In The Life is the greatest track ever. It a geniune Lennon and McCartney collaboration with John writing the brilliant sad verses and Paul writing that great middle eight "Woke up.." and both of them agreeing on 'I'd love to turn you on' and i think Revolver is the greatest album ever with both John and Paul writing some incredible songs and George writing 3. What an album. ✌️
I'm the 70's , Paul says he wished he'd written "Just the way you are" by Billy joel
Another song to add to the list is probably "Daydream" By The Lovin' Spoonful. I remember reading that "Good Day Sunshine" was Paul's attempt at writing a similar song.
I think he was fond of “Til there was You” early in his career.
I read that…about the Spoonful song too somewhere I forget where. For sure, though him the rest of the Lads as well as a few other English bands at that time were fans of the Lovin Spoonful.
Been supporting your channel for months now! also really love the thumbnail of this video
Correction: "God Only Knows" is Macca's _fave Beach Boys song._
On a few occasions he has stated ELO's "Mr. Blue Sky" as his favourite song.
Whilst I have always been a huge fan of the Fab 4 & Wings, from day 1, surely just because he is the World's most successful.... doesn't mean that his likes & dislike are any more important than any other person......too much time & consideration is given to celebrities in this world
Dear Paul, What About A Musical Project W Brian? ✌🎹
Aww he loved Beautiful Boy sweet
Paul is indefatigable and still writes very capable appealing songs still to this day
Coming from a life-long Beatle fan(I was there when it all happened), Paul's magic waned after the break-up. He Came through heroically with "Band on the Run" but and he no longer had John as a sounding board and by the 80's has not produced anything to come close to the magic.
@@flemingcourtNah terrible take. Paul made so many great albums in his solo career like McCartney, Ram, Band on the Run, Venus and Mars, McCartney II, Tug of War, Flaming Pie, Chaos and Creation, Electric Arguments, etc. He’s made at least one great album in every decade of his music career
Thank you!!!!!! This was sooooo interesting! I love God Only Knows too!!!!
Paul has good taste. God only Knows and Fields of Gold are both great, great songs. Paul has also written many great songs, of course.
I didnt know you were making English videos!!!! Nice
To that list, you can add “see my friends’ by Ray Davies
"Beautiful Boy" always chokes me up.
If you love 'Paul McCartney' then thank the stars you were alive at the same time! - :)
There was no special thing that Paul did with the BBC. The programme to which you refer to is 'Desert Island Disck's!'. It a long running series, that invites the person who is in the hot seat for whatever episode it maybe! They are then invited to give 6/7 songs or pieces of music. That have inspired, recalls happy memories or whatever the music does for the said person.
So whilst Paul was asked for his choices. He said that 'Beatiful Boy' summed up the whole Beatle thing with this track by John Lennon. Whilst it is specifically a radio programme. The cameras where, for whatever reason where there & captured Paul in a visibley moving moment, listening to the track 'Beatiful Boy!'. I think it was awesome the cameras where the to capture this moment for prosperity!!! He clearly loved & admired his songwriting partner. For me, this moment captured on camera is a blessing. Also a really genuine & moving moment! Gb Paul & all the Beatles for their awesome songs, both within & without the Beatles, & their collective solo careers!!! I am a fan!
Let Em In is my fav song Paul wrote
Paul bellissimo e geniale ❤
Just about everybody wishes they had written "Yesterday".
I can see him doing Beautiful Boy, I can totally hear it!
Very informative. 👍🏻
Love the idea! Paul McCartney has been so honest with music, and open about how he was happy that the Beatles were so professional, fast learning in the last year - with all those good songs. Of course there are tons of songs he did not write and which are good. Those four are just samples.
Now my question: The grand in the pictures at 00:15, and forward, did they put a blanket, or quilt, duvet, down comforter on the grand?
So that it is easier to record the other instruments?
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Fields of Gold is a magical and Fairy
Sting did a fantastic vocal on My One And Only Love on the Leaving Las Vegas soundtrack.
Pluperfect
Wow.... Fields of Gold and God only knows... It's hard to beat those songs.
Whiter Shade of Pale is another I heard him say he’d wish he’d written.
John really love Whiter Shade. Would listen to it when tripping.
cant have em all. they were great talent beyond paul mcartney.
"Yes It Is" is right up there with "God Only Knows".
Nope
@@Paul-dw2cl I like both. But we all have our favorites. McCartney agrees with you by the way. Big fan of Brian Wilson, they wrote the Vegetable Song together in London. And dont forget those Beach Boy like harmonies on Back in the USSR. Room for both groups at the top!
Sir Paul for NPP. He made an revolusjon without fire one single shot. 😊
It would be fun to have composed the complete works of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart.
Especially Bach
Especially Beethoven
Especially Mozart
You would just BE music at that point
1:07 who is the second guy from the left??
Looks like the actor Gary Busey
I wish I could've heard him sing 'Dust In the Wind' it would fit him perfectly.
that would suit his voice very well. I hope someone makes an AI cover of it. There is an AI cover of him doing A Horse With No Name and it's great.
@@vi0letcr1me i really hope someone does!! And thanks for telling me that, I'm definitely going to listen to that.
I'm pretty sure George's 'Something' is another Beatles' song that Paul holds in this sort of esteem too. Maybe 'In My Life' as well. He often speaks extremely highly of both those, especially Something. He even jokes sometimes that Something is Frank Sinatra's favourite Lennon-McCartney song ...
Actually he should've been credited as co-writer for 'Something' since he wrote some of the lyrics, as did John, came up with the killer bassline and sang the incredible harmony vocal as he did in almost 90% of George's songs.
@@ndlouder Oh yeah?
Why aren't you crediting John Lennon as co-writer of Pauly's supposed classics?
I'm sure you're of the opinion that Paul wrote 100% of his songs!
His songs were CO-WRITTEN with JOHN LENNON!
I'll bet if you were to cite your favourite "Paul McCartney" songs you'd include mainly Beatles songs a a couple of his solo songs.
@@raulmacias6146 what exactly are you trying to say?
Frank Sinatra said that Something is one of the greatest songs of the past 50 years, or something to that effect.
@@raulmacias6146 Which ones? Yesterday, Let It Be, Hey Jude, Michelle, The Long And Winding Road, Penny Lane, Blackbird, Here There and Everywhere, The Fool On The Hill, For No One... - this is McCartney only with no input at all from Lennon. What are you saying??
"My one and only love" was written by Guy Wood(1911-2001) To be honest: I never heard of this song and its writer.And,with 62,heard some music of all genres
Beautiful boy-John Lennon
My one and only love-Robert Mellin Guy wood
Fields of gold-Sting
Just the way you are-Billy Joel
God only knows-Beach boys
3:31 I think we could all have a guess why it didn't happen and we would probably be right.
I wish id written Songs written by Lennon, Gibb Brothers, Bryan Wilson, Bjorn and Benny of Abba, Roland Orzabal and Sting
Good choices.
I wish I had written Eleanor Rigby
ONE of the amazing things about that tune is that it is only a 2 chord song.
Tell any musician that Eleanor Rigby is only a 2 chord song and they won't believe you until they work it out themselves.
What song is played in the beginning of the video?
[ 1:13 ] oh, yeah -- Gary Busey produced that album -- how could we forget?
I read somewhere that there were one or two compositions by Raymond Douglas Davies, that he wished he written, See My Friends was one
You missed one. He also has stated he would have liked to have written 'The Very Thought of You' a beautiful standard by Ray Noble. He said this on Larry King. Paul sang with Tony Bennett on a cover of the song.
Sung perfectly by Nat King Cole.
I have a memory of somewhere hearing that Paul said his favorite song from the 1960s was Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale."
Yes, I have a memory of that as well, he mentioned it in the late 60's.
Needs to be longer.
In an interview from the 90s Paul said he wished he had written I Love You Just the Way You Are by Billy Joel.
Allegedly, "See My Friends" by Ray Davies.
I’m fairly sure he said he wished he had written Saturday night sung by Whigfield, another classic.
God only knows is a beautiful song.
Fabulous arrangement and production by Brian.
Played perfectly by the Wrecking Crew.
And beautifully sung by Carl.
The lyrics too are nice until the part where he sings. . . "If you should ever leave me. Though life would go on, believe me. The world could show nothing to me. So, what good would living do me?"
Or, to put it another way, he's like that psycho girlfriend you still have nightmares about, who cried, "If you ever leave me - I'll kill myself!"
Sheesh! 😆
I guess you would have Alanis Morissette arrested for singing
"Does she know how you told me You'd hold me until you died ♪
but you're still alive!!!" ♫
or Elvis
"I'd rather see you dead little girl ♫ than to see you with another man"
Its a song and if you never felt like someone never being around anymore was going to Really suck, good for you, sociopath.
Brian has always had psychological issues and has been very open about it. His wife did leave him, but he did recover, mainly due to his next wife.
@@streamofconsciousness5826 And "Badfinger" and Mariah Carey for, respectiverly, writing and covering "Without You" :)
I see what you’re saying, but these lyrics have always landed different for me. I feel the singer is talking to himself, journaling out loud not necessarily to his love….plus Carl’s ethereal gentle delivery drives home not a threat, but just the sad truth of the limitations on what life can offer him without his love by his side as a conduit to experience full beauty within his years. Less of a threat and more of a requiem on what’s lost without her in his life.
Remember, Brian didn't write the words to this song, Tony Asher did.
It's extraordinary that in the discussion of God Only Knows they couldn't find time to mention Tony Asher, its lyricist.
He also said on Colbert show that he would have liked to have written 'Cheek to Cheek'.
I think there was an interview where he mentions Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel
" Bridge Of Sighs " 🎸✨✨✨✨🏅
Paul forgot a couple of CLASSICS...
"My Sharona"
"Saturday night's alright for fighting"
"Fool if you think it's over"
"I lke dreamin'"
I always thought that Billy Joel's song, "Don't Ask Me Why," "Steppin' Out" by Joe Jackson, and "Don't Answer Me" by The Alan Parsons Project are very McCartneyesque too. I think Paul would love to have written those as well.
Alan Parsons was one of the people that was on the rooftop for that last session for the public.
It`s many songs i wishes i wrote like:Jumping Jack Flash,Gimmie Shelter,(I can’t Get No) Satisfaction,American Pie,Brown Sugar,Monkey Man,2000 lightyears from home,Anti-Hero,Bejeweled,August,Betty,I`ll Feel Whole Lot Better,Picture To Burn,Vær Glad i Den Nasen Du Har,Heart Of Stone,Don`t Look Back in Anger,Morning Glory,Beetlebum,Song 2,This Is My Life,Joanna,Papirsklip,Remedy,D`You Know What i Mean,Fiskarlåt
Michelle...John wrote parts of them... Imagine and In My Life: John wrote them all !!!
I wish I'd written She's Leaving Home.
God bless Paul Mc Cartney.
Paul's next solo album should be these songs and others he loves.
He had mentioned Neil Finn as one of his favorite songwriters, I wonder which of his songs moved him to say that.
George Santos told me that he wrote those songs. Oh Georgie.
Lmao!
He says he was actually the 5th Beatle. I guess he was known as 'the lying one'.
Yoko Ono probably owns the rights to all of Johns solo music and wouldn’t let Paul use it for Broadstreet . That’s my theory .
Agreed.
I heard him say in two or three interviews that he wished that he wrote Just theWay You Are by Billy Joel.
God only knows ; Fields of Gold ; My one and only love ; Beautiful Boy.
Whata the song at the start?
It is called "Jet".
All four a particularly beautiful love songs. I certainly agree with the first two ("God only Knows" and "Fields of Gold"), however I'd put "For No One" in there - which he can't do.
For no one WAS written by Paul.
@@sureshmukhi2316 Exactly - and IMO it's the best love song ever written, and maybe Paul thinks so also... but he can't include it in this list, which means the list is, IMO, incomplete.
@@stephenhosking7384 this list is about songs Paul McCartney wishes he had written. For No One was written by Paul so it does not fit the category of this list.
He once mentioned he wished he had done Bridge Over Trouble Water
An artist is never satisfied with their own work.
Why no Moon River?
Paul likes a good love song…
I’m sure he once said slide away by oasis is one of the greatest love songs ever written
God Only Knows is a song every songwriter wishes they wrote. Try writing a song thats not in any key; not that it changes keys, but that it is ambiguous in its chord structure and melody. There has never been another pop hit that has done that.