Analysing Paul McCartney's greatest solo track
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- Опубліковано 7 гру 2022
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Band On The Run, the track and album, are widely considered to be a highlight of Paul McCartney's solo career. With Band On The Run, Paul once again reached the heights of songwriting and creativity that he had been working at during The Beatles finest years. In this video I'm taking a closer look at how this masterpiece of a song has been put together.
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Is that really Paul? Oh my goodness! ❤️
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Sponsored by Capitol Records / Paul McCartney. Absolute achievement for a man who gets memed for talking about The Beatles all the time.
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@@DavidBennettPiano Surely that's Radiohead :D
@@DavidBennettPiano David, in my book, you can talk about the Beatles for as long and as much as you want. Carry on!
He loves Radiohead too
While I'm happy he has great sponsors and he must be proud of having been selected by Macca's record company, it does make me wonder if Band on the run really IS Mr Bennett's favourite Macca solo track. I would have expected him to go for a slightly more obscure album track like, Junk (1970), Mistress and Maid (1993) or Distractions (1989).
For me “Maybe I’m Amazed” is one of his best song ever, Beatles era included
Brilliant song, surprisingly underrated.
Agreed, and I think it's his best vocal performance, along with the the abbey road medley
And if you play it backwards you get a recipe for a really ripping lentil soup!
@@SoleaGalilei Damn I was 11 minutes too late to comment this
I actually clicked on this video thinking it was going to be about "Maybe I'm Amazed".
I know Paul had a lot of well-known songs as a solo artist, but that one is always the first one that I think of. It always stood out to me as one of his best tracks, in the same league as "Let It Be" or "Yesterday".
"Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" was another song where McCartney used divergent sections to create a song that took the listener from one place to another. The Abbey Road medley is his masterpiece of this type.
I'm a lifelong Beatles nut but only in my 30's, but as a musician I've had countless older dudes talk about how everybody at the time was blown away by Uncle Albert and how outrageous it sounded at the time. It's such a niche song today but it's a banger.
Good choice. Paul's solo stuff has so many great tunes. Patchy at times but so many great and underrated tunes and such variety.
Also Morse Moose from London Town
Very good, but simplicity also is very hard to achieve as he did with "Junk".
Glad this was the top comment, my favourite paul song
So cool to see you getting sponsored by Paul McCartney’s records so you can actually use the song in the video and work with them at the same time
Let’s not forget that a lot of Paul’s early solo work was initially dismissed by critics, only for younger reviewers to go back and give glowing assessments of albums initially panned.
Legend has it that a teenager picked up the album Rubber Soul in a music store and said to her friend, "Look, Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings..."
Yes, that happened somewhere around 1975 and has been happening since. Kids aren't dumb, they just don't care about our music because their music is what matters to them, just like ours does to us. It's been happening since the beginning of time. Get over it.
That is NOT legend lol. It happened everywhere. In college way back when, I was in a record store with a friend and he and I laughed, we had the same experience... Young kid: "I didn't know Paul was in a band before Wings." "IN" a band? Yeh right... Wings let him in the band after the Beatles tossed him out...right...and Mick Jagger was a busboy in the Queen's kitchen before he was in a band...
only goes to show that Wings were a major act on their own in the 70s.. Also - I'm not sure as I was only born in the late 80s, but I've heard that sometime in the mid-70s, The Beatles were not a very celebrated band (as in, their songs weren't played on the radio as much as we might nowadays imagine), as the focus were on the contemporary rock giants and whatever came afterwards: punk, disco, new wave - and that lasted until a revival of Beatles' popularity came sometime in the 80s (I would imagine, after Lennon's death). Don't know if that's true?
@@russellszabadosaka5-pindin849 yeah, I guess after the (shitty, in my opinion) song with Kanye West and Rihanna was released, I believe many kids were like: 'it's nice that Kanye gave a chance to this totally unknown guy and let him collaborate on a song' xd what can you do
True story. I have a friend who heard someone, obviously younger, actually say that.
Paul's musical talent is just incomparable. There's no one else who has shown such creativity, ingenuity and brought joy to so many people for 60 years.
thank you for this video it was super interesting and Band on the Run is one of my favorite solo Paul songs!
Not gonna lie, I wish you'd analyse more Paul songs, I'd so be here for it!
The only other songwriter that can come close is Barry gibb as he also has an amazing length and list of songs, but I give the nod to paul as number one
@@jckhammer Billy Joel may be BETTER than Mcartney, as far as a solo career is concerned. Pauls lyrics were often very average at best. Billy Joel was able to write dozens of big hit songs with great melodies, chord structures and great lyrics.
I was pretty sure it was going to be 'Maybe I'm Amazed' when I clicked this video. That is genuinely one of the best songs ever written, including the Beatles discography.
Great song because he was still under the influence of Lennon and George Martin.
Of course his best work post-Beatles is MAYBE IM AMAZED. David is wrong here.
@@douglasj.arcuri1370 So you feel the same about All Things Must Pass? George had one good album because he was under the influence of his time with McCartney, Lennon and Martin.
@@relicofgold But Maybe I'm Amazed was written while Paul was still in the Beatles. David here is only including songs Paul wrote outside of the Beatles influence.
@@FuzcappMaybe I’m Amazed was not written while Paul was in the Beatles. He may have publicly still been in the Beatles, but the song was written as a result of the private break up and his feelings towards Linda for helping him out of the depression
To me more than only this one song are on the same level as his Beatles tunes: In the Back Seat of My Car, Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey, Jet, Bluebird, Waterfalls, Dress Me Up As a Robber, Let'Em In, Live and Let Die, Arrow Through Me, Another Day, Junk, Temporary Secretary, Getting Closer, Goodnight Tonight - so many gems
Great selection!
I really like Coming Up and Silly Love Songs too.
All amazing songs, I agree
@@danielebowman thanks!
@@tlam3309 yeah agree, both are awesome songs. Also Listen to What the Man Said is kind of in the same category for me, and probably several others.
When Paul played this at the Glastonbury festival this past June, and pulled Dave Grohl (still grieving over the loss of Taylor Hawkins) on stage with him to perform... It still makes me tear up.
Edit: here's the link to that performance, to those who haven't seen it. ua-cam.com/video/PCZuCgyqLDs/v-deo.html
I don't know what. What?
@@peterclarke7240 I wouldn’t even ask, usual conspiracy theory nonsense no doubt. The internet is so full of toxic rubbish and armies of idiots that believe that rubbish.
Dave Grohl used to be in the Beatles. He became the drummer after Ringo Starr shot himself.
Thanks for sharing that link. Great live quality. 👍
Congratulations on your illustrious, and well deserved sponsorship. Band on the Run is a chapter out of my high school years. We played it to death when it was released.
Me too, my girlfriend and I wore it out so to speak in the back seat of my car in high school, now married for 47 years and still kicking it. The 70's were golden for Paul.
As a little kid in these seventies when my mom would often play Beatles albums Most of my favorite songs were Paul's even before I understood that. From Paperbac Writer to For No One to Let Em In to Another Day His writing style has always hit me just right.
Band on the run with his group Wings is one of his greatest albums. But another of his great achievements has to be his big hit 'Mull of Kintyre' imo. The use of bagpipes in this hit single really stands out as one of his greatest compositions wrote in collaboration with Denny Lane of Wings. A massive hit here in the UK.
McCartney wrote so many great songs after the Beatles. John was a great rocker, and also capable of creating wonderful, meditative moods. But Paul just had that melodic and harmonic sense combined with felicity of composition.
I think Paul only got better.
I think Macca does it/did it all- instinctively. He's plugged into a musical muses wavelength. Just a genius.
Yep think so too
It's the only explanation !
One additional thing I love about this is how at the end of "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five" at the very end of the album you get a short reprise of section three of Band on the Run, tying the whole album together and reassuring you that "in the town they're searching for them everywhere, but they never will be found!".
He sort of did that before with the Sgt Pepper album, just before A Day in the Life, the reprise...Lennon liked Picasso's Last Words and said so in an interview at the time of the album's release.
Unpopular opinion: 1985 is McCartney's best on BOTR. Although title track is close second and iconic
@@justsomecheddarcheese8545 I actually almost agree! I would just swap the two, but I think it's really, really good.
Band on the run was brilliant.
I was a very young musician in the early 70's and grew up on Beatles and Wings. The Band on the run album is an absolute classic, pure music for it's own sake. Venus and Mars hit another level, and the touching "Treat her gently-lonely old people" is a tender insightful masterpiece. Add in Jimmy's "Medicine jar", and you have the typical contrast of emotions that McCartney eschews, going back as far as Golden Slumbers which is in very much the same vein, and pulls the listener in multiple directions. Just brilliant.
You and I are in the same age group and musicians. I get that...
Man, I love Dear Boy and Heart of the Country. Ram is a masterpiece
Exactly. I think it’s easily up there w some Beatles albums.
Little Willow, Cage, Every Night, Getting Closer, Uncle Albert, Beautiful Night, Wild Life, so many to mention. Thank you Paul for the music ❤️
Back Seat of My Car is his best solo song by far.
Definitely the most Beatles-esque of his solo efforts, and a great story behind the producing of the album: his band quitting on him before production, getting mugged, and trying to scrape together an album with a lady he had recently taught how to play piano.
Hell yeah, man. God-tier sponsorship and excellent video!
I guess McCartney has a slew of songs in this 'suite' style of his; You Never Give Me Your Money is outstanding too. And the way (via keys) the B side tracks run into each other is clever - eg, Ddim is really an E7, neatly leading into Amin7 at the start of Never Give Your Money. Also, a proud owner of a 1963 Hofner bass personally autographed by McCartney.
I want that Bass !
If it was one he played, your retirement is set. Still going to be worth a lot when we sadly lose him.
Always thought this was one of Sir Paul's best tracks. Thanks for the analysis!
Ram is my favourite post Beatles McCartney album.
Paul McCartney has created (and collaborated on) NUMEROUS musical masterpieces. He really has this knack for producing pieces that touch the heart, too. Many gloomy days have been brightened up by that man's music, God love him...
Ooh, I love these videos because they give me a chance to appreciate songs on a much deeper level. congratulations on this extra special sponsor!!!
Absolutely agree. It’s a masterpiece.
I think "My Brave Face" is pretty much always overlooked and therefore underrated.
Same! I really like that song. For me it's definitely one of the best songs on the album along with Put It There of course (so cute).
I also liked We Got Married
I find overall the album to be ehh but my brave face was a breath of fresh air for paul in 1989 sad it was his last solo top 40 hit brilliant stuff came after
true! great song
Yes...
Paul’s Best Solo song isn’t Band On The Run, but it is on the album of the same name. Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five.
Hugely underrated that.
The fact that Jet and Let Me Roll It are also contenders shows the greatness of the album.
It's probably my favourite song of all time so I should agree but I think songs like Band On the Run, Uncle Albert or Live and Let Die are more interesting for a songwriter or a musicologist...
@@tonybates7870 that's true! I also absolutely love Bluebird from the same album. No Words is also great, sounds a bit like a George Harrison song
Live and Let Die also really good
Nice to see a publisher embracing the opportunity presented by the talent on UA-cam (like David Bennett) rather than thwarting it. Kudos, Mr. Bennett! Also nice to see Paul with his Rick in the closing clip rather than the fanboy Hohner. It was refreshing. That really punctuates the idea of Paul moving in his own direction at the time.
Silly Love Songs just blows me away. Just like so many of the Beatles songs that seem to be just simple songs yet there is a complexity in them that shines through the more you listen to them.
I'm old enough to remember when Band on the Run played on the radio almost non-stop. And my dad's 8-track of the album which we would listen to again and again on road trips! It is still my favourite Paul McCartney solo song.
Arrow Through Me is his best solo song. That tune is ridiculous. Honorable mentions include Uncle Albert, Another Day, Too Many People, Junior’s Farm, and Coming Up.
Back to the egg is a good album, listened to it more than Band on the run.
Meanwhile I totally agree that Band on the Run is great, I think McCartney and RAM are a bit overlooked. after being in the biggest band in the world Paul just went full solo, DIY, Lo fi with McCartney. It really shows his talent and creativity without him trying hard. lots of fun ideas, cool rhythms and grooves, great songwritings, jams. I can't say it's an ambitious record but he was trying something new and it's a fun, lighthearted, and a genuine album. personally it really inspired me and gave the courage to write and record all things on my own. and with RAM, this video by Elliot Roberts explained the best! ua-cam.com/video/CRZHvvYsc5w/v-deo.html
I day Ram was Abbey road part two. A work of art
Ram is one of the cleanest productions and, song-by-song , best written records I've ever heard. Mccartney's best album in my opinion. Dear Boy's background harmonies are an incredible achievement by themselves.
@@DCfromBC agree! Every songs fits the place it sits perfectly. And the first song opens the album perfectly! Glad to see it is highly regarded lately.
@@deansusec8745 hear, hear!
Personally I love Too Many People and can listen to it endlessly.
Amazing song and album, I'll always love the crazy story behind it's recording.
Finally some content on the Beatles' solo works. Great job!
Thank you, David!! Its a great analysis in all aspects!💥💯
Loved this! Your analysis is always so good! Please do more with Paul’s solo work.
Nicely done. Another great video. I think this box was sold out long prior to it's release date. Thank you for consistently high quality videos on interesting topics!
Hi David, Jenny Wren, from Chaos and creation in the backyard (2005, yes 35 years after the beatles!), could easily be from the Beatles era, but with the voice of a more matured mccartney... It is exceptional and surely amongst his best work!
Jenny Wren is excellent 😌
@@DavidBennettPiano just finished the video... Great video again! Thanks...
Yes it's perfect
'Little Willow' off Flaming Pie is another beautiful song in this vein from his later catalogue. Very simple but to me it would work well on White Album
I must say... learning that it was Linda that played that iconic synth line... wow! That synth line is so brilliantly played, with such good feel, that I had always assumed that it must have been played the genius Paul himself! Linda obviously had some major talent, not just as a photographer! (look at the photos in the (brilliant) McCartney album from 1970 for Linda's massive talent there!)
Note that I know that the line was probably composed by Paul... but it is played with such good natural feel!
I LOVE this song. The different musical styles in each section, plus the wonderful sense of freedom I feel listening to this song makes it one of my favorites. It's one I especially love playing while driving, preferably with the windows down. ❤️
I'm a beatles fan and didn't know any solo Paul McCartney songs until now. I have heard "Band on the run" a few times but didn't know it was Paul's song.
McCartney's solo and Wings career is from another planet of sublime songwriting diversity. Enjoy!!!
Maybe I'm Amazed and Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey are easily Beatles-tier tracks as well, in my opinion.
This song is so magical. I absolutely love Linda's synth part during the second section if the song where it slows down
Absolutely love Band On The Run.... One of the first albums I ever bought. The song is amazing. I know nothing about music theory; I just know the song sounds great! McCartney, it goes without saying, is a genius.
I have been thinking about this song a lot recently. I was thinking of it in terms of themes - imprisoned, dreaming of freedom, escape or stuck, hope, escape, pursuit. There are many levels to it really in the musical sense and I love your ananlysis of it especially describing it as an episodic piece. The editing of your analysis and the integration of the sheet music is also excellent. A great production by you of this excellent song.
When this came out, we wore the record out. Great writing.
What's amazing is that Paul was robbed in Nigeria so he had to recall his tunes On 'Band on the Run' from memory to record them.
Thank you for your great videos. I’m old but my experience isn’t. I’ve learned so much from you with the way you present them.
I think I'd add Live And Let Die to the list; it is a tour de force. Congrats on the Sponsorship; you have a great channel and deserve it!
David is welcome to talk about the greatness of Paul McCartney and the Beatles forever more. It’s very moving to hear about such a young man, who loves absolutely loves both The Beatles and Sir Paul own solo stuff. This guy is an absolute credit to you tube, he loves all music, and is a magnificent composer himself. I wonder if he like classic Genesis, with Peter Gabriel, or is it only me
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I read the title of the video first and thought obviously Band On The Run. Then I actually look at the thumbnail, like, aw yeah, David did it again. Great work, brother.
Thank you once more for this thorough analysis. It really is an epic piece, which could be considered progressive rock. It's the same year as Dark Side of the Moon and Selling England by the Pound.
Love the bass on this great track. Thanks David for another interesting analysis.
I read somewhere that Paul is considered the greatest composer of the 20th century.
Can sound mind-blowing but the more you analyze the huge amount of masterpieces he has done, is actually believable
I loved this video. Paul is my favorite artist of all time and he doesn’t get the appreciation he deserves. ❤
What are you talking about.
@@theconfusionman7969 well he doesn’t I truly think that
@@kaitlyng8968 he's one of the most well known and appreciated musicians in the world
@@theconfusionman7969he doesn’t get the respect he deserves for his solo career and how he continued to innovate after the Beatles
Your analysis of music is so helpful to me. I'm a big Beatles fan, constantly trying to play their songs on the piano and to see the breakdown of any piece of music is always enlightening. I've always favored Paul's song writing as a Beatle, but never really actively listened to his post-Beatles music. I have a new perspective of Band on the Run. Can't wait to try all those chords and chord changes. Can I stretch my short fat fingers around them? 🤷♀🤷♀🤣🤣
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I've always heard this one as chronicling Paul's escape from the Beatles and rejuvenation with Wings.
Ooops late to another stellar release - so so so so so happy and hyped that you are being sponsored by Macca himself!! I hope his team let you use longer clips on many more videos - and I hope you’re enjoying your limited edition box!!!!
There are so many. Just in the 70's my top tracks are: Maybe I'm Amazed, Band on the Run, Live and Let Die, Dear Boy, and The back seat of my car. Real masterpieces.
Let Me Roll It is no doubt my favourite on the album followed by the title track and Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five.
For me, "Jet" is the clear highlight of a great album that has zero weak points. Also the string orchestration of "PIcasso's Last Words."
1985... is brilliant.
Totally agree. Let Me Roll With It is such a rock song. That dirty guitar lick is as good as anything Lennon ever played.
Very interesting video, thank you for this upload.
Thanks so much for this mate. Paul McCarthy's way of writing like this was just brilliant. Uncle Albert was very similar with a 3 stage structure. Wings where a great band. Loved Paul's music post Beatles. Beatles brilliant too of course.
Wow! Thank you for your hard Work!
Brilliant analysis David.
I remember watching The Beatles as a 9, 10 year old on the b/w telly and noticing that one of them was holding his guitar 'the wrong way round', because, of course, he was left-handed. ...Like me!! They sounded great and Paul was my favourite, of course, and I'm watching and listening and thinking, "I want to do that!" Inspired by Paul, I got my first acoustic guitar for my 11th birthday. My Mum & Dad strung it left-handed for me, that night. They knew nothing about guitars, but they managed to figure it out. It was absolute murder to play, but I was going to play, one way or another. Well, I'm 63 now and that was over 50 years ago now and I've had a life full of music; being in various bands, teaching to youth groups and now still playing and teaching privately. I truly believe that Paul McCartney is probably the most prolific songwriter, ever. He's still doing it. Not for the money, but because he has a genuine love of the music; a love which I have also shared, my whole life! Thanks Paul, for the inspiration!
I love this song, definitely my favourite from McCartney's solo career!
I think the purpose and culmination of Paul's life's work crescendo's to his masterpiece and greatest song ever, Temporary Secretary
Idk if you're joking ;) but yeah it's a great song
Modal interchange!! I knew there was a name for using chords from the relative minor and vice versa, but I could never remember it. Thank you!
By the by, I absolutely love your work David. As a teacher I find your explanations clear, brilliantly visual and accessible, with no temptation of veering off into a wacky UA-camr style.
Keep up the astoundingly interesting and entertaining work 😊
Brian Wilson had some great modal changes ...the great ones do it and you hardly notice it .
Penny lane has a modal change and it's just genius
Backseat Of My Car is probably one of his most underrated track ever. It's such a beautiful track and a perfect closer to Ram.
Ram was a great album.
@@gleanerman2195my favourite of his
I spend years trying to understand the complexities of something that Macca did by force of nature. It’s not fair!! Thanks Paul❤. You’ve given us so much.
i was really hoping this was going to be an elaborate setup for a video about "Wonderful Christmas Time"
People knew in the 1960s... that a lot of the Beatles songs were primarily by John or Paul. This was well known before they broke up.
McCartney wrote classic hits in his first solo LP (before the last Beatles album was even released). "Maybe I'm Amazed", "Every Night" and "Junk" are all great tracks... and the first two could have easily been big hit singles - had they been released as singles. Paul's first released singe ("Another Day") was #1 in Australia, Ireland and Spain. It was #2 in the UK, #3 in Denmark and Norway, #4 in Canada, #5 in the US, #6 in Germany and Japan. His second single ("Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey") was #1 in the US, Canada and New Zealand.
His first album ("McCartney") was #1 in the US for 3 weeks - and would have been #1 for 7 weeks - except The Beatles "Let It Be" album knocked it into the #2 spot for the next 4 weeks. It was also #1 in Canada... and was #2 in the UK, Norway and Sweden; #3 in Australia, Denmark and the Netherlands, #4 in France and Spain. His second album ("Ram") was #1 in the UK, Canada, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, #2 in the US, #3 in Australia. His third album ("Wild Life") was #2 in Spain, #3 in Australia and Sweden, #4 in Norway, #5 in Canada, #6 in Denmark. His fourth album ("Red Rose Speedway") was #1 in the US, Australia and Spain, #2 in Canada, Denmark and Sweden, #3 in Belgium, #4 in Norway, #5 in the UK.
So... while critics may have panned a lot of his early solo efforts - McCartney had GREAT record chart success and great record sales of his albums and singles... right from the start.
Wow, I’m happy for you! I’d really like you to interview Paul one day.
I’m 52 this came out when I was 4 and this track is my All Time Favorite Song.
What a brilliant analysis! Very much appreciated. In terms of the 'multi-movement' style of song, we know that The Beatles did quite a bit of this e.g. Day in the Life; You Never Give Me Your Money - a multi-movement song within the medley, and Paul continued to employ this style solo with numbers like Live and Let Die and Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey. I know this approach has been used since Paul/The Beatles - Sting and Big Country for instance. But I'd be curious to know if anyone was doing this multi-movement style in pop/rock music *before* The Beatles...
A deeply satisfying tune to jam along to
Congrats on the sponsor, your videos are awesome
I've just been learning more about note borrowing and chord borrowing in my theory study. That flat 6 is so frickin' effective for injecting poignancy into an otherwise major melody, and there are lots of cool harmonization options (e.g. iv, ivdim, iidim). Just playing around with a simple melody walking up from the C to the G, then going to the Ab (in the key of C), and chords going from the tonic to one of those options, really charged my brain. Cool stuff. And of course, I log onto UA-cam and see David Bennett covering the same thing.
That 2nd section is the greatest thing any of the Beatles have ever written. I don’t know what it is because it makes me lose my mind, it’s so good.
Honestly, he may have as many great solo songs as he does songs with the Beatles. But part of the reason artists are artists is because they have insecurities like everyone else, but they're just able to write about them better and set them to music.
"Ram" hit #1 in the UK and Canada and #2 in the US. It was a very successful album, though some critics at the time didn't like it, it seems. But the public loved it. (And we still do.) There's not a weak song on the entire album. Which is amazing, if you think about it, because The Beatles had three songwriters. But Paul carried all of Ram (and Band On The Run, of course) by himself.
Man, I'm really happy you got this sponsor.
Edit: I hope someday you touch on "This One", by Paul, an underrated song imho.
This came out when I was 13. I like the bass next to that Linda line. It has always been an emotionally affecting song for me. I am always excited to hear it and don't want it to end.
I have always thought his first two albums were great, and they also are emotional for me.
Brilliant song and LP! ❤
Same thing with Backseat of my car. Amazing stuff, this Paul
I see Paul, I click.
A great video for a truly brilliant song! Thank you! If you would like to do more songs of Sir Paul, it would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you 😊
Paul McCartney is music incarnate. I love him 🙏
Coming Up, Calico Sky, Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time, New… Paul has been on top of his songwriting game for decades after The Beatles ended! My favorite living musician.
Stunning analyses of such an interesting, complex and beautiful piece/story/song 🙏 off to see him on Wednesday night in Adelaide 18/10/23
I just love the man and his music.
Agreed. Well said. Cheers.
I forgot how good this song is!! Damn
Love the way he says 'excape' !
I have this album on vinyl and it should really listen to it again!
The opening of the third section for me is really what makes this something that raises this to the level of the Beatles.
I was pondering this basic question while listening to the singles today in my car. I realized, if you mentally remove "The Beatles" as a backdrop standard, most every solo McCartney single and b-side are amazing feats of melody, instrumentation, and production - and few come close to the range of styles and personal experimentation he routinely displays. While "Here, There and Everywhere" will possibly always be my favorite song ever, he does come close to that song's universality from time to time - "Pipes of Peace", "Little Willow", "Calico Skies", "Put it There", "Listen to What the Man Said", "Silly Love Songs"... on and on. Paul was writing "classic timeless music" before "Band on the Run", people just weren't ready to listen to it without the Beatles baggage in the mix. Right out of the gate, "That Would be Something", "Every Night", "Junk", "Man We Was Lonely", and of course "Maybe I'm Amazed" all could easily stand alongside his Beatles songs. It wouldn't be until "Unplugged" that a wide audience would come to appreciate many of those tracks.
Now if Paul would only have Hamish Stuart to come round and finish off "Is it Raining in London?" Angelo Badalamenti deserves his work scoring that track to be heard, may he rest in peace.