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Just passed Glastonbury Music Festival , Paul McCartney (Paul McCartney ) took the stage. "When we play Beatles , your phone will light up and turn into a galaxy with twinkling stars. When singing a new song, I feel like staring at a black hole."
In the long years after the Beatles disbanded, Paul McCartney faced such a stage and reality. In the first half, McCartney sang Wings and his personal works - "Junior’s Farm", "Nineteen Hundred", "Eighty-Five", "Letting Go", "Fuh You"... The stars in the audience often close their eyes. In the second half, the Beatles' music started, "Let It Be", "Live and Let Die", and "Hey Jude", and the stars were surging. The big screen enlarged the fan-like smile of Bruce Springsteen (Bruce Springsteen). The rock star of the 1970s showed an expression of not believing in her good luck when she sang "Glory Days" and "I Wanna Be Your Man" with her predecessors.
Paul McCartney and bruce springsteen . Source: "Guardian " Joel C Ryan
John Lennon (John Lennon)'s young voice was extracted and he sang a song "I’ve Got a Feeling" with McCartney. One of them is frozen in eternal youth with bullets, and the other is naturally aged. The former received the highest praise and deepest nostalgia, while part of the latter was also confined to the past by the eyes of others.
That night, McCartney sang a total of 38 songs, which lasted until midnight. He lingers in the backstage party until three in the morning, and he is really strong for an eighty-year-old. As usual, it's still the end of "The End". Here is the lyrics of Lennon 's favorite McCartney, "In the end, you can take as much love as you give."
The Beatles are one of the most beautiful incarnations of youth and friendship. McCartney and Lennon have written so many songs together. They wrote those songs word by word, word by word, knees against knees, heads against heads. Their parting ways is a trauma for more than a generation. And for McCartney, the pain of separation never left him. Last year he also told The New Yorker: "It's not just a job. It's obvious that we once had more than a job. It's the Beatles, it's music and musical life, and it's my good partner." His daughter, designer Stella McCartney, remembers, "A large part of our childhood was to accompany dad to recover from the pain of breaking up."
If Lennon is a god, he is not a generous and open-minded god. After the breakup, he made a big statement about his contribution to the band, squeezing McCartney's presence. Lennon's death in 1980 reinforced this impression and made it a fact. "Martin Luther Lennon", the good-tempered McCartney once said this angrily. After 2002, people discovered that some of the songs they collaborated on were changed to "McCartney-Lennon". It is conceivable that the picture will not look good. It turns out that he is a little stingy to become a star, jazz, and respected old artist...
1997 Paul McCartney was named a lower-level jazz for his contribution to music, Alan Partridge's sentence "Wings are the band that the Beatles could have been", which attracted loud laughter from the audience.
But things have changed in 2022. The epidemic, war and economic recession have brought about a global nostalgia trend. The future is unpredictable, so the old ones are mostly good. People realize that the old cultural giants will not exist forever, although they look like they will live forever.
People's perception of rock music has also changed. We still love the "young people" who are troubled and enter heaven early, and have begun to understand how to appreciate the old and become stronger. Starting from the young rebels, we have picked up wisdom and tolerance on the journey. In his book Dreaming the Beatles, senior music journalist and critic Rob Sheffield described Paul McCartney as "surprisingly untreated by life." This kind of unpopular trait, which was once unpopular, looks like a diamond today.
By the way, in this year's Gristonbury, Billie Eilish (Billie Eilish) has also come, becoming the youngest finale artist in Gristonbury's history. The temperament (or rules) of this music festival are also changing. In the past, popular pop singers like Eilish rarely appeared in Gristonbury, and would not get the finale. But this year she came, singing subtle and light songs, and didn't try to heat up the atmosphere at all. Many people in the audience listened quietly, not shouting or leaving until the end.
McCartney's way of loving her is much more normal than Lennon's ultimate love. After his first wife, Linda Eastman, died of breast cancer in 1998, he said he had "cried intermittently for a year." Linda was his close girlfriend when she was young. In last year's documentary "The Beatles: Get Back", Linda and Yuko Ono chatted with . Until her death, McCartney and Eastman had only one week night together. That week, McCartney was in prison in Japan for possession of marijuana. He is the father of three biological children, Mary, Stella, James and stepdaughter Heisel, a love ashore prodigal son and a good husband.
"The Beatles: Get Back" is a six-hour blockbuster film, filming three weeks before the completion of the last studio album "Get Back" of the Beatles in 1969. They only had three weeks to create and record, and their original ideas were overturned. The premonition of breaking up has been formed and the atmosphere is dim, but this video finds out from the old material that is not entirely such a proof.
There are still some happy clips: Lennon and McCartney sang the harmony of "Two of Us", their eyes met; McCartney's six-year-old daughter Heather screamed in the microphone, and Lennon shouted happily "Yoko!"; McCartney played bass casually, singing randomly, and the gradually formed rhythm and melody merged into "Get Back".
did not quickly have it at the beginning of rehearsal, but as the creation progressed, they were melted by music and love. Their conversations are stuffed with the creative process, and the content is extensive - music, the history of Liverpool and hamburger , what to eat for lunch (one of Harrison's favorites is "big and fresh complete mushrooms", those endless hangovers. They talked about the TV show the night before, from science fiction dramas to political news.
can be clearly seen that Paul McCartney is the main promoter of progress. The other three members have time to wander, only McCartney is always devoted. It was his writing of the prototype of music that made others believe that the band has a reason to continue. He sat in front of the piano and led the band to follow the seemingly vague melody, like a rainbow chasing man, and came to Let It Be》's giant wheel in front of the rainbow.
He is the driving force of the band, forcing everyone to make progress. It can also be said that Paul McCartney knows better than others how precious what they have.
Paul McCartney
Born in Irish immigrant family in 1942, Paul McCartney was the first generation to benefit from the " Butler Education Law " issued by the British government in 1944. He is also a new generation of immigrant descendants who got rid of the influence of small Irish society after the war and embraced the new prosperity of England. McCartney's parents did their best to get the best education for the two boys in the family. As a cotton salesman, the father was sensitive to words, obsessed with scrabbling, and passed on this passion to his son. Little McCartney also loved to find difficult words and enjoyed the pleasure of blood coagulation when he found it. He and Yeats (William Butler Yeats) is also interested in the theme of masks and personality. "The various characters appearing in the song are fictional, the key is the imagination of the characters."
The English teacher who graduated from Downing College of Oxford opened the door to literature for him and was the most important mentor in McCartney's student days. The other mentors are various pop music and radio programs.Little Richard and Chuck Berry, Brill Building and Tin Pan Alley. His earliest idol was Buddy Holly, "He wrote and sang himself, and played the guitar himself."
The mother died at the age of 14, and the cause of death was also breast cancer like Linda. He remembered that his father's reaction to his loss of his wife was completely different from his. His father insisted not to cry in front of the child, and locked in the room and made the sound of animal crying like wounds. Losing a mother at a young age is a shared experience between McCartney and John Lennon.
In 1957, McCartney joined Lennon's "The Quarrymen". Three years later, the band was born into the Beatles. They made their mark in Hamburg and published "Love Me Do" in January 1962. The following seven years were like rockets soaring, and each day was closer to the brilliant galaxy than yesterday. On an Greek holiday in 1963, McCartney realized one thing: maybe the rest of his life will be surrounded by fame. He told himself: It is still time to look back now, otherwise he would have to accept fame and all its vassals. Since it was impossible to give up the band, he actually had no choice.
Paul McCartney has no habit of writing a diary and has no intention of publishing an autobiography. But he does have a habit of recording life - writing lyrics. The two-volume new book "The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present" published last year contains 154 lyrics by McCartney, which is an important part of his life. The content of the book
is divided into two parts: the lyrics themselves arranged in alphabetical order, and the words he and the poet Paul Muldoon have extracted in five years and 24 formal conversations. The two met in New York, each time lasting about 2-3 hours, enough to discuss 6-8 lyrics. Each lyrics are accompanied by a comment from Maldon. If Malden pointed out to McCartney that She Loves You has the shadow of the novel The Go-Between (L.P. Hartley), he would happily admit that he was indeed influenced by it. He would let himself wander back to Liverpool's childhood: on a small indirect call under the stairs, he was sent to the street by his dad to collect cow dung and grow roses, and watch "Boostsie and Snudge" (Matty Feldman's comedy work)...
McCartney has a talent - he can write lyrics everywhere. From lovers to climate change, race issues, a dog or a car, anything can become a lyric.
In addition to his complex emotions towards Lennon, he is a gentle and atmospheric person. He and Linda run the estate, advocate vegetarianism, and rarely refuse creative activities related to charity - records or concerts. He treats people kindly and always restrains his smart, weird and straightforward side in front of others.
This personality trait is also reflected in his works. Lennon likes to write songs in the first person, and McCartney is more interested in others. He was like a little boy, amazed by the miracles that happened in life every moment.
"Hey Jude" is like a song after reading thousands of sails, but it is indeed this young man who gave the world the warmest blessing. Incredible, "When I’m Sixty-Four" is his work from his teenage years. On a street called "Penny Lane", there is a barber, a banker, a firefighter, a nurse, a bunch of children, and there are very little anxiety. As far as the camera reaches, life is all about happiness.
"Eleanor Rigby" is one of my favorite Beatles. "Lonely people/Where do they come from?/Lonely people/Where will they return?" These two lines of song are like stars sliding across the night sky. Knowing the birth and ending of the stars, they still can't help but think a lot. At any unexpected moment, this song will jump out and step on the lonely nerve. Lennon's humor is thorny and mysterious, and McCartney calmly lures you into a lively world that is shoulder to shoulder. The lonely air passes through the crowd, please open your eyes and open every pore to feel it.
Paul McCartney can do anything well.Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan) said that he "has the talent for writing melody, has a good sense of rhythm, can play any instrument, and is not worse than anyone else's screaming and roaring... This person does nothing without any effort" and has no weakness.
The Beatles are so brilliant that they make the post-Beatles era extremely long. Although he was Paul McCartney, his later music was still shrouded in the clouds of his former reputation. More famous are: the first solo album of the same name, "McCartney" (1970); "Band on the Run" during the "Wings" period; "McCartney II" (1980) in synthesizer experiments.
Local time on April 21, 2022, Los Angeles, California, USA, Paul McCartney rehearsed for the tour, and he had lunch on the street halfway.
Below are ten "Best Post-Beatles Era Songs" selected by the Guardian. Listen to what sound McCartney, who left the Beatles, made.
10. "Here Today" (1982)
It sounds like the echo of the sixties. The acoustic guitar and tightly stringed music seemed to open their sleepy eyes and reappear. The lyrics are reactions to Lennon's death. A manuscript photo shows that "I relieved my sadness" was cut off and changed to "I love you". Even so, McCartney was convinced that if the soul existed, Lennon would have laughed at their protracted sadness.
9. "Coming Up" (1980)
This low-fi-new wave-disco-style song became radio wave , Lennon was still alive. When he heard it on the radio for the first time, he blurted out: "* pig - this is Paul!" "Coming Up" comes from the album "McCartney II", an album that is completely different from the Beatles, with brighter colors and more modern temperament. Lennon liked the home studio versions more than the more popular live versions at the time. Time proved that he was right.
8. "Jenny Wren" (2005)
McCartney said: "This song is a conversation with "Blackbird". "The acoustic instrument and his singing sound were like a breeze blowing on his face, and his emotions swayed back and forth between hope and disappointment. The Duduk in the Solo part is like a weird mother-in-law, turning into a passage for wind. The whispering voices merged into it and finally lost their shape and left with the wind.
7. "Jet" (1973)
heavy rock, euphoria, never look back. "Jet" is an authentic "wings" song from "Band on the Run". Its name comes from a dog, embracing the new era of gorgeous rock . But after a moment of hesitation, he looked like a falcon with spreading wings, riding the air current of electric guitar .
6. "Live and Let Die" (1973)
He changed the magic of the "Abbey Road" period again, injecting surprise into a song. The reggae crossing the bridge just entered the single-person singing spotlight , and the rock composition immediately rolled in, creating the best waves. During the active period of live performance, McCartney made up his mind to write this powerful song, integrating rock stars and outlaws, and making sure to make people feel excited.
5. "Waterfalls" (1980)
McCartney regretted it and felt that this song should not be included in the electronic "McCartney II". It is best to match it with a complete orchestral compilation, so that this song that expresses his parents' wishes are brilliant. But this version is exactly the best expression of this mood. Gentle and full of love, a layer of electronic sound in the background dripping like dew dripping from the rock, short, uneasy and beautiful.
4. "Let Me Roll It" (1973)
may be a marijuana song, maybe not, why do you need to figure it out. This song is a subtle tribute to John Lennon's Plastic Ono, where the unusually bright guitar riff keeps appearing, constantly changing, like a genius with a slight stuttering. The human voice is a cloud in the sky, like a pegasus running by, never willing to form a cloud peak. Song's declaration: Life can be spent like this.
3. "The Back Seat of My Car" (1971)
This song by Paul and Linda appeared in "The Beatles: Return".I must be more than the only one thinking: Why is this song not included in the album? This is a song that coexists with subtlety and richness. The sudden switch between turning, pause, and high and low notes. The harmonious swing swings were very high and then jumped into the sky, and the stringed blue sky accepted it all. McCartney’s talent in writing melody is this sky.
2. "Band on the Run" (1973)
He used such a grand transition, which made people's mouths rise like the opening of the movie. The album of the same name that contains the song is seen as Paul and Linda's attempt to emerge from the Beatles and explore freedom and happiness.
1. "Maybe I’m Amazed" (1970)
The personal work that Paul McCartney most wants to be remembered is given to his newlywed wife Linda, and he also hidden the confusion of returning to a strange land from the clouds after the Beatles disbanded. Bob Dylan is right, McCartney can roar, not like Paul McCartney at all. The mood of this song continues to rise and then rise, and the instruments appear in turn. When you think the story is over, the electric guitar sounds at the end of the street again, like a cycle that never ends summer.
Editor in charge: Liang Jia
Proofreading: Zhang Yan
