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Miscellaneous questions about Paul McCartney
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50yearslate said
Hey does anyone know why Paul giggles during Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (while singing “writing fifty times I must not be so”)? I looked it up and have seen a lot of conflicting stories.

  

I like the giggle, especially as the lyrics concern a killer whacking people to death. Paul channels Maxwell!

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Timothy said

50yearslate said

Hey does anyone know why Paul giggles during Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (while singing “writing fifty times I must not be so”)? I looked it up and have seen a lot of conflicting stories.

  

I like the giggle, especially as the lyrics concern a killer whacking people to death. Paul channels Maxwell!

  

Oh, I love the giggle. It’s my favorite part of the song ahdn_george_08

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Considering the Anthology 3 version I think the better question is why didn’t he laugh more?

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Considering the Anthology 3 version I think the better question is why didn’t he laugh more?

  

And considering the laughing on take 2 of And Your Bird Can Sing

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What’s far more creepy than Paul’s odd laugh is that there is  care-free whistling in the ‘Get Back ‘ rehearsals.

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Oh yeah, that number was on the big screens at the concert. It just gives you like an automated message though.

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What color are his eyesssssssss.

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@Starr Shine? hazel. They look brown or green depending on the light, though.

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If a plant has a face on it, could Paul eat it?

 

Or a less silly question, what are Paul’s thoughts on GMOs?

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I don’t have time now to track this all down and reference it, but here’s a starting point. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ent…..365947.stm

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Interesting about the Eastman’s last name originally being Epstein (kinda’ creepy) Now, I just read that Paul is going to go ahead with some concerts in Israel despite getting death threats. Wonder if his desire to perform there is a clue to his conversion to the Jewish faith?

  

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@mccartneyalarm Sir Paul has had a close, important connection to Jewish people for many years – some good, some bad: Brian Epstein, Dick James, Sid Bernstein, Linda, John Eastman, Allen Klein, Nancy … That’s a book waiting to be written if it hasn’t already.

That said, while he accompanies his wife to High Holy Day services, I think it’s out of love and respect – not any desire to suddenly become religious in another faith.

@Cousin Mark That’s a fascinating piece of memorabilia! Lennon said all sorts of crazy things in his life – he really didn’t have much of a filter. He famously once said that Ringo wasn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles (implying that Paul was). It would indeed be interesting to know the source of the retraction.

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[John] famously once said that Ringo wasn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles (implying that Paul was).

NO, HE DIDN’T! This has been debunked time and time again. No interview has ever been found which contains the “quote”, not even by Mark Lewisohn. Nor did John ever think Ringo was a bad drummer, praising him a lot over the years.

The joke, and that is what was and is, was attributed to the British comedian Jasper Carrot, and a 1983 episode of his BBC TV show Carrot’s Lib, for a long time. In recent years it has been discovered that it originally dates back to a 1981 episode of a BBC Radio 4 series called Radio Active.

The one place it has never been found, though, is in a John Lennon interview.

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Yea, but I like to think John said it 🙂

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I was looking into the songwriter of Mr Sandman hoping to find a treasure trove of songs similarly brilliant in progression scheme and arrangement. Only one other song was attributed to him on Wikipedia, and I saw this. 

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normally you see it the other way around. Seems like a good deed for Paul, but i’m not sure what his involvement was in acquiring and then relinquishing the rights. He more or less pulled a Michael Jackson on Pat Ballard did he not?

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I would say the difference, @sir walter raleigh, is that Ballad did not (so far as I’m aware) part-own the company which published his work, but was a contracted songwriter to the company, who received royalties. The Ballad family were never in a position to buy the publishing company which Mr. Sandman was just one of the thousands of songs they published.

John and Paul part-owned Northern Songs, as well as being contracted songwriters, who saw the company sold out from beneath them because Dick James was the majority stakeholder, and the state The Beatles were in at the time meant shareholders (as the company had gone public) refused to back their bid for control.

When the situation arose where Paul and John’s Estate could have bought back the publishing company they’d once part-owned, Jackson – knowing Paul was trying to sort out a deal with Yoko to buy back Northern, made a bid, driving up the price, and turning it into a bidding war for his friend’s songs.

Paul hasn’t, in the case of the Ballad family, offering to sell them the publishing company which owned the publishing rights to Mr. Sandman and thousands of other songs, but just the publishing rights to Ballad’s songs – which Ballad had never owned.

Paul was trying to get back something he had once owned; Paul is offering the Ballad family the chance to own something Ballad had never owned.

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From Joe’s BB page on “For No One ” he quotes George Martin on that horn solo done by a professional classical horn player:

Paul didn’t realise how brilliantly Alan Civil was doing. We got the definitive performance, and Paul said, ‘Well, OK, I think you can do it better than that, can’t you, Alan?’ Alan nearly exploded. Of course, he didn’t do it better than that, and the way we’d already heard it was the way you hear it now.

That seems strange to me. The solo we hear is the one Paul thought wasn’t good enough? The one we hear is impeccable.  Joe also quotes the horn player himself, Alan Civil, though his description is kind of vague:

I played it several times, each take wiping out the previous attempt… For me it was just another day’s work, the third session that day in fact, but it was very interesting.

Putting the comments of George and Alan together, are we to assume Alan played it several times, and it was the last try that was the “definitive” one?

I put this question under this thread because I’m mainly puzzled by Paul. I know he was a perfectionist, but how could he not know that was perfect?

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I’ve noticed that a lot of the Beatles fans here like hard rock and maybe even metal. Usually, people whose favorite genre is hard rock and possibly metal as well, tend to be the types who when they hear songs like Listen to What the Man Said, Let Him In, Silly Love Songs, Uncle Albert , maybe even Band On The Run , would wrinkle their nose and roll their eyes and say that’s corny music. So I wonder about the Beatles fans here whose main genre is hard rock, are they exceptions to this?

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I’ve noticed that Paul’s acoustic steel string guitars on early albums, from McCartney through to at least Band On The Run sound “used”, like they had been played for a long time before recording.  Later albums from the 80s to the present whenever I’ve heard an acoustic guitar, the strings sound crisp like they were taken brand new out of the package and strung on right before recording.  Paul, why the change?

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