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Listening this evening, on vinyl, to his symphony Ocean's Kingdom which is just plain wonderful. I think his work with the Beatles was earthshaking in rock and roll. Thank you, Sir Paul!
Sim
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I think so. If it were the Beatles who made Rock important, then it was McCartney who made the Beatles get more serious.
I think the guy had it all. It's been said that McCartney can make more music tripping into a piano than most musicians could make on their best day, and I understand why.
Consider this. If all McCartney ever did were write melodies, he'd be considered one of the greats for that alone. It was McCartney that introduced the Beatles to Baroque and Avant Garde. To George Martins credit, he was able to interpret McCartney's orchestral ideas and transcribe them perfectly. It was McCartney who conducted the orchestra in "A Day in the Life".
Lyrically, it's fashionable to dismiss him, but it's also ignorant to so. This is the man who wrote the words to "I've Just Seen a Face", "Michelle", "Yesterday", "Eleanor Rigby", "Fool on the Hill", "Blackbird", "Rocky Raccoon", "Let It Be", "Hey Jude" and damn near the entire second side of Abbey Road. Then you have the songs he helped Lennon write. Then you have an extremely impressive solo career.
Then there's the Bass Playing. At the end of 1965 he put down his Hofner, picked up his Rickenbacker and made history, becoming one of the most influential and imitated players in the history of Rock. Every great bass player today acknowledges his melodicism, his dexterity and his inventiveness. He is often complimented for his ability to play great bass while singing, which is akin to playing a solo while singing simultaneously. If all he ever did was play bass, he'd be in the history books.
And when it comes to singing, he was the best singer in a band that had John Lennon in it. That's always Paul singing the highest harmonies without resorting to falsetto. And his range was matched by his power. The voice that sang "Lady Madonna" is the same voice that sang "And I Love Her". The voice that sang "Helter Skelter" sang "I Will". The voice that sang "Long Tall Sally" sang "Mother Natures Son". If all McCartney ever did was sing, he'd be considered one of the greats for that alone.
Then you have Paul the Multi Instrumentalist. While John, George and Ringo surrounded themselves with Rock luminaries for the making of their first solo albums, Paul went into his house with his Studer 4!track open reel deck and recorded his first solo album. A Damn fine album too.
Add to that his good looks, his charitable endeavors, his social activism, sentimental nature and his eternal optimism and you end up with the Anti-Dylan. McCartney never moped around, never appeared sullen in public and seemed to greatly and genuinely appreciate his audience. He smiles a lot, because he has a lot to be happy for. Guys like McCartney don't come around often. In fact I'd say just about once an era.
"Hope is a good thing. Maybe, the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."
So why didn't he get the award instead of Dillan??
"And when you say Dylan he thinks you mean Dylan Thomas... the man ain't got no culture." c/o Paul Simon
My thoughts are that his early career was part of a group, the Beatles, rather than as a solo artist. The songs were co-written with John Lennon and the early songs i.e. "She Loves You" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" were simple and relatively trite. Also, I believe Dylan won as a poet and frankly his lyrics especially in the '60s and 70s reflected the spirit of the times.
Sim
My favorite Dylan piece is "A Child's Christmas in Wales."
nt
This is my favorite of his and it's delightful. But many of his "silly love songs" are embarrassing.
I'm a fan. Wish he could still sing. :-(
-Wendell
My wife and I walked out on Dylan at the Americana concert a couple of years ago, he was that bad.
Interestingly, Dylan's doesn't bother me. He was never much of a singer. I really don't mind Paul's. It's just a shadow of what it used to be.
-Wendell
We heard him when he was here on tour last year and it was a great concert. Focused mostly on tunes from his Beatles days. I'm never disappointed by any of the older people and groups that tour. They're smart enough to back themselves up with other musicians and singers and yet stay true to their music.
Sim
Not everyone thinks so.
Not everyone thinks that you are a gutless/creepy Internet Queer.
How nice for you.
It takes courage to venture into a realm of music you have no experience in and then find your muse and succeed!
Unless he opened a how-to book in recent years, Sir Paul cannot read music.
Ain't that something?
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