Paul McCartney

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New tour coming to the U.S. this fall, but more importantly, his new album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard (produced by Nigel Godrich of Radiohead and Beck fame) has been getting excellent buzz. The British single A Fine Line has been A-Listed by Radio 2 and Virgin.

[ladymadonna]

I've been in love with Sir Paul since I was about 3 years old. I know every word to every song the Beatles ever recorded. I haven't been quite so keen on Paul's music since Flowers in the Dirt, but I still adore him and I will definitely get the new CD.

If I had known he would remarry a woman almost my age, I would have moved to the UK ages ago!

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(You can hear the new single at the above link.) My first reaction upon hearing the new song was, "Hmm, interesting." But it is a total earworm, and I found myself humming it randomly the day afterward. And since then have listened to it repeatedly and now love it.

[realitybug]

Love him. Love his music. Love him.

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I love him as well. I especially love the Beatles, but who doesn't?

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His new interview with Q magazine.

Excerpt:

Some people saw the Let it Be...Naked version as anti-John.
Never. We talked about it at the time. We had a copy. We agreed that the ...Naked version was better. It's so John. You can't tell me that he would have loved soaring string and ladies' voices going [contralto wail] "Woooo!" I'm putting words into his mouth, but I...certainly knew him better than a lot of people. Anyway, the famous changing the order of the names...

...Looked like resentment?
Well, it wasn't. When I try to explain it, it gets blown out of proportion again so I can't be bothered. [ponders, teeters] But I will fucking try to explain it again. In the Beatles Anthology CD booklet the lyrics to Yesterday had a picture of John above them and the credit was, "Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney." When it's "Lennon-McCartney" I don't have a problem, it's a logo. I merely asked if, on that one occasion when we were using the full names, it could say, "Written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon." And I was rebuffed.

By?
You guess. So that became a bit of a bone of contention with me - and a complete misconception that I was trying to walk on a dead man's grave, ruin his credit. Now I think I'll be trying to explain that forever. So, now I could not care less about where my effing name is! No worry to me at all. Just so everybody knows, I'm off that one.

But don't get it wrong. I was one of the most important people in John's life and he was one of the most important people in my life. I'm the only person who wrote that body of work with him, who was in the room with him and I...For something tiny like this to cloud that is ridiculous. I love him and always will.

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Bumping this thread because his new album comes out next week and has been getting great reviews. He has a profile in the new Time magazine:

What strikes you first is that the sad songs are really sad. At the Mercy gets past the sentimental and into the startling fact that genuine love can leave you powerless and insecure. Riding to Vanity Fair, a trippy ballad about rejected friendship, is the most misanthropic thing the composer of Ob-La-Di has ever recorded. He insists it's not directed at anyone in particular, and the lyrics--"You're not aware/ Of what you put me through/ But now the feeling's gone"—don't offer up any autobiographical clues, but it seethes with bitterness. The trick to these very tough tunes is that they're essentially untethered from anything like a formal chorus. They don't try to resolve themselves; they just drift into provocative emotional territory and linger for a while. Chaos and Creation has its share of bright moments too—the arena-ready Follow Me, the joyously goofy Promise to You Girl—but the album feels like a catalog of all McCartney's emotions, not just the easy ones.

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Yay! I love Paul and I can not wait for this CD.

[Hamatron]

I love Paul. I hate that "Freedom" song. Otherwise, he seems cool.

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I've downloaded several of the songs that have been leaked, including "Riding to Vanity Fair," which the reviewer is right: is very bitter. It's also the most Radiohead-esque production, with the xylophone that Radiohead loves so much. The album in general is fairly dark. (Sample lyrics: "You're not aware/of what you put me through/But now the feeling's gone/But I don't mind/You're not fooling anyone")