Paul had 16 major hits betweem 70-75, John only had 9. Paul smoked em. In fact, sir paul was 2nd only to sir Elton as most successful artist of 70's. Imagine was good compositionally, but lyrically was communist. John did great stuff in Beatles like Norwwegian wood & I am the walrus, but seeme to lose steam after Beatles. Whatever gets you through the nite was ok, Mind Games was boring. Watching the wheels go round yawnful. Yes I know much of this is subjective, but there it is.
Never liked any of MacCartney's stuff after the Beatles-just sheer schmalz without Lennon there to toughen it up.
i never was a beatles man myself, so gotta say the small faces, yardbirds and the animals were much better than the beatles by a large mile. as for after the beatles well what can i say but wings ahhhhhhh that was an afront to music.
Love John Lennon, but he can't beat what Paul did after the Beatles. My personal favorite is "Magneto and Titanium Man". No wait, "Nineteen-Hundred and Eighty-five", oh shoot, there's just too many. Later
Little things like these sort of add up to 101 unneccessary little knives. & over time sour my previous image of Lennon. Norwegian Wood still my fav track of his. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/9359339/the_rs_interview_paul_mccartney he came out with all stuff like I'm like Engelbert Humperdinck. I know he doesn't really think that. In the press, they really wanted me to come out and slam John back and I used to get pissed at the guys coming up to me and saying, "This is the latest thing John said and what's your answer?" And I'd say, "Well, don't really have much of an answer. He's got a right to say . . ." -- you know, really limp things, I'd answer. But I believe keep cool and that sort of thing and it passes over. I don't believe if someone kind of punches you over you have to go kind of thumping him back to prove you're a man and that kind of thing. I think, actually, you do win that way in the end, you know. What was your reaction when you read that stuff at the time? Oh, I hated it. You can imagine, I sat down and pored over every little paragraph, every little sentence. "Does he really think that of me?" I thought. And at the time, I thought, "It's me. I am. That's just what I'm like. He's captured me so well; I'm a turd, you know." I sat down and really thought, I'm just nothin'. But then, well, kind of people who dug me like Linda said, "Now you know that's not true, you're joking. He's got a grudge, man; the guy's trying to polish you off." Gradually I started to think, great, that's not true. I'm not really like Engelbert; I don't just write ballads. And that kept me kind of hanging on; but at the time, I tell you, it hurt me. Whew. Deep.
I think Paul was more commercial oriented in his music that John. John wrote what he felt like and did not care so much if it made lots of money. The Rolling Stones will be in my area on Oct.22 but the $90 a ticket has put off alot of people. I saw them in the early 70's and they were good but not that good ! Seats for the first few rows are $2300 a ticket. I guess they have alot of ex-wives to feed.
That's perhaps fair. Though I don't think Paul intentionally wrote commercial stuff. Live & Let Die was made for a film, not intended as a single per se. Maybe I'm Amazed was written about his wife& seems an honest song, not written for the masses. John's stuff was subdued in comparison.
Well, this thread can be anything Beatles I suppose. This is sorta kinda interesting. http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/27/cx_dd_1027matchup.html
http://www.amazon.com/Nowhere-Man-Final-Days-Lennon/dp/0932551513 the once rebellious Lennon had become highly materialistic, a boss who almost gleefully hired and fired servants frequently and a person emotionally chained and drained by Yoko. Indeed, the book confirms fans' suspicions that had he not been with Yoko he might have created MORE during his lifetime. http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue51/music.lennon.html AC:Your father, John Lennon, was known for public statements of peace and love. Your private father-son relationship was troubled. Do you think John Lennon was a hypocrite? JL: Well, I do, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I mean to a certain degree, it's almost like barefaced lying. Obviously, a lot of people have so much love for this man. And it's a very difficult thing to tell them that this man was not who he said he was, in the sense that [he] was publicly preaching about peace and love, but couldn't keep that going at home. That he couldn't even take care of his own family. What surprises me more is that later on in his life, several years before his death, it was only then that it started clicking: "Maybe I should try and make it up to my son who I've not paid attention to for 20 -- almost 20 years." And for me, that's very disturbing. It saddens me. It saddens me a great deal. But the public doesn't want to hear that. They don't want to hear that the icon and god of peace and love was actually not ... Didn't believe himself in what he was saying, to a certain degree. AC:When you hear a Beatles song or fans come up to you and say how much they love your father, how do you react? JL: Well, that's a tough one. It's very difficult, because people are only looking at him from his musical talent and persona. Whereas, I was the person that had to deal with the actual real-life person, the real-life John Lennon, who was not around, who was always away, and who for many years didn't remain in touch with me and didn't seem to care, didn't look after me. It has been very difficult dealing with that issue of, "Well, your dad's so great." I try and be as polite as possible. These days it's a lot easier just to go, "Oh yes, thank you. He was a great musical talent," rather than clench my fist and sort of say, "Well, you don't know the half of it."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Mccartney was \"Chief Beatle\" I've already contributed this on another forum, but considering it's something i feel strongly about i felt it deserved a wider hearing. It is my contention that in in the final analysis Paul was the greater, but there isn't much in it. 1.Paul wrote more of the big commercial hits, thus aiding the whole Beatlemania thing that their "phenomenon" reputuation is based on.In that sense John actually made a lot of money off of Paul's back. 2.Kept them together when they were disintegrating. 3.Paul made incredible contributions to John's songs in terms of harmonies and basslines, try listening to Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds without Paul's bass line ! 4. Paul actually wrote more of key John Lennon songs than people realise, a sizeable chunk of "Norwegian Wood" for example....or lines like Cellophane Fowers from " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" as well as ALL THE MUSIC to "In My Life" 5. It was PAUL's loop tape experiments on John's "Tomorrow Never Knows" that gave it it's groundbreaking sound - and for which John got all the credit It was also PAUL who came up with the orchestral orgasm section in "A Day in the Life", as well as the I'd "love to turn you on lick" 6. It was PAUL who had the original idea for the Sgt Pepper concept and also the iconic cover. It was also HIS idea for the equally iconic Abbey Road cover(based on his original sketch) 7.Paul also contributed more musically: It was him playing the little complicated piano part on Martha My Dear, HIM playing the searing guitar solo on George's Taxman, and HIM playing drums on Back in the USSR and the Ballad of John and Yoko. 8. The two most played Beatles songs in history: Michelle and Yesterday were composed and performed by Paul solo, without any other of The Beatles featuring on the records. All in All then Paul was the greater and i contend was in the final analysis Cheif Beatle......feel free to discuss
http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/lennon.html Lennon closely identified himself with the Trotskyist Workers' Revolutionary Party, and it was alleged he donated 46,000 English pounds to them. He also gave an interview to Red Mole, the Marxist magazine edited by Tariq Ali, and allowed himself to be photographed wearing a Red Mole T-shirt.
