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I know EXACTLY when LIB is coming out on DVD ...

posted 15 years ago by shenandoahpride
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... the day after Sir Macca kicks off.

He probably put it in writing somewhere that this can't be made widely available to the public until after his death. (Guess he wasn't counting on YouTube and bootleggers.) This has got to embarrass him.

Really, he comes off as such a priggish know-it-all, all full of himself, that it's nauseating. I just watched some of LIB on youtube and had to turn it off after The Great One oh-so-condescendingly reprimands George for not playing the way he thinks George should.

And when George said he'd play it anyway Paul wanted, or he'd even not play at all, whatever would be easier for Paul, my gag reflext set in and I had to turn it off.

I mean really.

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[–] PurpleProseOfCairo 15 years ago

You're obviously a George fan, nothing wrong with that - he was a great man, sadly missed.

It's years since I've seen Let It Be so I don't remember McCartney's behaviour but I have to say I find it hard to warm to him. I love a lot of his music, and have all his solo/Wings albums from McCartney up to Venus and Mars (after which he descended into MOR slush) - however, he has always struck me as mean-spirited and obsessed with money.

When he has something to flog, he's never off our TVs. He snaps his fingers and the magazines and TV companies come running. He gives a bland interview, plugging his new product, sometimes even getting his family on board (remember that embarrassing "interview" by his daughter?) then disappears back to his millionaire existence.

What puts me off him the most is insistence on rewriting history. All of those great songs were written by Lennon/McCartney, history will record that. For him to try to make some of them "McCartney/Lennon" or even just "McCartney" is sacriligeous and a real insult to the memory of his friend. I mean, doesn't there EVER come a point when you've just got ENOUGH money?

[–] craigus_d 14 years ago

If McCartney wrote the entirety of a song, why not label it at least McCartney/Lennon? You can surely understand the frustration of a songwriter who writes a fantastic song like Yesterday, Blackbird or The Long And Winding Road single handedly (or as near as) and then have somebody else's name credited before your own? Neither Starr or Harrison had to endure this, and Lennon certainly didn't, as he taken the primary credit for every single song.

[–] joewilson70 14 years ago

Just watched the movie and I didnt see anything for Paul McCartney to be too embarrassed about. OK he was quite dominant, I believe the movie was his idea, and he does most of the talking, but so what....it's a great little slice of the late Beatles, and I loved it.....

[–] ihatestairwaytoheaven 14 years ago

Except for the fact that after lets say Revolver, the vast majority of the songs by Lennon/McCartney were either by Lennon or McCartney. Some mash ups, like Baby You're a Rich Man, I've Got a Feeling and A Day in the Life consisted of two different song ideas put into one and likewise, each author sang the part of the song they wrote. With songs like Penny Lane, Let it Be, Hey Jude, Blackbird, Yesterday, Eleanor Rigby, For No One, The Long and Winding Road, Get Back being probably a handful of the best Beatles songs and their sole author was McCartney who still gets knocked next to his friend Lennon, whose behavior during the Let it Be sessions was just as disgraceful as McCartney's- he handed the tapes over to Phil Spector and his mean spirited sarcasm had taken on a razor's edge- according to Ian McDonald anyway, Lennon had a hand in the ordering of the tracks on Let it Be. Notice Let it Be, a song he dismissed outright is cushioned between a bogus track ending "now we sing hark the angels come" in a mock schoolboy voice and a one minute ditty about a prostitute. No one wanted to be The Beatles by the end of it, to blame one person for the break up of the band is ridiculous. As a footnote, Lennon had much things to say about the Lennon/McCartney songwriting partnership and not a whole lot of it was good. Lennon is a cannonized saint in our culture because he died young, and a lot of the bad has been pushed away from memory. Lennon had a real mean streak to him too. Also thought you might want to know, the partnership was originally credited as McCartney/Lennon.

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