Comments on: Top 5 Lennon/McCartney Collaborations

By: Nona

Nona — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:48:00 +0000

PS: Oh about Eleanor Rigby, there is an old video, I need to find the link, someone just sent it to me from youtube – of an interview with the Beatles in 1966 and someone asks them “Do you plan to go out on your own” and they sort of hedge it a bit but say no we don’t plan on making our own records and at one point George answers “We already do record on our own, like Eleanor Rigby is just Paul” and then John pipes in, something like “Yes, the rest of us were just drinking tea”.

So given the fact that at that time, for the most part, Yesterday notwithstanding, Brian still tried to make them be very group oriented in public – I’d imagine George wouldn’t have called it a “Paul on his own song” if it wasn’t essentially true. If John had written anything like even a third of the lyrics, never mind 70 percent of the lyrics – I can’t see that George would have said it was all Paul’s and he’d certainly have known because he was there when the unfinished part of the lyrics were being written, according to what I’ve read. It was done in a room full of people.

If anything I’d have taken it as showing John and George being perhaps a bit annoyed, even if they liked the song as a thing, that it was essentially a non-band song, that they had contributed very little or next to nothing to. I got that vibe from John’s comment at least(and Paul was sitting right there with them).

By: Nona

Nona — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:23:06 +0000

“Not sure if Paul actually played it (I’d say George did? I dunno), because both sources said he came up with it, but didn’t explicitly say he played it.”

Old post but, it’s my understanding from what I’ve read that Paul did play it, apparently Paul played a few solos in various songs. I hadn’t known that before. Obviously Taxman is the famous one but he played Sgt Pepper and Good Morning and a couple others here and there(besides the obvious one – his part in the three part guitar solo during The End on Abbey Road – it’s goes Paul, George, John, Paul, George, John, Paul, George, John, just in case anyone did not know that LOL)

By: Cara

Cara — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:51:18 +0000

Approving this comment just for the lols. I won’t explicitly comment on the glaring error in word choice, but will note that Dave apparently assumes every writer in the world to be male, even on a blog that has the word feminist in its banner. Good times. If you want to talk about “uncool,” though, Dave, Yoko-hate definitely is. So 1970s.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:24:12 +0000

Does the other have to use “fucking” to sound cool? I like his analysis except in reviewing the songs, is there any reason to put Paul down compared to John. Paul stands up to John every which way as a songwriter. He may not have been “cool” but he was cooler than people acknowledge, and John wrote a lot of cheesy crap as well as solid sentimental songs. They both rocked and once Paul dies, people will realize that Paul was every bit as genius as John was. He may not have posed naked on album covers, got into a bag or hung out with a calculating lady named Yoko, but he was damned good and innovative as well.

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By: Cara

Cara — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:25:43 +0000

Well I think you’ve got the top two right, anyway. But this thread is about top Lennon/McCartney collaborations, as outlined above — not just plain old top 5 Lennon/McCartneys. Any opinion there?

By: francis

francis — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:03:36 +0000

in my opinion the top 5 beatles songs are; a day in a life, strawberry fields forever, here there and everywhere, hey jude, and across the universe. in fact those songs are real masterpieces by the beatles and quality wise it’s the best.

By: Angie

Angie — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:55:31 +0000

Gosh, this just makes me smile sooo much. Pure happiness.

By: Erunyauve

Erunyauve — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:50:57 +0000

In the video of Hello Goodbye, George not only looks murderous at times, he also looks frequently like he would rather be anywhere than where he is. Paul and John are bouncing around, Ringo is banging the drums, and George has a look on his face like, “Damn, I need to get away from here!”
But then, he looks like that in a lot of videos of them performing.