Is the Beatles 1962-66 (the 'red' alb) the only record of theirs that you need?

I don't know about "over" the Beatles, but he seems to have the most balanced perspective by December 1980...

I liked the piece. I shared it with a few friends.

*seems to have had

yeah he was good at bluffing

esp in interviews he knew were for posterity

Ultimately, I don't care. To divine intentions is a mug's game, especially with four guys who knew they'd created the 20th century's most persistent, annoying mythos.

It’s okay, but I still prefer this Last Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch_Fb0AnzC0

the Firemen albums are McCartney going further in the direction of Secret Friend, to varying degrees of success (I think the third one is the only one that is completely successful)

Wow, nice article (Hickey on Patreon), thanks for sharing! Didn't expect Rutles and Asimov references, and it's particularly illuminating for him to point out Lennon's last words spoken in person to McCartney ("think about me every now and then, old friend") - so the title "Now and Then" has multiple meanings...

In 1981, a few months after Lennon’s death, McCartney invited Carl Perkins to collaborate on ‘Get It’, a song from his 1982 album, Tug of War. While working in the studio, Perkins showed McCartney a new song, ‘My Old Friend’, which contained the words: “Think about me every now and then, old friend”. Touched by the familiar lyrics, the former Beatle left the room in tears.

In a 1996 interview with Goldmine magazine, Perkins revealed an ensuing conversation between himself and Linda McCartney. “Paul was crying, tears were rolling down his pretty cheeks, and Linda said, ‘Carl, thank you so much.’ I said, ‘Linda, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to make you cry.’ She said, ‘But he’s crying, and he needed to. He hasn’t been able to really break down since that happened to John.’

“And she put her arm around me and said, ‘But how did you know?’ I said, ‘Know what?’ She said, ‘There’s two people in the world that know what John Lennon said to Paul, the last thing he said to him. Me and Paul are the only two that know that, but now there’s three…you know it. I said, ‘Girl, you’re freaking me out!’…She said the last words that John Lennon said to Paul in the hallway of the Dakota building were…he patted him on the shoulder, and said, ‘Think about me every now and then, old friend.’”

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/john-lennon-words-paul-mccartney-carl-perkins/

Love it. I almost didn’t believe, or didn’t want to believe, until the part where he said “Girl, you’re freaking me out!”

Might be time to rewatch this bit of awesomeness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiWAqhkCQZM

Dying at Hickeys line about the new track having “homeopathic amounts of George Harrison”

yeah I knew about that last line from lennon trivia for a while now, that was certainly the driving force behind paul wanting to finish this song off.

and as such, in a way, I kind of wish less of a big deal was made about the whole thing (like, they didn't need to do a video); it's really a personal project.

Now and Then '64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tSefoJDKsU

Now and Then '66

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABa_RH1ygC8

i am in two kinds abt the new track

on the one hand, i wish they would lose their instinct to overdecorate the christmas tree when it comes to this stuff
clean up the tape & let us have that
we dont need new backing vocals & strings & shit

on the other hand, paul & ringo have every right to be full Beatles about it and want to add to it and make it into completed content for the world to enjoy

either way it’s good that this exists as a finished song & it is quite a nice song overall imo

^good post

Dying at Hickeys line about the new track having “homeopathic amounts of George Harrison”

By the way, "Knicker Elastic King" is miles better than any of these reunion Beatles tracks.

(x-post)

As posted on the Hickey thread, I don’t really subscribe to Hickey’s psychoanalytical theory that McCartney crafted ‘Now and Then’ ”…to be the message to himself he wanted to hear”

I suspect Paul’s main aim was give the fans what he thought they most want to see and hear: the sense that it’s a major and significant event, that the Beatles are back together for one last time, and that they always loved each other.

It’s really,really growing on me.

Maudlin, safe, pedestrian, clumsy, inflated, rhythmically-dull as dishwater, tedious, frozen-in-nostalgia, a real bummer, and absolute non-music as well. And no doubt the best they can do at this point (I don't care about Macca's recent solo work). And all of this is beside the point, as stated above. It's a genuine return to 1995 when we all had to pretend to like Free as a Bird for a week, when we could all hear it was a lump of over-produced caked snot with zero joy or adventure or meaning beyond its ominous commercial significance. Credit to them for resurrecting the heady past of 27 years ago, and I hope it does wonders for their grandchildren's' bank balances, or something.

mccartney should take on the rest of the lennon solo catalogue next - I think he really could turn it into better pop music. he could finally add a really scathing verse to how do you sleep (how do you sleep with brian to get your name first on the credits? something along those lines)

By the way, "Knicker Elastic King" is miles better than any of these reunion Beatles tracks.

That's a high bar!

XP In the late 90s a music magazine (forget which) had a feature where famous musicians sent in questions for an interview with Paul, and the question from Marilyn Manson Was "How do you sleep?" - in reply I think Paul just had a story about how in 1971 he was getting great sleep for the first time in his life.

Question would he been better put to Manson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWFehaQEMYI

the '64 Ed Sullivan "Now and Then" cover is awesome

and more enjoyable than the official release, i should add

nooooooo

Have any of the new red album tracks leaked yet? Anyone 'in the know' on this thread who's heard any of it?

So after all this, I finally heard it. At first, I didn't even recognize it as a Beatles song.

lol it is so bad - george harrison otm in 1995

people attribute way too much wisdom to the grumpy beatle

I showed my 17 year old the new video (cringe all around) and a bunch of other Beatle stuff last night and after a while she said “I think probably the quiet one is underrated.”

george was a grump who hated literally everything always & only becamd moreso after the split so this whole “george was otm” amounts to a stopped clock being right twice a day

Did George become the hip choice to be one's 'fave Beatle' overnight after the Scorsese soc? That how it appeared to me

george is the most 90s beatle in many ways

I have zero skin in the fave fabs game - but i think in this specific instance george was indeed OTM that this uninspiring scrap wasn’t worth tarting up into an uninspiring song

George was by all accounts a 100% different dude when not around Paul and John. Billy Preston, Dylan, Tom Petty, etc. all think the guy was a joy to be around.

ask Bernie Krause

xpost like when grouchy teen visits w other families who find them to be a delight lol

lol

Taylor later called Harrison "the very best and my most favorite person" of all the artists with which he had worked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Taylor#

Wait what about Bernie Krause?

Mentioned earlier today.

O RLY? I can’t find it.

ask Bernie Krause

― brimstead, Monday, November 6, 2023 3:37 PM (two hours ago)

Wait what about Bernie Krause?

You're coming on like you're Jimi Hendrix," he responded, his voice rising in pitch and volume. "When Ravi Shankar comes to my house, he's humble.”