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"I recently took my kids Halloween trick or treating in America," says Paul McCartney, as he reclines in the darkwood-and-artwork-lined den of his London townhouse headquarters. "We went door-to-door to perfect strangers in a residential area around Los Angeles. I had on a black top hat and a big rubber mask that made me look like a ghoulish goofy." | "I recently took my kids Halloween trick or treating in America," says Paul McCartney, as he reclines in the darkwood-and-artwork-lined den of his London townhouse headquarters. "We went door-to-door to perfect strangers in a residential area around Los Angeles. I had on a black top hat and a big rubber mask that made me look like a ghoulish goofy." | ||
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He was a Beatle from 1960 to 1970, but his career as a solo artist has now spanned two decades, beginning with outside movie soundtrack work in 1967, and leaving the Beatles behind with the April 1970 release of ''McCartney''. Now, with the appearance on both sides of the Atlantic of a two-record collection entitled ''All The Best'', a 20-year drive for artistic autonomy has come to a close. | He was a Beatle from 1960 to 1970, but his career as a solo artist has now spanned two decades, beginning with outside movie soundtrack work in 1967, and leaving the Beatles behind with the April 1970 release of ''McCartney''. Now, with the appearance on both sides of the Atlantic of a two-record collection entitled ''All The Best'', a 20-year drive for artistic autonomy has come to a close. | ||
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For the first decade-and-a-half of his post-Beatles career, everything Paul McCartney touched turned to gold. His critics said that such effortless success kept McCartney from pushing himself as hard as he should, but the public clearly loved the man ''and'' his music. Lately, though, the hits have not come so easily. His last several albums, ''Pipes of Peace'', ''Give My Regards to Broad Street'', (the final CBS LPs) and ''Press to Play'' (the first under a hefty new Capitol pact) met with a quiet commercial reception. The inner and outer pressure to demonstrate his viability in the rock landscape of the dawning 1990s is clearly mounting. "Paul's out there searching," says Capitol president Joe Smith, "and I told hint to please don't be in a rush, because he's right where Paul Simon was before he came out with ''Graceland''." | For the first decade-and-a-half of his post-Beatles career, everything Paul McCartney touched turned to gold. His critics said that such effortless success kept McCartney from pushing himself as hard as he should, but the public clearly loved the man ''and'' his music. Lately, though, the hits have not come so easily. His last several albums, ''Pipes of Peace'', ''Give My Regards to Broad Street'', (the final CBS LPs) and ''Press to Play'' (the first under a hefty new Capitol pact) met with a quiet commercial reception. The inner and outer pressure to demonstrate his viability in the rock landscape of the dawning 1990s is clearly mounting. "Paul's out there searching," says Capitol president Joe Smith, "and I told hint to please don't be in a rush, because he's right where Paul Simon was before he came out with ''Graceland''." | ||
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I think he normally writes with guitar, but he's a bit like me and will do either. We wrote on guitar, mainly, with two where he played a bit of piano. You just ring the changes, really The minute you get into a formula, you're goosed — it's the truth! So when we found one may of working, we'd say let's do another thing. We tried to keep each song different, because you fall into ruts easily. You think you've got the hang of something and you say to yourself, "Ah, we write upbeat numbers." So we'd say, "Okay, on the next one, let's try to write a soully ballad, or a rocker." | I think he normally writes with guitar, but he's a bit like me and will do either. We wrote on guitar, mainly, with two where he played a bit of piano. You just ring the changes, really The minute you get into a formula, you're goosed — it's the truth! So when we found one may of working, we'd say let's do another thing. We tried to keep each song different, because you fall into ruts easily. You think you've got the hang of something and you say to yourself, "Ah, we write upbeat numbers." So we'd say, "Okay, on the next one, let's try to write a soully ballad, or a rocker." | ||
''Using All the Best as a guide to your post-Beatles body of work, | <!-- | ||
''Using All the Best as a guide to your post-Beatles body of work, lets talk about "Maybe I'm Amazed" and the rest of the 1970 McCartney album. Rod Stewart and the Faces immediately made that song a feature of their live concerts and then formally covered it. | |||
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