Word: mccartneyes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easily between old English folk and avant-garde pop. The sound sometimes flirts with the sort of revisions of Eng lish folk idiom that Fairport Convention used to bring off with such foursquare inspiration, and sometimes, as in the title cut, skirts the sonic experiments conducted by Lennon and McCartney on songs like Revolution...
...TIME GOES ON, the questions that everyone asked as jokes a decade ago are becoming less and less moot. What will Paul McCartney be doing at 50? Touring the Catskills with Wings, maybe making guest appearances at Grossinger's. How will the generation of rockers that entered the field in the mid-sixties meet the twentieth anniversary of their debuts? Nature has solved the problem for many of them in a swift and clean way, of course, but for those who remain alive, existential crises are on the way. If these albums any indication, it will be a long, painfully...
...exhibits more originality than many of his contemporaries. One can hardly argue that "Wait a Little While," already a hit, is at all a carbon copy of Kenny Loggins' lyrics, or that "She's Leaving Home," a twelve-year-old number penned by then-Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney is a totally unoriginal track...
Wings: Wings Greatest (Capitol). A collection of jaunty, well-groomed Paul McCartney tunes, all featuring melodies that can soothe or make you smile at the composer's easygoing pleasure. Yes, the lyrics can turn smarmy, and yes, the mu sic sounds pretty contented. But McCart ney slips in a mickey every now and again (as in Hi, Hi, Hi), and if he is far from a resolute rocker, he has little serious competition as a pre-eminent pop composer...
...part in its greatest artistic success, the rock opera Tommy (1969). A manic performer, he was equally spirited offstage; he estimated having paid $400,000 in hotel and restaurant damages during his touring days. The day after he announced his engagement, at a party given by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, he was found dead in his apartment by his fianc...