Today Paul McCartney He is celebrating his 83 birthday and does so by keeping in force. While his name is inseparable from the musical revolution that they meant The Beatlesits prolific career extends far beyond the FAB Four, leaving an indelible mark both with Wings as in his successful solo career.
McCartney’s beginnings in music, of course, are the foundations of his legend. Next to John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starrforged a cultural phenomenon that changed the musical panorama forever.
Until the separation of The Beatles In 1970, the four of Liverpool would deliver albums and songs that would impact popular culture as no band before and without a doubt, as no one has been able to do it so far.
Paul was one of the main responsible for the success of The Beatles. I account for that give their compositions in the duo with Lennon, of which there are many that are said only were the product of Paul’s creative mind. Iconic songs like “Yesterday”, “Hey Jude” and “Let It Be” Not only did they consecrate him as a great composer, but they established it as one of the most recognizable voices of his generation.
McCartney was the first to present his resignationthere were many years of accumulating tensions within the group. Once the band came to an end, the challenge was great for all its members.
The separation was for Paul the time to prove that he still had a lot to give, and he did so and continue to do so, he is currently uninterrupted for more than five decades linked to music.
Then already celebration for his 83th birthday, a list with 10 of the most outstanding songs in the career of Paul McCartney Post-Beatles.
“Maybe I’M Amazed” from “McCartney” (1970)
It is a beautiful love song with rocker airs, as a glorious continuation of the double white of The Beatlesa “Helter Skelter” Less furious and more emotional, without a doubt one of Macca’s best love songs, dedicated to his wife Linda EastmanMcCartney thank him for accompanying him in all that tortuous path, always showing him the love he feels for him. The album in which Paul touched all the instruments was recorded in the studies of Abbey Road In 1969.
“Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” of “Ram” (1971)
It was the first number one post-Beatles of McCartney is a feat: an artisanal work made of fragments of songs and sound effects of less than five minutes. Composed with your uncle Albert Kendall as a source of inspiration, and with the orchestral help of George Martin and the New York PhilharmonicHe had a very beatle sound. Even Lennon, who shattered the rest of the album, admitted that he liked this song.
“Another Day” Single (1971)
Paul returns to play all the instruments in his own home study in this beautiful pop ballad that he had written during the album’s sessions “Let it be”a style song “Eleanor Rigby”. He was the first official single of the McCartney career as a soloist.
“Live and Let Die” Single (1973)
One of the most rocky songs, was composed for the movie of James Bond of the same name, for whose soundtrack they had hired George Martin. He helped fix the orchestration, and an intermediate section reggae style. The song would be one of McCartney’s greatest successes, reaching the Top 10 both in the United Kingdom and in the United States. To this day it still has a special place in its recitals.
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“Band on the run” by “Band on the run” (1973)
Composed of three different sections, as if it were an armed medley from fragments of songs, in this song Paul tells us the story of a fictitious band that flees from the police. With strong winks to escape from his past in the Beatles “Band on the run” McCartney earned a Grammy award.
“Jet” of “Band On The Run” (1973)
Engraved in Nigeria, “Jet” It opens with winds, before exploding with glammrock guitars, distorted synthesizers and a single word chorus. Apparently, “Jet” was the name of one of his dogs; The rest of the letter is full of mysterious riddles about travel in space and suffragists
“Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five” by “Band On The Run” (1973)
It is the topic that closes the best McCartney album with Wings. Paul has proven to be a talented when he sits on the piano, but the riff he composed to “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five” It has no comparison, even before putting a formal name the so -called “piano Thing.”
“Silly Love Songs” by “Wings at The Speed of Sound” (1976)
In 1975 John Lennon He said that Paul McCartney I only composed silly love songs, and that was all the inspiration I need Paul to compose this song. “Silly Love Songs” It was the first composition to venture into the sound of popular disc music, with bass as a leading sound.
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“No More Lonely Nights” by “Give My Regards to Broad Street” (1984)
The song is a “Power Ballad” with a sound of the decade, but the most spectacular thing about this theme is that in the midst of everything appears a great guitar only of the very guitar of the very David Gilmour. The single reached the 6th place in the American list Billboard Hot 100 and position 2 on the British list UK Singles Chart.
“Hope of Deliverance” of “Off the Ground” (1993)
A cheerful anthem, in which McCartney exchanges Creole guitar alone with Robbie Mcintosh. It was not a success in the United States, but it was very popular in Eastern Europe of the Cold War post, where its optimism acquired great resonance.
Bonus Tracks
As it is impossible to condense Paul McCartney’s solo career in just 10 songs, here are some songs that deserve to be mentioned: “Let me roll it” (1973), “Bluebird” (1973), “Venus and Mars”/ “Rock Show” (1975), “Coming Up” (1980), “Give Ireland Back To The Irish” (1972), “My Valentine” (2012) and “Queenie Eye” (2013).
Source: Ambito
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