Paul McCartney Talks Songwriting with Mary McCartney - Rare Wingspan Extra 2001 

Me too x 1,000,000,000…..!!!! I know that Mary McCartney is Paul’s daughter, but somewhere inside she must be pinching herself saying, “He’s my DAD, and he’s performing just for ME!” That would have to be the ultimate dream come true for any Beatles/Sir Paul fan - to jam with him or to sit around and listen to him play on his acoustic guitar (and just talk about his music). What an incredible thrill that would be. (So, if you’re listening, Paul, I’ll have my best guitar restrung left handed for just such an occasion). Mary is an excellent interviewer. She deftly directs the flow of the interview by placing the emphasis on the interviewee and not on herself. It must feel a little strange to interview your Dad, but they both did an excellent, professional job!

Ditto ❤

We are so lucky! ❤️

Yes, and even some of the wind beneath his wings!

For a while, Heather Mills did her best to take the happines out of him.

He's someone who takes their pain and anger and processes it into a positive experience for the world. It's a win win, he vents it out and we get music :)

im so happy that he is happy and has a loving family.

I think he has every reason to enjoy being Paul McCartney.

He literally has it all. Beautiful voice, unbelievable songwriter, great producer, great instrumentalist, great entertainer, good looking… 🐐

It's a fact that Paul McCartney holds the record for writing and composing more songs than any other composer.

I know that people say that but I listened to Mozart the other day and it was useless; couldnt sing to it and couldnt dance to it at all ✌😅

@@ketchup5344 I think it was the song, I want to hold your hand, was a Beethoven melody, one of them was.

Completely agree with you about that. The creative genius of the Beatles, both as a group, then as individuals has already stood the test of time. 200 years from now, assuming humanity survives, their music will still be recognized as pure genius. The comparison/analogy to Mozart is perfect, and the longer humanity lives, the more we will realise just how true it is. Thank you for your thoughts.

@@flynnstone3580 No it was Blackbird

Somehow, she probably doesn't realise the astonishing achievement as she's simply grown up thinking that her Dad is human.

I imagine it’s not possible for her to feel the magic in his music as much as we do because that’s her dad’s voice, she’d be thinking more about the context of him singing it than being absorbed into the actual music as this otherworldly thing.

@@dobythedog Possibly but she also grew up going on tour with Wings and seeing 10's of thousands of screaming fans. Everywhere they've gone her whole life people have worshipped her dad. She certainly knows he's someone special.

Would he have beaten a prime Mike Tyson though?

I was one of the 71 year old ladies in the third row giving my daughter the experience of a lifetime. Singing Hey Jude with my girl and Sir Paul up on stage so close was just amazing memory.

James you've said it all !!! "This Man was born for Music" !!! He is a Natural, a Treasure & a Gift from God !!!!!

Saw Wings over America 1976 Msg Nyc..after that my ears were ringing for 2 days and I thought i could fly?

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Yeah it just came to me one day as I saw this frog going Bum Bum Bum, so I wrote.. The Frog song, Mary Had a Little Lamb C. Moon.. If a body language expert analysed this, he/she would have a field day. He is FAKE imo

He channels his songwriting & music so he can't really explain how it could work for others. It comes through him!

used to fall out of him. Now we can hear that the songs are staying as a demo. He don't have anymore the genius he had before... It's normal!!! But it's a fact :)

Same! She’s so breathtakingly beautiful!

Man! I think exactly so.

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Said Maxwell Silver Hammer.

It was more than likely rehearsed as it was going to be on a dvd

@@NickC769 he said in the video that he hadn’t played them in decades…

Paul McCartney aka Bernard Webb also a producer & actor......"Give My Regards to Broad Street!"

I agree there are better musicians, but did you have to say 'far better'?

@@sstills951 Sure, why not? I'm not taking away anything from McCartney here. I'm a musician myself and people need to start being honest about their musical heroes. If I said the same thing about Michael Jackson or Madonna I'd get the same thing from their fans too. These were all brilliant artist but they don't walk on water. McCartney and especially The Beatles will live forever! They will be remembered much more than any far better musician. Isn't that more than enough?

@@vincentm4717 Fine with me. I'm easy going.

Paul McCartney is a PERFECT bassist, imo.... not too flashy, always the perfect note at the perfect time, integral part of a song's melodic structure

Far better musicians? lol Like who?

Was Mary one of those kids?

@@BGTuyau don't know he didn't mention.names just said the kids

Is it true that Macca then bashed his guitar over one of the kids' heads like the Honky Tonk Man?

@@lomarsweed6604 no that was Mick Jagger. And it's Honky Tonk Women

@@bobf.5538 You don't know what you're talking about.

Yes, she's his daughter, all right.

He's joking about it being 59 years since he last played it! He's only 58 here. So that's longer than his lifespan at the time of the interview! 😛

Absolutely agree, they were the greatest

Sorry, they're not the best "pop" band ever, they're the best ROCK band ever. People try to label them a "pop" band to try and make an argument for someone else - nice trick but it doesn't work. The were best band in the history of rock and roll, therefore they're a ROCK band.

@@news603redux but they're also a pop band There's nothing bad in that

@@muchanadziko6378 "Also" a pop band I have no issue with. My issue is that for decades, people have tried the ruse of "The Beatles are a POP band and The Stones are a ROCK band, which is bullshit. Actually, starting with Rubber Soul, their music usually transcended either category and was just Beatle music. A Day In The Life, Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields, stuff like that just fits in the category of Masterpieces.

@@news603redux yeah, I don’t disagree with anything you said here I used to call that genre „Beatle-rock”, though „Beatle-music” does seem like a better option

Considering the way the music industry is today Valerie I’m afraid you may be right. Before the Beatles came along it was rare for a band to write, record and perform their own songs, at least at that level of the market.

@@jamesgoddard2321 …yes…albums, as a whole, with that theme weaved through them is a thing of yesterday…very very few artists today do that, very few artists today get my attention, and if they do it’s usually just for a song or two… but I’m glad I’ve got my 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, some of the 90’s library of albums…

Yes indeed 1000%

Nice story!

I hope this story is true because I’ve always believed that Paul helped elevate John’s songs in the arrangement process. Even Ringo has said “When it came to song arrangements Paul was usually always right. It annoyed us.” lol

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All his kids are interesting mixes of him and Linda. Mary and Stella are lovely, like their mom, but you also see a bit of Paul in their faces. James looks a lot like Paul with Linda’s fairer hair color and complexion.

I will be posting lots more over the next few weeks :)

@@ClarkKent768 That is great... I'll be looking forward to them, thank you so much.♪♫♪

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Exactly! It's like a landscape painting with dozens of objects, hues, spatial depth, light and shading compared to a stick-figure drawing.

Cliff Richard was once asked about rap music, the reporter said "isn't it all just pressing buttons?" to which Cliff responded "yes but someone has to be there pressing those buttons don't they?" my point is there's great art in every genre, casual listeners will only ever hear the worst end of it

@@callithowiseeit5806 I'm sure regular folks wouldn't understand a band like Kraftwerk, for example. If you don't have any reference point about archaic electronic instruments, you'd probably say the machines run by themselves. But this isn't really the case in rap. The idiom is highly constricted in form and execution. I watched a documentary on the Roland TR-808 drum machine and it was clear the hip-hop and rap community leaned heavily on this machine. I'm not saying that rap doesn't have it's exemplar artists or recordings, but I could say the same thing about disco. In the case of McCartney's music, he wasn't glued to a particular music form even within one song. Most rap songs are predictable from start to finish and the star feature of that type of music is generally the rap portion itself. I have little allegiance to the culture that created this music nor much admiration for the musicians themselves. "Rap is to music what Etch-a-Sketch is to art". Funny saying but not all that far from the truth. I'm also old enough to know that what is popular in music often has little to do with the quality of the work. Exceptions do exist. I'm still baffled as to how hip-hop and rap still exists. Most commercial musical trends lasted ten years and a new form took over. No new musical forms on the horizon which I find highly disappointing.

Mrs. Vandebilt has one of the funnest basslines I’ve ever played. In fact it’s actually the lead guitar of the song, it’s brilliant. Paul always had a knack for making the bass stand out!

I think it says a lot about Paul as a father, she looks at him lovingly and with pride.

Yeah .licking her lips at times

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