My choice is the Abbey Road medley, Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End. And in the end, The love you take, Is equal to the love you make. So beautiful.
I would like to humbly say that you forgot the most important thing: what a great singer he is. Not just because his harmonizing ability with other people is fantastic, but because he actually sings very difficult pieces for any regular throat. I particularly like the song Oh! Darling, and the ripped highs he gives there are really fascinating, interspersed with excellent falcons.
Yes! His singing and his harmonizing with John changed my life when I was 8 years old, no exaggeration at all, and that happened for people of all ages all over the world! The music was wonderful, and vital, but for those of us who didn't yet understand the musical details, the joy was also in the voices of the British Invasion! You had to be there--old enough to have been in the world then... Michael Nesmith was staying with John Lennon and told him he felt sorry for him that as a Beatle, as great as that was, he missed out on experiencing Beatlemania and the joy of the British Invasion the way Nesmith and the rest of us had! Big! Joyful! Paul's talent, the truly amazing thing about it, is that it could continue after The Beatles! It still does today and we are so glad! Just a few years ago when he was 77, he played for 3 hours and exhausted those of us in the audience who were younger! God bless Sir Paul!
@@mollyhall2954 He did the same thing this year at age 80. He’s amazing. I’m 70 and find it difficult to stand up straight because of a bad back. Don’t know how he does it. Same with Ringo.
Paul McCartney is that rare thing - a real artist. No one comes near. He is a great songwriter, super talented musician, superb vocalist. I consider myself blessed to walk the Earth while he is alive. Having had a brief moment where I met him is a moment I will cherish forever.
@@beatlebrian4404 Totally agree The Beatles are rubbish. Boy that guy playing Paul is looking more like Viv Stanshall and less and less like the original guy every day.
@@eastbay_bay you PID people can't even agree on the replacements name! Or when he died, or if he is still alive! there's no evidence whatsoever that holds up, maybe you can show me something that at least gives me food for thought
He really shouldn't be as impressed. I mean if you sell your soul then it's really the devil doing all the heavy lifting. I believe Dylan has hinted at the fact he did it. I guess all three of them sold their souls. You know, Dylan, this guy playing Paul and the original that died in '66.
I love how Bob Dylan's music seems to fit any words you wanna put in them. But imagine changing some of the iconic Beatles lyrics. The lyrics were genius.
@@GuitarPilgrim The first time you see anyone play the opening bars of Blackbird, with that slide up to 12(?), your jaw will drop. It still makes me giggle, even now. He's a genius.
So true! There is a documentary by Howard Goodall that specifically calls out the fact that classical music by the early 20th century had lost its mind and went competely atonal. The Beatles were largely responsible for bringing back melodic (and imaginatively inventive, while tonal) music to the masses.
McCarney's talent is not of this earth! He, along with the other Beatles, possessed a talent that was way ahead of time. Now, the light shines on Paul as a living legend...His songwriting along with his musical abilities are light years beyond comprehension.....
Yeah the talent of studio musicians, social engineers and handlers was way ahead of its time. Thanks to them we have such notables as Cardi B. Thank you the (corporate) Beatles for degrading music and the culture!
@@eastbay_bay You risk having a point here, but you failed to pin it down. It's the songs and songwriting that count. Excellent engineering enhances, abuse of engineering does not. Conflating the Beatles with modern engineering abuses is barking. Besides, technology is always going to change music in a way you don't like, Grandad. Degrading ? Pah. 🔔🔚
McCartney will be remembered in hundreds of years from now on par with Mozart for his God-given gift for melody (among many other things). No other modern songwriters are in his league (other than Lennon).
"Bip Bop" is McCartney channeling his early R&R influences, such as Carl Perkins. If you understand the root of such tunes, you begin to appreciate the genius of this song. Cheers!
Exactly! It is a Blues lullaby, inventive and catchy. There are some songs from Paul that I do not like (specially from his 80s period, when he was too Pop and ordinary at times), but I would never list "Bip Bop" as a bad song.
I love you playing Single Pigeon near the end. Red Rose Speedway is packed with so many incredible melodies, it may be my favorite non-live Wings album.
A few years ago I heard a reference to a place called "Regents Park", and I thought "Where do I know that from?". I let it sit in my mind for a few days and eventually ""Regents Park Canal" came into me head, and then, a bit later.. "..gliding over, Regents Park canal", and finally, maybe another day later "Single Seagull, gliding over, Regents Park canal", and the song came back which I hadn't heard in 40 years. It was one of my favourites on that album, and, yes, I was always very fond of that album, which isn't usually ranked with his best.
I saw him in Orlando about a year ago, 2 weeks before his 80th. He was amazing! He still hit the high notes on Maybe I'm Amazed. He played nearly 3 hours straight taking only about a half dozen breaks that lasted ~90 seconds to talk to the audience... 'incredible' doesn't come near describing his stamina or joy for life... a genuine inspiration and light in this world. Great video Pilgrim!!
Another two Paul McCartney acoustic gems for me are calico skies and the demo of Goodbye, a song he wrote for Mary Hopkin, which can be found on the abbey roud 50th anniversary record. Also this might be a hot take, but I think Mother Nature's Son is the best guitar part in any Beatles song, acoustic or otherwise. It's just so creative and melodic that I find myself playing it every time I pick up my guitar
If you are looking for a gem, try this: th-cam.com/video/7KyvGnJn5Ms/w-d-xo.html And this is a playlist I did with all the acoustic songs from 1970 to 2020: th-cam.com/play/PLhvLUcTI0wRgsliP6P-kR9IeBbrMPwPzb.html A Genius indeed...
Oh darling, yea one of my favourite paul vocal. Really feel his emotion in it. Anyone who has ever tried to sing this song, karaoke, in the shower, on stage or wherever, i believe will realise that vocally, this is a difficult song to pull off.
1) "Martha My Dear" - The song is just the ultimate expression of musical joy. 2) "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five" - More of the same. 3) "C Moon" - Awesome melody that just hits me in the feels.
Thank you for explaining Paul McCartney - as a younger person I was into John, but I feel I've grown into understanding Paul more. The world is a hugely better place because he is in it.
Not sure I agree. You know his ilk ushered in free love and drugs. I mean they did claim to be bigger than Christ and Christ came to divide, whereas the Beatles united a generation that cast off social norms. And now we have a degraded culture with the likes of Cardi B. I think the Beatles have a lot to answer for.
It's difficult to contrast the 2 but I think John had a deep wounded soul and it came out in his music. Paul was always more upbeat with more natural musical abilities. John was a brilliant songwriter. I think Paul was the better musician. John the better poet. I doubt Paul would have ever dug as deep without John. I doubt John would have been as polished without Paul.
@@gutenbird Paul was generally more upbeat but the biggest and most upbeat/positive anthems relating to The Beatles are by John “All You Need is Love”, “Imagine”, “Give Peace a Chance”, etc
@@hw343434 Imagine is a great song but it is the opposite of upbeat. Same with give peace a chance. Their messages are great but at the core they are about the world sucking.
Thank you for your wonderful tribute to my all time favourite musician, Paul McCartney, on his 80th birthday. I feel that Paul would be pleased with your tribute and impressed with your own musical ability. It still blows my mind that Paul, John, George, and Ringo all grew up in the same city, and that they were able to cross paths musically and as friends. I’ve often wondered if there were other groups out there, like the Beatles, but instead of connecting, fate had them miss that opportunity, and they passed like ships in the night. Maybe that’s another reason why The Beatles are so great? Their uniqueness. My three favourite McCartney songs: You Never Give me Your Money, Eleanor Rigby, and everything else, no, and in a tie for third - Yesterday, For No One, Little Willow (and I could go on, as could everyone else on this long and winding road). Thanks again
Listen to The Kinks--fate let them open for The Beatles and have huge success, then be banned from the US at the height of the British Invasion and other twists of fate happened that make their fans say God Save The Kinks. Paul mentioned them first in the last documentary ... another Kinks twist, the name esccapes me!
Hi, other remarkable twists of fate: meeting Astrid Kirscher (I’m not sure of the spelling) who helped to shape the image of The Beatles (their hair cuts, photography of them); meeting their manager, Brian Epstein; the fluke encounter with Ed Sullivan at the airport (which lead to the British Invasion of America); and without a doubt, the biggest twist of fate was meeting George Martin, who mentored them musically, who made their musical ideas come to life, who they trusted as a father figure, and so on. How all of these events and individuals aligned for them, at critical times in their career, boggles my mind. Had Epstein lived, we probably wouldn’t have had Sgt Peppers or Magical Mystery Tour, and all of the incredible music that followed. Had John not met Yoko? Had John not been murdered, would they have reunited for all of their fans world wide? What great music died along with John and George? I believe that we should be thankful for what we had, and not lament or dwell on what we lost or what could have been. I feel very fortunate to have lived in a Golden Age (maybe the Golden Age?). We’ve had the best of the best: The Beatles and music of the Sixties; golf (Tiger Woods); baseball (Mickey Mantle, etc); hockey (Geordie Howe, Bobby Orr, etc); incredible inventions (computers, cell phones, etc); scientific and medical breakthroughs (joint replacements and so on); etc. There is so much “good” in our world, and for me, musically, The Beatles will always be the most precious gift to mankind at the very top!
We saw him a month ago in L.A. The last time I saw him was on his for Wings tour in 1976! I just felt this might be the last chance considering his age. There are a lot of comments on TH-cam about his voice not being there anymore and yes it's true but this legend was on stage for almost THREE HOURS and the concert was epic.
i heard him on this tour also. to me, his voice sounded "fragile", aged like fine wine. ALL voices change with age. even brian wilson only had his incomparable falsetto for a few years.
I've met Paul a few times. On two occasions we spoke for a long time. First in 1991 in London, but it was just me giving him an old 78 Buddy Holly album . Then was back in 2005. We were chatting it up on this Friday,and Saturday afternoon,and night just taking like regular guys for quite a while. He didn't look young anymore , just an older version of a Beatle . On the second night Paul was going on stage at midnight. His band was already out getting ready on stage, it was just him,and me in the holding area watching the backstage monitor which was what the audience was watching on the Jumbotrons . It was pouring rain outside , I felt like hell, I was shoulder to shoulder with him freezing to death. So then the monitor we are watching was showing a clip of the Beatles singing I Want To Hold Your Hand . In that moment it hit me. I just turned my head to look at him, it was surreal . This is that guy on the screen all those years ago. He was smiling. I was thinking " God did I do to deserve this " ? Paul is the most gracious ,and engaging man you could ever imagine. Then he said " it's time to go " I followed him to the edge of the stage curtain , he puts on his Hofner ,and Drive My Car starts ,and the applause was deafening. Then when he closed his set all the bands go on stage to sing the refrain on Hey Jude ,and I was one of them both nights . I got to sing the refrain both nights with a dozen other musicians. I haven't thought of that October night in fifteen years ... I hope Paul lives to be a hundred in good health ...
There's a great story about how the guys in the Zombies or one of those early British Invasion bands gathered around the TV when the Beatles played the 1963 Royal Variety Performance. At least some in the band had never seen them play live before, and the story goes that as they were watching their bass player said "Oh, f*** me... he can play AND sing lead at the same time?" And at 21 he had already racked up several number one hit songs. He really was the one of the very first great singer-songwriters who could play anything he got his hands on (I think that's why he respected Brian Wilson so much.) It's sometimes hard for me to wrap my brain around so much talent in one human being. As a bassist myself, his influence on melodic bassists in rock is impossible to overstate. My hero is Chris Squire, who was of that generation of British bassists who absorbed everything McCartney was doing in the 60s.
Very nice video and homage; thank you very much for posting it. The joy that Paul and The Beatles bring to our lives is priceless. Paul is at the level of Mozart and is still going strong at 80 years old. What an amazing/otherwordly guy.
Dude, I just watched you play all those instruments as well, you are quite the talented musician yourself, but I love that you explained what aspects make him unique and sets him apart from from the classically trained musicians. He doesn't like rules and norms in general and whenever he's told he's not supposed to do anything a certain way, he will say "who says?" and then go out of his way to do that thing in that certain way, God, I love that man and his sensitive yet rebellious spirit. I got to be in the same room as Paul and hear him play live in person for the 1st time in my life this year and what an honor it was.
Bip Bop. It may not be a masterpiece, but it does stay in your head and put a smile on your face. My Post Beatles top 3 by Paul may be 1-Maybe I'm Amazed, 2- Uncle Albert, 3 - Live and Let Die, 4- My Love, 5-Arrow Through Me, 6- Jet, 7- Rockestra Theme, 8- Coming Up, 9- Picasso's Last Words, 10 - Beware My Love, 11 - Wildlife. I may be missing a few. Awesome study of Sir Paul!
I enjoyed that. Wow that solo on Taxman! It just sounded like someone who was fed up waiting around in the studio for the lead guitarist to finish his part. Brilliant stuff!
Right. I realized this when the original McCartney album was released! However you explained and demonstrated his proficiency quite brilliantly. Thank you 😊
Ace! His Glastonbury set was truly remarkable. I hope the folk in Twitterland that are complaining that his voice is weak and he’s no longer musically relevant watch this video. An icon, the like of which we may never see again. Playing so many different instruments, live to millions... millions that can sing almost every word with him. Spellbinding.
For some reason, YT has not been bringing you up on my feed, so I looked for you and found this, another excellent vid. and very prescient in showing Pauls' guitar style and his use of diminished and augmented chords. I was so blessed to grow up with his music, The Beatles are simply the gold standard of popular music for all time. You may be the best guitarist on YT, you have a knack for teaching and such a great personality. Thank you from Port Orchard, Washington!
He's even better than the great American Songbook composers such as Gershwin, Porter et al merely because he can play all the instruments as well as produce and compose and I mean no disrespect to those mentioned as I love Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers, Hart, Hammerstein too.
With a Little Luck? You compare that to Gershwin? I like Death Cab for Cutie, I'm the Urban Spaceman, you know the stuff this above average scam-artist-occultist wrote with the Bonzos, plus, the stuff that Theo Adorno wrote, you know the real composer for the Beatles.
@@eastbay_bay Oh come on, of all the songs to pick. Let it Be, Hey Jude, Penny Lane, Yesterday, For No One, Eleanor Rigby, I could write a list for DAYS.
Indeed he did .....the Great American Songbook composers were great lyricists and melody-men but, I can't recall any of them singing to the same level of McCartney so I'm comfortable in my original comment. Thanks.
Very clever video in which you captured the essence of Paul McCartney… rarely enjoyed a video that much. Paul is a genius and you managed to explain why, to a certain extend … an as a bonus got me to pick up my telecaster and rework all the riffs you so brillantly performed ♥️👍 Junk is my all times favorite:)
Love it man! I appreciate your demonstrating all these songs so well, great job and I concur with all your reasoning in this video. Again, great job! Thanks so much!
One amazing thing about Paul McCartney is that he didn't become weird or unrelatable from mega-stardom (think John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Brian Wilson, Elvis, etc.). Paul simply remained the same down to earth guy in spite of the fact that he's THE most famous person on earth.
Very true. Aside from Paul's own merit there, he had a sound upbringing and that helps a lot to be a normal person (Paul did not have emotional holes to fill).
Wow! I never realized he was such a versatile musician! Truly a genius! And you, my friend, have presented a truly enlightening expose with your own musical versatility! Subscribed! 🤙
I love this video format! Any chance you would make it into a series with other musicians? People like Knopfler or even Lennon would be super interesting to see!
You just smashed it again GP! Love your break downs; wow you sure know how to play man. Also a great history lesson. Too cool. I loved McCartney's first solo album.
Paul is my favorite rockstar/classic rock artist of all time, and so of course I was going to click on this video ha. Sidenote: I've seen some of your other guitar videos, but I didn't realize you played piano so well! Kudos!
Love this - you play a mean few instruments yourself! Really enjoyed the way you broke down his music and explained it so we non-musicians can undertsand. More please! x
Love it, great job, yes you should tallk about his great singing, but hey maybe this could be longer! And i love that you show so much love for my all time Mccaryney fave song Once upon a long ago!
What an excellent video. I have been playing McCartney's songs for years and still learned a lot. The overview of his piano technique was particularly insightful.
I enjoyed this so much. I just watched it again and here is a list of the McCartney songs he goes over in this video... Lead Guitar: (Maybe I'm Amazed, Taxman, Only Love Remains); Guitar Riffs: (Jet, Oo You, Band On The Run, I've Got A Feeling); Piano: (Lady Madonna, Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five, Martha My Dear, Let 'Em In); Song Writing: (Bip Bop); Acoustic Guitar: (Long Tailed Winter Bird, Blackbird, Mother Nature's Son, Junk, Put It There); Bass: (Something); plus two more piano tunes at the end: (Single Pigeon, Once Upon A Long Ago). I was really happy to see you spend some time on some of Paul's lesser known songs - like: Only Love Remains, Oo You, Junk, Put It There... and it was fantastic when you ended your video with Single Pigeon and Once Upon A Long Ago. Left me wishing you would have included just a bit of "Lunchbox/Odd Socks".
Hey Thom, I really love your videos, as you always come up with highly entertaining content! You are right, Paul McCartney is an absolut outstanding musician and composer and for sure one of if not the "driving force" of the Beatles. Even if there are rumours that this person is not the Paul from the early sixties (actually I don't care), this guy is still to this day an incredible musical genius and the world should be thankful for all the great music he gave us. So I wish him many more years to come. And thanks to you, because you are also a very talented musician and watching your videos is always an inspiration to me and surely for many others of your subscribers. Cheers DimiZ
It's really interesting if you think that he plays the piano like a normal bass with his left hand and he plays the bass like a complex and articulate right hand piano melody. He's a genius!
That was fantastic Thom! What name comes to mind when one thinks of a genius musician? Paul McCartney of course! His music will live on forever I'm sure. Thanks for all of the incredible music and wonderful memories Sir Paul! 👍👍👏👏🎸🎸🎤🎤🎹🎹👍👍👏👏
You should record an album of McCartney songs on Piano. Hearing them solely on the Piano, (like Single Pigeon, Put it There and others than are not considered his "standards"), sound absolutely amazing and you get a better feel for his piano arrangements and melodies on those songs. Thanks for the video. I very much enjoyed it.
That was great....loved your playing....you are so talented. So hard to pick 3 favorite songs. I have just recently discovered Flaming Pie & am loving song Sometimes. Too many People (Ram) and Oh darling...there are so many more
The mere fact that you used Once Upon a Long Ago and Oo You as examples tells me you really know his catalogue. Great video as well. Mccartney's talents are overwhelming if you really look at him, and yet he's STILL underrated. He just has beautiful melodies pouring out of him AND the ability to realize them as musical pieces. I can only imagine how many hours of music he has in the vaults that we'll only hear in decades after he's gone.
My absolute top by Paul are Back in the USSR and When I'm Sixty Four. Love the man. Also I'd love to see a vid about Nektar's 'What Ya Gonna Do' that's some really badass rock!
Back in the USSR is one of my favorites, too. Did you love the special, long ago, in Russia, where the people talked about how much it meant to them at the time? Talking about loving the man!
He wrote When I'm 64 when he was just a teenager! apparently he put it on Sgt Pepper in honor of his dad, who turned 64 that year, and who loved that style of music.
great little video about Paul Mccartney''s musical genius......Paul could always keep it simple and very (unusual) melodic.....no "disscords" ruffling any feathers with his (and the beatles) music.....it's great that he is still there and making music.... and that opening guitar solo is very good.....i#ll try that one, definately.....🙂
Great stuff!! Really enjoyed being here, consider extending this to an hour, right? Really got into singing with that piano cover of Once Upon A Long Ago!
My Top 3 McCartney songs : 1. Maybe I'm Amazed 2. Coming up 3. Why Can't We Do It In The Road. What are yours? let me know down below!
My Top 3 McCartney songs: 1. Lady Madonna 2. Once Upon A Long Ago 3. The Long And Winding Road
She's leaving home, long and winding road, for no-one.
Oh and he wrote yesterday in his sleep.
Ridiculous
Maybe I’m amazed, My Love, and Yesterday
I never knew Sir Paul played the guitar solo on Maybe I’m Amazed.
My choice is the Abbey Road medley, Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End. And in the end, The love you take, Is equal to the love you make. So beautiful.
I would like to humbly say that you forgot the most important thing: what a great singer he is. Not just because his harmonizing ability with other people is fantastic, but because he actually sings very difficult pieces for any regular throat. I particularly like the song Oh! Darling, and the ripped highs he gives there are really fascinating, interspersed with excellent falcons.
Yes! His singing and his harmonizing with John changed my life when I was 8 years old, no exaggeration at all, and that happened for people of all ages all over the world! The music was wonderful, and vital, but for those of us who didn't yet understand the musical details, the joy was also in the voices of the British Invasion! You had to be there--old enough to have been in the world then... Michael Nesmith was staying with John Lennon and told him he felt sorry for him that as a Beatle, as great as that was, he missed out on experiencing Beatlemania and the joy of the British Invasion the way Nesmith and the rest of us had! Big! Joyful! Paul's talent, the truly amazing thing about it, is that it could continue after The Beatles! It still does today and we are so glad! Just a few years ago when he was 77, he played for 3 hours and exhausted those of us in the audience who were younger! God bless Sir Paul!
Guitar Pilgrim, I disagree with those who claim that in his live shows his voice is gone, etc. He sounded great!
1985 and Monkberry Moon Delight for epic voice
@@mollyhall2954 He did the same thing this year at age 80. He’s amazing. I’m 70 and find it difficult to stand up straight because of a bad back. Don’t know how he does it. Same with Ringo.
@@ricardo_miguel13 Oh Woman, Oh Why!
Paul McCartney is that rare thing - a real artist. No one comes near. He is a great songwriter, super talented musician, superb vocalist. I consider myself blessed to walk the Earth while he is alive. Having had a brief moment where I met him is a moment I will cherish forever.
And a great live performer.
Yeah the guy playing Paul is a good musician and really good occultist, freemason and liar.
@@eastbay_bay what absolute rubbish!
@@beatlebrian4404 Totally agree The Beatles are rubbish. Boy that guy playing Paul is looking more like Viv Stanshall and less and less like the original guy every day.
@@eastbay_bay you PID people can't even agree on the replacements name! Or when he died, or if he is still alive! there's no evidence whatsoever that holds up, maybe you can show me something that at least gives me food for thought
A chap called Bob Dylan, who has written a couple of songs, told the editor of Rolling Stone "I'm in awe of McCartney. He can do it all".
He really shouldn't be as impressed. I mean if you sell your soul then it's really the devil doing all the heavy lifting. I believe Dylan has hinted at the fact he did it. I guess all three of them sold their souls. You know, Dylan, this guy playing Paul and the original that died in '66.
@@eastbay_bay yawn
I love how Bob Dylan's music seems to fit any words you wanna put in them. But imagine changing some of the iconic Beatles lyrics. The lyrics were genius.
@@eastbay_bay pretty shitty deal with the devil if he hasn't had a #1 hit in literally 40 years
@@manfail7469 I'm sure Dylan would agree. Although he still is loved and revered by millions.
He's surely going to be remembered as one of the greatest melody writers of any age, and as someone who changed popular music.
He's a titan of music
He absolutely is!
The master of melody..
I prefer old Christian hymns.
@@GuitarPilgrim The first time you see anyone play the opening bars of Blackbird, with that slide up to 12(?), your jaw will drop. It still makes me giggle, even now. He's a genius.
Paul McCartney taught the world not to give up on beautiful melodies.
And to not give up on the occult and secret societies either.
So true! There is a documentary by Howard Goodall that specifically calls out the fact that classical music by the early 20th century had lost its mind and went competely atonal. The Beatles were largely responsible for bringing back melodic (and imaginatively inventive, while tonal) music to the masses.
McCarney's talent is not of this earth! He, along with the other Beatles, possessed a talent that was way ahead of time. Now, the light shines on Paul as a living legend...His songwriting along with his musical abilities are light years beyond comprehension.....
Yeah the talent of studio musicians, social engineers and handlers was way ahead of its time. Thanks to them we have such notables as Cardi B. Thank you the (corporate) Beatles for degrading music and the culture!
@@eastbay_bay You risk having a point here, but you failed to pin it down. It's the songs and songwriting that count. Excellent engineering enhances, abuse of engineering does not. Conflating the Beatles with modern engineering abuses is barking. Besides, technology is always going to change music in a way you don't like, Grandad. Degrading
? Pah. 🔔🔚
You really can never go wrong with The Beatles, either as a band, or as being individual artists! Happy Birthday to Paul!
McCartney will be remembered in hundreds of years from now on par with Mozart for his God-given gift for melody (among many other things). No other modern songwriters are in his league (other than Lennon).
Together they will NEVER be equalled.
Lennon, Freddie Mercury, Ray Davies, David Bowie and a few others, but Paul above others.
Totally agree... the Mozart of our age...!
I'd put Jeff Lynne into this conversation
@@alexisjordan3303 Lynn is a fine songwriter, but not near as prolific or profound as McCartney. Doubtful he will be remembered. But who knows?
the absolute goat in rock history...combine his beatles career, wings career, and his solo career...no other musician can touch his career...
"Bip Bop" is McCartney channeling his early R&R influences, such as Carl Perkins. If you understand the root of such tunes, you begin to appreciate the genius of this song. Cheers!
Exactly! It is a Blues lullaby, inventive and catchy. There are some songs from Paul that I do not like (specially from his 80s period, when he was too Pop and ordinary at times), but I would never list "Bip Bop" as a bad song.
I adore it
I’ll never stand for the bip bop hate. It is insanely fun to play
We're lucky that we live in a world were Macca is still doing his thing.
I love you playing Single Pigeon near the end. Red Rose Speedway is packed with so many incredible melodies, it may be my favorite non-live Wings album.
A few years ago I heard a reference to a place called "Regents Park", and I thought "Where do I know that from?". I let it sit in my mind for a few days and eventually ""Regents Park Canal" came into me head, and then, a bit later.. "..gliding over, Regents Park canal", and finally, maybe another day later "Single Seagull, gliding over, Regents Park canal", and the song came back which I hadn't heard in 40 years. It was one of my favourites on that album, and, yes, I was always very fond of that album, which isn't usually ranked with his best.
RRS is my favorite Wings album. I don't understand why it's generally maligned.
I saw him in Orlando about a year ago, 2 weeks before his 80th. He was amazing! He still hit the high notes on Maybe I'm Amazed. He played nearly 3 hours straight taking only about a half dozen breaks that lasted ~90 seconds to talk to the audience... 'incredible' doesn't come near describing his stamina or joy for life... a genuine inspiration and light in this world. Great video Pilgrim!!
McCartney the gift to humanity who will live on through his music when he passes.
I'm absolutely dreading the day that Paul passes
@@JJFHNREHJEDKI think I’ll need a long time to grieve when that happens.
Another two Paul McCartney acoustic gems for me are calico skies and the demo of Goodbye, a song he wrote for Mary Hopkin, which can be found on the abbey roud 50th anniversary record. Also this might be a hot take, but I think Mother Nature's Son is the best guitar part in any Beatles song, acoustic or otherwise. It's just so creative and melodic that I find myself playing it every time I pick up my guitar
If you are looking for a gem, try this:
th-cam.com/video/7KyvGnJn5Ms/w-d-xo.html
And this is a playlist I did with all the acoustic songs from 1970 to 2020:
th-cam.com/play/PLhvLUcTI0wRgsliP6P-kR9IeBbrMPwPzb.html
A Genius indeed...
I can't believe you didn't mention his SINGING!!!! lol! One of the greatest lead singers and harmony singers in the business!
Awesome video GP! I must say one thing you fail to mention is McCartney's other worldly voice. How many humans can belt out Oh Darling like him.
Oh darling, yea one of my favourite paul vocal. Really feel his emotion in it. Anyone who has ever tried to sing this song, karaoke, in the shower, on stage or wherever, i believe will realise that vocally, this is a difficult song to pull off.
1) "Martha My Dear" - The song is just the ultimate expression of musical joy.
2) "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five" - More of the same.
3) "C Moon" - Awesome melody that just hits me in the feels.
“Martha My Dear” is my favorite Beatles song ♥️
Thank you for explaining Paul McCartney - as a younger person I was into John, but I feel I've grown into understanding Paul more. The world is a hugely better place because he is in it.
Not sure I agree. You know his ilk ushered in free love and drugs. I mean they did claim to be bigger than Christ and Christ came to divide, whereas the Beatles united a generation that cast off social norms. And now we have a degraded culture with the likes of Cardi B. I think the Beatles have a lot to answer for.
It's difficult to contrast the 2 but I think John had a deep wounded soul and it came out in his music. Paul was always more upbeat with more natural musical abilities. John was a brilliant songwriter. I think Paul was the better musician. John the better poet. I doubt Paul would have ever dug as deep without John. I doubt John would have been as polished without Paul.
@@gutenbird Very well put.
@@gutenbird Paul was generally more upbeat but the biggest and most upbeat/positive anthems relating to The Beatles are by John “All You Need is Love”, “Imagine”, “Give Peace a Chance”, etc
@@hw343434 Imagine is a great song but it is the opposite of upbeat. Same with give peace a chance. Their messages are great but at the core they are about the world sucking.
A great review. You forgot about his brilliant voice and amazing range, also something to be admired.
At his peak, he had four and a half octaves! that's insane!
Thank you for your wonderful tribute to my all time favourite musician, Paul McCartney, on his 80th birthday. I feel that Paul would be pleased with your tribute and impressed with your own musical ability. It still blows my mind that Paul, John, George, and Ringo all grew up in the same city, and that they were able to cross paths musically and as friends. I’ve often wondered if there were other groups out there, like the Beatles, but instead of connecting, fate had them miss that opportunity, and they passed like ships in the night. Maybe that’s another reason why The Beatles are so great? Their uniqueness.
My three favourite McCartney songs: You Never Give me Your Money, Eleanor Rigby, and everything else, no, and in a tie for third - Yesterday, For No One, Little Willow (and I could go on, as could everyone else on this long and winding road). Thanks again
Listen to The Kinks--fate let them open for The Beatles and have huge success, then be banned from the US at the height of the British Invasion and other twists of fate happened that make their fans say God Save The Kinks. Paul mentioned them first in the last documentary ... another Kinks twist, the name esccapes me!
Yeah the other groups that didn't have the backing behind them. You know like social engineering outfits such as Tavistock.
Hi, other remarkable twists of fate: meeting Astrid Kirscher (I’m not sure of the spelling) who helped to shape the image of The Beatles (their hair cuts, photography of them); meeting their manager, Brian Epstein; the fluke encounter with Ed Sullivan at the airport (which lead to the British Invasion of America); and without a doubt, the biggest twist of fate was meeting George Martin, who mentored them musically, who made their musical ideas come to life, who they trusted as a father figure, and so on.
How all of these events and individuals aligned for them, at critical times in their career, boggles my mind. Had Epstein lived, we probably wouldn’t have had Sgt Peppers or Magical Mystery Tour, and all of the incredible music that followed. Had John not met Yoko? Had John not been murdered, would they have reunited for all of their fans world wide? What great music died along with John and George?
I believe that we should be thankful for what we had, and not lament or dwell on what we lost or what could have been.
I feel very fortunate to have lived in a Golden Age (maybe the Golden Age?). We’ve had the best of the best: The Beatles and music of the Sixties; golf (Tiger Woods); baseball (Mickey Mantle, etc); hockey (Geordie Howe, Bobby Orr, etc); incredible inventions (computers, cell phones, etc); scientific and medical breakthroughs (joint replacements and so on); etc. There is so much “good” in our world, and for me, musically, The Beatles will always be the most precious gift to mankind at the very top!
We saw him a month ago in L.A. The last time I saw him was on his for Wings tour in 1976! I just felt this might be the last chance considering his age. There are a lot of comments on TH-cam about his voice not being there anymore and yes it's true but this legend was on stage for almost THREE HOURS and the concert was epic.
i heard him on this tour also. to me, his voice sounded "fragile", aged like fine wine. ALL voices change with age. even brian wilson only had his incomparable falsetto for a few years.
we're just happy to see him alive, doing what loves.. that's all that matters
I've met Paul a few times. On two occasions we spoke for a long time. First in 1991 in London, but it was just me giving him an old 78 Buddy Holly album . Then was back in 2005. We were chatting it up on this Friday,and Saturday afternoon,and night just taking like regular guys for quite a while. He didn't look young anymore , just an older version of a Beatle . On the second night Paul was going on stage at midnight. His band was already out getting ready on stage, it was just him,and me in the holding area watching the backstage monitor which was what the audience was watching on the Jumbotrons . It was pouring rain outside , I felt like hell, I was shoulder to shoulder with him freezing to death. So then the monitor we are watching was showing a clip of the Beatles singing I Want To Hold Your Hand . In that moment it hit me. I just turned my head to look at him, it was surreal . This is that guy on the screen all those years ago. He was smiling. I was thinking " God did I do to deserve this " ? Paul is the most gracious ,and engaging man you could ever imagine. Then he said " it's time to go " I followed him to the edge of the stage curtain , he puts on his Hofner ,and Drive My Car starts ,and the applause was deafening. Then when he closed his set all the bands go on stage to sing the refrain on Hey Jude ,and I was one of them both nights . I got to sing the refrain both nights with a dozen other musicians. I haven't thought of that October night in fifteen years ... I hope Paul lives to be a hundred in good health ...
Very nice! Thank you so much for sharing this. Much appreciated.
There's a great story about how the guys in the Zombies or one of those early British Invasion bands gathered around the TV when the Beatles played the 1963 Royal Variety Performance. At least some in the band had never seen them play live before, and the story goes that as they were watching their bass player said "Oh, f*** me... he can play AND sing lead at the same time?" And at 21 he had already racked up several number one hit songs. He really was the one of the very first great singer-songwriters who could play anything he got his hands on (I think that's why he respected Brian Wilson so much.) It's sometimes hard for me to wrap my brain around so much talent in one human being. As a bassist myself, his influence on melodic bassists in rock is impossible to overstate. My hero is Chris Squire, who was of that generation of British bassists who absorbed everything McCartney was doing in the 60s.
That "less than stellar" McCartney riff sounds like something Eric Clapton would write today
Very nice video and homage; thank you very much for posting it. The joy that Paul and The Beatles bring to our lives is priceless. Paul is at the level of Mozart and is still going strong at 80 years old. What an amazing/otherwordly guy.
Dude, I just watched you play all those instruments as well, you are quite the talented musician yourself, but I love that you explained what aspects make him unique and sets him apart from from the classically trained musicians. He doesn't like rules and norms in general and whenever he's told he's not supposed to do anything a certain way, he will say "who says?" and then go out of his way to do that thing in that certain way, God, I love that man and his sensitive yet rebellious spirit. I got to be in the same room as Paul and hear him play live in person for the 1st time in my life this year and what an honor it was.
Bip Bop. It may not be a masterpiece, but it does stay in your head and put a smile on your face. My Post Beatles top 3 by Paul may be 1-Maybe I'm Amazed, 2- Uncle Albert, 3 - Live and Let Die, 4- My Love, 5-Arrow Through Me, 6- Jet, 7- Rockestra Theme, 8- Coming Up, 9- Picasso's Last Words, 10 - Beware My Love, 11 - Wildlife. I may be missing a few. Awesome study of Sir Paul!
I enjoyed that. Wow that solo on Taxman! It just sounded like someone who was fed up waiting around in the studio for the lead guitarist to finish his part. Brilliant stuff!
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George Martin actually suggested to George to give Paul a try at it. George really liked it and said he gave it a India type sound for me.
Right. I realized this when the original McCartney album was released! However you explained and demonstrated his proficiency quite brilliantly. Thank you 😊
Your episodes only get better. Loved the piano at the end. Thanks
Ace! His Glastonbury set was truly remarkable. I hope the folk in Twitterland that are complaining that his voice is weak and he’s no longer musically relevant watch this video. An icon, the like of which we may never see again. Playing so many different instruments, live to millions... millions that can sing almost every word with him. Spellbinding.
I heard that he can play over 40 instruments! He has a natural gift.
His voice seems to be strengthening as the tour progresses.
For some reason, YT has not been bringing you up on my feed, so I looked for you and found this, another excellent vid. and very prescient in showing Pauls' guitar style and his use of diminished and augmented chords. I was so blessed to grow up with his music, The Beatles are simply the gold standard of popular music for all time. You may be the best guitarist on YT, you have a knack for teaching and such a great personality. Thank you from Port Orchard, Washington!
My favourite episode you've done so far ! Loved Single pigeon on piano at the end !
One of my favorite tunes to bang out on piano. It’s brilliant!
Lovely to hear Single Pigeon
He's even better than the great American Songbook composers such as Gershwin, Porter et al merely because he can play all the instruments as well as produce and compose and I mean no disrespect to those mentioned as I love Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers, Hart, Hammerstein too.
With a Little Luck? You compare that to Gershwin? I like Death Cab for Cutie, I'm the Urban Spaceman, you know the stuff this above average scam-artist-occultist wrote with the Bonzos, plus, the stuff that Theo Adorno wrote, you know the real composer for the Beatles.
he also SANG!
@@eastbay_bay Oh come on, of all the songs to pick. Let it Be, Hey Jude, Penny Lane, Yesterday, For No One, Eleanor Rigby, I could write a list for DAYS.
Indeed he did .....the Great American Songbook composers were great lyricists and melody-men but, I can't recall any of them singing to the same level of McCartney so I'm comfortable in my original comment. Thanks.
@@lyndamcardle4123 I'm fully with you. He is a giant.
Excellent video. Some deep cuts there. Love "put it there" and the sometimes underrated "flowers in the dirt" album that it was from.
Well done! I love watching you play and sing.
Very clever video in which you captured the essence of Paul McCartney… rarely enjoyed a video that much.
Paul is a genius and you managed to explain why, to a certain extend … an as a bonus got me to pick up my telecaster and rework all the riffs you so brillantly performed ♥️👍
Junk is my all times favorite:)
What a great video. Very very good and thoughtful of McCartney's work!
Great vid. Needs pt2 as well as a whole series!
Excellent job! Pleasure to watch. McCartney is such a gift to us all.
You brought home what a master musician Paul is. He always comes over as quite a modest chap too.
I don't think you know how to make a bad show. This one is particularly excellent. Thanks!
As a long-time McCartney fan i love this video and the unique perspective you've provided. Great work!
Love it man! I appreciate your demonstrating all these songs so well, great job and I concur with all your reasoning in this video. Again, great job! Thanks so much!
Best 15 minutes of my day. Your playing is awesome too.
With his many enormous contributions to the art and entertainment worlds I often forget what a talented, innovative bass player he is.
Love your content. And your playing is excellent.
Helter Skelter says it all Paul is awesome .I have always been a big fan of Paul a true musician..
One amazing thing about Paul McCartney is that he didn't become weird or unrelatable from mega-stardom (think John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Brian Wilson, Elvis, etc.). Paul simply remained the same down to earth guy in spite of the fact that he's THE most famous person on earth.
Great point.
That’s one of the things I love about him! He’s such a sweetheart despite being *the* richest musician on Earth! 🥰
Very true. Aside from Paul's own merit there, he had a sound upbringing and that helps a lot to be a normal person (Paul did not have emotional holes to fill).
Totally agree. Lennon had a mommy complex and became Yokos prey
Perfectly said!
its true, he does seem like a nice guy, and it is amazing how many wonderful songs he has written that do just get stuck in your head.
Wow! I never realized he was such a versatile musician!
Truly a genius!
And you, my friend, have presented a truly enlightening expose with your own musical versatility!
Subscribed! 🤙
I'd mention his voice, particularly on difficult tracks like Monkberry Moon Delight, Mumbo, Helter Skelter, etc.
I love this video format! Any chance you would make it into a series with other musicians? People like Knopfler or even Lennon would be super interesting to see!
I did quite a few others already, but more is sure to come!
You just smashed it again GP! Love your break downs; wow you sure know how to play man. Also a great history lesson. Too cool. I loved McCartney's first solo album.
Thanks for taking the time toi put this together very informative. You're an excellent musician yourself.
Paul is my favorite rockstar/classic rock artist of all time, and so of course I was going to click on this video ha. Sidenote: I've seen some of your other guitar videos, but I didn't realize you played piano so well! Kudos!
Love this - you play a mean few instruments yourself! Really enjoyed the way you broke down his music and explained it so we non-musicians can undertsand. More please! x
I'm down, Yesterday, I've just seen a face, all recorded on the same day! Talk about versatility!!! Great video! Thanks!
Fantastic insights and close photography for us McWanna bees! 🎸 Happy Birthday Paul....
Great video as always. So engaging and ending with single pigeon!!!🎉🎉🙌🏻🤯🥳
Love it, great job, yes you should tallk about his great singing, but hey maybe this could be longer! And i love that you show so much love for my all time Mccaryney fave song Once upon a long ago!
I remember when once upon a long ago came on the radio when I was a kid, always loved that song
So enjoy your videos - and you are crazy good yourself. Very entertaining!
This is so good! Thank you!
Thanks. This is wonderful. I love Sir Paul. I am so glad you do too. You made me smile. 🤟🏼
What an excellent video. I have been playing McCartney's songs for years and still learned a lot. The overview of his piano technique was particularly insightful.
I cannot believe Paul is now 80, just amazing
Thank you for this excellent commentary!
You've succeeded in making us understand why we get attracted to Paul's music! You're a genius as well!
Thank you. This is far and away the BEST info that I as a Lifetime Beatrlemaniac has ever seen. Thank you so veery, very much.
And Mccartney singing was the best of the band ! Also he created amazing vocal harmonies
I enjoyed this so much. I just watched it again and here is a list of the McCartney songs he goes over in this video... Lead Guitar: (Maybe I'm Amazed, Taxman, Only Love Remains); Guitar Riffs: (Jet, Oo You, Band On The Run, I've Got A Feeling); Piano: (Lady Madonna, Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five, Martha My Dear, Let 'Em In); Song Writing: (Bip Bop); Acoustic Guitar: (Long Tailed Winter Bird, Blackbird, Mother Nature's Son, Junk, Put It There); Bass: (Something); plus two more piano tunes at the end: (Single Pigeon, Once Upon A Long Ago).
I was really happy to see you spend some time on some of Paul's lesser known songs - like: Only Love Remains, Oo You, Junk, Put It There... and it was fantastic when you ended your video with Single Pigeon and Once Upon A Long Ago. Left me wishing you would have included just a bit of "Lunchbox/Odd Socks".
Hey Thom, I really love your videos, as you always come up with highly entertaining content! You are right, Paul McCartney is an absolut outstanding musician and composer and for sure one of if not the "driving force" of the Beatles. Even if there are rumours that this person is not the Paul from the early sixties (actually I don't care), this guy is still to this day an incredible musical genius and the world should be thankful for all the great music he gave us. So I wish him many more years to come. And thanks to you, because you are also a very talented musician and watching your videos is always an inspiration to me and surely for many others of your subscribers. Cheers DimiZ
It's really interesting if you think that he plays the piano like a normal bass with his left hand and he plays the bass like a complex and articulate right hand piano melody. He's a genius!
Lennon singing was the best in the band. McCartney the best harmonies. Together truly the greatest
Brilliant vídeo...I had so much Fun on watching This!!!
Salute to the greatest songwriter of all time! ❤🔥
Lennon
Yeah! So true. and too many great songs to number them..great video
That was fantastic Thom! What name comes to mind when one thinks of a genius musician? Paul McCartney of course! His music will live on forever I'm sure. Thanks for all of the incredible music and wonderful memories Sir Paul! 👍👍👏👏🎸🎸🎤🎤🎹🎹👍👍👏👏
You should record an album of McCartney songs on Piano. Hearing them solely on the Piano, (like Single Pigeon, Put it There and others than are not considered his "standards"), sound absolutely amazing and you get a better feel for his piano arrangements and melodies on those songs. Thanks for the video. I very much enjoyed it.
Right, it occurred to me too
First time watching your video and new subscriber. That was a phenomenal video. Well done.
I really enjoyed watching this! Thank you! You have a new subscriber.
always like you videos' when they come up ,,,cheers
That was great....loved your playing....you are so talented. So hard to pick 3 favorite songs. I have just recently discovered Flaming Pie & am loving song Sometimes. Too many People (Ram) and Oh darling...there are so many more
This is a great video. You got it right on the nose. McCartney has a lot to teach us, as do you sir. Well done.
Paul is a genius like antoher one (with JS Bach, W.A Mozart and LV Beetovhen) .
The mere fact that you used Once Upon a Long Ago and Oo You as examples tells me you really know his catalogue. Great video as well. Mccartney's talents are overwhelming if you really look at him, and yet he's STILL underrated. He just has beautiful melodies pouring out of him AND the ability to realize them as musical pieces. I can only imagine how many hours of music he has in the vaults that we'll only hear in decades after he's gone.
Beautifully said. Your admiration is life giving :) and you play beautifully well, yourself.
Los musiquitos medios y agudos presentamos todo nuestro respeto y admiracion y el orgullo de tenerlo vivo a ese genio indiscutido !
My absolute top by Paul are Back in the USSR and When I'm Sixty Four. Love the man.
Also I'd love to see a vid about Nektar's 'What Ya Gonna Do' that's some really badass rock!
Back in the USSR is one of my favorites, too. Did you love the special, long ago, in Russia, where the people talked about how much it meant to them at the time? Talking about loving the man!
He wrote When I'm 64 when he was just a teenager! apparently he put it on Sgt Pepper in honor of his dad, who turned 64 that year, and who loved that style of music.
You too are a great talent being able to play all that great music so well on guitar & piano
Gracias colega por el video. Gracias desde España
Bip Bop is a cool little ditty! Btw, youre excellent at guitar and piano! Great video!
great little video about Paul Mccartney''s musical genius......Paul could always keep it simple and very (unusual) melodic.....no "disscords" ruffling any feathers with his (and the beatles) music.....it's great that he is still there and making music....
and that opening guitar solo is very good.....i#ll try that one, definately.....🙂
Always very informative, many thanks GP!
Love your presentation! Just a note: Bip Bop is not crappy :)
such a great video! Many thanks
Hello, well, this was so amazing and interesting to watch, and a lot of fun! thank you! just brilliant!
Great stuff!! Really enjoyed being here, consider extending this to an hour, right? Really got into singing with that piano cover of Once Upon A Long Ago!
Wonderful video! You are pretty talented in your own right. LOL. Thanks a lot for the lessons.