McCartney II is pure art. I love hearing this side of Paul.

@peterf08

3 жыл бұрын

Paul died in 1966

@wanderer1955

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterf08 Your brain-dead now.

@peterf08

3 жыл бұрын

@@wanderer1955 im from Liverpool, most of us know this just by his accent

@wanderer1955

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterf08 Hey fatlad. I'm from Liverpool too. McCartney isn't dead. Stop being a scally yas plant pot!!

"At certain times I've done some good words." - Paul McCartney, writer of Yesterday, Let It Be, Hey Jude, Blackbird, etc

@braybeatles1

6 жыл бұрын

Modest guy. Total and utter genius.

@catnc1

5 жыл бұрын

Penny Lane, Eleanor Rigby, The Long and Winding Road....

@da_great_mogul

4 жыл бұрын

He's not stupid. He knows what he's doing and how it comes across. Probably the best PR man in the world, weren't they Lennon's words?

@lindakelly9552

4 жыл бұрын

How about “Here there and Everywhere” a very great love song!!!!

@allsystemsgo8678

4 жыл бұрын

@@da_great_mogul Thank you. I can't believe how naive everyone else is.

Paul wants to apologize to all the "real" guitarists? He played the guitar on "Taxman"(!). What a humble guy.

Nice interview. John was still alive here.

@myahollandia3552

7 жыл бұрын

Yes

@charwest9449

5 жыл бұрын

Brian Jenkins more than liked it -- it motivated him to get back in the studio himself which is why DF exists at all. Sure wasn't Yoko motivating John - he'd been blocked for 5 years with that slug as his "musical partner". Even from afar, it was still Paul who motivated him to compose again.

@jonnysupreme

5 жыл бұрын

No shit

@hernanarielberti8894

5 жыл бұрын

But Paul wasn’t for sure.... nobody seems to notice what kind of imitator is this guy, nothing alike to real Paul

@patcola7335

4 жыл бұрын

@@Lysergic_Fox Here Here ! Thank you !

Macca Rules! Thanks Macca for all this great music that cradled my youth.

One of the things I love about Paul is that you can find him in almost any stage or period of rock history and you will find him, just being Paul. Think about it: at the moment of this interview, hip hop and new wave were just starting, bands like The Smiths were not formed yet. U2 were still struggling to get an audience, The Clash was huge, punk was taking over UK, John Lennon was still alive. Metallica didn’t even existed. However there he was. The same old Paul, still genius, still humble, still doing his thing: making music. You can see him in 1967, 1980, 2019, he’s always the same.

@olskzeri2723

4 жыл бұрын

"Him being Paul". How ironic...

@scottandrewbrass1931

3 жыл бұрын

Give up.

@garystromberg8856

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, I've been listening to alot of interviews lately. He's such a bright, funny, seemingly humble guy

@bonniechambers6607

3 жыл бұрын

Just a nice,sweet,humble genius.in slot if his interviews, he gives praise to those he has great admiration for i.e. Hendrix,his bandmates,many more than I can name.That's a true gentleman and class act.I was lucky to have WON Beatke tickets for their final CV concert at Candlestick Park in SF.They were funny and fantastic ( you actually could hear them) I was in my 20's.Also worked at a recording studio in San Mateo ( Pacific Recording with the great Fred Catero and David Rubinson in 1968 to 1970.Great ERA. Miss the 69's. Go Paul..you rock!!

@markdylan8676

3 жыл бұрын

Not the same as before 1966, though.

Paul was honestly admitting here that he's more of a musician than a lyricist. Although he's done some great words or lyrics before, he said that in most of his songs the music came first. John, on the other hand, is the superior lyricist. So when they work together, the results are awesome.

@sav0618

18 күн бұрын

Disagree! Paul is just as good if not greater lyricist than Lennon!

I was 13 when this was released, and it brings back great memories! Thank you sir Paul!

@Aderin.

Жыл бұрын

I'm 13 rn

Every single interviewer ever: Can you elaborate on the mystical reasons why you created this latest enigmatic work of wonder? Macca: I just did it

@Bella-nt7ec

3 жыл бұрын

right, i'd ask him exactly this one about Deep Down

@peterf08

3 жыл бұрын

Paul died in 1966

@carlbaumeister3439

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterf08 And what year did your brain die?

Those two albums, McCartney I and McCartney II, are fantastic. Specially on McCartney I, he was (again) a total pioneer, recording everything by himself (which everyone does of course). And it still sounds great lo fi, his musicianship shines more than in his more elaborate productions. Even the instrumentals are fantastic.

@swissuz

5 жыл бұрын

agree 100% I loved McCartney 1 and RAM. Back then when they were first released we didn't know anything about John and Paul throwing a few barbs at each other. I love Monkberry Moon Delight, even if the words are a bit gruesome. He really shows that he can be a powerful vocalist in that song.....and then "Sitting in the Backseat of My Car" .....a complete 180!

@jacobjinglehymer8789

3 жыл бұрын

We can only hope far a McCartney lll !

@Unholygamewinner

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacobjinglehymer8789 Came out December last year went to no1!!😂

@technodroog

3 жыл бұрын

i agree. I think McCartney I and II and also Ram, which was informed by this DIY aesthetic, was Paul at his post-Beatles best, frankly. But he got hammered mercilessly for all three so he had to regroup each time with "proper" pop records to follow.

@wanderer1955

3 жыл бұрын

McCartney 2 is typical 80s synth crap. Temporary Secretary is bloody awful. Bogey music is not good. The rest isn't bad.

This was just a few months after he was arrested in Japan. And then Lennon was murdered. An awful time.

@peterf08

3 жыл бұрын

Was that when his fingerprints didn't match up and government bailed him out Very suspicious

@bigwilliestyle8643

3 жыл бұрын

and he made temporary secretary this was definitely a bad time

@peterf08

3 жыл бұрын

@@MultiBULLYBEEF no the british government got him out

McCartney II might just be Paul's most underappreciated album. At least until recently. The New generation of people open to electronic music, such as myself, love what he did on that one.

Beautiful eyes..

@peterf08

3 жыл бұрын

Billy Shears

@sean6992

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterf08 -_-

@markdylan8676

3 жыл бұрын

@@sean6992 Vivian Stanshall.

@cw2497

2 жыл бұрын

I liked his brown eyes better

@mirkoamicizia4258

2 жыл бұрын

@@peterf08 wrong. Billy shears was and still is the main replacement however there were a couple other musicians posing as "fauls" from the late 60s up until the early 00s. And one of such musicians is the guy jn this video. The guy in this video is neither Paul nor Billy its Bruce welch from the Shadows AS Faul Mccartney. It's quite easy to tell the differences between Billy and the other two fauls. Billy has a longer face and often wears a prosthetic nose While Bruce has a slightly more oval face and thin nose which looks kind of beaky from the side, while the third double whose name is Frank Allen he was the bass player for the searchers and when posing as Faul he had a round face, thin nose, and a thicker accent than the 2 of them. I'm not saying they were the main replacementts and I'm not saying they're still around what I am saying is tho is that Billy was definitely not the only man posing as "The Paul Mccartney" at least until the mid 00s.

He is always a great interview, because he jokes around a little, but is so transparent with his opinion. As you watch this, keep in mind that he released "McCartney II" in May of 1980. He was out doing promo interviews......just months before John died.

Paul is adorable

Very very interesting to hear Paul talking before John died.

@gretchennelson7056

2 жыл бұрын

I know this comment is 10 years old but why specifically do you like to hear him before John died?

@ohdear2001

Жыл бұрын

@@gretchennelson7056 Because it's more honest.

@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh

Жыл бұрын

@@ohdear2001 Brilliant. Spot on. To elaborate more - he could not lie about who wrote what and what he "created". Now you'd think he was the only songwriter in the Beatles and had a split personality, writing both his drek like 64, Maxwell's and of course only-possibly-Lennon stuff like Lucy and In My Life. What he's really brilliant at is re-writing history. No one here to challenge him now. And no, Ringo doesnt care.

@brucetowell3432

2 ай бұрын

@@ohdear2001 Oh PAHLEEZE...like you know all the facts about everything between John and Paul, if he says something about a song, what authority do you HAVE to say he's not telling the truth????

@PenguinBooks365

20 күн бұрын

​@@brucetowell3432Lennonists 🤮

That moment when Paul McCartney did an interview on the set of Power Rangers

John Lennon liked Coming UP

@NickC769

4 жыл бұрын

True

@al18631963

3 жыл бұрын

Lennon said, "Coming Up" brought him out of retirement. He would go around his apartment singing the song. Lennon always thought the studio version was superior to the live version

This man can do no wrong in my eyes! Absolutely love him!!

@dallasbrubaker6054

6 жыл бұрын

Call it blind faith, or call it being caught up in his fame but whichever it is wrong to think he can do no wrong.

@swissuz

5 жыл бұрын

@@dallasbrubaker6054 ...you're literally correct,....however, I think Natalie knows that too, No one is perfect.

@peterf08

3 жыл бұрын

Which one Billy or Paul

@randytorrez6858

2 жыл бұрын

RANDY JUDAH TORREZ Where is all the cheeky charm that JPM had.....?

@deedee-tc4fh

Жыл бұрын

@@peterf08 He is on stoney ground when it comes to the past and he admits here he is not a lyricist. So Mary Had A Little lamb, The Frog Song and C Moon are his 'stuff' whereas the past discography was vastly different. He uses his right hand all the time too. I am not 100% but this guy and especially his wife really seem totally fake to me, a bit like Linda's Burgers..look and taste like the real deal but when you investigate, they are totally fake even though (Nice but Dim) Tim must have rehearsed this quite a few times?

Who still loves Paul in 2020?

@YouBetterYouBet

4 жыл бұрын

kfoster009 I do!

@mitsumus4495

3 жыл бұрын

June 2121. Yep still a fan 👍🏼

@socorropineda4712

3 жыл бұрын

I do!

@craniofacialsurgeon

2 жыл бұрын

Me . Plus 100s of 1,000,000s of others

@redsvt98

18 күн бұрын

And 2024 ❤

McCartney 1,II, and III are a complete narrative continuity. All Paul, all instruments, and the production. Man’s a genius.

@user-mf8rj7oy8z

4 ай бұрын

Paul was 78 when McCartney 111 was released. The more I listen to his music, the more there is to hear and his albums from way back when they are still relevant today.

he talks about having a cassette player in his car like he is the man haha

@p0llenp0ny

6 жыл бұрын

James Adcock Cassette player in the car was almost unheard of in 1980.

@ColtraneTaylor

5 жыл бұрын

Very common by 1984 though.

@jonnysupreme

5 жыл бұрын

"Like" he's the man!!?? He fuckin is the man my friend

@likespurple2261

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't read it that way; he actually looks a little embarrassed saying it.

@ColtraneTaylor

5 жыл бұрын

@Greg Hubbard Well it was the norm where I lived in the middle east. All taxi's had them too, and they weren't pricey cab companies like today's.

What an excellent, involved and polite interviewer.

an amazing album

Great interview.

"Good evening, Tom" :D

McCartney II is a wonderful album. One of the first of Paul's I got.

Damn I love Paul. ❤ McCartney II has become a favourite must-have cd in the car for me.

I love the 1980's Paul. Actually he's great anytime!

@peterf08

3 жыл бұрын

Almost like a different person..

@markdylan8676

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterf08 A different person since 1966.

And now we have McCartney III 🎉

@theartistknownaszack9234

3 жыл бұрын

Do you think we will have a Mccartney 4

@fearfrog5904

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think so he waited 10 years for 2 and 40 years for 3 so maybe not.

@wanderer1955

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly his voice has gone now. Hope there's no McCartney 4😢

@nedadevcic5840

3 жыл бұрын

Yes and it's brilliant!

@wanderer1955

3 жыл бұрын

@@nedadevcic5840 McCartney 3 is poo.

I have loved the Beatles and Paul McCarthy all my life nothing I see him do changes that he is fantastic

"Yesterday" started out as "scrambled eggs" lol.

Paul is so modest.

@chrisnolan5607

3 жыл бұрын

More an Egomaniac.

Interesting interview! Thanks for uploading.

The most talented of all The Beatles....best singer, best musician (he plays EVERYTHING), excellent song writer (but so was John), and best looking (well most think so). We are so lucky to have him still....

@jnixa1010

5 жыл бұрын

Smufter16 George was more handsome, and John wrote at least as well. Paul was the most talented musician and wrote the best melodies. I much prefer John’s best solo stuff to Paul’s solo stuff

@nomo4u886

5 жыл бұрын

jnixa1010 Paul was the sexiest Beatle

@jnixa1010

5 жыл бұрын

Nomo 4u I was playing on the looks... it’s a subjective thing

@snap2114

5 жыл бұрын

Smufter 16 Or do we?

@hernanarielberti8894

5 жыл бұрын

We can have “ this Paul”, but the real Paul isnt with us since 1966...

The same year we lost John. At the time of this interview anything was still possible.

The interviewer, Tim Rice, is a brilliant lyricist. He wrote J.C. Superstar for A.L. Webber.

Such an underrated album

Why is this interview so calm

@geraldobrien7323

4 жыл бұрын

be quiet it’s Britain

@pocketpicker6613

4 жыл бұрын

Probably since there's no audience chatter and the fact that both of them are keeping it chill

@arionordico1954

3 жыл бұрын

because then john still alive

I like the interview and love the host’s green boots 👍

I just love him

I Love This Album!

7.55 Wow just wow, his explanation about what makes a good lyric. That's philosophy and why his music touches people so deeply.

Great interview! Paul here looks ten years younger than he really was! Maybe the shorter hair, his clean and slim face remind me of his early Beatles years.. Always a beautiful man and amazing musician! And his speaking voice is always so captivating..

John was still alive at the time 😔

This interview was 1980-May-19th

Live love and leave a legacy the mans done it 👍

Paul is just like the rest of us composers in the sense that sometimes the music comes first, and sometimes the lyrics. The important part of composing music happens when your are just letting your fingers move around on the piano without thinking of a specific chord. The more intricate chords you know as a pianist, the better the composition will turn out because you can then use really nice chord progressions and setup chords that lead into an emotional part of the song. Unfortunately, that rarely happens today with music. But, if young musicians learned Jazz chords, R&B Chords and Gospel chords, you could write incredible music that would be a hit today. That's what Bruno Mars and Adele have. That is why their music is ahead of others just looping repetitive beats.

Good album. Temporary Secretary is real groove.

Always loved one of these days.

Wow....classic interview!

DANG I love that guy!!

Great 😊 interview

Interesting that waterfall was seen as the big song of the album and now probably Temporary Secretary is the track that defines this album ...definitely ahead of its time.

@simonjones7727

7 ай бұрын

So far ahead of its time that it still hasn't happened? Paul McCartney is very talented but this is not my favourite song; it is an oddity, no?

I've done some good words...and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.

im the biggest beatles fan && paul mcCartney fan ever hes such a idol :)

Interviewer is wearing Beatle boots!!!!! Makes me remember the one's I once had...Only they were soild Black! Anybody else remember or have a pair of those?

I liked both albums

Seeing the Beatles in 1980 just before John's death always gets to me. I think at this point, all 4 of them believed on some level that they would reunite in some capacity. Whether for an album, a live performance, a full tour, or even just a single song. It was going to happen until the day it became impossible for The Beatles to ever exist again.

Came here after watching the most recent interview with Paul & jimmy Fallon

I love Paul!!!

I look at interviews like this in a pre December 1980 - post December 1980 kind of way. History tells us what happened, but Macca could never have imagined.

@m.st.6657

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I just had the same thought

Artists are so able to keep their own minds self entertained...until boredom catches them by surprise to torture them...Paul suffered from intermittent spells of boredom...believe it or not...painful thing actually!

Tim Rice had a chat show? Never knew that. Versatile man.

Album released 16 May 1980

Is that a drum on a toilet at 3:26 ? 😂

This is a groovy set!!!

@simonjones7727

7 ай бұрын

Oh no, it's horrible! Dated too for 1980, radioactive with 1976-ness.

Love the interviewer's green beatle boots.

@Cryo837

7 жыл бұрын

These are guys, I don't see any boobs....LMAO!!!

@JudePittingerMusic

4 жыл бұрын

Duff Baker lol

Wikipedia: Despite its less-than-rapturous critical reaction, McCartney II has continued to remain a favourite of McCartney devotees.

love the way he says Japanese holiday aka prison.

My japanese holiday!! I love it Paul, ha ha ha ha God Bless You. Chimbo

@peterf08

3 жыл бұрын

Was that when his fingerprints didn't match

It was 1980 and they still were wearing clothes in the style of 70's

@Bloxdio_God

4 жыл бұрын

Give em a chance people still wore flares until 82.

@Andre.felipe84

4 жыл бұрын

@@Bloxdio_God I didn't know that. I wasn’t born yet, but my parents are from that generation (They are Brazilian Baby Boomers) and they wore bell bottoms until 1979.

@Twotontessie

3 жыл бұрын

The 70s ended in like 82 or 83

@ChristopherJRobin

3 жыл бұрын

People didn't throw their 70s clothes away on 31st December 1979 and then put 80s outfits on, on 1st January 1980. Haha.

@generalyellor8188

2 жыл бұрын

Were you even alive then? I ask because I was and McCartney here is not wearing 70's style here. No flared collar, no flared pant leg. This is a pre-Yuppie 80's look entirely. Even the color scheme the host is wearing looks more early-80's than late-70's.

Paul and John both had their moments in their solo careers, a handful of reslly great songs. Still could never duplicate the sheer greatness of when they worked as a team, though. They perfectly complimented each other and edited each other just enough to make really good turn into great. And they literally created at least 50 GREAT songs together ( in including George & ringo as in The Beatles). Too bad they didn’t eventually work together again . I get taking some years apart, but you’d have thunk that after say 5 years they’d realize they were NEVER going to match the quality of their partnership.

@guciowitomski3825

2 жыл бұрын

The Beatles original catalogue is more like 200 songs. So…no, not only 50 great tunes there.

Kool home made studio in the bathroom i remember doing that taping with my brothers singing the song " lost in love"in a bathroom tub back in tge 80s cuz the echo was awesome and bouncing you gotta be creative

Good evening Tom...Tim Rice is songwriting Royalty but doesnt phase Macca...Paul is literally on a plateau with John on their own.

McCartney and his “weed” cough 😂

@carlbaumeister3439

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe, but he was still a cigarette smoker back then. I think he quit around ‘82.

@hoodedman07

3 жыл бұрын

He looks stoned

Waterfalls is the best track on the album.

@thesheeteels8252

2 жыл бұрын

One of These Days is best

I love his little cough after saying he wanted to apologize to all the mixers, drummers and guitar players. He knows, we know, he is the best at all those functions.

@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh

Жыл бұрын

What an asinine statement. Just another Macca sycophant ...

@jeffkaufman9875

Жыл бұрын

@x Actually he was choking on a seed!..

He said TOM not TIM did anyone notice; right at the start?????

Here's a bit of theory, the 80's style didn't really kick in till 82/83 till then late 70's fashion/style bridged over till then, the same apply's to the late 80's to early 90's, if you don't know the year of a clip or photo you see I think it id be quite hard to pinpoint the year within there times fashion wise.

At 1:45, no Tim, the experiment was NOT to approach it as music to be released. So it could be argued that the experiment actually DID fail.

The interviewer keeps interrupting him..... 😒

@sandykopi He was just kidding around; notice how he said "Tim" a few seconds later ...

'doing this for my own insanity' lol paul ...

Gotta love them green boots the interviewer is wearing...lol

@bluevictory1010

5 жыл бұрын

IKR?! 😂

Quality of image in this video is better than 4HD.....just a shame it's 2 men intellectualising something that comes from the soul, intangible and by its very nature, defies commentary.

Great Album Water 💦 Falls The Best

thos green ankle boots on Tim Rice at 0:01, nice.

At 7:38 anybody else just come from watching the 1978 The South Bank Show interview where he makes the same references?

3:23 though 😂👍

❤❤❤❤

For me it's genius if you as an artist knows what kind of lyric will suit this melody he has done it again and again. with john it was the lyric first and then what kind of melody suit the lyric so they were yin and yan for each other that's what made them great when they were together

good one

This is just before John Lennon's murder. So sad about what was just about to happen later that year.

3:33 "Moving mics around" is actually most of what good recording engineering is. hehe X-)

@p0llenp0ny

6 жыл бұрын

Julie I know some engineers who may beg to differ.

8:41 ! Paul loves to be loved! And that's why we love him! And many other reasons, too many to be numbered - phhhht - Japanese Holiday, oops!

Is he the Tim Rice that wrote de lyrics of Jesuschrist Superstar?

Paul sat for this interview about six months before John died.

Not one of my favourite albums, but that's no disrespect, and you can't hate it, because it was just an experiment. Temporary Secretary is pretty catchy.

i think its his best album even better than memory almost full...and that is saying something