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Name: pluto
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Subject: RE: RE: mccartneys first solo lp...nsc
Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Time: 2:01:31 PM
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Message ID: 297025
Parent ID: 297013
Thread ID: 297006
Sorry DA, did I give the impression it was something Miles said in 'Many Years From Now'? He might say something on the subject I can't remember, it's years since I read it, and I'm just at the first chapter this time round.
The 'weakness' thing is just my take on things I gleaned from various writings on the man. Basically it goes along the lines of; without Lennon to reign him in, McCartney tended to indulge his propensity for the whimsical, especially with his ideas that might have been better terminated at inception. I say propensity, although I'm not sure it is entirely innate. Anyway.
As you know Lennon and McCartney came at the song writing from different angles, for Lennon it had to come from personal experience, for McCartney it was creating fictitious characters, telling a story, flights of fancy. So without Lennon's input and edge, unfettered McCartney indulged ideas that as I say,it might have been better if they had never seen the light of day. Ok, sometimes the results were charming, but equally they could be cringe worthy. Of course McCartney was able to follow his flights of fantasy to the extent he did because of his undoubted musicality, he was the 'musician' in the Beatles, not that the others weren't musical. So in a paradoxical way, it was his huge musical ability that was his 'weakness'. That and the fact he didn't have Lennon (or someone) to say 'Paul, that's a load of shite!'.
It's all a bit of a generalisation I know, but that is what I have taken from what I have read on the subject. I think there is a grain of truth there.
While I'm here. I remember from first time round reading, that Miles said that more than one person held Brian Jones under the water the night he died. You might already have heard that DA, but if not I thought it might interest you. I haven't read anything else Miles has written so I don't know if he has said any more on the subject. I do know he was part of the London scene back then, along with guys like John Dunbar.
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