![]() ![]() Bumped the Captain & Tennille’s “Love Will Keep Us Together” from atop the Hot 100. ![]() Finishes with a handsome strings-and-harp coda that looks ahead to Macca’s dabbling in classical music. Over a lightly skipping groove that sounds like it could go on forever, McCartney and his Wings mates float cool, jazzy vocal harmonies as session-pro saxophonist Tom Scott noodles around behind them. Yet it wasn’t just a play for new listeners: As much as he’s leaning toward his younger collaborators (including Rihanna in one of her finest vocal performances ever), McCartney is pulling them toward him in this warm acoustic number, which went on to become a regular part of his live show.Ĭo-written with Elvis Costello, this crisp and relentlessly hooky guitar-pop jam would appear to demonstrate McCartney’s absorption of his collaborator’s style - until you remember how completely Costello had absorbed McCartney’s before the two even met. On Spotify, this improbable intergenerational team-up outdraws McCartney’s solo tunes - and many of the Beatles’ hits - by hundreds of millions of streams. But the crunching guitars and raw vocals are an undeniable thrill. And he caught plenty of flak for appearing to condone the actions of the Irish Republican Army. The song’s political thrust was widely viewed as Macca’s attempt to keep up with John Lennon (though it’s also got some freewheeling “Like a Rolling Stone” energy). ![]() ![]() “ Give Ireland Back to the Irish” (1972)Įxhibit B: this fierce Celtic rocker that McCartney wrote in response to Northern Island’s Bloody Sunday, when more than a dozen civil rights protesters were killed by British soldiers. about Scotland’s “dark distant mountains” and “valleys of green.”Ĩ. It’s also seen in the evocation of a place, as McCartney does with bagpipes and windswept acoustic guitar in this gorgeous shanty - at one point the biggest-selling single of all time in the U.K. But “Maybe I’m Amazed” remains one of rock’s great love songs: a secular-gospel hymn of praise to a woman helping “a lonely man who’s in the middle of something” - namely, the breakup of the biggest band in history.įor a songwriter, genius can show itself in a finely wrought melody or a vivid turn of phrase. This concert rendition from the triple-live “Wings Over America” drags a little, and McCartney’s singing feels less aflame with passion than in the studio take on his debut solo album. as well as the duets and collaborations in which McCartney took a lead or coequal role it does not include various remixes, charity group efforts - or, as it happens, anything from “McCartney III,” since, as with his first self-titled set, he didn’t issue a single in advance. 1 entry.) Using information from McCartney’s official website, Discogs and the amazingly comprehensive Paul McCartney Project, it seeks to include the A-side of every single commercially released in either the U.S. (An accompanying Spotify playlist follows the No. To mark the new album’s arrival - in a week he has all to himself thanks to Taylor Swift moving the release date of her “ Evermore” on his account - we’ve ranked every one of Sir Paul’s post-Beatles singles, from worst to best, in the list below. But he’s never seemed to care: Indeed, the charming and eclectic “McCartney III,” which he made largely by himself while quarantining during the COVID-19 pandemic, proudly evokes 1970’s “McCartney” and 1980’s “McCartney II,” each widely described at the time as being full of tossed-off trifles. ![]()
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