Paul McCartney defends "Love", opens up about therapy
Paul McCartney says that he understands that the new soundtrack to The Beatles LOVE will both appeal to and turn off some longtime fans. The album, which debuted last week at Number Four on the charts, was complied by the group's legendary producer George Martin and his son Giles, using elements from dozens of Beatles songs.
Macca says that he knows that there will be a percentage of fans that consider it almost sacrilegious to remix the Beatles' catalogue: "I think there will be people who are purists and want to hear it as it was. And you know what? It exists as it was. So you know, play your vinyl. You know, that is how it was, but obviously by allowing it to happen, we don't have a problem in cleaning (the masters) up. So for the purists, you stick to the pure sound and let other people hear it clean."
The "score," which creates a new musical mosaic using elements from the group's catalogue, is featured in the hit Las Vegas Beatles-Cirque du Soleil show of the same name, now running at The Mirage.
In other McCartney news:
Macca, whose visits to a psychiatrist were first revealed in his estranged wife Heather Mills' divorce petition, spoke about therapy in a recent interview with Britain's Radio Times.
McCartney said that, "You can be in an argument, or feeling down, and if you're lucky enough to be able to write you go into a corner and work your way through the emotions. Instead of sitting down with a psychiatrist, you sing 'I've been feeling bad'... I've seen psychiatrists in my time, so songwriting hasn't always worked. It's not a bad idea to have someone to talk to. It's normally over family matters."
Macca is currently one of three British celebrities in the final running for the title of Britain's Greatest Living Icon. The award, for which McCartney is currently running against '80s pop legend Morrissey and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, will be decided by viewers of the BBC TV's Culture Show. The winner will be announced on December 16th.
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Fresh off the heels of Heather Mills allegedly trying to get her hands on tapes of McCartney's first wife, the late Linda McCartney, revealing abuse stories to an author, Mills has reportedly shown interest in audio tapes made by McCartney's step-sister, Ruth McCartney.
The tapes were made by Beatles author Geoffrey Giulliano in the mid-90's, while working on a project with Ruth which never got off the ground. Ruth has broken her silence after hearing that Giulliano has offered to sell the tapes to Mills.
The tapes reportedly show that Macca had a violent side. Ruth spoke about one of the incidents described on the tapes, telling Britain's Daily Mail that after performing with McCartney's brother Mike on British TV in the mid-'70s and expressing an interest in going into show business, McCartney "... pinned her to a wall and, shaking with rage, screamed at her: 'You're fat, you're spotty, you don't have a life, you're not interesting, most guys only take you out so they can meet me.'"
Among the other revelations on the tapes include the first mention that the Liverpool-based McCartney clan weren't particularly fond of Linda: "When she joined the family, everyone hated her because she was rich and Jewish. Our Aunty Milly said it was 'practically like Paul marrying someone black.' That was a wicked, racist thing to say, but that was the background we came from, a sort of World War Two Britain."
Ruth also said that, "Paul wanted to smoke marijuana in (his father's) house. Dad gave him a hard time, but he still did it. In Paul's mind, it was his house and if he wanted to smoke, he could. But Dad disapproved. Paul would blow hot and cold when he did drugs. He could be lovely one moment and nasty the next."
Ruth was adopted by McCartney's father Jim McCartney in 1964, when he married her mother Angie.
Jim McCartney died on March 18th, 1976, on the eve of McCartney's European tour with Wings. McCartney, who was unable to attend the funeral, reportedly immediately cut Ruth and Angie off financially, and has had no contact with them over the past 30 years.
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Macca says that he knows that there will be a percentage of fans that consider it almost sacrilegious to remix the Beatles' catalogue: "I think there will be people who are purists and want to hear it as it was. And you know what? It exists as it was. So you know, play your vinyl. You know, that is how it was, but obviously by allowing it to happen, we don't have a problem in cleaning (the masters) up. So for the purists, you stick to the pure sound and let other people hear it clean."
The "score," which creates a new musical mosaic using elements from the group's catalogue, is featured in the hit Las Vegas Beatles-Cirque du Soleil show of the same name, now running at The Mirage.
In other McCartney news:
Macca, whose visits to a psychiatrist were first revealed in his estranged wife Heather Mills' divorce petition, spoke about therapy in a recent interview with Britain's Radio Times.
McCartney said that, "You can be in an argument, or feeling down, and if you're lucky enough to be able to write you go into a corner and work your way through the emotions. Instead of sitting down with a psychiatrist, you sing 'I've been feeling bad'... I've seen psychiatrists in my time, so songwriting hasn't always worked. It's not a bad idea to have someone to talk to. It's normally over family matters."
Macca is currently one of three British celebrities in the final running for the title of Britain's Greatest Living Icon. The award, for which McCartney is currently running against '80s pop legend Morrissey and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, will be decided by viewers of the BBC TV's Culture Show. The winner will be announced on December 16th.
Also:
Fresh off the heels of Heather Mills allegedly trying to get her hands on tapes of McCartney's first wife, the late Linda McCartney, revealing abuse stories to an author, Mills has reportedly shown interest in audio tapes made by McCartney's step-sister, Ruth McCartney.
The tapes were made by Beatles author Geoffrey Giulliano in the mid-90's, while working on a project with Ruth which never got off the ground. Ruth has broken her silence after hearing that Giulliano has offered to sell the tapes to Mills.
The tapes reportedly show that Macca had a violent side. Ruth spoke about one of the incidents described on the tapes, telling Britain's Daily Mail that after performing with McCartney's brother Mike on British TV in the mid-'70s and expressing an interest in going into show business, McCartney "... pinned her to a wall and, shaking with rage, screamed at her: 'You're fat, you're spotty, you don't have a life, you're not interesting, most guys only take you out so they can meet me.'"
Among the other revelations on the tapes include the first mention that the Liverpool-based McCartney clan weren't particularly fond of Linda: "When she joined the family, everyone hated her because she was rich and Jewish. Our Aunty Milly said it was 'practically like Paul marrying someone black.' That was a wicked, racist thing to say, but that was the background we came from, a sort of World War Two Britain."
Ruth also said that, "Paul wanted to smoke marijuana in (his father's) house. Dad gave him a hard time, but he still did it. In Paul's mind, it was his house and if he wanted to smoke, he could. But Dad disapproved. Paul would blow hot and cold when he did drugs. He could be lovely one moment and nasty the next."
Ruth was adopted by McCartney's father Jim McCartney in 1964, when he married her mother Angie.
Jim McCartney died on March 18th, 1976, on the eve of McCartney's European tour with Wings. McCartney, who was unable to attend the funeral, reportedly immediately cut Ruth and Angie off financially, and has had no contact with them over the past 30 years.
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