![]() "Fine Line" was pretty good single IMO but I don't think it did that well. The mood of the album for the most part was pretty somber. While the album was critically acclaimed, it was not a very commercial album. list said in Paul McCartney- New Album for for CHAOS is not that surprising IMO.Conversely All the Best at #4 was shocking to me also Yes I wasn't surprised that the Pure McCartney Compilation in 2016 compared to the other earlier Compilation's like Wingspan, All the Best, and Wingspan fared a lot worse. Very interesting with a bunch of surprises at least to this big time fan. Conversely All the Best at #4 was shocking to me said in Paul McCartney- New Album for Thanks for the article on Macca's total Album Sales. Ram did get terrible reviews in the beginning but you would have thought that with all resurgence Ram had over the last 10-15 years and the big Archive Release it would have been higher. Wings Over America did very well too at #13.Īlbums that surprisingly did poorly included Ram at #17, Chaos #19, and Flaming Pie at #21. Paul's 1st album McCartney was #5 and Back to the Egg landed at #12. The 70's was easily Paul's highest Sales Decade by a lot. #1,2,3 at the peak of Paul's Solo Sales (Botr, Venus &Mars, At the Speed of Sound) did the best. The Lyrics: 1956 To The Present by Paul McCartney is out now.Thanks for the article on Macca's total Album Sales. The book is edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet Paul Muldoon. In addition to fresh stories about his songs, The Lyrics features never-before-seen photographs and drawings from McCartney’s personal collection. “It was a nice process, actually,” he said. Sir Paul added that, ultimately, it became much more than “just the songs: it became the memories that the songs evoked”. (Photo by Stan Meagher/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) From left to right, a photographer, George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney. “I think the whole process of analysing the songs took me to stuff that I hadn’t thought of recently, not because I didn’t want to, but because there was never a clue, never a prompt, never a trigger to think about those things.” The Beatles at London Airport, en route to America, 13th February 1964. “Then there were surprising memories that would come out, like when I got into talking about John and was reminded of the hitchhiking trips we’d taken as kids, and with George. “I’ve always said ‘Let It Be’ was written after dreaming of my mum, but some of the lyrics from ‘Yesterday’ might have been to do with my mum as well,” he said. He explained that the song seems to have a much deeper meaning than he had initially thought as it could have been written subliminally about his mother. “It kind of turned into a therapy session, because I thought I was happily writing a little pop song when I was 14, but if you look at the timing of it I had just lost my mother,” he said. Paul McCartney and John Lennon are widely regarded as one of the greatest songwriting duos in popular music “It wasn’t really a forgotten memory, but revisiting the first song I ever wrote, ‘I Lost My Little Girl’, was interesting,” he said. When asked by a fan about how he compiled the book, and about “lyrics or memories that came back to you and reminded you of a time you’d forgotten”, Sir Paul reminisced about ‘I Lost My Little Girl’. The Beatles bassist and songwriter was answering fan questions ahead of the release of his new book The Lyrics, an in-depth journey through the 154 songs from every stage of his career, from The Beatles to Wings and his solo work. Sir Paul McCartney has shared how revisiting songs he wrote decades ago revealed new meaning behind them. Sir Paul McCartney reveals how combing through his entire body of work for his new book The Lyrics was like a therapy session.
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