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<center><h3> Farewell to the first solo era </h3></center> | <center><h3> Farewell to the first solo era </h3></center> | ||
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"A fair bit of thought went into Paul's decision to approach Elvis Costello," says Richard Ogden, McCartney's personal manager. "Paul felt it was helpful that they had both an Irish heritage and Liverpool family roots in common. But one of the things Paul liked best about Elvis' songwriting was his strength as a lyricist. Paul sensed his own melodies and ideas could be excitingly compatible with Costello's literate style." | "A fair bit of thought went into Paul's decision to approach Elvis Costello," says Richard Ogden, McCartney's personal manager. "Paul felt it was helpful that they had both an Irish heritage and Liverpool family roots in common. But one of the things Paul liked best about Elvis' songwriting was his strength as a lyricist. Paul sensed his own melodies and ideas could be excitingly compatible with Costello's literate style." | ||
The possibilities inherent in this Anglo-Irish pairing of pop checks and petulant balances are provocative. The man who once had the good sense to recast a song called "Daisy Hawkins" as "Eleanor Rigby" now suspects he can learn something from the chap who | The possibilities inherent in this Anglo-Irish pairing of pop checks and petulant balances are provocative. The man who once had the good sense to recast a song called "Daisy Hawkins" as "Eleanor Rigby" now suspects he can learn something from the chap who retitled an album ''This Year's Model'' instead of ''Little Hitler''. But come what may, the Paul McCartney anthologized on ''All the Best'' will never he quite the some again. | ||
At 45, McCartney retains the features of a banding, but a trace of soft wrinkles accents his sad eyes and frames his smile-bent lips. His character is like his complexion: supple but staunch, ruddy but unblemished. There is solidity in his natural air of openness, but a subtle fatigue from its cumulative toll. | At 45, McCartney retains the features of a banding, but a trace of soft wrinkles accents his sad eyes and frames his smile-bent lips. His character is like his complexion: supple but staunch, ruddy but unblemished. There is solidity in his natural air of openness, but a subtle fatigue from its cumulative toll. | ||
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I started doing some writing with Elvis — [''breaking into a brogue''] or Declan McManus, as 'is real name is; 'tin a real Irish name for a Liverpool lad. We originally said, "Well, look, let's not ''tell'' anyone we're working together, because if it doesn't work, we're gonna look like idiots." You do that; you get excited about a collaboration, and then nothing really comes of it. But we've now written quite a number of songs together, and this was the first. | I started doing some writing with Elvis — [''breaking into a brogue''] or Declan McManus, as 'is real name is; 'tin a real Irish name for a Liverpool lad. We originally said, "Well, look, let's not ''tell'' anyone we're working together, because if it doesn't work, we're gonna look like idiots." You do that; you get excited about a collaboration, and then nothing really comes of it. But we've now written quite a number of songs together, and this was the first. | ||
How we started off writing together was that, rather than just jump in the deep end, he played | How we started off writing together was that, rather than just jump in the deep end, he played me a couple of songs he'd been having trouble finishing, and said, "Tell me what's wrong with these." And then "Back on My Feet" was one where in ''my'' case, I wasn't totally happy with my lyrics, though I'd pretty much written it. So I fixed up his two songs, he fixed up this one of mine, and we were off and running. The next song we wrote from scratch, which was better yet! | ||
There's now about nine of them that we've written together and some will show up on the next album. I'm not worried now about saying I'm writing with him because we're both quite happy with the standard of the work. | There's now about nine of them that we've written together and some will show up on the next album. I'm not worried now about saying I'm writing with him because we're both quite happy with the standard of the work. | ||
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