![]() While Lennon seemed in a more stable place in 1980, it was all too short while it lasted. He may have had some trouble with past lovers, but he has understood the error of his ways and is thanking his wife for saving him from his own misplaced anger. Lennon acknowledges that he and Ono have their ups and downs, but he’s more than happy to brave the storm of life with her by his side than to see her walk away.Ĭompared to McCartney’s more insecure take on his relationship, Lennon’s take on love harkens back to a child like sense of innocence. The song is meant as a love letter to Yoko Ono, but the core message speaks to what all insecure lovers go through. While he settles into domestic bliss on songs like ‘Beautiful Boy’, ‘Woman’ is one of the purest songs he would ever create. Though it would be the final album that he would make before his death in 1980, Lennon is brewing with optimism, looking to make the most of his time on the Earth and not having to live in the shadow of Beatlemania. Though McCartney’s cautious feeling for his lady might owe something to Lennon, the intellectual Beatle had a much different perspective when he got around to writing ‘Woman’.Īfter taking a prolonged break from music, Lennon was centred after an experience at sea and started working on his album, Double Fantasy. On the other hand, there’s Lennon, whose strong wit and clever turn of phrase provided the perfect foil to McCartney. Around the time of Revolver, Lennon had written ‘And Your Bird Can Sing’ as a deliberate attempt to write something with McCartney’s optimism, so this could have easily been Paul returning the favour. Granted, it’s far from the first time that the two had nicked musical ideas from one another. Considering Lennon was already expanding his horizons by the time this track was released in 1966, McCartney tried to work outside his wheelhouse and try something in the Lennon mould. This is the kind of unsure attitude that Lennon made a part of his style for years, beginning with tracks like ‘If I Fell’. Taking a page out of Lennon’s playbook, McCartney sounds insecure here, wondering if he should put on a facade for his lover and pretend that everything is OK. Looking through the lyrics, though, McCartney’s casual optimism is missing from this song. Written for the folk duo Peter and Gordon, this could have simply been a nice gesture to Peter Asher, whose sister Jane Asher had dated McCartney throughout most of his moptop days. Compared to the more cynical side of Lennon, McCartney was always focused on making people happy with his music, and his take on the song ‘Woman’ is no exception. On one hand there is McCartney, the man who lives and breathes music and brings an optimistic spirit to everything. And while the title ‘Woman’ does overlap in their careers, the two songs couldn’t be more different. Although the songwriting team writing for the Beatles produced some of the greatest music of the 20th century, there was always a bit of friendly competition between the two songwriters trying to outdo each other. And these songs span my entire life.” We’re hopeful that we won’t be hearing the famous “Hey Jude” story for the millionth time, and instead learn, well, how maybe “Jet” has literally been about a plane this entire time.The partnership between John Lennon and Paul McCartney was always defined by opposites. ![]() ![]() What I do have are my songs, hundreds of them, which I’ve learned serve much the same purpose. “I know that some people, when they get to a certain age, like to go to a diary to recall day-to-day events from the past, but I have no such notebooks. The one thing I’ve always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs,” McCartney said in a statement to Rolling Stone. (Such as cute band photos and private letters.) “More often than I can count, I’ve been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. Rolling Stone reports that quar album legend Paul McCartney will be publishing a 960-page memoir called The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, in November, which is described as a “self-portrait in 154 songs.” For the endeavor, McCartney provided robust commentary and history for some of his most famous Beatles, Wings, and solo songs, which will be organized alphabetically and paired with never-before-seen visuals from his archive. Okay, this is a rare instance where a book should actually be longer than its current page count.
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