I told him I was shocked he was using floor wedges and he looked at me like, “What else would I do? Why is that interesting to you?” Everybody else has the fancy in-ear monitors and a special monitoring guy, and they’re super old-school with it. They do those three-part harmonies, and they just use wedges. We played Jools Holland and McCartney was on there. That’s what I think about pop - it’s the part of music where you don’t have to be a musician to appreciate it. You don’t have to be a musician to connect with it. I was totally addicted to “Eleanor Rigby” when I was a kid. When I talk about how I want my records to be like a mixtape, that’s basically how I felt about Beatles records. The Beatles set the bar for creative LPs. If you’ve never used Qobuz, you can try out a one-month free trial here. Qobuz is designed to meet the needs of demanding music fans and audiophiles, with a focus on hi-res audio and editorial content, providing human-curated playlists, artist interviews, liner notes, and unique articles. Our big Paul McCartney birthday bash is presented in partnership with the music streaming and download service Qobuz. As we did with Bob Dylan last year, we decided to turn to artists themselves - to discuss their favorite Macca composition, the undying legacy of the Beatles, or even personal anecdotes about McCartney. McCartney did that a few times over, both in the wild left turns of the Beatles’ existence, and in simply writing songs that seemed to beget entire subgenres on their own. There are a lot of iconic musicians out there, but a very, very tiny handful who could be said to have shifted the entire history of pop music. He made classic albums, too, like McCartney II - once a cult oddity, now seized upon as a major inspirational touchstone by younger generations of musicians. He wrote so many immortal songs after the Beatles. When the band fractured, McCartney embarked on what would become a five-decade post-Beatles career strewn with solo albums, Wings releases, and all manner of experiments and detours. The Beatles were, of course, built on the songwriting partnership/rivalry of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Nobody really thought pop music was supposed to have a 60-plus year shelf life back then. All these decades later, they still influence up-and-coming artists new generations are still falling for them (on TikTok, they’re worshipped as if they were a currently active band) and their songs can still surprise and disorient no matter how long they’ve been in the atmosphere. Pop music and pop culture as we know it incubated in the ’50s, and then really blossomed in the ’60s - and the Beatles were at the very top of a feverishly, rapidly changing medium in tumultuous, transformative times. But at the same time, it’s sort of hard to be that hyperbolic considering the scope of the group’s impact. Every time the Beatles come up, there’s the inevitable danger of hyperbole.
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