Post by Eggman on Aug 25, 2003 19:32:48 GMT
Out of the darkness: McCartney spreads wings
Evelyn McDonnell
Miami Herald
Published: Sunday, May 12, 2002
Q: When Wings started you refused to do Beatles songs.
A: It was so close to The Beatles, we were trying to establish our own identity then as a group. So for Wings to go out as a Beatles copy band wouldn't have been too cool. It was a policy decision then. Now it's not like that. Now I just see it as all my stuff. The Beatles stuff we do is mostly stuff I wrote.
ARE YOU SURE FAUL?
Q: Isn't that one of the things that you're trying to achieve: to reclaim your role in The Beatles, which has sometimes been overshadowed?
A: I don't really think of it like that. A lot of people know what my role was (THATS FOR SURE!!
). Whenever I go out I just do the Beatles songs that I've written. Luckily there's a lot of them . When the Beatles 1 album came out, quite a high percentage of those songs that were No. 1 happened to be mine 
. So that's very gratifying, and it's also very handy if I'm going out on tour. It means people know them and like them because they have a nostalgic value. To some degree I am reminding people, `Hey, I wrote that one.' JUST INCREDIBLE!!!
Q: Is it poignant to be playing those songs without the rest of the guys there?
A: No, it's not really. Certain points in the show are, but the Beatles songs aren't -- they're just a celebration. It's so long that I've played with The Beatles, it's not as if you look over and expect them to be there. That was an awful long time ago. But for instance, if I'm doing a Wings song without Linda, that's poignant. But the edge is taken off that because it's a new band -- it's not the Wings lineup.
Q: I've been calling Driving Rain ``Goodbye Hello.''
A: I open the tour with Hello Goodbye. It's a new beginning in many ways, this tour. ANOTHER BEGINNING, ANOTEHER ONE!!!!!
Q: And the album. It starts with you saying goodbye to Linda, and then hello to Heather.
A: It's funny how the two co-exist. I didn't plan it that way. But you write and sometimes you just write from the heart. There are Linda songs and Heather songs sitting side by side. It's just the point I'm at, especially when I did it last year. It is exactly that, really: It's remembering Linda, and at the same time saluting Heather. YES FAUL KNOWS ABOUT THIS THINGS!!!!
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Q: I was very touched by the story of how you held George's hand for the first time the last time you saw him living.
A: It was really nice. It was very touching. It was only afterward that I realized -- because you do those things instinctively -- it was only afterward that I came away, I thought, 'Wow, why do I feel so good?' Even though it was tragic circumstances, we'd had a real little moment together there, holding hands for the first time in our lives. It's not the thing you do when you're 18-year-old Liverpool guys.
Q: It's interesting, because people always hold up The Beatles as icons of boys getting along together, of male-bonding.
A: It's life. If you stick around long enough, all these things happen. It's the richness of life. I like it really. Some people think life is a bit of a downer, but I always think it's got a very wonderful thing, kind of a very rich, mystical, wonderful thing, that sometimes gets very difficult.
Evelyn McDonnell is The Herald's pop music critic
HE ALWAYS AMAZE ME!!!!! ;D ;D ;D
Evelyn McDonnell
Miami Herald
Published: Sunday, May 12, 2002
Q: When Wings started you refused to do Beatles songs.
A: It was so close to The Beatles, we were trying to establish our own identity then as a group. So for Wings to go out as a Beatles copy band wouldn't have been too cool. It was a policy decision then. Now it's not like that. Now I just see it as all my stuff. The Beatles stuff we do is mostly stuff I wrote.
ARE YOU SURE FAUL?Q: Isn't that one of the things that you're trying to achieve: to reclaim your role in The Beatles, which has sometimes been overshadowed?
A: I don't really think of it like that. A lot of people know what my role was (THATS FOR SURE!!
). Whenever I go out I just do the Beatles songs that I've written. Luckily there's a lot of them . When the Beatles 1 album came out, quite a high percentage of those songs that were No. 1 happened to be mine 
. So that's very gratifying, and it's also very handy if I'm going out on tour. It means people know them and like them because they have a nostalgic value. To some degree I am reminding people, `Hey, I wrote that one.' JUST INCREDIBLE!!!Q: Is it poignant to be playing those songs without the rest of the guys there?
A: No, it's not really. Certain points in the show are, but the Beatles songs aren't -- they're just a celebration. It's so long that I've played with The Beatles, it's not as if you look over and expect them to be there. That was an awful long time ago. But for instance, if I'm doing a Wings song without Linda, that's poignant. But the edge is taken off that because it's a new band -- it's not the Wings lineup.
Q: I've been calling Driving Rain ``Goodbye Hello.''
A: I open the tour with Hello Goodbye. It's a new beginning in many ways, this tour.
ANOTHER BEGINNING, ANOTEHER ONE!!!!! Q: And the album. It starts with you saying goodbye to Linda, and then hello to Heather.
A: It's funny how the two co-exist. I didn't plan it that way. But you write and sometimes you just write from the heart. There are Linda songs and Heather songs sitting side by side. It's just the point I'm at, especially when I did it last year. It is exactly that, really: It's remembering Linda, and at the same time saluting Heather. YES FAUL KNOWS ABOUT THIS THINGS!!!!
.
Q: I was very touched by the story of how you held George's hand for the first time the last time you saw him living.
A: It was really nice. It was very touching. It was only afterward that I realized -- because you do those things instinctively -- it was only afterward that I came away, I thought, 'Wow, why do I feel so good?' Even though it was tragic circumstances, we'd had a real little moment together there, holding hands for the first time in our lives. It's not the thing you do when you're 18-year-old Liverpool guys.
Q: It's interesting, because people always hold up The Beatles as icons of boys getting along together, of male-bonding.
A: It's life. If you stick around long enough, all these things happen. It's the richness of life. I like it really. Some people think life is a bit of a downer, but I always think it's got a very wonderful thing, kind of a very rich, mystical, wonderful thing, that sometimes gets very difficult.
Evelyn McDonnell is The Herald's pop music critic
HE ALWAYS AMAZE ME!!!!! ;D ;D ;D
