Each member had their own niche, but each member disdained the rest of the band’s niches. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Harrison’s meditative “Within You Without You” is juxtaposed brilliantly with the horn-driven, jazzy “When I’m Sixty-Four.” Lennon and company notoriously hated McCartney’s light-hearted compositions, like “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” “Martha, My Dear” and “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” despite them writing their own songs about pigs, octopi and forthright monkeys. When the Indian classical influences grew too avant-garde for me (or at least that’s how I would’ve naively phrased it in 2013), I often retreated to the warmth of McCartney’s lovable gospel of charm-and it’s a haven I still return to, as suggested by “Rocky Raccoon” living in my year-end Apple Music Replay, though I might lie about that if I’m cornered.īut what does remain true is this: for every “Tomorrow Never Knows,” there is a “For No One” nearby to match. And while Harrison’s and Lennon’s songs fell into urgency, slowly shifting their gazes towards introspective, sometimes socio-political songs, it was McCartney who ascended higher into the pop stratosphere. In the band’s early years, McCartney’s work didn’t stand out as much from that of the other three, aside from him being relegated to the role of the token acoustic love song writer (“I’ll Follow the Sun,” “And I Love Her”). “Hey Jude” was my first favorite song I had a Wings poster on my wall “I Will” was my and my first girlfriend’s “song” one of my first tattoos was McCartney’s Yellow Submarine character. Still, they fed into the long-standing institution of passing The Beatles’ music down between generations, symbolic of how you didn’t have to be present for their greatness to fall in love with it.Īnd from a young age, it was Paul McCartney’s contributions to the band that I gravitated towards. My dad technically lived through the entirety of The Beatles’ American success, but my mom was born six months after the band broke up. I was only a toddler when the early-aughts Beatlemania surged across America, but 1 was presented to me as a stocking stuffer, tucked beneath a half-dozen chocolate Santa Claus bars, to go along with the small CD/tape player my folks gifted me that same Christmas. In less than a decade, The Beatles accumulated 20 #1s, and-30 years after their highly publicized break-up-Apple/Parlophone Records released them for the first time in CD format.
The Beatles’ greatest hits compilation, 1, was released the year prior. In 2001, George Harrison passed away after a battle with lung cancer, after the 20th anniversary of John Lennon’s murder had already come and gone.
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