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Six years ago I took my son, Milo, to Bucharest for his birthday. In the baking July sun, seeking shade, we crouched on the kerb in front of the presidential palace. And I played him the footage of the crowds on that bitter December morning of 1989 as Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena emerged on to the balcony. The speech Ceausescu gave, or tried to give, on 21 December was his last. And it was extraordinary. Ceausescu used his balcony address to reassure, cajole, bribe the crowd. But it turned against him as he stood there. This footage state TV rolling live at the time became the physical, televisual embodiment of power seeping away from a president. The leaders and their bodyguards are above them, removed. But it is those on the ground who now control the narrative that will end his days. We watch Ceausescu’s face as it begins to understand that. He and his wife tried to flee the next morning but they were caught, ‘tried’ for genocide and subversion of
Paul McCartney is my absolute hero. Does that make me biased when reviewing his latest release? Shit yeah. But that doesn’t mean I can’t be objective.
Paul used his time in lockdown, nay, “rockdown”, wisely, recording his third “solo” (i.e. writing, playing and producing) album.
Returning to some half-written potential future classics, he gradually built upon them, layer by layer, using some of rock’s most iconic instruments, including (natch) his Hofner bass, the Mellotron keyboard used on Strawberry Fields Forever, and a double bass that belonged to Bill Black, which Linda had gifted him for his birthday during the mid 70s.
Sir Paul is a big fan of Strawberry Fields Forever and Across the Universe (Image: GETTY)
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Sir Paul said: “Julia…is about the mum he couldn’t live with.
“So I loved the poignancy of that, because I’d been with him round to Julia’s house to visit her.
“And I knew how deeply he loved her. So Julia I would go with.”
While on Lennon’s post-Beatles songs, the 78-year-old said he’s a big fan of Beautiful Boy – the track about Lennon’s son with Yoko Ono, Sean – which Sir Paul said was “a really great song”.
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Sir Paul McCartney has written many songs over the years, as a solo artist and as a member of The Beatles and Wings. However, one particular songwriting credit has been known to get his back up: Lennon-McCartney. Sir Paul has spoken out about his feelings on it before - but why is John’s name first?