![]() Rick Rubin kept it very fresh with songs they’d play with at the soundboard, turning tracks up and down in the mix, isolating tracks and having fun with it. “Maybe I’m Amazed.” Dreaming “Yesterday.” Believing in magic.ĭancing at the recording sound board. The stunningly fast pace at which the young Beatles put out albums and singles. Playing 10,000 hours together in Hamburg before their first album. “Band On the Run” where McCartney had to play the drums because the drummer didn’t show up for the trip to record in Lagos at the last second, and then they were robbed of their Band on the Run demos at knifepoint in Lagos. “Eleanor Rigby” and the orchestra, “Penny Lane” and the high trumpet. Rubin and McCartney listen to different songs from the Beatles catalogue, and McCartney gushes memories and information about each one like he’s in the midst of the moment that was maybe 50 years ago or more. And sometimes footage of Paul in recent concert halls, earlier Beatles footage, footage of other artists who influenced McCartney, and Paul with Wings and solo. The series interweaves beautiful footage including of the Fab Four from the Let It Be / Get Back sessions. He says off the cuff “it’s a mathematical thing.” ![]() He speaks quickly and easily about his genius ability, downplaying it like it’s the easiest thing in the world. He demonstrates this technique of songwriting using shape with a winsome joviality, moving through songs with similar chords and varying moods. It’s a testament to those among us who truly are born with a musical ability, as it is unfathomable to those of us without. He says he started to play piano with a C chord, and played the chords basically by shape. His music comes to him as tunes in his mind, sometimes in sleep. McCartney says he can’t read or write music in episode 2. They were filmed in black and white in an old church in the Hamptons with lots of visually dramatic footage. ![]() The episodes produced by Paul McCartney, Rick Rubin and Scott Rodger, are easily digestible and under 30 minutes. So this came out a little before the documentary, and features the handsome, effusive and truly lovely 79 year old Paul McCartney in conversation with Rick Rubin. This one came out in June 2021 and is an entire season of 6 episodes on Hulu. In the wake of the craze about the Beatles documentary Get Back, there is another series to consider. Paul McCartney - McCartney 3,2,1 review (image (c) Hulu)
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