It's a good interview, but for the first quarter of it or so, he keeps interrupting Paul to ask another question while Paul is still answering the previous one.
Probably one the best, informative, honest and relaxed McCartney interviews I’ve ever heard. And I’ve heard a lot! Maybe all interviews should be held with Tea and Biscuits.
Never heard this interview before. Thank you. While listening to it, I noticed when Paul was naming songs, that he wrote alone, he mentioned Mull of Kintyre. That song was cowritren with Denny Laine. Come on now, Paul!😊
It's true, he does toss that out as an "on my own" song without mentioning Denny. Denny did co-write verse lyrics and his folky influence is very strong in some of those lines. I suppose it's a bit like Yellow Submarine, of which John said "Paul's baby, Paul's concept, Paul's chorus, Paul's title, so i always consider it Paul's song" even though he co-wrote the verses. Similarly, Denny has also said that Mull of Kintyre was "Paul's song" although he co-wrote the verse lyrics. In the same way, Paul himself evidently feels he has so-to-speak moral ownership of these songs.
@@kaivaz6076It's an interesting topic. On the surface McCartney was, and lawyers has been the wised-up man on business beginning with the Klein crimes and lawsuits, MPL, buying music publishing rights. Paul has always been a business entrepreneur. He probably plays it down a bit so as not to look to money orientated. Yoko too is very clever with her finances.
@kaivaz6076 i noticed that too. With John and Ringo he immediately had an answer. I understand though because if you replace George with another competent guitarist the Beatles would have still been the Beatles. Less a couple of great songs but still top of the top. I suppose you could say the same about Ringo, but you can tell the guys love Ringo and that's a big deal for band chemistry. It's weird to say, but minus Ringo feels less Beatles than minus George, ocourse, in an intangible way.
9:14 Cliff Richard (who was a year older than Hank Marvin) was actually younger than John Lennon and Ringo Starr, he just seems older because Cliff and the Shadows had been having hits since 1958 and were the group to emulate (that's where the suits came from).
WOW - you really get a close up and personal in this one. And you really get a sense for Paul's true personality - this is it! And just reminiscing about the old days off the top of his head, only 16 years after they had broken up. If a younger person reading this thinks 16 years is a long time.... IT AIN'T! That's about enough time to gain some perspective on what the hell happened 16 years ago. Now in 2024... it's 54 years later....so I trust 1986 Paul's memories of these times, more than 2024 Paul. But thank God we have 2024 Paul.
As someone who went through a breakup of a long term relationship 4 years ago, I’m looking forward getting some perspective on what the hell happened. 😂
Also ... I'm gonna say this was Oct 1986 because Paul had just released "Press To Play" in Aug of that year. Not much happening in Oct 1987 for him to be out on the interview circuit.
And if you listen carefully about half way through, the interviewer says something about ... "in 1 year it'll be the 20th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's..." Something to that effect. Makes the year 1986.
This was a time when Paul was still very open and informative/revealing with interviews. I think by the 1989 Tour era and beyond, he tended to rely heavily on stock stories (ie “The movement you need is on your shoulder” story or the making of “Helter Skelter story, both which he repeated often).
"I can't remember what I was doing in the 70s". I don't know how to take that, i don't know whether that makes me slightly angry or not considering what he did do inspired me greatly. It feels a little arrogant to be so flippant. i still love him and he's the greatest songwriter of all time, but i hate it when it seems like it's he doesn't care, when millions DO CARE. :)
"Insecurities" as Paul says several times here. Honestly I find it unusually open and confiding of Paul to say this about the 70s. He did some really great music and concerts during this decade, but as someone who was around then, he was quite villified, put down by the musical establishment - think Rolling Stone mag, which rather ironically considered itself anti-tablishment... anyway, so as he has said more than once, it was so prevalent he began to believe it all himself. Give the guy a break, he's human after all.
@@TheUnknownSophy He was also higher'n'kite during most of the seventies. Maybe that had something to do w/the memory loss. Monkberry Moon Delight indeed!
To be fair, Denny did a whole hit piece on Paul for the daily mirror and completely ruined his relationship with Paul on his own doing that. If I was Paul I wouldn’t be so forgiving either
Never ever heard him talk this much. :) The interviewer has difficulties even getting a single question in. Perhaps Paul's got a Cocaine toungue at this one. I don't know but it sure sounds like it. Love it!
😂Paul claiming credit for nearly everything (most of Norwegian Wood apparently), just like John did in his last interviews. Harmless enough though. I love his assessments of other songwriting partners he's had since John, saying (correctly of course) that none - Laine, Wonder, Jackson, Stewart - were as good.
@@ewest14, well, according to interviews, with John Lennon and George Harrison, they each said that John wrote Norwegian Wood, with "a little help from Faul". (Their words.) This Wikipedia account agrees with what John and George said. Three against one. Personally, I believe the three.
@@ewest14Many fans of John and George have been saying for years that Paul is rewriting the history and they overdo any comments from Paul. Ringo says that Paul has a great memory and he proves it all the time so I personally believe him.
@@C.O.G. Lol as if George knew what was going on. Even if George made this claim (which I've never seen and don't believe exists), he wasn't a part of their songwriting sessions. John claimed in 1970 that "Paul helped with the middle eight" and in 1972 said "Paul helped with the lyrics". Paul obviously helped enough for John to mention it on two separate occasions. You're clearly biased.
He said that George wasn't very innovative in the early days. He quickly picked up steam! He DID create the opening riff for And I Love Her and suggested that Baby's in Black be played as a waltz, so Paul overlooks these things.
@@strathman7501 He's wrong. He's thinking about a short 3/4 section in the bridge of We Can Work It Out. Baby's In Black was written by John & Paul specifically as an exercise to write a waltz.
Paul still claims that the Beatles decided not to go to America until they hit number 1 there. That is simply not true. Ed Sullivan saw their airport reception for them in London in October 1963, when they were returning from a tour of Sweden, and immediately after this, he booked them for his show. This was in October 1963, 3 months before they became number 1 there. Paul's memory doesn't seem to believe, or remember this.
He was basically pushed into the role of managing the legacy of the band. Combined with the fact that he ran the whole operation for the final years, yeah he’s going to come off as knowing a lot and maybe a little arrogant. I don’t hold it against him. It must be difficult
Billy at his finest: At 26:46 Billy admits he used to have a job as a "coil winder" before he replaced Paul as a Beatle. Worked in a factory? The original Paul never had a job before the Beatles were formed, FYI.
I can’t stand when Billy takes credit for songs Paul did. Also he’s giving HIS made-up opinions of the early days. He was not there. Wake up, folks. The truth has been revealed
I know, right! Sadly the people are so lost to their religionof Beatle-ism they won't even consider any other pidsibilities. People who are not open-minded to hearing both sides of a debate will never have their minds opened.
Sorry, That's not Paul's voice. That's not even Billy's voice. All four members of the Beatles had at least three other doubles for appearances, photo opps and interviews. This mans voice is older than Paul.
Thanks for the comment. This is Paul's voice, and one can compare it with the 1987 interview with him and Linda McCartney on Wogan (both are the same), which is also on RUclips.
36:36 : There it is on record, Paul saying he wrote the melody to "In My Life". I've read some heated comments on who wrote the melody, John or Paul. There's been this theory it was Paul, because it was his type of more elaborate melody, and it's confirmed here.
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Looking back, fabulous interview thankyou for sharing❤❤
Those Joe Smith interviews with great musicians are a priceless resource.
It's a good interview, but for the first quarter of it or so, he keeps interrupting Paul to ask another question while Paul is still answering the previous one.
This takes me down memory lane! Thanks for sharing.
I thought I'd heard absolutely every interview with Paul, but he really does give different perspectives in this one. Thanks for sharing!
Probably one the best, informative, honest and relaxed McCartney interviews I’ve ever heard. And I’ve heard a lot! Maybe all interviews should be held with Tea and Biscuits.
I very much enjoyed this interview. Very relaxed and informative.
Great interview. What a valuable resource of information.
Wonderful stuff, thanks for sharing!
Aye, it's wonderful stuff...
Sounds like this was recorded in 1986. The interviewer gives says ' next year is the 20th anniversary of Sgt pepper'.
Marvelous interview!
Never heard this interview before. Thank you. While listening to it, I noticed when Paul was naming songs, that he wrote alone, he mentioned Mull of Kintyre. That song was cowritren with Denny Laine. Come on now, Paul!😊
Faul was a group.
I thought the same thing that he was not giving any credit to Denny.
It's true, he does toss that out as an "on my own" song without mentioning Denny. Denny did co-write verse lyrics and his folky influence is very strong in some of those lines. I suppose it's a bit like Yellow Submarine, of which John said "Paul's baby, Paul's concept, Paul's chorus, Paul's title, so i always consider it Paul's song" even though he co-wrote the verses. Similarly, Denny has also said that Mull of Kintyre was "Paul's song" although he co-wrote the verse lyrics. In the same way, Paul himself evidently feels he has so-to-speak moral ownership of these songs.
@@strathman7501 He paid off Denny several years ago to have complete rights to the song.
Funny he references the motorcycle cops in Miami and taking pictures... That photo is in the exhibition
Paul is a genius end of story.
Amazing interview
Geroge - the business expert - interesting. Paul is very open in this conversation.
Bands say this about less contributing members. Like queen said about john deacon being very business-minded. Which may very well be true.
@@kaivaz6076It's an interesting topic. On the surface McCartney was, and lawyers has been the wised-up man on business beginning with the Klein crimes and lawsuits, MPL, buying music publishing rights. Paul has always been a business entrepreneur. He probably plays it down a bit so as not to look to money orientated. Yoko too is very clever with her finances.
@kaivaz6076 i noticed that too. With John and Ringo he immediately had an answer. I understand though because if you replace George with another competent guitarist the Beatles would have still been the Beatles. Less a couple of great songs but still top of the top. I suppose you could say the same about Ringo, but you can tell the guys love Ringo and that's a big deal for band chemistry. It's weird to say, but minus Ringo feels less Beatles than minus George, ocourse, in an intangible way.
@@triplejazzmusicisall1883I think it greatly helped him with his many investments that Lee Eastman, his father-in-law, was a lawyer!
9:14 Cliff Richard (who was a year older than Hank Marvin) was actually younger than John Lennon and Ringo Starr, he just seems older because Cliff and the Shadows had been having hits since 1958 and were the group to emulate (that's where the suits came from).
Cool interview, and an awesome idea for a channel!!👍👍
WOW - you really get a close up and personal in this one. And you really get a sense for Paul's true personality - this is it! And just reminiscing about the old days off the top of his head, only 16 years after they had broken up. If a younger person reading this thinks 16 years is a long time.... IT AIN'T! That's about enough time to gain some perspective on what the hell happened 16 years ago. Now in 2024... it's 54 years later....so I trust 1986 Paul's memories of these times, more than 2024 Paul. But thank God we have 2024 Paul.
As someone who went through a breakup of a long term relationship 4 years ago, I’m looking forward getting some perspective on what the hell happened. 😂
@@David_prod-eNGee That will also take a long time. Part of that is understanding yourself better, warts and all. Been there.
Wonderful interview Thanks!
Dreading the day he’s no longer with us. Paul McCartney is literally the greatest of all time.
Nice to not hear him give the standard canned answers.
Great honest interview, thank you, sir Paul wonderful!!
Also ... I'm gonna say this was Oct 1986 because Paul had just released "Press To Play" in Aug of that year. Not much happening in Oct 1987 for him to be out on the interview circuit.
Correct. I think he only had the compliation album 'All the best" in 1987 to promote.
And if you listen carefully about half way through, the interviewer says something about ... "in 1 year it'll be the 20th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's..." Something to that effect. Makes the year 1986.
excellent interview
The song he's thinking of with the lyric,"irresistible force", was "Something'x Gotta Give," an old standard. Great analogy.
Grazie
This was a true pleasure listening to. He is simply a genius. I also really enjoyed his comments about Ringo, that was very endearing
best McCartney interview I have ever heard
@@WilliamThompson-b1j , best McCartney interview I'VE ever heard. ruclips.net/video/q7th14N9UWA/видео.htmlsi=2-ZTPqLZM0y_9Ssx
This was a time when Paul was still very open and informative/revealing with interviews. I think by the 1989 Tour era and beyond, he tended to rely heavily on stock stories (ie “The movement you need is on your shoulder” story or the making of “Helter Skelter story, both which he repeated often).
Best interview ever😊
Strange that an American interviewer actually does let him speak.
He cuts him off on nearly every reply for about the first quarter of the interview.
"I can't remember what I was doing in the 70s". I don't know how to take that, i don't know whether that makes me slightly angry or not considering what he did do inspired me greatly. It feels a little arrogant to be so flippant. i still love him and he's the greatest songwriter of all time, but i hate it when it seems like it's he doesn't care, when millions DO CARE. :)
"Insecurities" as Paul says several times here. Honestly I find it unusually open and confiding of Paul to say this about the 70s. He did some really great music and concerts during this decade, but as someone who was around then, he was quite villified, put down by the musical establishment - think Rolling Stone mag, which rather ironically considered itself anti-tablishment... anyway, so as he has said more than once, it was so prevalent he began to believe it all himself. Give the guy a break, he's human after all.
@@TheUnknownSophy He was also higher'n'kite during most of the seventies. Maybe that had something to do w/the memory loss. Monkberry Moon Delight indeed!
He never said he doesn’t care about those years. Relax. He was probably alluding to the fact that he was high as a kite, busy, etc.
Fascinating interview - thanks for posting! Though as many other commenters have mentioned, this isn't really Paul. It is in fact Percy Thrillington.
Lol. Or Bernard Webb or Apollo C. Vermouth.
@dynamohums , Faul has so many aliases, it's hard to know which one he's using at any particular time.
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Love ya Paul but did you just diss the strings on Yesterday? George Martins' strings? Hmmmm....I love the song and the arrangement.
No, he said Andy Williams did.
Is that Paul playing a didgeridoo?
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Nice looking didj, the real deal with Arnhem Land style cross hatching known as “raark”
41:48 ouch. Poor Denny. I wonder how much of this Paul knew would be publicised
To be fair, Denny did a whole hit piece on Paul for the daily mirror and completely ruined his relationship with Paul on his own doing that. If I was Paul I wouldn’t be so forgiving either
He seems most proud of the fact he was the only kid in school that could spell “phlegm”. 🤣🤣
Never ever heard him talk this much. :) The interviewer has difficulties even getting a single question in. Perhaps Paul's got a Cocaine toungue at this one. I don't know but it sure sounds like it. Love it!
Please change the title of this video. This interview is from 1986, not 1987.
This is probably the best McCartney interview I’ve heard.
Where was it done?
Sounds more like George Harrison to me
@bobblock-vk6je new to the Beatles? Been a fan for 2-3 weeks?
Sounds a bit like the pitch or speed has been adjusted a bit here.
Yes, at times he sounds like Lennon...
Wow. One of the most interesting and informative interviews I’ve ever heard from McCartney. Really adds a lot of backstory and insight to the Beatles.
I don't think it's lost😮
Nottingham gets a name check! 25:01
" Brigitte Bardot, she once was once beautiful, now look at her".....not too nice, Paul
So we know what this interview was for?
😂Paul claiming credit for nearly everything (most of Norwegian Wood apparently), just like John did in his last interviews. Harmless enough though.
I love his assessments of other songwriting partners he's had since John, saying (correctly of course) that none - Laine, Wonder, Jackson, Stewart - were as good.
Paul did not claim credit for most of Norwegian Wood. He said they wrote it together after John came in with the first line.
@@ewest14, well, according to interviews, with John Lennon and George Harrison, they each said that John wrote Norwegian Wood, with "a little help from Faul". (Their words.) This Wikipedia account agrees with what John and George said. Three against one. Personally, I believe the three.
@@ewest14Many fans of John and George have been saying for years that Paul is rewriting the history and they overdo any comments from Paul. Ringo says that Paul has a great memory and he proves it all the time so I personally believe him.
@@C.O.G. Lol as if George knew what was going on. Even if George made this claim (which I've never seen and don't believe exists), he wasn't a part of their songwriting sessions. John claimed in 1970 that "Paul helped with the middle eight" and in 1972 said "Paul helped with the lyrics". Paul obviously helped enough for John to mention it on two separate occasions. You're clearly biased.
George WAS innovative.
He said that George wasn't very innovative in the early days. He quickly picked up steam! He DID create the opening riff for And I Love Her and suggested that Baby's in Black be played as a waltz, so Paul overlooks these things.
@@markzappasodi I find Pauls compliments for George on And I Love Her etc to be condescending. We are all one/ all equal...even Ringo. :)
@@markzappasodi Where did you read that George Harrison suggested waltz time for that song? I know of no source for that.
@@strathman7501 He's wrong. He's thinking about a short 3/4 section in the bridge of We Can Work It Out. Baby's In Black was written by John & Paul specifically as an exercise to write a waltz.
Paul still claims that the Beatles decided not to go to America until they hit number 1 there. That is simply not true. Ed Sullivan saw their airport reception for them in London in October 1963, when they were returning from a tour of Sweden, and immediately after this, he booked them for his show. This was in October 1963, 3 months before they became number 1 there. Paul's memory doesn't seem to believe, or remember this.
I think Paul knows better than you
Was this before Elvis Costello - not mentioned
Their collaboration was in 1989-90
I have just watched this video - so it wasn't lost lol
@@bobblock-vk6je Wanker.
He really is very arrogant... deservedly maybe
Full of himself, but he's earned it, and we still love him. How could you not be with that kind of success?
Oh definately deservedly. If your gonna be arrogant you better be good - and he most definately is.
He was basically pushed into the role of managing the legacy of the band. Combined with the fact that he ran the whole operation for the final years, yeah he’s going to come off as knowing a lot and maybe a little arrogant. I don’t hold it against him. It must be difficult
THIS IS BILLY SHEARS
This is NOT Paul.
Who is it?
Masterful subterfuge by Billy Shears(I kid, I kid)
That was Ringos alias on the Sergent Peppers album 👌
Delusional Troll.
They want you to think it's Ringo but it's Paul
This does NOT sound like McCartney's voice
It is Paul's voice, and it sounds exactly like him.
@@markzappasodi Hey you are entitled to your opinion and that's fine - My opinion is that it is NOT Paul's voice and sounds Nothing like him
@@bobblock-vk6jeOf course it is Paul.
@@anse69 Can you read ?? - it is not Paul - in MY OPINION
@@bobblock-vk6je Your opinion has nothing to do with it. This is Paul McCartney speaking.
Billy at his finest: At 26:46 Billy admits he used to have a job as a "coil winder" before he replaced Paul as a Beatle. Worked in a factory? The original Paul never had a job before the Beatles were formed, FYI.
😂 Yes he was a worker in a coil factory. You better use up your time to get your Beatles history right before feeding your PID nonsense.
Thankyou Tom.
@@BassicVIC At some point, you just have to tell yourself they’re basically harmless and do your best to ignore them.
He had at least 3 short- lived jobs before the Beatles became full time .
Coil winder, porter and office clerk.
He worked as a coil winder for a short time after final return from Hamburg-at his father’s insistence.. lasted a week or so.
I can’t stand when Billy takes credit for songs Paul did. Also he’s giving HIS made-up opinions of the early days. He was not there. Wake up, folks. The truth has been revealed
You are delusional. Wake up.
I know, right! Sadly the people are so lost to their religionof Beatle-ism they won't even consider any other pidsibilities. People who are not open-minded to hearing both sides of a debate will never have their minds opened.
I agree .
You need 'HELP'.
@@voidio739 Now try and tell me the earth is flat.
Sounds more like George Harrison then anyone else
You are embarrassing yourself.
@@markzappasodi ok then dad
@@bobblock-vk6je 🤡
Sorry, That's not Paul's voice. That's not even Billy's voice. All four members of the Beatles had at least three other doubles for appearances, photo opps and interviews. This mans voice is older than Paul.
Thanks for the comment. This is Paul's voice, and one can compare it with the 1987 interview with him and Linda McCartney on Wogan (both are the same), which is also on RUclips.
Paul was 45 here. Voices change...
The man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud 🌍
cringe
Just put the fries in the bag lil bro
14:18 Mark Lewisohn contends that the phrase 'A hard day's night', was originated by John in his book 'In his own write'.
Billy Shepherd updating their mythology as per usual
A moving taeget is more difficult to hit..
I think it was in the Playboy interview, when John was being asked about who wrote what, when he said "a hard days night" was a "Ringoism."
@@echodeltatango8030 Yes he never disputed it
lewinsohn lied in his books, there is fact checking podcast akom
36:36 : There it is on record, Paul saying he wrote the melody to "In My Life". I've read some heated comments on who wrote the melody, John or Paul. There's been this theory it was Paul, because it was his type of more elaborate melody, and it's confirmed here.
It was never somebody else's "theory," it was always Paul's own contention that he wrote that meolody. He'd been saying it publicly since 1972.
@@strathman7501 Billy "Faux Paul" Shears is the biggest liar in the world.