Paul McCartney talking about Tears for Fears in 1989
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- From a Canadian press conference in December 1989. A journalist asks a very diplomatic Paul McCartney his opinion on Sowing The Seeds of Love.
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I'm on the hunt for missing Tears for Fears performances and interviews from the 1980s, 90s and 00s. I have a list on Instagram of known performances that are currently not available online. If you can help me track any down please let me know. 
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Paul McCartney had a mullet, Roland Orzabal had a mullet, case closed.
@spurv Both as bad as each other?
Who?
Mullets were dreadful, like shell suits.
I saw Tears For Fears in concert two years ago. And it was one of the best concerts I have ever seen in my life. I always liked them, but they were better than I even expected.
I wasn’t a fan until I saw them in 1990. I was in Los Angeles to see Bowie at Dodger Stadium and TFF was playing the following night in Irvine. I knew they were a big deal so I decided to go. I became an instant fan due to that show when they were at the height of their popularity. Oleta Adams was performing with them and The Call was the opening band. Still probably my fav concert of all time. Got to tell this to Roland personally 11 years later when I met him.
I saw them open for Hall & Oates, and they were even better than the main act
Same, they were absolutely fantastic at Waddesdon Manor.
I love the way he uses "Tribute" and "Stole" in the same sentence! Talk about a backhanded compliment!
Good observation.
The fact is that it’s a great song. Tears for Fears best work still sounds good, decades later. That’s a tribute to their songcraft.
@@written12 A great album, too. ""Sowing the Sees" was the lead single, but there are several other outstanding songs on it (notably "Woman in Chains"). Roland Orzabal is such a great songwriter and to me, the 1989 album is the point where he truly comes into his own.
Anyway, rehashing old sounds was all the rage at the time. The Stone Roses pretty much copied the entire sound of late-60s flower-power psychedelia on their debut album "What the World is Waiting For" - I remember a review of that one saying "it's brilliant but unnecessary". ;) - so Iäm sure Paul ran into many tracks around 1990 that made him think "I've heard this stuff before".
Tears For Fears and their song Sowing The Seeds Of Love are two of THE most underrated things about music EVER!!
Well, it was a huge record, but everything is eclipsed by The Beatles.
That album has been in my personal top10 since it came out.....an absolute classic masterpiece.
@@OriginalMasters Well, that is your opinion and I respect it
and I know many people would agree with you,
but, for me personally, I would take the Seeds Of Love album over anything The Beatles did!!
Also, I thought McCartney was really sniffy and condescending in this video!!
If somebody does a tribute in your honour, surely the thing to do is to be gracious and appreciative, but I didn't see any of that at all from him!!
Thanks for taking the time to reply anyway!!
@@PainInTheS Seeds Of Love?? Absolutely!! You have great taste!!
I grew up with it and it will always be in my all time top 10!!
It's a rare thing to find an album where you love every single track on it,
but for me, Seeds Of Love ticks that box easily!!
Thanks for the reply!!
I think it is an amazing song! I actually bought the record at the time…
Tears for Fears are really incredible, they are sensational❤❤
My first concert, I want to say 1985?
Crap
well maybe Little Richard should put in a royalty for some of Paul's vocals
Damn straight 👌
He's dead, mate
It's sarcasm chum , you know what that is right?
You cannot claim royalties for a singing style. I liked Sowing The Seeds because of its similarity to Walrus. It wasn't long after this when Betty Boo released the single 'I'm On My Way' which includes a musical quote directly lifted from the Beatles 'Lady Madonna.' Legal action resulted so that the songs musical credits read:- Clarkson, Coxon, Lennon and McCartney.
*Jeff Lynne has entered the chat*
paul once said that had the beatles not broken up, they probably wouldve ended up sounding exactly like elo
Jeff Lynne. In my opinion the greatest musician who ever lived! I have tickets to see him and ELO’s “over and out” tour in Austin Texas this October!
@@markelmore66Agreed and I have tix for the Phoenix show.
@@lesweizman388 That would have been Paul's direction, not John's nor George's.
During the 70s Lennon, who was a fan of ELO, called them "Son of Beatles". The influence there is of course quite obvious, but you have to realize that in the early to mid 70s there were a TON of records by various artists that sounded a lot like the Beatles. By 1989 when this came out, not nearly as many, which was why they made a point out of it here.
Lovely interview... I have heard that Paul McCartney loved TFF's 'Songs from the Big Chair' album and had written a signed note to Curt Smith praising it (it is on the album's 25th anniversary, inner sleeve notes). Curt recollects this but he cursed himself by mentioning that he lost that note.
In terms of 'Seeds of Love', it was meant to be a Beatles pastiche. Roland used to boast back then about being the John Lennon to Curt's more Paul McCartney personality.
Right, cause The Beatles never "stole" from anyone. Wow, I can't believe he can say this with a straight face. And the room laughing along... Twilight Zone.
Every great artist is influenced by others take it down a peg Francis. Do you think great musicians just wake up one day and know how to write songs and play and guitar without listening to others or even sound similar in some aspects.
"Steal" is a neutral term in this context; as used here with the words "tribute" and "takeoff," it's more of a compliment. The expression “good artists borrow, great artists steal” means that great artists bring so much of themselves to their work that they needn't worry about what they take from their forebears. The Beatles were the launching pad TfF "took off" from. And as Paul himself said in 1966, "We pinch as much from other people as they pinch from us."
Being a musician and audiophile for over 50 years, I never once thought TFF sounded like the Beatles. Paul putting the icing on a cupcake question.
Not TFF in general, but the song "Sowing the Seeds of Love" in particular is very Beatly.
@@Mike-Urilorib yeah maybe a little, but when I think of someone sounding like the Beatles - Oasis. Very Beatley.
I agree
Wait till you hear the Gallagher brothers
@@jimmyaudiophreak1671 hey buddy I'm only being slightly tongue in cheek. While what you're saying is obviously debatable it's undeniable that oasis managed a certain something that a tonne of bands in their wake tried to replicate but couldn't. It might have looked easy but if it was they'd all be doing it. Tbh after three albums even they couldn't replicate it 😂 Worth noting though that Noel is a MASSIVE tears for fears fan and branded them "the beatles of the 80s"
@@jimmyaudiophreak1671oasis sound nothing like the Beatles. Slade are the main influence
@@jimmyaudiophreak1671ok
@@rigsby1454 you totally missed the point and felt a need to say something stupid
I never thought Oasis sounded all that much like the Beatles either. They absolutely did mimic the _look_ the Beatles had in their middle stage from _Help!_ through _Rubber Soul_ to _Revolver,_ which IMHO was their greatest period.
That said, I love Oasis. Love the Beatles obviously. Love Tears for Fears. Feel free to keep throwing out the names of great bands.
Paul there, never one to turn down a royalty check.
Tears for Fears have been influenced by many bands and artists, and the Beatles are one obvious influence on many of their tracks.
Paul has always been a guy who immersed himself into his music whilst maintaining a bit of distance from his contemporaries. He has never said that his era was unbeatable nor been overly impressed by much. ("Yeah good, I like Freddie and Brian. Pink Floyd yeah, I remember they using the Abbey Road studios when we were there and chatting with the boys).
Always understated and grounded.
I think he's talking about Sowing The Seeds Of Love, which I never hear unless I play my CD. Corporate radio keeps playing Everybody Wants To Rule The World instead.
Right? I hate that shit. Sowing the Seeds of Love is as good, maybe better than Everybody wants to Rule the World.
There's a station in Canada 101.1 More FM (CFLZ) and they do actually play "Sowing the Seeds of Love" from time to time. (But yes, they mostly play "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" or "Shout").
Well, Songs from the Big Chair does shit all over Sowing the Seeds of Love. And it actually sounded unique, it sounded like Tears for Fears. Sowing sounds like a Beatles tribute.
Personally, the "Seeds of Love" album is my favorite TFF album. The title song is really the only Beatles tribute. The other songs range from being more bluesy ("Badman's Song", "Sword and Knives") to more epic ("Woman in Chains", "Advice for the Young at Heart"). Even though "Big Chair" was way more commercially successful and did also have a lot of great songs, I tend to gravitate towards the "Seeds of Love" album, but that's just my opinion. (I also really liked "Elemental", though I consider it an Orzabal solo project. It's a much darker album, but one of my personal favorites).
Just ask the radio if they could play a different song as I asked heart 80s and they actually did
I remember the first time I heard “Sowing The Seeds Of Love.” I was walking up from a nap on the couch and it was playing on the radio. I probably spent 20 seconds trying to figure out what Beatles song I was hearing before I finally realized it wasn’t The Beatles at all!
I remember hearing it for the first time when I was in high school and then seeing the video for it one Saturday morning! They showed that video a lot back then. Good times!
me too, was driving and had to pull over.... a lost beatles track i thought??
The song was obviously about the acid house explosion as it was described as the second summer of love, especially with the “dj’s the man we love most” I also liked the “kick out the style, bring back the jam” line. Sowing the seeds of love really did sum up the late 80s, great times.
That crop'd be up now, not just 'gambling'
I never thought about it like that. Interesting. Makes sense.
Always heard that lyric as a sarcastic retort to Paul Weller of the Jam who, at the time, was playing much more subdued music with the Style Council.
@@oranjuly yes Paul weller had a go at tears for fears for not doing red wedge.
All he had to say was that they did a nice job on the song, instead of struggling to pay them a compliment, which has tended to do over his career.
Yeah, I'm a big Beatles fan but that's kind of classic Paul in this era -- I think it's hard to come down from the peak without becoming a bit of an ass.
Yeah but he would've been called disingenuous so you can't win there- best route is to be honest
Well he said it like it is, Sowing The Seeds Of Love is a hommage for sure, but it is a complete rip-off at the same time. You can pay hommage and still be a bit more original while doing so, y'know?
I had the good fortune of having pizza with Roland Orzabal in 2001 when he made a visit to my office to promote his solo record “Tomcats Screaming Outside “. We chatted about Curt, who was not in Tears at that moment, Bob Geldof over a charity re-recording called “Everybody Wants To Run The World” he hated that Geldof talked him into doing (Roland took my 12” copy and pretended to break it over his knee) and even Paul McCartney came up over a studio mixing console Roland purchased from him. This video made me think of that. I’ll never forget the date I met Roland because it was 9/10/2001. Less than 24 hours before the world changed.
Less than 24 hours before Mossad carried out its plans.....
Saw them a couple of years back and was really impressed how good they still are. Recommended if you get the chance.
I wonder if Little Richard said the same about McCartney?
I'm sure he didn't have to as Paul has likely told him what a huge influence his singing had on him.
Or Buddy Holly
I forget sometimes that when McCartney was younger, he had an edge about him, you can see why him and John would become very good friends.
"Everybody wants to rule the world" may have been taken from the Clash's "Charlie Don't Surf." Joe Strummer used to tell a story of running into one of the lads (not sure which) from TFF in a pub and Joe jokingly said the lad owed him for that line. IIRC, the lad agreed and bought Joe a pint. Also, I get an "I Am The Walrus" vibe listening to "Sowing the Seeds of Love."
I think Strummer said "you owe me a fiver" and Roland, needing no explanation, just handed him one, and that was the end of that! 😆
@@rodrigodelprat Thanks for that. The "fiver" does ring a bell in my memory.
Quite ridiculous for anyone who knows anything about TFF to say they don't sometimes sound like The Beatles. Throughout their whole body of work, no, but on STSOL, that song is absolutely and obviously doing a Beatles vibe. Some later songs, like "Everybody Loves a Happy Ending" and "Secret World" also notably have show some Beatles influence as well.
After Sowing The Seeds Of Love came out, I read an interview with Roland and Curt where they mentioned that upon the release of their previous two albums, McCartney had graciously sent them a note wishing best of luck. But they noticed that McCartney didn't pass along his best wishes for STSOL.
Cos it sucked compared to those first two LPs...
'Seeds Of Love' is basically 'I Am The Walrus' with a different chorus. Same beat, same vocal style, same musically.
This is so overblown - yes it's in somewhat of a "Sgt Pepper style" in some ways, but that's it. It's a good song all on its own. My biggest complaint about it is that it was over-produced, trying to cram more and more things into it - like a painter who keeps trying to improve a great painting and overdoes it
Beautifully overproduced, if you ask me. One of my favorite productions of theirs.
Paul was about 47 at the time of this interview.
And I thought he looks about 35
Paul, dont get me started on the Beatles and their thievery! Chuck Berry, Everly Brothers, Jackie Deshannon, little Richard…….some of the licks were straight ripped!!!
Exactly! Well said. He wants everything! Didn’t he have enough!
It's a very good album.
You end up liking these successful musicians more when they take the high road instead of this. The correct answer would be more like "I hear certain parts that are very reminiscent, but overall, they still have their own unique sound.
Yep! Paul wants it all. soon he’ll be singing everybody wants the Beatles to rule the world!
This is Billy. Paul McCartney died in car crash on September 11 1966.
Always nicest Beatle.
He's talking about Sewing the Seeds of Love, which was a Beatles tribute. My copy of Now that's what I call music 16 said so.
Just happy tears for the early to mid eighties. A great time, many happy memories. Good luck all. It’s shit now.
Everybody Loves a Happy Ending has even more Beatles/Wings flavored tracks. “Sacred World” would have fit in nicely on Venus and Mars.
Yes, I always thought that "Closest Thing to Heaven" was the distant cousin of "Sowing the Seeds of Love".
Flavoured*
Tears for Fears were more John Lennon fans than McCartney. Even their band name and their hit “Shout” are tributes to Plastic Ono Band album, John’s “primal scream” debut
Macca is a class act
he was being a little snarky
Which Beatles song did Tears for Fears “Sowing to Seeds of Love” sample?
Tears for Fears are brilliant and criminally underrated.
Really? They seem quite well rated to me. Bands from a few years earlier who inspired TFF, like Japan and OMD, would actually be underrated in terms of getting recognition for their influence.
@@BAztid everything is underrated and "best thing evah" on the Internet. Soon someone will call The Beatles underrated.
Seeds of Love is the master peace of TFF. The most beatlesque part of it is a tiny guitar riff near the middle of the song, which I always thought the volume too low... And this low volume for such an awesome riff is strange. Very strange.
I see what you did there ;-)
Same keyboard sound, same song structure, same arrangement style, same orchestra instrumentation even same typ öf effects....
Oh and piccolo solo
It's like asking if the Beatles were ripping off the Beach Boys on Back In The USSR.
Or Albatross from Fleetwood Mac for Sun King.
@@pacoferpez6047 Or from Dylan, for Hide Your Love Away.
He was peak bobble-head here!
Frank Zappa’s album ‘ were only in it for the money’ was a direct dig at the Beatles and their quest to remain relevant during the psychedelic era
Nowhere Man please listen..
STSOL sounds like For No One for the chorus.
La canción de la que habla es mejor que cualquiera que el ha escrito en los últimos 30 años .. que se baje de su nube
I always wondered what he thought of The Stone Roses' first album.....
Exactly how Don Henley would have handled it. Right Don?
The ego is always to the fore. TFF were unlike the Beatles or Macca musically.
I didn’t know Sowing the seeds of love was a Beatles like song! Is there one particular song that it sounds like?
Billy Shears is mighty full of himself.
Did Paul ever get his royalty check?
Seeds is actually a more complex score than most Beatles tunes. To say nothing of the immaculate production. Paul probably wishes he wrote it for his own record around that fallow time in his career.
I have that poster
They could at least play it live.
He put in for a royalty, but it was stolen by a one-legged woman.
That's not paul from early sixtys
"Kick out the Style get back to The Jam"
I wish I hadn’t read your comment as I was getting ready for bad. Now I’m going to spend three or four restless hours thinking about how much fun I had in the late 80s in a new wave cover band.
There are no great artists who didn't "borrow" or "steal" from other great artists. Literally not possible and McCartney knows this better than most, so a total non-issue.
Be afraid Tears for Fears. Look what happened with Bitter Sweet Symphony, by the Verve
Billy pulling a fast one, again.......
Biiillllyyyyy Shhheeeerrrrssss.......Billy and the pepperpots = sgt pepper.
Yes, this is Billy. Paul died in 1966.
I’d listen to Tears for Fears over the Beatles any day. I have been a fan since 1983 and I have never once thought they stole from the freaking Beatles. What a joke.
All the greats are inspired by or "stole" from someone else and built upon it
Thank god tears for fears didn't borrow the Eagles sound.
Wait till you hear....LITERALLY EVERYBODY ELSE 😅
Tears for fears who are they kidding he said, shows u how much he genuinely knows about music,,, 😂😂😂😂
But Tears for Fears was actually good!
Yeah sowing the seeds of love is a bit strawberry fields forever.
The clever copy, the genius steals.
Noel gallagher is a genius!
The reason the Beatles split up was because no stadium was big enough for Lennon & McCartney's ego. 😅
I cant operate on this failure when all I wanna be is in command.
As if the Beatles hadn't stolen...They stole a lot and with style too
Grew up with the Beatles, love tears for fears and never ever heard the the connection in their music. I think Paul's being a bit selfish there.
Sowing the Seeds of Love by Tears for Fears is done in a late Beatles style.
tune
i know..... for the love of GOD....turn the record over !..... problem is.... radio doesn't have dj's anymore... it's all preprogrammed by some corporate entities 😡
1989 talking about tears for fears ha ha ha 😂 lol
The Beatles copied others in their first albums.
And the songs that they "didn't copy" was written by George Martin, creditted to "Lennon/McCartney".
Beatles "stole" many a harmony from Buddy and the Everly Bros.....
Tears for fears 😂😂😂😂
What ever happened to them
What! Tears for Fears I thought they were Tears for Beers! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Remember only you are laughing.
@@moorlock2003 It's called humor! it's a JOKE! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
@@timothycornell3032 It’s called disrespect for a recording artist that has sold well over 20 million albums.
@@moorlock2003 I love their music there was no disrespect intended! They are great their music is timeless! Drink a beer, and you will feel better!
Macca has borrowed plenty.... but thats an inconvenient truth right?
Here’s a little perspective about Sir Paul. The Beatles disbanded in 1970, 19 years before this interview. That same year, in 1989, Nirvana released his debut album. Nirvana ended in 1994 with Kurt Cobain’s death. 30 years later, Paul McCartney is still active and doing wold tours.
And he isn't 1/5 the talent of Cobain, or that other dude who died in 1980.
@@stepha5926 Seek help.
I hear ya Paul, such a weak follow-up to one of the greatest albums of all-time (Songs From The Big Chair) smh. Other than Tears Roll Down, it remains unlistenable for me.
Hey! Did you hear that new Beatle song? It’s called Everybody wants the Beatles to rule the world. Paul wants every thing. Didn’t he have enough. There is nothing that is original. I’m sure cave men had some good Beatles songs in mind.🤣✌️✌️💰💰
Paul was copying the Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry. Its almost like he has a arrogant attitude about Tears for Fears who had more popular music then him in 1989.
Yeah, but good thing TFF didn't do a ripoff of "Eleanor Rigby". Paul would have come after them with an army of lawyers.
For me, that was probably the worst song on the album, the rest is brilliant.....and not like the beatles!
I don't agree,they have a very different sound.😁🌞
Paul McCartney is so arrogant. It’s no wonder the Beatles all fought. In my opinion , his solo music sucks. I’m so Beatled out! There is other music out there I think Johns, and Georges solo music was way better! Tears For Fears was a unique band. When did harmonies become The Beatles?🤢🤮
Tears for Fears sounded nothing like Beatles
They were talking about a specific song "Sowing The Seeds of Love" which does have a Beatles inspired sound.
Sowing the seeds of love sounds exactly like something the Beatles would have done
Yes - the interviewer and Sir Paul McCartney are wrong, and you're right.
Leans on Walrus and there is a bit of a Penny Lane reference in it; the trumpets.
@@AsWellYouShould that's not Paul.......it's Billy.......even George's wife calls him Billy.
Can't stand him
After I read your comment, I called Paul and told him about it and he's really upset.
@@popvinnik good
@@hairywelder5188 Steve Harris is mad at you too. He thinks you're a knob.
The Beatles the Big Bang of rock and roll, The Beatles always The Beatles. You can’t beat them How ever You try. There were three more who contributed. Tell me what other band had that grandiose lineup. ”If You go carrying pictures of Plink Floyd You ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow”.
I can't imagine Macca listening to the Doors - it's weird to hear "The Doors" emerge from his mouth.
When The Doors' first album came out, The Beatles bought a dozen copies to play over and over again. True story.
ringo wears doors merch!!
Apparently paul was very knowledgeable in every music scene back then, he was one of the avant garde crowd in the 60's
The Doors were contemporaries of The Beatles of course, but they were also going through a huge resurgence of interest and popularity around the time this interview was taped, so they were ‘in the air’ then and it’s not that strange that Paul would summon them in particular to mind here
The Doors were on one of their period resurgences in popularity 1989. Currently they are "just another 60s band" but will likely see another uptick in interest.
How exactly were TFF a copy of the Beatles? I don't hear it in the slightest.
Have you not heard Sowing the Seeds of Love? It's not a copy but it's done in a Beatles style
@@Raider577 Actually, if I heard it, it was well over 30 years ago, so I'll have to check it out again. Even if it sounds like The Beatles though, they were guilty of "borrowing" from others, including Roy Orbison.
@user-wh5cw5nd2m Actually when it came out here in the UK. I remember Kurt lead singer of Tears for Fears saying I wonder what Macca (British nickname for McCartney)thinks of it.
Sorry Paul, but the Beatles borrowed or stole nuances from many different artists. Not to mention that MR. Martian used many fundamental orchestral techniques. Nobody just comes up with an original idea, all music is always built upon the music that influences the current songwriter. His pallet is resting on his influence from previous music. Not to mention we only have 12 notes in Western Music. I love the Beatles and all the boys. There is no denying that Paul and John were genius musicians and song writers, George was a genius as well and nobody can hold a candle to Ringo his drumming is sublime and incredible. Nevertheless, both Paul and John were ego maniacs, it shows how insecure Paul was in 1989, to do anything but compliment the guys from TFF’s, shows what an ass he was in 1989.