Today’s music video is Treat Her Gently (Lonely Old People) from The band Wings, led by Paul McCartney. Tomorrow marks the 70th birthday of Paul McCartney.
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I guess the older we get, then the music stars we grew up with get older also. For our parents, it was Frank Sinatra, Loius Armstrong, Patti Page, and a hundred others. We, as a somewhat younger generation, never really noticed this, because the music we grew up with was from a different age. Now, the same is happening to us as what happened with our parents. The stars we grew up up with were The Beatles, The Stones, The Beach Boys, and, dare I say it, a thousand others. Our children will not really notice the aging of the stars who we grew up with, but just like us and our parents before us, their stars will also grow old as they watch.
Tomorrow marks the 70th Birthday of Paul McCartney, famed member of the Beatles, and Wings, a star who had a stellar musical career. It’s hard to believe it has been 50 years since this wonderful band The Beatles had their first Monster Number One Hit, and followed that with a series of hits and albums that just never seemed to stop.
It’s a hard thing to actually detail Paul McCartney’s career in music. He actually started out in 1957, when, as a 15 year old he joined John Lennon in The Beatles forerunner band The Quarrymen, which became The Silver Beetles, and then in early 1960, The Beatles. Others joined, and while still all teenagers they toured Germany a couple of times, honing their skills as musicians and as composers as well.
In 1962 they had their first Number One, and it seemed from that point on, everything the band released went straight to Number One, often before the songs were even officially released. The band had a string of huge selling albums, every one of them also going to Number One.
The Beatles split in 1970, and it was said that the four members would not be as much a force as they were as a band, something soon shown to be patently false.
Paul McCartney released a couple of solo albums as he worked to put together a full band, and that band was Wings.
I remember a joke from the mid seventies that was funny at the time, while not being quite true.
Four young teenaged girls were in a record shop. One of them picked up a Beatles album and proclaimed to her friends, “Hey look! Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings.”
While funny, and not really true, what it does say is that Paul McCartney had a music career with Wings almost as huge as it was with The Beatles.
Paul McCartney is the most successful recording artist and composer of all time. He has 60 discs or records that have been certified gold or better. He has sold more than 100 million albums, as well as more than 100 million singles. He has written 31 songs that have made it to Number One, just on the American Billboard chart alone, and even more in the UK. His song he co-wrote with John Lennon, Yesterday is the song listed as the most covered song every written, sung by more than 2,200 by other artists, more than any other song in history. His song with Wings, Mull Of Kintyre is the biggest selling song ever in the UK. His list of achievements is so long, what I have detailed here barely scratches the surface.
In 1997, He was Knighted in the Queen’s Honours List and became Sir Paul McCartney.
Today’s featured clip may seem to taking a polite ‘dig’ at Paul McCartney, showing a song about aging, but it has always been one of my favourite songs from his long career. This was not one of his releases as a single, and is taken from his 6th album after leaving The Beatles, and the fourth album with his band Wings, Venus And Mars, released in mid 1975. I think that staying together with a wife or a husband for so long becomes something where the couple grow old together, and this song typifies the love that two older people have for each other. This clip features Paul’s long time wife Linda, an integral part of his solo musical career, both in the early days as a solo artist, then with Wings, and then again in his second solo career. Sadly Paul lost Linda in 1998, after a three year battle with Breast Cancer.
This second featured song today is another one that was not released as a single, and again, another of my favourites. This is taken from what is arguably the album that made Wings into a monster band, Red Rose Speedway, released in early 1973.
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Paul McCartney is a superstar of monumental proportions. In December of 2010, I started a series on the career of Paul McCartney from the end of The Beatles, and into his solo career, and then his career with Wings. That series was 14 separate Posts in all and is at the following link.
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