The former beatle honored his father by releasing a song made up of him, but Mr. McCartney refused to admit that he was the author of the song
Before becoming one of the greatest composers of pop music, Paul McCartney I already had a strong connection with music at home. Your father, Jim McCartneyHe was an amateur musician and played standard jazz for the plan, always from ear, not knowing how to read the scores. Years later, Paolo He decided to honor him in particular: recording one of his compositions. But his father’s answer was not exactly what he expected.
The track in question is “Walking in the park with Eloise”launched in 1976 as a single of the imaginary band The hams of the countryin fact a parallel formation of the Wings. Music is the only composition of Jim McCartneyAND Paolo He recorded it during a stay in Nashville. According to him, the idea was nothing more than Chet Atkins. “I mentioned the song a Chet And he said: “We should record this to your father!” ” Paolo In an interview for your official website.
The reaction of Jim The tribute was warm, but also modest. He refused to say he had “written” music, preferring to say that he had only “invented” the plan. Paolo He tried to explain that in these days this would have already been considered a composition, but the father was not convinced. “He said he didn’t write anything, he just played something he invented. But that’s exactly what he is composing,” he said Paolo.
The interest of McCartney For rich harmonies and creative melodic solutions they started with the repertoire listened to at home. Mention Fred Astaire and songs like “Bésame Mucho” As part of the repertoire that has taught him, still in his childhood, on the tricks and the harmonic constructions of popular music.
Curiously, despite his passion for music, Jim McCartney I didn’t think a musical career was the best way for his son. When Paolo has returned from a season with the Beatles In Hamburg, his father went straight: it was time to get a “real job”. Paolo He even worked in an enriching factory in a factory, until the destination and condemnation itself have brought it back to the band – the rest, of course, is the story.
The relationship between father and son has always been marked by music, affection and a certain contrast between the modesty of one and the audacity of the other. And that too Jim He resisted himself as a composer, his inheritance is recorded – literally – in the work of one of the greatest names of music of all time.
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Source: Terra
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