The former Beatle honored his father by releasing a song composed 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 used to play jazz standards to the piano, always from ear, not knowing how to read sheet music. Years later, Paul He decided to honor him very specially: 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 from the fictional band THE COUNTRY HAMSin fact a parallel formation of the Wings. Music is the only composition of Jim McCartneyand Paul He recorded it during a stay in Nashville. According to him, the idea came from none other than Chet Atkins. “I mentioned the music to Chet And he said, ‘We should record this to your father!’ ” Paul In an interview for your official website.
The reaction of Jim The tribute was warm, but also modest. He refused to say that he had “written” the song, preferring to say that he had only “invented” it to the piano. Paul He tried to explain that these days, this would already be considered a composition, but the father was not convinced. “He said he didn’t write anything, just played something he invented. But that’s exactly what is composing,” he said Paul.
The interest of McCartney By rich harmonies and creative melodic solutions began precisely with the repertoire heard at home. He mentions Fred Astaire and songs like “Bésame Mucho” As part of the repertoire that taught him, still in his childhood, about the tricks and harmonic constructions of popular music.
Curiously, despite his passion for music, Jim McCartney I didn’t think a musical career was the best way to his son. When Paul came back from a season with the Beatles In Hamburg, his father went straight: it was time to get a “real job.” Paul She even worked wrapping coils in a factory, until the destination and the conviction itself took him back to the band – the rest, of course, is history.
The relationship between father and son has always been marked by music, affection and a certain contrast between the modesty of one and the boldness of the other. And even that Jim He resisted to see himself as a composer, his legacy is recorded – literally – in the work of one of the greatest names in music of all time.
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Source: Rollingstone
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