Mark Ronson cited his experience producing the ex-Beatle’s album to claim that the public has the wrong view of the singer
*By Pedro Hollanda |
Over the decades, Paul McCartney became known as the Beatles good guy, who composed the most traditional songs and didn’t take creative risks. In the opinion of Mark Ronsonthis is wrong.
The super producer took advantage of an interview with the Track Star* channel (transcription via Ultimate Guitar) to question the public’s general impression. Especially compared to his former bandmates.
Ronson said:
“There is this tendency to remember how to John Lennon was the rock and roll guy and Paul was the happy pop guy, but Paul made the weirdest songs.”
During the conversation, he also took the opportunity to point out how McCartney pioneered the use of synthesizers in pop music. The first appearance of a Moog device – legendary manufacturer of this type of instrument – in a song occurred in “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”album track Abbey Road (1969).
The person responsible for “Uptown Funk” saw McCartney’s creativity in person. He was one of the producers the former Beatle worked with on the album New (2013). At the time, he was surprised by the artist’s musical curiosity.
He recalled in the same interview:
“I went to his studio once, and I got there early. He was literally doing a sequence on a Moog keyboard to make the craziest noises I’ve ever heard. I liked what I heard.”
Mark even revealed that he was taken by surprise when, when he asked Paul to show him something that he had been listening to a lot. The “good” Beatle played “Climax”by the American singer Usher. He said he was stunned, as he didn’t expect the choice.
Experimental song by Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney is the name behind one of the greatest lost treasures of the Beatles’ career. In 1967, the band worked on an experimental song for almost 14 years called “Carnival of Light”.
Journalist Andy Greene, from Rolling Stone USAgave details of the composition. Despite being something new from the most famous band in history, it tempered the public’s expectations.
He wrote:
“’Carnival of Light’ is an improvised, lyricless and avant-garde experiment that the band created at the request of Paul McCartney for the party A Million Volt Light and Sound Rave at the Roundhouse, London. ‘I said [nas gravações]: All I want you to do is walk around, knock, scream, play, it doesn’t have to make any sense at all’, McCartney recalled years later. ‘Beat a drum, then go to the piano, play a few notes and just walk around.’ In other words, this thing makes ‘Revolution 9’ look structured by comparison.”
The track was almost released in the 1990s as part of the compilations Anthology. However, he was left out due to vetoes from Ringo Starr and George Harrisonwho probably didn’t like experimentation.
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Source: Rollingstone
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