![]() Things didn't start out that way, actually. It's a format that I really enjoy writing, because it allows you to stretch." ![]() ![]() You sometimes want to change something, you want to write a ballad or you're feeling a rocking thing, or sometimes a folk thing and then you want to put them together. "This was more operatic in its form, and I always liked that. It wasn't a usual rock 'n' roll record," McCartney said in 2021 Q&A for his official website. "It had a couple of songs where there were different sections all put together. He took inspiration from a project that arrived a few years before Abbey Road, producer Mark Wirtz's A Teenage Opera. "It must have freaked a few people, 'cause it was quite daft." "It's a bit surreal, but I was in a very free mood, and looking back, I like all of that," McCartney told Mojo in 2001. So, basically it was the Abbey Road assemblage, taken to a fizzy kitchen-sink zenith. His debut, 1970's McCartney, followed a more stripped-down, personal path – but then came "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey," a technicolor outburst of sewn-together ideas with ever-shifting cadences, styles, collaborators and melodies. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |