Paul McCartney talks about punk music – 1977
Paul McCartney talks about punk music – 1977
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“All that *funny hairrr*” … I’m dying
Legend
That’s how you stay relevant for 60 years.
I always liked Paul. He seems like a nice guy .
Macca is the man.
One of the many things I’ve always loved about Paul McCartney is that he’s never been a music snob.
He would disguise himself in fancy dress to attend concerts incognito. So he was probably gobbing at the damned from the mosh pit like the rest of them.
Nary a ‘Get off my (music) lawn’. At least at this point in time. Interested in his POV on autotune.
He was always my favorite Beatle, sorry George.
When I was a young Beatles fan, Lennon had the mystique, but even back then I kinda knew that Paul was the authentic one. Great clip, thanks for sharing. I love how he passes the credit of influence to other bands while it was this “silly love songs” guy that took it to another level with Helter Skelter.
Love Paul and Linda but in about 1973 they both had “Bowie” hair.
The funny thing is how conservative most of the punk movement became.
They started out doing their own thing and thumbing their noses at other stuff. The Sex Pistols were a literal joke, started as a concept band by some outrageous fashionistas. *Nothing wrong with that!* The famous “Fuck Pink Floyd” shirt was a joke, a conceptual thing, as if those guys weren’t getting stoned and listening to Pink Floyd once in a while just like all their other friends were.
But punk fans started taking it all very, very seriously.
More and more, the particular punk ethos and look, dress, hairstyles and attitudes were copied by more and more bands and people… soon, any song longer than three minutes was “garbage” and any other style of music was deemed as trash by the same “movement” that was all about being left alone and doing their own thing. You simply had to look and sound a certain way or you were “out” and “wrong” and — !gasp! — “uncool”.
The punk ethos became more and more lock-step, where you were expected to look and sound a very certain way or else you sucked. Anything “out of acceptable bounds” was reviled and ridiculed. That’s the very concept of conservatism.
This is a general observation, and certainly there are and were exceptions to what I’m laying out here.
I love him so much.
I mean arguably helter skelter is one of the first punk songs
I wonder what he’d say from the new music of today’s young
He’s always just dead on correct
Fun fact is that Paul is 34 in this interview, but was already the legendary monstrosity of music for about a decade
Molly Meldrum the best music critic in the biz.