In the lyric, Paul sings “What about the night we cried?” which he has since explained refers to one night during The Beatles’ touring days, when he and John stayed up talking all night and eventually talked about the shared loss of their mothers as teenagers. “I wrote ‘Here Today’ about John,” Paul McCartney told Paul du Noyer about this touchingly simple song from his 1982 album, Tug Of War. I write something and he’ll sort of edit it, and provided I don’t mind, that goes OK.” As for Costello, he admitted: “Inevitably there was a bit of, ‘Fuckin’ hell, it’s Paul McCartney.’” He’s a good foil for me, and I think I’m a pretty good foil. Describing their working process to Paul du Noyer, McCartney said, “We got these songs, a bit different for me, a little more wordy than if I’d written them. He pulled out all the stops for the album, working with Elvis Costello as his songwriting partner on many tracks, including the lead single, “My Brave Face.” That session marked the first time Paul had used his iconic Hofner “violin” bass for many years, adding a certain Beatles-like sound to the song. That year’s Flowers In The Dirt album went to No.1 and was the launching pad for Paul’s first world tour since the mid-70s. In many respects, 1989 was a turning point in Paul McCartney’s solo career. “I started to get images of us in the record shop listening to early rock’n’roll and looking at the posters, and the joy that gave me remembering all those moments.”Ĭlick to load video 16: My Brave Face (1989) “On the day I wrote the track ‘Early Days’ I was thinking about the past, particularly me and John in Liverpool in the early days, so I just ran with that,” Paul explained. From the sessions with Ethan Johns came “Early Days,” a song about Macca’s carefree teenage years back in Liverpool.
One of the interesting aspects of Paul McCartney’s 2013 album, NEW, is that the production credits feature Giles Martin and Ethan Johns, successful young producers, but – more significantly – the respective sons of George Martin and Glyn Johns, both of whom had produced The Beatles. Listen to the best Paul McCartney solo songs on Apple Music and Spotify, and scroll down for our list. The best Paul McCartney post-Beatles and solo songs, then, pay tribute to that relentless drive to keep finding new modes of expression. As a solo artist, however, McCartney continued to shape pop and rock music, whether with new collaborators (Wings, his wife Linda, Elvis Costello, producer Nigel Godrich) or simply following wherever his creative muse led. Having helped change the face of music on several occasions, he could have spent his post-Beatles life in semi-retirement, emerging solely to remind us of his past accomplishments. By the time The Beatles split, in 1970, Paul McCartney had already accomplished more than any musician could have hoped for.
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