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George Harrison, featured in Now And Then: The Last Beatles Song (2023)

The Beatles - Now And Then (2023)

The Daily Mirror, 2nd November 1963 // The Radio Times, 2nd November 2023

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

james paul mccartney b. june 18th, 1942, liverpool

"Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you."

“From ‘Eleanor Rigby’ and all its lonely people, to ‘Mr Bellamy’ (the 2007 tale of a would-be suicide) a strand in Paul’s story songs has been the everyday outsider, trapped in the social margins. The quietly compassionate ‘Footprints’, on Press to Play, personifies another stubborn loner, as invisible to society as the lives of quiet desperation he enacts in ‘Teddy Boy’ or ‘Another Day’. You can hear the same well of fellow-feeling being tapped in ‘Treat Her Gently/Lonely Old People’ from Venus and Mars – an intelligent sympathy for the forgotten. If McCartney could be said to have a signature song, it could perhaps be ‘With a Little Luck’: the gentle optimism that seeks no higher (or lower) purpose than to help us all along.”  Paul Du Noyer, Conversations with McCartney