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Caribeing | 00:25 Wed 14th Dec 2016 | Film, Media & TV
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Need earplugs sounds like someone stamped on the cat!
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I don't think he's a good singer. They were good as a group but not individually. They done catchy tunes, wrote some brilliant stuff, but if Barry Gibb appeared on X Factor he wouldn't get past the auditions.
00:34 Wed 14th Dec 2016
I don't like opera. I don't much like ballads either.
Colverjo - //As we're talking about PM, he's a terrible songwriter. Almost everything he's written without John Lennon has been quite appalling. //

I assume you are referring to Mr McCartney's solo output?

Because let's not forget, as a general guide, which ever Beatle sand that lead vocal on any of their songs was the main songwriter - and if you trawl through the output on which he is the vocalist, and therefore main writer, you'll see that it is not at all bad.
I always just took it that McCartney wrote the nursery rhymes set to fairground music whilst Lennon  penned the political and social comment.
Thanks Togo, I was trying to think what Barry Gibbs singing on the Royal Variety Performance reminded me of.
Harrison Ford is 71
Oops that was for TRT. Sorry Togo.
Agree with Bazile about McCartney.
Rod Stewart, Barry Gibb, Neil Diamond, Willy Nelson, Cohen and others - No great voices, but distinctive voices, musicality, and real talent. I certainly don't recognise those things in McCartney!
PM, is one of the Worlds most successful, English song writers, musician in history, how can some of you say he is rubbish?
Music is a matter of taste.One mans meat------
NellieMay - that's unfortunate, because all the artists you mention, and nay other artist from 1963 onwards, would not have a career in music without Mr McCartney and colleagues.

Seismic changes in the culture of the planet are as rare as they are important - The Beatles created one of those, and Paul McCartney was a driving musical force in that band.

You can dislike every single one of his songs, but you cannot ever underestimate his talent and the influence he has had on popular music around the world.
Can't agree Andy. They stand in their own write as songwriters and performers. Must admit that I was not a Beatles can, but have tremendous respect for Lennon and Harrison
NellieMay - if what I was offering was an opinion, you could of course disagree - but what I am offering is a fact, and therefore your disagreement is invalid.

If you listen to 'I Saw Her Standing There', you will hear a youthful Mr McCartney counting in "One Two Three Four!" followed immediately by just under three minutes of the most galvanising passionate rock and roll performances ever committed to vinyl which helped to motivate an entire generation to pick up guitars and / or sing, delivered in one od the greatest rock and roll voices ever heard anywhere.

By all means dislike it, but to say, as you do, that it lacks 'a distinctive voice, musicality, and real talent' simply flies in the face of not only audible evidence, but historical change.
Andy, just because you believe it does not make it fact.There were great rock and rollers long before the era of the beatles.
dannyk13 - It is not because I believe it that it is a fact, it is because it is a fact that it is a fact.

The Beatles revolutionised popular music around the world, and caused seismic changes in youth culture, the effects of which are still felt today.

That is a fact.

Paul McCartney was a major driving force in The Beatles, and in that change.

That is also a fact.

It has nothing to do with my particular taste in music, because taste is not the issue here.

NellieMay posts that Mr McCartney does not have 'a distinctive voice, musicality or real talent' and that is simply not true, on any level.
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You were suggesting that Paul Mc Cartney was an instigator of rock and roll and that is where I disagree with you.As I said there were great rock and rollers long before the Beatles era.
dannyk13 - //You were suggesting that Paul Mc Cartney was an instigator of rock and roll and that is where I disagree with you.As I said there were great rock and rollers long before the Beatles era. //

That is not what I said.

What I said was that Paul McCartney wrote a fabulous and influential rock and roll song, and sung it with a fabulous and influential rock and roll voice.

Nowhere did I suggest that he was being original - he, and certainly anyone who knows anything about pop history, acknowledges his debt to people like Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, and so on.
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Andy, it is not a fact that the Beatles influenced Cohen, Willy Nelson , the GIbbs or Neil Diamond. Sorry, but you are wrong on this. All great songwriters too. And I think McCartney is highly overrated as a songwriter and performer. He needed Lennon.

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