"Ever Present Past" - Paul McCartney (2007)
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The first few seconds of Paul McCartney's upcoming single "Ever Present Past" brought to mind the opening to The Bob Crewe Generation's "Music To Watch Girls By". Very sixties. Paul always has cool song titles from "Helter Skelter" and "Fool On The Hill" to in your face titles like "Why Don't We Do It In The Road" and "Here Today". They're almost always poetic in title alone.
Of interesting note, his latest single is distributed by Concord instead of Capitol, which has been his American home label for a long time.
We've been giving his song a few spins today on the radio and found the studio lines were split in the middle. Half of the callers loved it and the other half didn't care for it. Not a super scientific method considering that we only got seventy-two calls. You can listen for yourself to see if Paul has got another song to wet your musical appetite for his next album.
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Amen...
This tune is a little too vacuous for me, but at least he's still experimenting and not just giving us what we might expect. I actually saw him at Yale's graduation ceremony this past May. He was given an honorary doctoral degree in music, so now he is Dr. Sir Paul. Unfortunately, he did not perform, but he definitely garnered the most applause from the audience. I ran into him later that night as he was coming out of the British Art Museum where he'd been having dinner with Tony Blair. It was pretty crazy. A huge crowd of people descended upon him, but he graciously welcomed them and signed as many autographs as he could. In any case, it's hard to judge him too harshly these days. The fact that he's creating anything at all is pretty damn impressive.