BEATLENCYCLOPEDIA

Paul Here, There And Everywhere

I say hello and hope you don't say goodbye to me!

I'll start with the recent activities of the most active Beatle nowadays - Paul McCartney (forever McCharmly in my mind).

Probably the most interesting one is the You Give Me The Answer, which allows everybody with a link to type a question in the system and Paul answers few of them every month - "very high" probability of being the Chosen one for you.

Here it is:
https://www.paulmccartney.com/news-blogs/you-gave-me-the-answer/the-questions

I've typed there around 12 questions, none of them was chosen, but I won't give up! Have you asked something already? Or do you plan to do so? What would you like to ask? (Of course you can participate on Twitter or Facebook too, but still, this is probably the easiest way.)

The last You Gave Me The Answer was about the RAM anniversary, here is the link:

https://www.paulmccartney.com/news-blogs/news/you-gave-me-the-answer-ram-special

Paul during making RAM

If you're too lazy to read it whole, here are my personal favourite lines:

"I remember my nephew Jay said to me ‘oh, my favourite album of yours is RAM’, and that was especially nice to hear because he grew up with it. Whenever I had a new album I’d want to play it for my family, so the kids got to hear it, which means he’s probably got nice memories of listening to it at home."

Oh, I want to be Jay!

The boy is not Jay unfortunately - I wasn't able to find any good photo of him...

"Linda took a photograph of two beetles copulating, or ‘havin’ it off!’ Of course, this got totally misconstrued, because for us it was just an amazing wildlife picture. How often do you see beetles, and very colourful little iridescent beetles too? Linda just took it as a photo and we liked it, so we put it in. Of course, then people said ‘oh, The Beatles are screwing each other – what’s this mean?’, and all sorts of hidden meanings got attached to things."

This made me laugh so hard, well, but I suppose Paul had to get used to this after the whole Paul is dead thingy...

"Three Legs’ for instance was me jamming around with a blues idea, and then with no particular relevance I sang ‘my dog, he got three legs, but he can run’, meaning that everything doesn’t have to be perfect, it can still work. And then I added the lyric ‘a fly flies in’, and I’m sure that happened, with the window open in Scotland! I’m sure a fly actually flew in and I went ‘okay – you’re in the song! Fly flies in, fly flies out’."

Why couldn't I be there and come in through the window? I've heard that this song should be about John - especially the second verse and the third leg = Yoko, but maybe we're trying to find some hidden meanings again...

"The vocals are always influenced by someone, that’s just the way it is, but Screamin' Jay Hawkins definitely on ‘Monkberry Moon Delight’. I mean, when we first heard that record ‘I Put A Spell On You’, we couldn’t believe it, because he starts off relatively sane and then he totally just loses it! You can imagine us young kids hearing that and thinking it was fantastic."

For those who forgot - I Put A Spell On You is the song playing in Nowhere Boy, after John trades the jazz records for "better stuff" and while he has "a proper chat" with the girl.

"‘Uncle Albert’ was a little message to my real Uncle Albert - it was symbolising my family, basically saying ‘I’m so sorry I don’t live up there anymore, and I’ve got a completely different lifestyle to all you guys. I’m sorry, Uncle Albert!’ Like a tongue-in-cheek apology... "

Haha, I've always wondered what is the song about... And it's nothing hidden in it, just we're so sorry, Uncle Albert.

And I'm sorry too but this is the end, my friends. I hope you found this useful and I'll see you next time (which will come soon)!
By the way, do you like RAM? Which is your favourite track?

And of course, I'd love if you could leave a vote or comment!

See you, peace and love, save octopuses!