Just over 10 years ago, I interviewed @PaulMcCartney and we got to talking about how the best songs stay alive and, as with all living, breathing things, assume new resonances and textures as the years go by. (1/9)
@PaulMcCartney So many of Paul’s songs seem to do this, even ones that seem relatively lightweight at the time. Penny Lane. All My Loving. With A Little Luck. Mamunia. Even We All Stand Together can leave me misty-eyed on some days. (2/9)
@PaulMcCartney So, in the interview, I mentioned this. I put it to him that even When I’m Sixty-Four carries a poignancy which he couldn’t have foreseen when he wrote it. (3/9)
@PaulMcCartney His reply? “You know, I think you’re getting to the philosophical core of things when you say that. Things that are happy are also contain the seed of sadness.” (4/9)
@PaulMcCartney And then, by way of illustration, he pretended to be a brass band playing I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside. In the space between us, images of Victorian ghosts in stripy bathing costumes seemed to materialise. (5/9)
@PaulMcCartney “See what I mean? One day, when we discover the meaning of life, that will somehow be contained within it. That happy is sad and sad is happy.” (6/9)
@PaulMcCartney Anyway, the reason I mention this is that I just returned from today’s recording of The Late Late Show with @JKCorden. “It’s emotional”, I was warned, ahead of the Carpool Karaoke with Paul. I mean, I know it’s Carpool Karaoke. Just a bit of fun. But… (7/9)
@PaulMcCartney Bloody hell. Emotional was one way of putting it. There’s something about watching Macca wandering the streets of Liverpool – & the surprise and adoration of everyone he encounters – that, along with those songs and all the memories they trigger that rather had me in bits. (8/9)
@PaulMcCartney I believe it lands on YouTube early tomorrow morning, but here’s a preview. (9/9)
