This is the exemplar of Paul McCartney’s singing, for me. O! Darling! is another one, and for so long I thought the seventh he finishes on in that one was a missed note, but really these are the two that exhibit his vocals (and Maybe I’m Amazed from Wings). The capacity to switch from sweetness to roughness to falsetto is shown seamlessly and the falsetto takes you by surprise but then is clearly the only bit that goes there (and IMO is what takes this song from just them having fun to greatness. John Lennon, while probably a more significant artist (certainly, he broke more ground after the Beatles than the others, though they were still seriously important musicians, with the exception of Ringo, who did his best work in the Beatles – and it was transcendental work, whatever people who need there to have been one duff Beatle might tell you), didn’t have this versatility – he had his voice, which is incredible, but (as far as I remember right now) doesn’t do acrobatics like this.
Before I read this thread, I didn’t know John wanted to do O! Darling! I am so interested in what he might have done with it, since in Paul’s eminently capable hands, it is _the_ blues love song. I’m interested just ’cause – I think Paul did a better job with it than John could’ve done – apart from the early days of John singing love song pop, Paul is the guy who becomes the architect of simple love songs – “Here, there and everywhere”, “Honeypie” and then you have the complexity/veiled menace of John with “Glass Onion” and “The continuing story of Bungalow Bill” and “Happiness is a Warm Gun”.
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I guess I am saying that the impression I have from all of the Beatles and Wings and Lennon solo is that Paul is one of the best musicians and songwriters of our age and produced music you can just listen to, but John had a dark part of himself that propelled him to genius status, but he is not _safe_ – if you actually listen to his lyrics, he might challenge you. And you might not like him.
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Also, you only have to read Wikipedia to find out how fragmented they were at this point, though the album is absolutely f_cking genius. And Rocky Raccoon shoved in as filler – that’s got to be one of the most covered songs from it.
Soz, comment got long. I guess I nearly said everything.
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