Paul mccartney on get back6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Peanut Butter in Bojack Horseman, a poppy contrast to the brooding, poetic/psychedelic genius of John Lennon. My perception of him coming in was almost certainly a product of not studying the subject deeply enough, but I thought of McCartney as a sort of happy puppy dog figure, a la Mr. The greatest revelation, to a casual like me, is young Paul McCartney. Seeing the Beatles on the verge of making an album, and also on the verge of breaking up, is supposed to be one of those forbidden historical scenes left to conjecture and thirdhand retellings, and yet there we are, right in the thick of it, hearing every whisper. Imagine, if you’re a sports fan, being inside the locker room before The Miracle on Ice or if history is your thing, being privy to Abraham Lincoln’s private conversations. This is one of those moments that, historically, we’re not supposed to be able to see. That’s most of us, I think, but the sheer status of the Beatles means that even casuals aren’t truly casual… which is why even for people like me, it’s such a thrill to watch the most famous band in human history interact in the Get Back docuseries. Second, the iconoclasts who delight in blowing our minds with radical takes like, “actually, the Beatles suck.” And third, my group: the “casuals” who appreciate the music but aren’t diehards. First, the obsessed devotees, of which there are many. The overwhelming majority of us fall into the three basic camps. (Yes, okay, there are probably people-probably millions of people, on this planet-who simply don’t know them, but this is Paste and you know what I mean.) In life, I think, there are only three ways that we can relate to the Beatles, which is fewer than you could say for any other band.
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