PAUL McCARTNEY

PAUL McCARTNEY : The cute one. The one the girls lusted most after and arguably the most musically talented of the four. Paul along along with John Lennon was always my favourite Beatles. With his good look and tons of charms to boot, it's not hard to see why. Still, ironically, to say Paul was vastly underrated was an understatement. Unfairly, he will always be under the shadow of John Lennon. His fault I suspected was that he lived while John died. He was always being compared unfavourably with John and frankly how do you complete with a dead man. Even the music pirates neglected him, for crying out loud. While there are tons of John Lennon's pirated CD on the market, there were none on Paul. The closest I get on a pirated CD of Paul was one where he shared top billing with John. I suspected the day when Paul finally leave us, he will be in a better position to rival John Lennon as who was the most talented.


Musically, Paul's solo outputs was the one that I listened to most as compared to the other three. John's solo releases was too adventurous and sometimes leaves one frustrated at what he could gave fulfilled but didn't. George Harrison's albums could be quite depressing at times and Ringo Starr actually have only one truly great album all of his own, the one with which he got more than a little help from his friends. Paul's was the most radio friendly. Even my father who hated The Beatles throughout their career loved "Band On The Run". Of course Paul went on to become deservedly far and away the most successful ex Beatle of all, esclisping the sales of the three Beatles combined. I admire him for his hard works and his superb sense of melody which he haven't quite lost even after all these years. The three just couldn't keep up with him. Who could ?


I will always love Paul for the numerous joys that he have given me with his music during my growing up years. I couldn't quite get into his latter music but I still buys them. Truly, the single greatest recording artist ever to grace the earth. He was recognised by Guniness World Of Record as the most successful recording artist ever and his 'Yesterday' was the best selling and most recorded music of all time. As of today more than 40 years after the break up of the greatest band of all time, he is still rocking with a new album every few years.