tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12265028.post8000889635246617985..comments2024-03-18T00:46:28.548-07:00Comments on China Matters: I owe Paul McCartney an apologyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12265028.post-55521542327996415852015-11-17T07:39:58.728-08:002015-11-17T07:39:58.728-08:00I posted a comment on this thread which did not ap...I posted a comment on this thread which did not appear so I will attempt it again.<br /><br />I made this comment on youtube on a Ram album discussion and I think it bears repeating so here goes.<br /><br />The Trash and Bash McCartney brigade led by Jann Wenner and like minded(or weak minded flunkies he employed, followed by other Lennon biased critics in the music press, who bowed at the feet of John Lennon, sided with Lennon in his feud with Paul McCartney after The Beatles break-up, sought to ingratiate themselves with him, by trashing anything and everything McCartney did post break-up, by creating a false narrative and talking points that Paul wrote shit, sang shit, was shit, and that we should always expect shit from Paul...and that John was deep, innovative, creative,artistic, transcendent, genius...pretty much what angry John was spewing in all of his interviews back in 1970,1971. This hurt Paul very deeply and it damaged his career (somewhat) and his reputation for decades,(even to this day in some quarters). Now why would they do this, one has to ask? I'll tell you why.<br />The break up of The Beatles came as quite a shock, to everybody. And since it was announced publically by McCartney in an innocous promotion of his debut solo album, headlines screamed Paul McCartney Quits The Beatles! He became the face of the break up, he was the villian. Music press was shocked, then angry, and instead of doing their journalistic jobs and digging for information on what actually happened, they sought to blame, degrade and ruin the reputation and career of Paul, based on the drug induced, paranoid rantings of an angry John without even attempting to balance their screed with a Paul's side until months later, and then with a shrill chorus of "LIAR!" as a response to McCartney's point of view. Rancid, amateur, hack journalism at worst. <br />As for RAM, the music speaks for itself. It is a masterpiece, it was then and it is now. Fans that listened to it back then have always known. It's a newly discovered gem by young fans of today and old Beatles/McCartney fans that were influenced by the music critics back then and skipped it. The music of Ram has stood the test of time. The album was so innovative it sounds just as fresh today as it did back in the day. Music critics of today often wonder what in the hell was going on with then young, supposedly hip, cool music critics back then, to hate McCartney and RAM so much? I'll tell you what was going on.<br />They, 1970s music critics became the New Establishment. Young men with bitter hearts, with the same agenda they hated the Old Establishment for. They were the gatekeepers, bent on keeping out someone they blamed for killing their religion, The Beatles, and they didn't want Paul McCartney in their snooty, pissy little heaven because their god, John Lennon was mad at Paul, and THAT, for them, was reason enough.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06758256066154576156noreply@blogger.com