![]() ![]() These songs are so much a part of the cultural fabric, woven into British identity as tightly as cream teas and the Queen, that it’s probably a long time since any of us really listened to them, and that includes their creator. Nor does the younger man ask that many questions, because he essentially only wants to know one thing: why does this song sound so great? To find that out, he plays recording after recording through a mixing desk on which he can turn down some elements and increase the volume on others. Rubin will jump from A Hard Day’s Night from 1964 to the quirky 1980 solo B-side Check My Machine in the space of a few minutes. There’s no narration and very little structure, and individual episodes don’t have definable themes. What this series of conversations between Rubin and McCartney offers instead is something both looser and more specific. If you want to read at exhaustive length about every single song, dig into the Ian MacDonald book Revolution in the Head. If you want to watch something more detailed about The Beatles, go back to the Anthology series of the mid-Nineties. The six half-hour episodes don’t have the time to offer a full account of the seven earth-shaking years in which The Beatles were making music, never mind Sir Paul McCartney’s subsequent work in Wings and as a questing solo artist. ![]() ![]() But in the documentary McCartney 3,2,1, newly arriving on Disney+, we find the 58-year-old cross-legged on the floor, a submissive student ready to learn from the most successful songwriter alive. Ith his wild hair, chest-length beard and bare feet, producer and transcendental meditation practitioner Rick Rubin looks very much like a guru. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT. ![]()
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