What is Paul McCartney's greatest achievement?

Just a short interview with John & Yoko about Paulie on Mike Douglas. They always remained good friends into the 1970's.

 

To have inspired Lennon.

 

Hey mate, here's the thing.
You can't make yourself like something, including music

I don't like Post 1990 Neil Young either...
Guess I need to see my doctor

 

Well, he's probably the most workaholic of the Beatles to begin with (although he never seemed to let it get in the way of family life).. mind you, as the saying goes "if you love what you do for a living, you never really work a day in your life..."

 

Mull of Kintyre — Paul, Linda / James, Denny, two bagpipers

 

It certainly wouldn't hurt!

 

From Reddit...

1. Solo - "Pipes Of Peace" (1983)
   
   
2. Duo - with Stevie Wonder "Ebony And Ivory" (1982)
   
   
3. Trio - Wings ("Wings Mull Of Kintyre" / "Girls' School") (1977) (at this time Wings consisted of Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney and Denny Laine, [guitarist Jimmy McCulloch left the month before to join the re-formed Small Faces])
   
   
4. Quartet - Beatles (with John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) (16 no. 1s from 1963-1969 in this formation).
   
   
5. Quintet - Beatles with Billy Preston - Get Back (1969)
   

Now, the above is impressive enough. But it gets get better, if a little tenuous; 6) Sextet - Ferry Aid (with Mel Appleby, Kim Appleby, Kate Bush, Boy George, Jim Diamond) (1987)

9) Nine - - with The Christians (Garry & Russell Christian and Henry Priestman), Holly Johnson, Gerry Marsden & Stock Aitken Waterman - "Ferry Cross The Mersey" (1989) - counting Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman as three separate 'performers' as they had artist credits.

Multi - difficult to know exactly how many performed on this - Band Aid "Do They Know It's Christmas" (with Bananarama, Bob Geldof, Culture Club, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Eurythmics, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Heaven 17, Human League, Kool and the Gang, Midge Urge, Paul Young, Phil Collins, Spandau Ballet, Status Quo, Sting, The Style Council U2, Wham!). Paul also did a narration for the 'b' side to this disc.

 

Well, aside from all the other comments, I'd say looking like this at nearly 80 years old is a pretty fine achievement. How can he look better now than he did 20 years ago?

 

His contributions to "Tomorrow Never Knows" - pushed the experimentation envelope, which allowed the progression to Pepper's (and Paul's contributions are often attributed to Lennon on this track).

His songwriting, when he gets it right with depth - the opposite to his trite songs.

Another great achievement is his ability to rewrite Beatle history and to manipulate Beatles fans ("Carnival of Light", anyone?) - not an achievement to be celebrated.

 

He is not on the A side of "Do They Know Its Christmas", he supplied a recorded message for the B side.

He took no part in the recording session.

 

Song: Let It Be

Album: Band On The Run

Action: Keeping The Beatles on track after Brian Epstein died

 

Without a doubt his greatest achievement is the number of threads in this forum.
Nobody can beat him. Even the other 3 fabs pale in comparison.

 

Stop trying to insult our intelligence.

 

Thanks for the research.

BUT that Sextet entry is still a fudge. Even the 7" picture sleeve has more than 6 people shown on it:

 

The fact he has and continues to keep pushing forward with new and varied projects up to his 80th birthday when he could have retired in 1970 and still be known as a legend.

 

hey...

 

Waterfalls and Coming Up. Even John was blown away by those.

 

To me, this and With a Little Help are the most perfect pop songs ever crafted.

 

You're kidding, right? ...

THE BEATLES. FFS ...

Solo-wise, Ram, Band On The Run and Chaos & Creation.

... and it's flip side. ♡

Western Civilization has been all downhill from that moment, truly.

 

Vegetarian TV dinners. Oh, wait ....

 

Linda’s sausages are great. Lightly fried with some onions and sriracha sauce. Yum

 

...isn't this where John denied How Do You Sleep was about Paul...?

 

Agreed. Nothing to add.

 

Personally, living up to the legend when I saw him in concert in 2010.

Great entertaining show.

 

I enjoyed this hour long interview with Alan Alda from last year.

Paul McCartney: On the Magic of Music - From the Magician Himself - Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Omny.fm