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Category: Paul +/- Linda McCartney

"Every Night"
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Subverting Depression in Popular Song

NoBullying.com, in their April, 2015 piece entitled “Songs About Depression,” reminds us Beatles fans that the song “Every Night” from Paul McCartney’s debut solo album — recorded while still legally a Beatle — was created while the bassist was battling depression. How nice to see Richie Havens take this song

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60s/70s rock +/- pop
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“Brung to Ewe by”: Paul’s Return to the Avant-Garde

This rather bonkers promotional campaign for Paul & Linda McCartney‘s 1971 LP Ram might very well have been the catalyst that propelled the album into the upper reaches of the pop charts both here and abroad: “Brung to Ewe“ Paul & Linda McCartney (1971) It tickles the brain to hear all

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"Sugartime"
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“Sugartime”: Linda & Paul at Black Ark

Paul McCartney released a posthumous compilation in 1998 of Linda-related recordings, Wide Prairie, that included two tracks from Linda & Paul‘s 1977 sojourn to Lee Perry‘s famed laboratory of sound – The Black Ark – in Kingston, Jamaica. One of those Black Ark recordings — a remake of The McGuire

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