h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Born in 1951 Amsterdam, I was lucky to grow up with music of the Beatles. I already described that in "my music memory`-Yesterday` as part of a BBC-project in 2001. It has been ended.

Besides "Yesterday", Paul created songs as "Blackbird", "Eleanor Rigby",etc.
In 1970 I even sung the song "blackbird" continuously in a Spanish prison, because they arrested me for "roaming Spain". A song, so full of beauty, so inspiring, uplifting, comforting.

So his music had a great impact on me.
In my BBC-Music Memory I wrote that "I hardly talk about the Beatles and listen to their music once every two years. But their songs have found their own way, far away from 1960-1970".

That was true when I wrote that `memory`, but because they had put my music memory at their website I became more and more interested in their solo music, their background and personalities. Since then I regularly talk about it,like once every two months.


So I went to the music library of Amsterdam and listened to music of Paul and of George, John and Ringo.
John's music I had known scince they were there in the seventies.

When I heard music of the Wings, I thought I was in a drugstore while they had music as wallpaper.
I was perplexed.
Of course I realized that the emotional mix of the four musicians had created their songs, `their ówn Beatles songs` included.

But thís??
He appeared to have written even the song "silly lovesong" as his reaction to critics who were irritated by his lovesongs during the Wings period.
I think you can `torture` someone with it.

But Paul being Paul, he can sometimes be very open.
I remember him saying in an interview around 2000; "Well, when I hear the music of Wings nów, it feels like a watery infusion of the music of The beatles, but I did not experience that in those days`.

One needs a strong character to say what he said.

But even after Wings, until this day in 2006 it´s far away from what he ever wrote.
It´s almost, well I´ll stop here.


John on his own was far better, but also John could create songs far below what he had done before. Songs that sound very tardy, almost like graveclothes, although I have never heard graveclothes making music.
But without a doubt John gave me many songs that accompany me since I heard them for the first time.

But Paul.. It intrigues me, how this can happen.


I just read today in a new Dutch magazine, that Ringo had about ten years a home at `de Prinsengracht` in Amsterdam ,but that he sold it.
www.revolvermagazine.nl But the `14 pagina´s Beatles` are not worth bying it. 6 euro´s.

I may sound just old and grumpy all the way. Well it´s as it is.
Still astonished what Paul made in the last 30 years.

But, while I cannot understand it, I can still easily `forgive` him, because what he did in the sixtees is absolutely the production by a genius, as John´s was too.


Greetings from Amsterdam


Greetings from Amsterdam

Paul is well and truly back in form recently, despite some of the songs he wrote throughout his solo career, which I don't think are that bad.

Trust me, you hear Paul's best and most solo recent album, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, and you will begin talking about the Beatles once every two hours, like I do!

I'll give it a chance.

Thanks