Till There Was You- A Beatles TL

The one truly talented Beatle leave the band early?

Hey, if it spared us Baby Boomers hailing John Lennon as some visionary rather than some hack hippie who beat his wife, more power to him.
 
The one truly talented Beatle leave the band early?

Hey, if it spared us Baby Boomers hailing John Lennon as some visionary rather than some hack hippie who beat his wife, more power to him.
Lennon wasn't perfect and was the first to say so, he openly spoke of the way he treated women and his wife, he was ashamed of the person he was in youth and he did his best to change.
Paul was far from the only member of the Beatles who had talent but hey if you're not a fan I'm not gonna waste my time trying to change your mind.
We've chatted on other threads in the past and I think we saw eye to eye on things most of the time but this is isn't one of those times but That's cool.
 
Chapter 2: By Myself
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Paul's Debut Single (1962)

They didn't know, for now at least, and that was good. He was planning on telling them later that week.

He walked into Decca Studios in West Hampstead, where they had auditioned just a couple weeks before.

He came into the studio to find that Tony had already recorded the backing track.

"What the hell is this?" he asked

"It's your song" Tony Meehan replied

"Are those session musicians? You said in our deal that I would be able to make my own songs"

"C' mon Paul, did you really think that behind the countless performances you'd do, interviews, and promotions that you'd be able to record in that time? What I'm doing is helping you"

"If you're helping me, why are you annoying me?"

With an upset look on his face, he walked down to the studio and laid down vocals for the song that had started it all.

"There were bells, on a hill, but I never heard them ringing, No I never heard them at all, Till There Was You"

During that session, he recorded vocals for 10 songs, including "Love of the Loved", A Marvelettes hit "Please Mr. Postman", a song he had made in the late 1950s "I Lost My Little Girl", and many more songs and covers he had saved up from that time. By the end of the night, he had an entire album's worth of songs. The album was scheduled to be released in February with the corresponding single released at the end of the month.


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Paul McCartney (With "Love Of the Loved" And 9 More Hits!)- Paul McCartney
(1962)

Label: Decca Records

Genre: Pop, Beat

Side 1
1. Till There Was You- (Wilson)
2. Cayenne- (McCartney - Meehan)
3. I Lost My Little Girl- (McCartney)
4. Love Of the Loved- (McCartney)
5. Please, Mr. Postman- (Bateman)

Side 2
1. A Taste Of Honey- (Scott - Marlow)
2. You Really Got a Hold On Me- (Robinson)
3. Like Dreamers Do- (McCartney)
4. To Know Her Is To Love Her- (Spector)
5. Some Other Guy- (Leiber - Stoller - Barrett)

The album reached #3 on the UK Charts but didn't chart in the US, Paul McCartney reflects on this in a 1982 interview, "There was nothing really special about that album, it's just a collection of covers and maybe 5 songs by me"

Later That Week...
John was in shock.
"What the bloody hell?" he said to himself, he was holding the '45 of Paul's single "Till There Was You/ Love Of the Loved", he called the 19-year-old guitarist of the band George Harrison.

"George, you need to see this"

Hey guys! Sorry for taking a long time off of this, I don't know why I did but here's a new update, Paul had just recorded his debut album for Decca and John just found out about Paul's new found independence from The Beatles, more will come soon.

 

Later That Week...
John was in shock.
"What the bloody hell?" he said to himself, he was holding the '45 of Paul's single "Till There Was You/ Love Of the Loved", he called the 19-year-old guitarist of the band George Harrison.

"George, you need to see this"

Hey guys! Sorry for taking a long time off of this, I don't know why I did but here's a new update, Paul had just recorded his debut album for Decca and John just found out about Paul's new found independence from The Beatles, more will come soon.

Wow! Overall, this is a great debut album from Paul, wonder how the Beatles are going to continue on - maybe get Klaus to join on bass?
 
Good update. I could see an album like this being made at this point in time.
Dam shame Paul didn't tell the others what he did before the album came out, not cool.
 
Is Paul planning on going solo and staying in the Beatles? I expect John might want to buy him a sandwich for Tea- a knuckle sandwich.
 
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