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Sir Paul McCartney's album "Flowers in the Dirt", closing the era of the 1980s, is considered his best album of that period.

Then, in 1989, he, in collaboration with new musicians, new producers and a new co-author in the person of Elvis Costello, not only released this disc, but also embarked on the first world tour in 10 years.

Now, in late March 2017, with the album reissued and featuring previously unreleased archived demos, Sir Paul spoke to BBC 6 Music about his collaborations with Costello, Kanye West and Michael Jackson, and why he never there will be no better co-author than John Lennon.

BBC: Do you learn something from everyone you work with?

FloorMcCartney: As far as my collaboration is concerned, I can't have a better collaborator than John. It is a fact. So I'm not trying to deceive myself. I just know that I can't find anyone who would write something better with me than I did with John. But, despite this, it is interesting for me to work with other people, because they bring something concrete [to the collaboration].

If you take Stevie [Wonder], for example, he just sits, composing at the keys. You call him for lunch, he appears 10 hours later, because he was playing something on his keyboard. He is a musical giant and a genius, and you learn from him.

Michael Jackson ... we just sat upstairs, in his studio, and I played something on the piano, and we wrote a song right there. Well, as for Kanye, I had no idea what it would be; I knew what it wasn't going to be - a roll call of two acoustic guitars. So I thought: okay, let it be - nothing.

But the only thing that I said to everyone in advance: "Look, if I feel that nothing is working out, then we just won't tell anyone about it: what kind of Kanye? I never worked with him!"

So I was just myself; began to tell Kanye different tales about what inspired me musically in life. One of them was the story of how the [Beatles] song "Let It Be" came about: it was inspired by one dream when I saw my mother who had died 10 years before.

And I was so inspired by it that I wrote this song. I told this to Kanye because he lost his mother too. And then he composed a song called Only One with my strumming on the electronic piano. So he came up with a melody, I put chords on it in a certain style, and that's how it worked out.

BBC: When you started working on Flowers in the Dirt, was it a kind of "start over" for you?

FloorMcCartney: I think yes. I take care of my family, raise children, and then suddenly a moment comes when I think: "Oh," kay, I have accumulated some songs, I should do them, I should record them. We should go on tour, it's time. "

And so it happened during that period. Someone suggested I work with Elvis Costello as a collaborator, and it seemed like a good idea. I said to myself, "He's from Liverpool, and he's not bad - which usually helps - and we have a lot in common, so I figured it could work out."

BBC: Did you write, sitting next to each other, strumming something to each other on your acoustics?

FloorMcCartney: There are a million different ways to compose, but when I was composing with John, it was always opposite each other, sometimes sitting on beds in a hotel room with an acoustic guitar hugging and we were always looking at each other. He came up with something, I came up with something, and so we kindled from each other. I liked looking at John - he is right-handed, I am left-handed - it was as if I were looking in the mirror.

We did quite well with him in the end, of course. So I learned to write [songs] this way, and that's how I liked it, and Elvis didn't mind working that way. So it was kind of like repeating the old process where he was essentially John and I was Paul.

BBC: I can't help but ask a question about Chuck Berry - one of your musical heroes. What was he like? Did you work with him a lot?

FloorMcCartney: I didn't work with Chuck, but I did meet with him. He came to one of our concerts when we played in St. Louis, his hometown, and he came to us backstage. It was great to meet him and say that I am a huge fan of him.

When I think back to that time in Liverpool, before the Beatles, when we were all children and were learning to play the guitars, dreaming about the future, there was a moment when we suddenly heard this song - Sweet Little Sixteen. We had never heard anything like it before - and when then Johnny B. Goode came out and other amazing songs - Maybellene ... All these songs about cars, teenagers, rock 'n' roll - it was so great!

BBC BBC: Watching this flurry of condolences that followed the death of Chuck Berry, do you sometimes think how they will remember you?

FloorMcCartney: You think about it, yes, but then you try to forget. I don’t go into it, honestly. I remember John once said to me: "I wonder how they will remember me? Are they good words?" And I hastened to assure him, I said: "Listen to me, you will be remembered so much! You wrote so many amazing things!" But it was funny too - because you would never think that John had the slightest bit of hesitation about it. But anything can happen, I think. Fortunately, it won't make any difference, because I won't be here anymore.

BBC: And on a more positive note: what's new planned?

FloorMcCartney: I am recording a new album and have a lot of fun. I work with a producer whom I first encountered two years ago while working on the soundtrack for an animated film. Since then, he has already worked with Beck [Hansen] and made "Disc of the Year" ["Morning Phase" won three Grammy Awards in 2015, including Best Disc of the Year] with Beck. Then he worked with Adele and did "Song of the Year" and "Disc of the Year" [Disc "25" - also released in 2015] with Adele, and also became "Producer of the Year".

So the only thing that worries me is that people are going to say, "Oh, Paul bought fancy stuff." But he's a great guy, his name is Greg Kerstin and it's easy to work with him. So yes, I create, I work to the fullest, I do what I love the most. As Ringo says, "This is what we do."

New edition of the disc "Flowers in the Dirt"went on sale March 24, 2017.

Many books have been written about the Beatles. This differs from the rest in that the Beatles themselves presented their version of events up to 1970.

Quotes by Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and additions by Neil Aspinall, Sir George Martin, and Derek Taylor are drawn in part from the interviews that have served as the basis for the television and video versions of The Beatles Anthology. In addition, the book includes important materials published for the first time. In-depth interviews with Paul, George and Ringo were conducted specifically for Anthology.

The text attributed to John Lennon comes from extensive sources that have been collected over several years around the world, again specifically for this book. These sources include printed materials and videos, private and public archives. The materials are arranged in chronological order and in such a way that the narrative is coherent. To allow the reader to perceive John's words in accordance with a specific period, each quote is provided with a date when it was spoken, recorded, or first published. Years are indicated by only the last two digits: for example, 1970 is indicated in the text as (70). These dates apply to the entire text fragment, up to the specified date.

Only in a few cases has it been possible to accurately date the quotes (despite the fact that they contain the original words of John). They are included in the book without a date.

In order to create additional historical context, here are the original words of Paul, George, Ringo and others relating to the period before 1970. They are also marked with the last two numbers, like John's words.

While working on the Anthology, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr made available their personal archives to the compilers. Moreover, unrestricted access to photographs and documents from the archives of Apple and EMI was obtained.

This book was prepared for publication by Genesis Publications for Apple with the active assistance of the late Derek Taylor, who consulted until his death in 1997.

What can I tell about myself that you would not already know?

I wear glasses. Born on October 9, 1940, I was not the first of the Beatles. Ringo was the first of us born on July 7, 1940. However, he joined the Beatles later than the others, and before that he not only grew a beard, but also managed to work as a drummer at the Butlins camp. He was engaged in other nonsense, until he finally realized what fate had in store for him.

Ninety percent of the world's people, especially in the West, were born from a bottle of whiskey on Saturday night; no one was going to have such children. Ninety percent of us humans were born by chance - I don't know a single person who planned to have a child. We are all creatures of Saturday nights (80).

My mother was a housewife. She was also a comedian and singer - not professional, but she often performed in pubs and the like; She sang well, knew how to imitate Kay Starr. She often sang one song when I was one or two years old. This is a tune from a Disney movie: “Do you want me to tell you a secret? But do not tell anyone. You are standing near the well of desires ”(80).

My parents separated when I was four years old and I lived with my aunt Mimi (71).

Mimi explained that my parents stopped loving each other. She never accused them of anything. I soon forgot my father. As if he had died. But I remembered my mother constantly, my love for her will never die.

I often thought of her, but for a long time did not realize that she lived only five or ten miles away from me (67).

My family consisted of five women. Five strong, smart, beautiful women, five sisters. One of them was my mother. Life was not easy for mom. She was the youngest, she could not raise me alone, and therefore I settled with her older sister.

They were amazing women. Perhaps someday I will write something like The Forsyte Saga about them, because they were the ones who ruled the family (80).

The men remained invisible. I have always been surrounded by women. I often listened to their conversations about men and life, they were always aware of everything. And men never knew anything. This is how I got my first, feminist education (80).

The most painful thing is to be unwanted, to realize that your parents do not need you as much as you need them. As a child, I had moments when I stubbornly did not notice this ugliness, did not want to see that I was unwanted. This lack of love poured into my eyes and into my mind.

I was never really needed by anyone. I became a star only because I held back my feelings. Nothing would have helped me get through all this if I had been “normal” (71).

Most people are under the influence of others all their lives. Some people just cannot understand that their parents continue to torture them, even when their children are over forty or fifty. They are still being strangled, controlled by their thoughts and reason. I was never afraid of this and never crawled before my parents (80).

Penny Lane is the area where I lived with my mother, father (however, my father was a sailor and spent most of his time at sea) and grandfather. We lived on 80 Newcastle Road.

This is the first house that I remember. Good start: red brick walls, a never-before-seen living room, curtains drawn, a horse and carriage painting on the wall. Upstairs there were only three bedrooms; the windows of one overlooked the street, the second - into the courtyard, and between them there was another tiny room (79).

When I parted with Penny Lane, I moved in with my aunt, who also lived in the suburbs, in a semi-detached house with a small garden. Doctors, lawyers, and other people of that sort lived in the neighborhood, so the suburb was nothing like a slum. I was a cute, neatly cropped boy from the suburbs, growing up surrounded by a class taller than Paul, George, and Ringo, who lived in council houses. We had our own house, our own garden, and they had nothing of the kind. Compared to them, I was lucky. Only Ringo was a real city boy. He grew up in the craziest neighborhood. But he didn't care; Probably, life there was more fun for him (64).

Actually, the first thing I remember is a nightmare (79).

I have colored dreams, always surreal. The world of my dreams is similar to the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I like it, I look forward to it every night (74).

One of the frequently recurring dreams that I have throughout my life is flying. I always fly when I'm in danger. I remember that even as a child I flew in a dream, as if I were floating through the air. I usually flew over familiar places where I lived. And sometimes I had nightmares in which a giant horse or something else scary was approaching me, and I had to fly away. When I had such dreams in Liverpool, I explained them by my desire to leave the city (71).

In my most vivid dreams, I saw myself sitting on an airplane flying over some area of ​​Liverpool. The first time I had this dream was when I was in school. The plane flew over the city in circles, climbing higher and higher.

John Winston Lennon(October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980), James Paul McCartney(born June 18, 1942), British rock musicians, singers, composers, members of the Beatles.

The secret to the popularity of the Beatles is simple. In the sixties, a new generation entered life, whose parents survived the war and now wanted their children not to know these horrors. The rapid growth in the birth rate led to the fact that there were more young people in society, therefore their tastes, habits, moods determined the face of the time. The thirst to enjoy life, the desire to love and be loved became the content of songs that were composed by guys from ordinary Liverpool families. They created their own ensemble and came up with a disturbing, annoying name for it, similar to the buzzing of a bumblebee, or the sound of an airplane - "The Beatles" ("Beetles").

The second significant reason for their instant popularity was the so-called "promotion" - a competent and dynamic introduction to the music business. This was the beginning of the dealer process in show business, when, 25 years after the war, the entertainment industry began to form.

The Beatles' first producer, Brian Epstein, was the owner of a record store. It was thanks to him that they immediately got on the first tour of Germany, in Hamburg, and soon they were recognized all over the world.

It is curious that the Beatles agreed to go on tour to America only when their songs began to take first places in the charts. This happened already in 1964.

The band included four musicians: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Each of them had his own temperament and preferences. John Lennon and Paul McCartney met in 1957, while still teenagers. They had a common passion - modern dance and the new rhythm of rock and roll. In all other respects they were completely different, but, despite this, they decided to create a group together.

For seven years, the Beatles' songs remained at the top of the song charts. Their plots were simple and unpretentious: Lennon and McCartney wrote about how their peers lived. Although they did not invent any particular style, it formed as if by itself, including clothes and hairstyles. Fans often came to concerts to sing along with their idols. Their performances were widely broadcast on the radio and their songs became world famous.

The band's melodies ranged from folk music to loud rock. Of course, this was not the kind of deafening roar that modern bands sometimes get carried away with. The Beatles were just getting started with electronic amplification of song arrangements. Therefore, there is always a melody in their songs; connecting with the vocals, she made them so famous. The hits of the early years were the songs "She loves you" (1963), "Yesterday" (1965), "Yellow submarine" (1966).

Each song is a short story with a dramatic, tense plot, which is organized by a simple rhythm, each time different, and an easily remembered general tone, which is reinforced by a refrain.

The success of the group was truly overwhelming, their records were in great demand. Numerous albums have been released in different countries. The musicians starred in films and toured the world.

The group went through "fire, water and copper pipes." The test of fame was not easy, often scandalous. Some of the musicians are addicted to drugs.

In the seventies, it became obvious that the group in the same composition and with the same creative mood could no longer exist. During one of the touring trips, Ringo Starr stayed in India, Lennon and McCartney began to perform separately. Each of them made their own careers. George Harrison became a film producer.

Lennon began performing more frequently with his Japanese-American wife, Yoko Ono. Together they were engaged in social activities, the struggle for peace. One of the peaceful hymns "lmagine" became a classic, and after Lennon's death it was sung as a hymn to his memory. In 1980, the musician was killed near his home. He had two children.

Paul McCartney also formed the Wings group with his wife, which became famous. After Lennon's death, he was the only member of the group who continued to make music professionally. Many of his songs became hits.

In 1985, the release of the Beatles' anthology of songs, which included previously unknown works by the group and John Lennon, became a real sensation.

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John Lennon (1940-1980) and Paul McCartney (born 1942)

Lennon and McCartney are, no doubt, rare musical talents, natural and original, but gifted in different ways. In a sense, this difference stems from the peculiarities of their nature.

But perhaps the most striking thing about them as composers is that, despite the fact that Paul and John have been writing music together for over ten years, they have completely retained their identities, their selves.

John Lennon's grandfather, a native of Dublin, performed in the United States as a professional singer. Father - Fred - worked as a waiter on the ship. He played the banjo quite well and often performed as a singer during concerts on the ship.

Lennon's dad can be described as an adventure-seeking migratory bird. Fred Lennon probably didn't take his marriage in 1938 seriously from the start. His wife Julia, née Stanley, gave birth to a boy, John, on October 9, 1940. They divorced three years later.

John grew up with one of his mother's sisters. Mary Smith took very touching care of the boy. She raised John to be strict and fair. This caring woman went down in Beatles history as Mimi's aunt.

In the 1950s, for most young people, the guitar had a magical power, and John Lennon was no exception. He quickly grasped and reproduced everything. what I heard on the radio. His desire - to be the first everywhere - led to the idea of ​​creating his own amateur vocal and instrumental ensemble.

On June 15, 1956, the Quarriman group played at one of the church holidays. The members of the group met there with a young man who mastered new, unknown to him, methods of playing the guitar. For John, these tricks of the game were a real discovery. Forgetting his cocky bragging, he was sincerely amazed at how easily and confidently this boy named Paul McCartney wielded the instrument.

Like John, Paul McCartney inherited a love of music from his parents. Jim McCartney, Paul's father, loved to play the piano, and therefore Paul constantly heard music in his house from early childhood. Paul McCartney was born on June 18, 1942 at Walton Hospital in Liverpool, where his mother worked as a nurse for many years. Paul's father was a cotton trader at the time. When the McCartney family moved to the Allerton area of ​​Liverpool in 1955, their mother fell ill. The operation failed to prevent cancer deaths.

After graduating from elementary school, Paul attended Liverpool Central High School. After the death of his mother, he developed a love for music. If you put all the musical impressions together, you can understand what influenced him. It was all the music I heard, from Fred Astaire to Little Richard.

John, accepting McCartney, realized that he could not treat Paul the way he treated the other members of the ensemble. However, John did not want to give it up either. There was a reason for this. After Paul once played some of the tunes he had composed, John also tried to organize his ideas and write them down. Paul, in turn, took an interest in John's lyrics, who later fabricated them with great skill. So they encouraged each other. One wrote lyrics, another music, and together they practiced the guitar.

In this collaboration, John and Paul encouraged each other, and the band's success improved from gig to gig. In 1958, George Harrison joined the group. The fourth member of the ensemble was Pete Best. He was later replaced by Ringo Star.

The Beatles' success began with performances at the Kaiserkellere restaurant in Hamburg. At first, Liverpool musicians clearly lacked experience. However, they were vain, practicing their instruments for hours, honing their skills, and finally won the affection and recognition of the audience.

Returning to Liverpool, the four musicians continued to perform in clubs. One of the group's concerts, held in the suburbs of Liverpool, was such a resounding success that many newspapers published rave reviews about it.

In Hamburg, the Beatles created a new type of group singing. They noticed that their voices became hoarse during the hours of performances in the smoke-filled rooms. Therefore, they began to sing in twos, threesomes, or fours. So their voices were less strained and, in addition, the perception of the words of the songs being performed increased. The Beatles practiced with amazing diligence and soon achieved a harmonious sound that delighted many.

In December 1961, a contract was signed between the Beatles and Brian Epstein, who was selling records at the time. After repeated attempts, the Beatles' new impresario succeeded in getting the record-releasing concern Decca interested in having the Beatles make a trial recording. In a good mood, they went to London. But when they found themselves in the recording studio, the Beatles became very agitated and played insecure. The deal with the Decca concern did not materialize.

The Beatles recorded their first single on September 11, 1962 in a studio owned by the British Recording Concern Electric and Musical Industries. The first single "The Beatles" was broadcast on radio in Luxembourg and England and, according to the magazine "New Musical Express", took the seventeenth place in the British charts. On November 26, 1962, the Beatles' second single was released, with the songs "I beg you, I ask you" and "Ask me why", which took first place in the English charts in February 1963. This disc sold 250,000 copies during the year, for which it was awarded the Silver Disc. The group was happy. The clock hands have been set correctly. The next target is the long-playing disc.

Of the fourteen songs on the Beatles' first LP, eight came from the pen of Lennon and McCartney. The rest were popular pop songs, hits.

Typical of the early Beatles is the manner in which the song "Anna" is performed. John sings it expressively, without a shadow of falsehood, clearly. Friends complement him.

The next long-playing disc was recorded in the fall of 1963. Of the fourteen songs recorded on it, eight were created by the Beatles themselves: Lennon and McCartney own seven songs, and another song belongs to Harrison. The closeness to the soundstyle of American black music was characteristic of the performance of the songs on this disc.

In the song "All My Love" John managed to achieve a composition that went down in history as an example of classical rock music. The new program allowed the Beatles to separate from the mass of regular beat groups.

In terms of harmony, the most interesting thing the Beatles recorded on the second LP is the song "There won't be a second time." This is the first Beatles song to be commented on by English music critics. William Mann, a well-known music critic of the Times newspaper, wrote in an article dated March 27, 1963 that in England, due to the decline in which domestic music and domestic music halls came, a huge number of popular songs from the repertoire of American performers began to be performed. However, he appreciated the songs of Lennon and McCartney as creations that had a pronounced English character and full of fantasies: "It seems that they simultaneously think about harmony and melody, chords with melodies are so closely merged in their songs."

The Beatles' third LP, A Hard Day's Night, consisted entirely of thirteen songs written by Lennon and McCartney. All of these songs were created for the film of the same title. The recording of this disc took place in early 1964 in one of the Parisian recording studios. The disc went on sale on June 10. Conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein then wrote: "These guys are the best composers since Franz Schubert." Then this statement aroused both the interest and discontent of many fans of classical music.

Of course, comparing the Beatles with Franz Schubert, Bernstein wanted to talk about the close connection between lyrics and melody that is characteristic of their songs. In a way, this refers to the synthesis of lyrics and music in Beatles songs. They subtly feel the rhythm of the English language, which is characterized by a pronounced musicality.

The fourth LP "The Beatles", released in 1964, unlike the third, consisted not only of the works of the band members: six songs belonged to popular rock composers.

In 1963, the Beatles began touring. In 1964 they performed in Paris at the Olympia, in the USA, Denmark, Holland, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and England. A year later, the group gave only thirty concerts. The Beatles had ample reason to reduce the number of appearances. They were attracted to work in the studio, there could be achieved more artistic effect than during hackneyed performances in front of raging fans.

In June 1965, the British royal house awarded the Beatles the Order. The order is a silver cross with the inscription “For God and the Empire”. It was established in 1917.

Many of those awarded with this order, mostly aggressive military men, politicians and aristocrats, were outraged and sent earlier received orders to the royal house in protest. But these protests did not embarrass the royal family. And Prime Minister Wilson sincerely declared himself as a fan of the Beatles: "We are proud of this new musical style." At the same time, he boasted that the Beatles, as an export commodity to Great Britain, had contributed much more currency to the treasury than the prominent British export firms. Indeed, in 1965, people all over the world listened to 115 million Beatles records.

Released in 1965-1966, three long-playing discs constitute a transitional stage from the early Beatles songs to their later works, which can no longer be measured by the scale of ordinary pop music.

In such discs as "Help", "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver", a new artistic level of development in the work of the "Beatles" was designated. Until now, the musicians had to write new songs, as they needed fresh material for constant tours. Now that time was already far behind. They had the opportunity to work in the studio and use excellent recording devices thoughtfully. Much of what was now produced as a result of many days and many weeks of work, they could hardly perform during concert performances, and in some cases they did not succeed at all, because this required a large amount of equipment.

In 1967, the Beatles released their eighth disc. The name "Orchestra of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club" was given to him by the song of the same name. Since this disc, they have only recorded their songs in the studio. Now the Beatles could no longer even think about performing on stage. The work in the studio took all the time. In the history of the Beatles and in the development of rock music, this long-playing disc constituted a definite milestone. The production costs were unusual: George Martin required four months from the company to record the disc.

Subsequent Beatles songs, starting with the disc "Sergeant Pepper", are distinguished by their pronounced musicality. A cursory examination of the texts written since 1967 gives the impression that thematically they fit into the framework of the trivial poetry of hackneyed hits and tabloid operetta. But the way Lennon forms his lyrics, using some of the slang words of teenagers, and conveys to the listener in a sincere, youthful impulse, is far enough from the template. John's songs do not lie, do not deceive, do not give any ersatz pleasures, they speak directly and honestly about what worries young people. Joachim Ernst Berendt, a leading jazz expert in Germany, spoke about this phenomenon as follows: "The Beatles created a new musical and social consciousness, which overnight turned popular pop stars into old grandfathers."

The Beatles' first double album was recorded between May and October 1968 and went on sale on November 22 of the same year. From the very beginning of the work on this album, the Beatles moved away from the usual tradition of writing songs together. Each of the musicians brought their own songs and presented their accompanying group. When you listen to songs from "White Album", it is not difficult to find out exactly who is playing. However, the most significant thing disappeared: the typical common and uniform sound of the Beatles. So, both LPs of the album became a collection of solo songs of individual musicians. This work of the Beatles was the first document that announced the impending breakup of the group. The album includes fourteen songs for Lennon and twelve for McCartney. Both musicians continued the singles tradition of dividing sides A and B.

McCartney's songs featured in The White Album showcase his versatile musical abilities, which from the very beginning excluded stylistic unity. Until now, the creative opposite in the group has been John, whom Paul not only inspired, but also criticized. Paul now had to give up this artistic contrast. The songs on this disc represent a rosy panorama, and from them you can find out in which direction McCartney will direct his future work. In them already sounds what will later be carried out by him together with the group "Wings".

Lennon's songs are also directed towards the future. Their content is characterized by dissatisfaction with the social structure, sometimes aggression, in them the author tries to explain the problems of his own past.

A new LP, Yellow Submarine, was recorded in the first half of 1968 and went on sale in December of that year.

1969 was the last year of the Beatles' collaboration.

After the breakup, McCartney wrote songs for other performers, for films, but finally realized that he had to do what he had always loved the most: to play with the band on stage. He decided to form his own band, The Wings, with his wife Linda, who had no musical experience. One of the first singles of the Wings group was the song “Magu Had A Little Lamb”, and, I must admit, it did not cause much enthusiasm. But the Wings group got better and better. Gradually, during the tour, Paul began to include in her repertoire the Beatles songs, so beloved by everyone. And then, having composed "Band On The Run" and "Venus and Mars", he again became the world leader and almost repeated the success of the Beatles. His 1976 tour was a full house and proved that the Wings were a superb pop group. Paul may not have reached the same heights as in Yesterday and Elinor Rigby, but commercially, he left the rest of the Beatles far behind. His 1977 song "Mull Of Kintyre" surpassed all the Beatles' singles. McCartney was the chief executive of the Wings until 1981. Later, his performances with Michael Jackson and Elvis Costello enjoyed great success. In 1991, together with composer Carl Davis McCartney wrote his first work in the genre of classical music - "Liverpool Oratorio".

Until recently, McCartney had a reputation for being a typical happy family man who, perhaps, takes too much effort to bring this fact to everyone's attention. With his wife Linda and three children, he happily lived in his London home. His daughter Martha became a fairly famous fashion designer. Most recently, in 1999, his wife died of cancer.

For Lennon, the decade following the Beatles' breakup has not been cloudless. He has not escaped human and creative crises. But John overcame them. He felt at the height of happiness when he could play music. Soon after the death of the Beatles, Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, whom he married in 1969, formed the Plastic Ono Band.

In living together and working with Yoko Ono, there were frictions and disagreements. In October 1973, both individualists voluntarily parted ways indefinitely. But this parting did not resolve the conflict. In January 1975, they reconciled and settled in John's apartment in a house called "Dakota" On October 9, 1975, Sean Ono Lennon was born. Since the birth of his son, John has lived exclusively for his family. After the review disc "Shaved Fish", released at the end of October 1975, he did not record new records for a long time. Yoko managed the financial side of life, and John took care of the house, apartment, family, lived in a disciplined manner and even quit smoking. For his son, John bought a farm located an hour's flight from New York. In this regard, he said: "... a boy should grow up in natural conditions, surrounded by animals."

John Lennon of 1980 looked a little like one of the rebellious Beatles of the sixties: parted hair and nickel-plated glasses gave the impression of a European intellectual. Lennon felt internally balanced, there was no nervousness, he was able to work in a new way. He wanted to contrast the controversial 1970s with a new, creatively productive decade. This is how his last disc, "Double Fantasy", was created with his wife. In total, twenty-two songs were recorded, of which fourteen were included in the named disc: seven songs belonged to John and seven to Yoko. These songs can be compared to dialogues between a man and a woman, they represent a fragment of the history of their family and reflect the years they spent in New York.

"Double Fantasy" became a live disc of new content, the theme of which was about personal problems, but the meaning of the songs was addressed to all people. Without understanding the lyrics of the songs, their meaning, one cannot truly appreciate this long-playing disc.

In his last interview on December 6, 1980, John Lennon said: “I don't feel like I'm forty. I feel like a child and I still have so many good years to live with Yoko and my son, at least we hope so. I think that I will die before Yoko, because I can’t imagine my life without her further. ”

On December 8, 1980, at about 11 pm, Lennon was shot dead in front of his Manhattan home. The killer, a mentally ill man, surrendered without police resistance.

Soon the following message went through the pages of the world press: "The city of New York has awarded posthumously its highest award - the Handel Medal - to John Lennon, one of the ex-Beatles, who was killed in December last year."

Leonard Bernstein wrote after Lennon's death: “I am sure that Lennon's music will live as long as the works of Brahms, Beethoven or Bach. For me, one of Lennon's best things was the song She Said, She Said from the LP Revolver. Lennon's death created a huge void. The world has become poorer by one creative, moving force. I know it sounds naive, but Paul McCartney's feminine, siren-like voice was the perfect complement to Lennon's. Both of them formed a couple with creative energy unusual for that time. John and Paul were like Saints Johannes and Paulus: they were craftsmen who made millions of people happy. They were glorified, they immortalized themselves under the name "The Beatles", which will live in our memory for a long time. "

John LENNON (1940-1980) English rock musician Life is what happens to us just when we have completely different plans. * * * At the Beatles' concert at the Prince of Wales Theater: - Those who are in cheap seats, clap; others can rattle with diamonds. * * * From the interview after