Paul interview Sept 1966

[pennylane]

Just surfing some Beatle sites and I found some snippets from an interview published in the Sunday Times - London, September 18, 1966.

In regard to Eleanor Rigby:
"I took it down to John's house in Weybridge. We sat around, laughing, got stoned and finished it off. I just go bash, bash on the piano. He knows what I mean."

"I can't really play the piano. I've tried three times in my life to learn, but never kept it up for more than three weeks."

Funny how after 66 Paul seemed to play piano more than the bass!

and a little piece of a 71 interview:

"So I think you've got to live your own life. That sounds like one of those statements, but it is, in fact, just very necessary to realize that. And particularly necessary for me. Or else someone else is going to be living part of your life for you."

[Maracuja]

It is interesting that you mention Paul interviews. I was thinking about interviews with Faul I've seen. These interviews took place a few years ago. In one instance Faul is talking about the time the 4 Fabs were still together. I noticed that he didn't quite look at the interviewer nor at the camera. Instead, his eyes were "out there" somewhere as if visualizing the written word. I remember doing the same when in college and writing an essay in response to a question. I had to look out of the window and visualize what I had read in a book the night before in order to write the essay. When people talk about what they have experienced they usually become animated, they gesture, they seem to be re-living the experience and they look at the listener. Faul kept looking out there, often holding his chin or touching some part of his face. It seemed obvious to me he didn't look comfortable talking about past experiences that he didn't experience.

[JoJo]

Interesting PL, there are pics of Paul playing the piano 66 and before, but maybe this is what was going on.

He explains why be dubbed the bass in later on Lucy In The Sky, while doing an interview with George Martin:

www.jojoplace.org/Shoebox/Lucy_Bass_Line_Explanation.mp3

it allowed me to get melodic bass lines (as opposed to before?)

"So I think you've got to live your own life. That sounds like one of those statements, but it is, in fact, just very necessary to realize that. And particularly necessary for me. Or else someone else is going to be living part of your life for you."

Very strange.