McCartney Times

“Granny shit” is one of the most devastating put-downs in the history of pop music. Typically enough, it came from John Lennon, who is another major candidate for perhaps being the most vicious voice to come out of The Beatles.Not afraid to share his ire for a whole range of The Beatles’ work, Lennon’s silver tongue was often scything at his band. It didn’t matter if it was his own or another member of the band’s; Lennon called it as he saw it. But the person he was most often calling out was Paul McCartney. Flying right in the face of The Beatles’ reputation as daring pop mavericks, single-handedly turning rock music into an art form with their forward-thinking ways, was Paul McCartney’s weakness for whimsy. The man loved vintage music hall, musical theatre and vaudeville songwriting and had been putting it into his songwriting since the very first flushes with the form as a teenager. Of course, the man was also a dyed-in-the-wool rocker who loved that medium too, and in the early days of The Beatles, that was obviously going to be the kind of music they made.

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