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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Paul McCartney: On the Magic of Music - From the Magician Himself

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Bobi NYC

Comedy, Society & Culture, Science

4.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

How does Paul McCartney write a song? What goes through his mind when he's at the piano? What's an "oobley" chord? Where do the lyrics come from when he's noodling away? In this special episode of Clear+Vivid®, Alan Alda sits down with Paul McCartney to learn some of the never before heard secrets behind this legendary musician's magic.  Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid

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0:00.0

Hi, Malin Alder. And this is Clear In vivid conversations about connecting and communicating.

0:16.3

Do you noodle? Do you noodle one piano or the guitar?

0:20.4

Yes.

0:21.4

So it is a guitar thing and I feel like a sort of ballad thing that I'll play some uble chords,

0:27.4

or uble chords. You know a sweet juicy word come from.

0:33.1

I don't know.

0:34.1

Okay, there's a piano here.

0:35.7

Yeah, so yeah, we'll talk about uble, you know, it might be like a main.

0:39.7

No, this is an uble.

0:41.0

Uble-ish.

0:42.0

So like a...

0:43.0

Or this kind of thing.

0:50.5

That of course is the great ball McCartney.

0:56.7

And during the next hour or so he's going to not only talk to me about his amazing career,

1:01.5

but he's also going to show me how he writes a song.

1:05.0

Even on the slightly out of tune piano there was a few feet away in our studio.

1:09.6

From the moment he came into our studio after being smuggled in on the freight elevator,

1:14.1

because he'd be so famous, he was warm and engaging.

1:18.8

And luckily the recording started even before we realized that while we were still settling

1:22.9

into our shares.

1:24.4

That's what I kind of think I'm going to do during the interview.

1:38.2

What do you...

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