.PaulMcCartney on life, art and business after thebeatles
and Frank Loesser ; standards like “Autumn Leaves,” “One for My Baby ” and “The Christmas Song” ; and even the original music for. Perhaps most exciting: McCartney says he's in the process of getting back his share of the U.S. rights to his Beatles songs from Sony/ATV Music Publishing, although the company still owns international rights. , among other projects, McCartney is also curating his legacy.
I’m competitive with anything. We started off in my auntie’s back parlor, banging away on three guitars -- me, John [Lennon] and George [Harrison] -- and we managed to get gigs in Liverpool, and then play the Cavern Club. We were always trying to succeed -- I think everyone is.You could have said when we got our first No. 1, “Well, you’ve done it, boys,” or when we got our 10th. But those were like unexpected bonuses.
I had no idea what was going to happen. I didn’t want it to be at his house or my house, because it could be awkward if one of us wanted to leave. So we met on neutral ground -- a cottage at the Beverly Hills Hotel -- and I showed up with a guitar and my roadie, and we had a keyboard and a bass. I was sitting around, strumming the guitar -- that’s normally how I start a song -- and Kanye was looking at his iPad, basically scrolling through images of Kim [Kardashian].
I don’t want to talk too much about it, but there’s a certain right under U.S. law where these things revert to me. [For songs written before 1978, creators can file for “copyright termination” 56 years after works were registered to get back the rights to their work in the United States, although there have been questions about how this applies to contracts originally signed in other countries.] Sony didn’t agree.
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