Sunday Smile

[selenak]

Doctor Who review later, but I just saw some kind fan edited five minutes of highlights from the George Martin documentary with Paul and Ringo for YouTube. If you want to start (or end, depending on your time zone) your day with a smile, this is ideal, as everyone is being adorable and funny:

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[poorfrances]

Sorry for reviving an old post, but I was just going through your old Beatles posts and saw this gem!

I really love George Martin and it was adorable to see Paul so relaxed! Wow - there's really a huge difference in his interaction with George vs. even his most casual interviews. It was so charming to get a glimpse of the "real" Paul sans barriers.

I've always adored Paul and George's relationship and think it's one of the many unexplored aspects of Paul's life. Especially since Jim McCartney's death, I think George M. has really stepped in a father figure for Paul. Not only did Paul keep returning to George M. as a producer, but he has consistently always sought out George for advise and counsel and support, much like a son would with a father.

George has always been one of my favorite "Beatle people" and as he gets older it saddens me, because I know that I'm going to be completely depressed when he goes (probably only topped by my grief for Paul when he goes, to be honest!)

[selenak]

I really love George Martin and it was adorable to see Paul so relaxed! Wow - there's really a huge difference in his interaction with George vs. even his most casual interviews. It was so charming to get a glimpse of the "real" Paul sans barriers.

Same here, and wasn't it just? You can just tell how deeply comfortable he is around George M., who deserves to be immortal but yes, will in all likelihood be the next to leave us. Mojo in their August article at one point state that the relationship with George Martin is as important as the one with John in Paul's life, and while the relationships are different, I would agree with this, in terms of both emotional and creative impact, especially given how family oriented Paul is, and, as you say, George M.'s position as father-in-music especially after Jim's death.

If you think how very different anything from musical history to Paul's life would have gone if George Martin had not been willing to hear Brian Epstein out...

[poorfrances]

I really think that the reason Paul went to the studio on the day of John's death wasn't to bury himself in work, but to be with George M. As much as a comfort Linda was, she didn't know John as well as Martin did. And she didn't have the comforting authority and calm that George M. represents to Paul. It really was like running to daddy - running to the person who really served in that paternal role for Paul and had since Paul was 19 years old.

It showed how much Paul cares for George when Paul did the Concert for Montserrat in 1997 - one of the few public appearances Paul did at the time Linda was very ill (she would die six months later). And I mean ill, like, that DAY, not even the general time period. In Danny Fields' book, Linda's friends Noel Redding and his girlfriend Candace talk about getting a phone call that evening from Linda while Paul was at the concert because she was scared and not feeling well and needed company until Paul got back.

[selenak]

I think it was both, because Paul has a track record of burying himself in work in times of emotional distress (btw: note George Harrison went to the studio that day as well, which I think is a subtle sign of how George H. was imprinted not just by John but Paul as well in terms of automatic responses to certain situations) but being with George M. was definitely the other and presumably greater reason.

As much as a comfort Linda was, she didn't know John as well as Martin did. And she didn't have the comforting authority and calm that George M. represents to Paul.

That, and George Martin had both loved John as well and known what it was like to be hurt by him. (When someone as restrained and discreet as Martin admits that what John said in the Rolling Stone Lennon Remembers interview from 1970 really hurt him, you can imagine how deeply it must have cut.) And he'd known John and Paul in their good days; Linda had been witness to the dissolving stage, but she hadn't experienced the good times with them.

It really was like running