“We thought we would have some sort of gimmick, so we put black masks on our faces and called ourselves the Masked Melody Makers,” Jim related to Beatles biographer Hunter Davies. Unfortunately, a wardrobe malfunction marred his band’s public debut. The elder McCartney got his showbiz start like his son: playing workmen’s dances around Liverpool as a teenager.
Meet the Beatle: A Guide to Ringo Starr's Solo Career in 20 Songs Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band track “When I’m Sixty-Four.” Pepper: the Jimmy Mac Jazz Band.” Beyond inspiring the cover image, McCartney’s musical heritage would get an affectionate nod on the Sgt. I unearthed a photo in the Sixties, which someone in the family had given me, and there he is in front of a big bass drum. “He’d played trumpet in a little jazz band when he was younger. “My dad was an instinctive musician,” McCartney recalled in the Beatles Anthology documentary. The obscure ragtime combo never cut a record, but it happened to be fronted by the future Beatle’s father, Jim. Today’s installment tells the story of how Paul McCartney’s father’s musical past inspired the “rooty-tooty variety style” of “When I’m Sixty-Four.”Īlongside Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Buddy Holly, it’s important to cite Jim Mac’s Jazz Band among Paul McCartney’s formative influences. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” reprise on Side Two – that explore the background of this revolutionary and beloved record.
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Pepper, we present a series of in-depth pieces – one for each of the album’s tracks, excluding the brief “Sgt. In honor of the anniversary, and coinciding with a new deluxe reissue of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which Rolling Stone named as the best album of all time, turns 50 on June 1st.
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