The revenge of McCartney

The former Beatles release a new album next Monday, Electric Arguments - his third under the pseudonym Fireman - but this should be overshadowed by an announcement of a different magnitude: the existence of a new group ! It was thought yet know all their records since the issuance of securities rare grouped on the three boxes Anthology in 1996 a record year of sales for the group. Recorded in January 1967, Carnival of Light would see the day at that time, but his former companion George Harrison was opposed, considering the song too strange. "It does nothing that is the vanguard" would asséné guitarist replay after a piece made of piercing screams, psychedelic effects, church organ and guitars saturated. Today, McCartney intends to take its revenge.

It lasts 14 minutes, the piece would provide an opportunity for the musician, who was the chief architect, to prove that it was also connected and in the coup that his comrades, if not more. A few years ago, a sum biographical signed Barry Miles McCartney already depicted in experimenter underestimated, relegating Lennon to the role of follower.

Since the end of the Beatles in 1969 and even more since the death of Lennon in 1980, Paul McCartney has continued to assert that it is not the author of Silly Love Songs mocked by its detractors . He repeatedly claimed to be responsible for the deluge of sound Helter Skelter, the most noise piece group from Liverpool. There is something a little sad to see such a genius of pop melody, still capable of fulgurances (the sublime Chaos and Creation in the Backyard), continue to be an eternal rival of a man who died there are more thirty years. Despite the honors, the knighting, the millions of records sold, Sir Paul McCartney continues to battle with his image of ideal son-shaped ago over forty years, while Lennon has become a symbol of protest.

In 2002, McCaa had struck the sensitivity of many fans by placing his name before that of his friend in the credits of Beatles songs, after years of signing Lennon-McCartney. In the 1980s, George Harrison said with humor: "The Beatles did not reform itself so that John is dead. "It has disappeared in turn in 2001, McCartney has never been as close to its absolute fantasy: to embody the Beatles alone. Isolated in an ivory tower, Ringo Starr, also alive, must sneer.