When I was young John was my favorite Beatle. But now that I’ve learned about the actual men, Paul was the only Beatle that had always been a decent person.
Wow, I just looked into it, and McCartney hasn’t really had any controversies. I was under the impression that they were all rather awful people. Any idea wny?
Well, he’s rich (probably close to a billionaire), and IIRC he’s a rabid copyright supporter (mostly because it benefits him). But now that I’ve tried to look up the source for that second claim, I can’t find it easily - maybe I’m confusing him with another Beatle.
I mean are we really gonna drag this guy down with all the others because he is a proponent for copyright laws. That’s not even bad it’s the most luke warm take ever.
When your work has influence the course of pretty much all music that came after it I can absolutely understand wanting to at least maintain a semblance of control of your actual work.
I think there are a lot of problems with copyright law but I don’t have issue with an artist maintaining control over their own work while they’re alive.
He can still control his hands, can’t he? He can still decide whether he goes on stage?
How is it his work if someone else learns to perform a song he wrote? How is it controlling his work to say someone can’t copy a recording of someone else playing that song?
You realize that those rules also protect a lesser known artist getting their work stolen from a far more influential artist too right? It’s generally a good thing that a super successful artist can’t just copy a lesser known song and reap the benefits for it.
To be fair, there was a lot of wife swapping going down at that time. Harrison pretty much gave Patty Boyd to Eric Clapton, which is also pretty weird.
When I was young John was my favorite Beatle. But now that I’ve learned about the actual men, Paul was the only Beatle that had always been a decent person.
Wow, I just looked into it, and McCartney hasn’t really had any controversies. I was under the impression that they were all rather awful people. Any idea wny?
Well, he’s rich (probably close to a billionaire), and IIRC he’s a rabid copyright supporter (mostly because it benefits him). But now that I’ve tried to look up the source for that second claim, I can’t find it easily - maybe I’m confusing him with another Beatle.
I mean are we really gonna drag this guy down with all the others because he is a proponent for copyright laws. That’s not even bad it’s the most luke warm take ever.
When your work has influence the course of pretty much all music that came after it I can absolutely understand wanting to at least maintain a semblance of control of your actual work.
I think there are a lot of problems with copyright law but I don’t have issue with an artist maintaining control over their own work while they’re alive.
Corporations in the other hand…
He can still control his hands, can’t he? He can still decide whether he goes on stage?
How is it his work if someone else learns to perform a song he wrote? How is it controlling his work to say someone can’t copy a recording of someone else playing that song?
You realize that those rules also protect a lesser known artist getting their work stolen from a far more influential artist too right? It’s generally a good thing that a super successful artist can’t just copy a lesser known song and reap the benefits for it.
except those lesser knowns dont copyright shit and the influential ones do it constantly and get away with it
At the very least, him supporting copyright is as shitty as serving meat at a climate conference.
I think given that he is a creator he does have a right to the work he makes.
It seems he is a proponent of copyright laws in the way that benefits artists over record studios and keeping AI away from his albums.
Do the members of the Beatles and Apple Corps have anything to do with each other today?
John was a fucking bully
Was Ringo a dick too?
He said in an interview that he beat his 1st wife so much that he understood why she cheated on him with George.
…that will do it.
George Harrison was a decent dude, no?
He cheated on his wife with Ringo’s wife. He could have (and did) have any woman he wanted but he slept with his friend’s wife.
To be fair, there was a lot of wife swapping going down at that time. Harrison pretty much gave Patty Boyd to Eric Clapton, which is also pretty weird.
That was after and probably Patty trying to get back at George. It’s only ok if its consensual. She wasn’t ok with it.