Comments on: Dear Boy

By: Rick Whitehouse

Rick Whitehouse — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 03:09:59 +0000

I love the vocal harmonies in this song, something many people take for granted. It’s funny Linda’s voice is heading up many of the harmonies, and the words tell of a man who once also took her for granted, her ex husband, Joseph Melvin. Reminds me of songs like,” Lovely Rita Meter Maid “ Even though both songs are completely different lyrically. The vocal harmonies on both songs, I could never get tired of listening to them. Typical of the brilliance of McCartney, he makes it look so easy. George Martin taught him so much, and Paul worked so hard, it really shows. I also love the lead guitar by Paul, he just drills that one single note through and through. It was meant to make us think, and to appreciate the special ones in our lives.

By: Water Falls

Water Falls — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 16:18:17 +0000

I wonder if McCartney fans are aware of this blog, there is so little comment on Paul’s thread about his music, or maybe they feel that Lennon fans will come to bash any praise Paul may get.
Anyway, I love this song too. In fact all the tunes on Ram are superb.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:34:16 +0000

Thanks for the information. Great melody, rhythmic and harmonic invention, production, lyric, fine singing, all perfectly packaged. Should be much better known and appreciated than it is, like so many of McCartney’s outstanding solo pieces. Why on earth do we (especially in the UK) so undervalue this man? Maybe the answer is that we are spoiled brats 😉 Music pours out of him and over the decades he has given us so much that we suffer from quality-fatigue. His creativity covers so many eras and genres and personae that it’s difficult to identify the “essential Macca” . He becomes a gigantic blur. Maybe we “can’t see the trees for the forest”, to borrow his own lyric – or to borrow Lennon’s, “got to be good looking ’cause he’s so hard to see”. It gets difficult to identify him facilely (as we like to do with pop artists) by some few career-defining hits in a style, and we give up trying to box the whole colossal product, resorting to labels that give us a grip on some part of it . So there are several different McCartneys lauded/derided by different critical factions who, mostly, are looking in different directions and cannot hear one another. But in my opinion each of these McCartneys has its own enduring value (yes, Silly Love Songs, frogs and all) and the real Macca is bigger than them all. Of course he is still hugely successful but that only serves to increase the peculiar critical sniffiness that persists among the snobs of cool. As someone else said, “You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.”