Paul McCartney reveals he has extra “story songs” like ‘Eleanor Rigby’

Paul McCartney has revealed that he nonetheless has unreleased “story songs” that have been written within the model of ‘Eleanor Rigby’.

Penned by McCartney and John Lennon, the aforementioned traditional monitor seems on The Beatles‘ 1966 studio album, ‘Revolver’.

Talking to Uncut magazine for its September 2021 issue, McCartney defined there are some related “story songs” that stay in his archive to at the present time.

“I’ve nonetheless received a couple of that I haven’t launched,” he mentioned. “As a result of I don’t suppose they’re that good.”

McCartney continued: “It’s fairly a enjoyable factor to do, to simply dream up a reputation of a personality and attempt to write the story of that character after which make it match with one other character. ‘Eleanor Rigby’, I did it with simply the few. Father McKenzie and Eleanor.”

Macca went on to say that the darker tone of ‘Eleanor Rigby’ is the explanation it’s extra standard than a number of the extra lighthearted “story songs” in his assortment.

“With my story songs, a number of them, in addition to ‘Eleanor Rigby’, are typically comedy,” he mentioned. “It’s me doing the tongue-in-cheek factor, whereas ‘Eleanor Rigby’ was extra critical. I believe that’s why it was extra profitable.”

McCartney launched his newest solo album, ‘McCartney III’, final December. Written and recorded in lockdown, the gathering marks the third a part of his ‘McCartney’ trilogy (following 1970’s ‘McCartney’ and 1980’s ‘McCartney II’).

In the meantime, Paul McCartney will break down his music profession in-depth with Rick Rubin for a brand new documentary sequence, McCartney 3,2,1. The present premieres this Friday (July 16) on Hulu.