Reaffirms his pure love for the art of music and criticizes his former record label for its lack of innovation when it comes to releasing music.
British rock legend Sir Paul McCartney criticized his former record label EMI for its “boring” approach, and accused it of taking him for granted in an interview with the UK’s “The Times.“
Sir McCartney said he also became frustrated with the amount of time it took for EMI to release a song – while he wanted them released within weeks, record label executives expected to take months.
“I’d started saying to them: ‘Look, we could write a thing and have it released the next week.’ And they would say: ‘You can’t do that these days.’ So I would say: ‘Well, how much time do you need?’ And they’d say six months. I said: ‘Why do you need that long?’ And do you know what they said? ‘To figure out how to market it.’ I said: ‘Wait a minute, are you sure you need six months for that? Couldn’t some bright people do that in two days?’ Jesus Christ. I said: ‘Look boys, I’m sorry, I’m digging a new furrow.”
He also noted that he too was one of the millions who downloaded Radiohead’s “In Rainbows,” paying “something reasonable.”
“This was how we used to operate,” he noted. “I remember John [Lennon], for instance, writing Instant Karma and demanding it was released the following week.”
EMI, on the other hand, wasn’t able to perform such a “miraculous” task and he lamented that music artists there “had become a part of the furniture.”
“I’d be a couch; Coldplay are an armchair. And Robbie Williams, I dread to think what he was … But the most important thing was, I’d felt (the people at EMI) had become really very boring, y’know? And I dreaded going to see them.”
Asked what he meant by accusing the record company of being “boring”, Sir McCartney responded: “Well, because I could guess what they were going to say.” He added that he became frustrated with what he described as the “treadmill” approach of the company when it came to marketing music. “You go somewhere, speak to a million journalists for one day, and you get all the same questions. It’s mind-numbing.
“So I started saying: ‘God, we’ve got to do something else’.” McCartney split with EMI earlier this year, and released his latest album Memory Almost Full with coffee giant Starbucks’s newly-launched Hear Music label.
Now I can only imagine what it was like when EMI execs would meet with Sir McCartney, but you’d think that they’d give him carte blanche to do as he pleases. I think as a former Beatle, and as a music artist in every sense of the word, he’s at least earned that courtesy. When a guy like Sir McCartney says “Well this is what John and I used to do,” and “John” is the John of all Johns besides that baptist fella, it’s probably safe to bet that his plan will work out just fine.
I mean honestly, 6 months to market what he can do in 6 hours? No wonder the music biz is falling apart.
What’s also telling about Sir McCartney is that he really is all about the music. Always has and always will. Unlike Prince and others who seem to try and sue any website that allows fans to hear their music unless they benefit financially, he has own official YouTube channel. Sure he can afford it, but can’t Prince?
Rock on Sir McCartney. Rock on.
FROM HIS YOUTUBE CHANNEL – “Live at Amoeba Records”
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Its anybody’s guess why you continually used his feudal title in this article. What would the Founding Fathers (who you bring up in just about every article) have to say about this? Personally pledge fielty to nobody so I dont recognize this backwater inbred ti tle shit.
Good old Paul I’ve always liked that guy. He’s always seemd down to earth and has his head on straight.
@Josef
Considering the breadth depth and quality of his music “Sir” seems only appropriate.
Plus do you mean the same founding fathers who owned slaves and considered them 3/5 of a person?
Whether or not they owned slaves is totally irrelevant to the discussion. Its a fact that the Founding Fathers were instrumental in the destruction of feudalism and the ushering in of capitalism. titles and royalty and peasants and serfs are strictly in the realm of feudalism. The Founding Fathers were anti-feudalism. As were the majority of colonists. I’m no capitalist myself but the capitalists of 250 years ago were the communists of today. And capitalism pisses all over feudalism in terms of the quality of life for the average person.
So yes. The Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves that 250 years after the defeat of feudalism people (and Americans no less) still hold feudal titles with some bizarre esteem instead of the contempt they deserve.
Also Paul McCartney is shit in general.
@Josef
So you’re anti-capitalism? Say no more.
“Paul McCartney is shit in general?” Now you’ve really lost me. What do you clap your hands and play the flute? What kind of music do u like if you’re anti-Paul McCartney? Death metal? Yanni? 
Paul McCartney is an old has-been drug addled ferret wearer that tries to drive his ex-wife to suicide. Allegedly. The Beatles were shit. So was Wings and I have never bought one of his gay records and never will. Also The Founding Fathers were to all intents and purposes homosexual lovers that mutually masturbated one another after they were rejected from Europe for being completely fucking insane and worshipping God. There now fuck off you dirty tramps and buy my record. My record is www. goatse. cz . It’s called babble like a loon with a primitive instrument and be worshipped by intellectually challenged people like all Americans are.
“He also noted that he too was one of the millions who downloaded Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” paying “something reasonable.”"
I would be reeeeally curious to know how much. Paul is a notorious cheapskate.
Wow real life Beatles haters …..sad.
Paul McCartney didn’t exactly sign with a great company. In fact far from it a multinational labour and environmental exploiter. Just take a look at what they’re doing in Vietnam. There’s probably a hint there why Thom Yorke turned McCartney down when McCartney asked him to a duo. Yorke (anti-corporate) and McCartney (pro-corporate) are on total opposite sides of the spectrum.
How about staying on topic? I’m not that crazy about Paul McCartney’s business dealings either but he’s right on target as far as the music business goes. Only goes to show that just because you get older doesn’t mean that your brain has to get moldy.
@Burd
Exactly…..it’s like Bizarro world in here….:(
Was he a member of Oink also? That is the question xD
Was he a member of Oink also? That is the question xD
Paul McCartney is an outstanding genious with a natural gifting for music business. I’m amazed he stayed at EMI as long as he did.
He needs to start a label and produce new talent more. He would know how to put a thing together and make it fly. He’s
demonstrated that again and again.
Andrew Hamilton
Hamilton International Productions
http://www.hiproductions.com
This is something normal. everybody does this. Getting illegal music or films from the internet is a common thing these days. They should just leave us alone and carry on with their products. Maybe people want a preview before buying something. I downloaded too some films just to see if I like them and after that I went to the cinema to see it.
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