There are different explanations available as to who exactly the titular “Jet” is supposed to be, in large part due to the fact that Macca himself is on record as providing varying backgrounds to the character. For...
Relatively speaking, “A Matter of Trust” is very metaphorical in its approach. But what Billy seems to be getting at premise-wise is that it’s more or less inevitable that after the initial state of...
Believe it or not but The Beatles – that lovable, clean-cut quartet from the 1960s – may have been the ones, via the dropping of “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”, who began the trend of mainstream musicians making songs...
Readers who are familiar with The Beatles – or perhaps have read our analyses of some of the other songs they dropped circa the late 1960s – would know that around that time the...
Some have described The Beatles’ “Get Back” a song that is pretty incomprehensible from a lyrical standpoint. And actually that appears to be just about spot on. That is to say that the song doesn’t seem...
Without a shred of doubt, “All Day” is a Kanye West braggadocios piece. The featured vocalists serve the roles of holding down the refrain (Allan Kingdom), bridge (Theophilus London) and outro (Paul McCartney). But as for...
Paul McCartney in “Pipes of Peace” proposes a solution to some of humanity’s problems. As he suggests in the intro of the song, love could actually make certain problems vanish. In the first verse,...
This Paul McCartney classic is premised on the concept of enjoying one’s own freedom. Written on the back of the September 11 attacks of the United States, the writer appears to project a sense...
As is pointed out towards the end of this article, “Ebony and Ivory” is mega-simplistic in its approach. It is based on one of the easiest-to-decipher metaphors perhaps in the history of number-one hits. You see...
There are conflicting stories concerning the origin of The Beatles‘ “Lovely Rita”. But the way Paul McCartney himself has explained it is this. He initially got the idea from hearing the “American” term meter maid. In his homeland of the...