Paul McCartney - Sticking Out Of My Back Pocket: 'Dear Boy'

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Taken from the album 'Pure McCartney'. Get your copy:

[Hermes]

Life is good. We have Mozart. And we have McCartney.

[thejonegcle]

one of, if not THE best, rock-n-roll voices ever !
who's with me on this ?

[canadianstudmuffin]

"Ram" has really grown in stature over the years, to become one of his best albums ever. My favorite is "Chaos and Creation In The Backyard", but this is right near the top too, along with "London Town".

[mrflooby]

This song has haunted me ever since 1971.

[disappointmentpotato]

This is sonic perfection, there is no improvment to be made. You could not make a song better than this but it's still not regarded as one of the greats.

[woolton]

Several levels of simultaneous harmonies. The musical genius of Paul McCartney

[lonelystranger]

The vocal arrangement of this song is simply astonishing. And the greatest thing of all is that, knowing Paul's style, to him it was absolutely natural.

[Zoologic]

I would love to have seen Brian Wilson's reaction to listening to this track. It has such a rich and vibrant melodic atmosphere. There's just so much layered beauty that speaks to how detail oriented these artists got when they were passionate about something.

[darrelhendrie]

listen to all of Paul's songs and concentrate on the vocal harmonies and backing vocals. it will blow you away

[leonardblush]

Dictionary entry for Dear Boy:
Masterpiece. In every way.

[jontg]

This and back seat of my car are my favorite cuts from the album, Too Many People is a good one too!

[timmartin]

This song has floated in and out of my head for 50 years and it's on one of the best albums ever recorded IMO.

[matheuslamha]

Dear Boy and She`s Leaving Home are my favorite McCartney songs

[minstral]

The golden era of music, 1970's...My Youth would not have been the same without Paul McCartney's music. "Ram" was one of my favourite albums dear, dear, dear, boy. ;-)

[yozoratachibana]

このDera BoyやSILLY LOVE
親愛なるポールさん！！
共に音楽活動、頑張って行きましょう！

[cholseykate]

Ram has to be my favourite McCartney album. I bought it in 1971 and of course I still have it. Thank you for the music Paul.

[hoosierbri]

Ram was/is one of Pauls best LP's!

[thomaspeters]

I was 13, my first album purchased from the drugstore at Tower theater in Sacramento Ca. It's a masterpiece.

[mickavellian]

In private conversations, John admitted this was an AMAZING song that in fact it was an AMAZING album.
John claimed "Dear Boy" was HE (John), Paul claimed it was directed to Linda's ex .... but - Paul would not have written anything with so much sentiment about Linda's ex. The new releases show a LOT more of great details that were difficult to hear on the original (like the Beach Boys style background chorus). AT this, point Paul was so ahead of John; in quantity of material and real "solo" abilities that John HAD to spend time protesting the war.
ON "Monkberry Moon Delight" Paul INVENTED a style of music, broke as many rules in music theory as he could: "So I stood with a knot in my stomach, " (7 musical sylables stretched to 11 ) brilliant.

[ShelleeGraham]

The inspiration for “Dear Boy” was perhaps a combination of John Lennon and Melville See (Linda’s ex-husband of 2+ years). WONDERFUL SONG and I remember the first time hearing it, I was so impressed and still am.