Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Nod your head
The music icon has sparked a new craze after posting a clip of himself and pals dipping their heads in rhythm to the strains of his new track Nod Your Head on the internet
Nod your head
Source:
Hello Mag
3 OCTOBER 2007
He's been around the block in the course of his marathon music career yet Paul McCartney has lost none of his affinity with youth culture it seems. The music icon has joined the scores of teenagers posting home videos of themselves on the internet, and sparked a new trend.
His contribution to the online scene was a clip of himself and pals – including Kate Moss' former boyfriend Jefferson Hack - nodding their heads to the strains of one of the tracks from his new album Nod Your Head. Now thousands of fans have responded to the 26-second clip by posted their own versions on youtube.com.
Some of the best efforts - which come from all over the world - include a class of nursery school children, and shots of nodding dogs in Canada. Fellow Beatle Ringo star has even got in on the act, posting his own head-bobbing clip.
Copying Paul's home video efforts won't be the only opportunity fans get to follow their hero's lead on the web. Budding musicians will soon get the chance to play guitar with the rocker after he signed up to become a tutor on a website.
The Beatle has recorded the first lesson for award-winning music tutorial site, nowplayit.com - which also features contributions from KT Tunstall and indie rockers Blur. The clip - which explains how to master bass drums and guitar parts from his track Ever Present Past - will soon be available to download on the site for a small fee.
Exclusively Paul
With Memory Almost Full, Paul McCartney has once again shown that he's still hot to trot in the pop world. Exclusively check out his video for new single Ever Present Past.
Here Paul talks about the album that's placed him right back in the middle of the rock and popo world: "In places it's a very personal record and a lot of it is retrospective, drawing from memory, like memories from being a kid, from Liverpool and from summers gone. The album is evocative, emotional, rocking, but I can't really sum it up in one sentence.
"There is a medley of five songs towards the end and that was purposefully retrospective. I thought this might be because I'm at this point in my life, but then I think about the times I was writing with John and a lot of that was also looking back. It's like me with Penny Lane and Eleanor Rigby - I'm still up to the same tricks!
"I know people are going to look at some of the songs and interpret them in different ways but this has always been the case. The thing is that I love writing songs, so I just write and write. I never really get to a point where I start thinking I'm going to write about specific subjects. Inevitably though, what I am thinking is going to find its way into what I'm doing."
Memory Almost Full is available now on CD and as a download.
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