Post by erik on Jan 1, 2023 1:03:02 GMT -5
Sir Paul McCartney is in the final Pop Music Hits Spotlight of 2022 with a disco/Latin-influenced track that (of course) the critics hated, and (of course) the public loved.
GOODNIGHT TONIGHT (Paul McCartney and Wings; Parlophone; 1979)--Despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that his was easily the most commercially successful of either of the four Beatles after the band's catastrophic demise in 1970, Paul McCartney was far from being the critics' favorite by any means. Instead of being a being as cerebral and confrontational as his former partner John Lennon, "Macca" frequently experimented with more traditional pop songwriting that was the hallmark of a lot of the stuff he had written himself while the Beatles were active--something that didn't go unnoticed by Lennon, who was (most ironically) McCartney's stuffiest and stiffest critic. This was evident on Sir Paul's Latin/disco-influenced hit "Goodnight Tonight", which he recorded with his post-Beatles band Wings. He had originally intended it for his 1978 album Back To The Egg, but he then decided it didn't fit the tenor of the album. Nevertheless, it got released as a stand-alone single on its own in the spring of 1979, and became a sizeable hit, peaking at #5 on the Hot 100 for the week ending May 19, 1979, and matching that position in the UK. Sir Paul and his band would head into the 1980's having even more success.
GOODNIGHT TONIGHT (Paul McCartney and Wings; Parlophone; 1979)--Despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that his was easily the most commercially successful of either of the four Beatles after the band's catastrophic demise in 1970, Paul McCartney was far from being the critics' favorite by any means. Instead of being a being as cerebral and confrontational as his former partner John Lennon, "Macca" frequently experimented with more traditional pop songwriting that was the hallmark of a lot of the stuff he had written himself while the Beatles were active--something that didn't go unnoticed by Lennon, who was (most ironically) McCartney's stuffiest and stiffest critic. This was evident on Sir Paul's Latin/disco-influenced hit "Goodnight Tonight", which he recorded with his post-Beatles band Wings. He had originally intended it for his 1978 album Back To The Egg, but he then decided it didn't fit the tenor of the album. Nevertheless, it got released as a stand-alone single on its own in the spring of 1979, and became a sizeable hit, peaking at #5 on the Hot 100 for the week ending May 19, 1979, and matching that position in the UK. Sir Paul and his band would head into the 1980's having even more success.