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Пол Маккартни рассказал о записи EP Beautiful Night и показал видео
Вышел «внеплановый» EP Пола Маккартни. Хотя вначале тот не собирался его выпускать. Экс-битл основательно готовил переиздание своего десятого студийного альбома Flaming Pie, в оригинале вышедшего в 1997 году. И в этот момент ему позвонил Джефф Линн из ELO, который тоже и играл при записи того диска. Напомнил, что на двух треках тогда за барабанами сидел Ринго Старр: в Really Love You и как раз Beautiful Night. И посоветовал позвонить Ринго. С этого и началась история необычного нового мини-альбома Beautiful Night!
Импровизировали экс-битлы в студии снова лихо и затейливо, по рок-н-ролльному. Один из таких джем-сейшнов, длительностью почти в девять минут, как раз и попал в мини-альбом, получив название Oobu-Joobu Part.5.
Сэр Пол, сэр Ринго снялись и в новом видео на эту песню. Клипе сколь душевном, столь и художественном, одновременно рассказавшем историю обычной, но романтичной и доброй городской девушки и вызвавшем у меломанов ностальгические чувства.
Ведь Маккартни и Старр играют в новом клипе со своими музыкантами и на крыше, вызывая невольные ассоциации со знаменитым концертом The Beatles 1969 года на крыше здания, в котором находилась их фирма Apple Records. Именно это выступление впоследствии стало основой для культового фильма Let It Be, получившего премию «Оскар» в номинации «лучший саундтрек».
Beautiful Night
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Song facts
“Beautiful Night” is a song written by Paul McCartney and released on McCartney’s 1997 album “Flaming Pie“. It features Ringo Starr on drums, and George Martin added orchestration to it. From the album liner notes:
Working on the Anthology prompted Paul to suggest that he and ringo renew a collaboration not experienced for ten years. “Beautiful Night” was a decade old itself, and a recording made in New York had been on the shelf, unused, since 1986. With Paul at the piano and Ringo on drums (playing, incidentally, a replica arrangement of his own kit, which Paul had bought and modeled on Ringo’s set up after the “Real Love” session) the song came together comfortably. Wanting to play some guitar on the end, Paul also introduced a new element to his composition, the uptempo finale. Finally, the recording was enhanced by an orchestral arrangement scored by George Martin and overdubbed at Abbey Road on St. Valentine’s Day 1997.
I unearthed this old song for when Ringo was coming, changed a few lyrics and it was really like the old days, I realized that we hadn’t done this for so long, but it was very comfortable. And it was still there.
Paul McCartney, from the “Flaming Pie” liner notes
I wrote ‘Beautiful Night’ quite a few years ago, and I’ve always liked it, and people who heard an early recording that I made in New York, with some of Billy Joel’s players, have said that they liked it too. But I always felt that we hadn’t quite “pulled it off’ – you know? We had a good evening and a great time but I just didn’t feel that it was the one. Also, I was still changing a few lyrics. So I did it with Ringo instead – I’ve been saying to him for years that we should do some more work together. He’s great.
I sat at the piano and Ringo sat at the drums. It was so comfortable and lovely to work with him again. Jeff Lynne and I produced. Ringo was very happy with it and we tagged on the fast bit at the end, which wasn’t on the original recording.
Ringo came here, to the studio, to do ‘Free As A Bird’ and ‘Real Love’, and brought his kit with him. It sounds great when it’s recorded, the snare, the bass. He then left his kit here, in storage, so I phoned up and ordered exactly the same pieces, and set up my new kit in exactly the same way. In fact, Ringo used my model of his kit for ‘Beautiful Night’.
Mark Lewisohn, in Club Sandwich n°82, Summer 1997:
[…] With Paul at the piano and Ringo on drums, the song came together comfortably. Wanting to play some guitar on the end, Paul introduced a new element to his composition, the uptempo finale, and the microphone caught some characteristic ad-libbing by Ringo and Paul as they prepared to leave the studio. The recording then remained the same for nine months before Paul decided to have it enhanced by an orchestral arrangement, scored by George Martin and recorded in Studio One at Abbey Road on 14 February 1997.
At the end of “Beautiful Night“, we can hear Ringo Starr making fun.
l think everyone who makes a record has that option, to leave the daft stuff on at the end. You nearly always fade it out but at the end of ‘Beautiful Night’, it had been such a good take that Ringo started having fun, acting like he was a doorman, throwing people out. I love that so much. lt’s very Beatley. lt’s a very Beatley idea to do that, because we did a bit of that in the group…. Beautiful Night actually sounds a bit Beatley too… ln fact, I swear that at the end of Beautiful Night, you can almost hear a sort of very John Lennony voice in there. Listen to it. Check it out.
Paul McCartney, from The Beatles Monthly Book N°261, January 1998
Ringo Starr, in Club Sandwich N°83, Autumn 1997:
Tell me how you came to work with Paul again, this time round.
He had this song he wanted me to play on. And that’s what happened – I went down to his studio and we played on the track. What’s it called?
‘Beautiful Night’!
Yeah, I’m sorry! He invited me to play on ‘Beautiful Night’ and I said “Sure”. I think it’s a beautiful track. […]
You are also singing on ‘Beautiful Night’.
I’m singing on the return at the end, yeah. He said, “You can sing this” and I said “Okay, thanks. What notes are they?” and sang them. When we go and do his song he’s in charge. I mean, I can give him everything I’ve got, but he’s written the song and he has a programme for it. If I do something that changes it and he likes it, then we’ll do that. But he is Mr McCartney when we do his song. And I’m Mr Ringo when we do mine. We’re just musician buddies. […]
“Beautiful Night” was released as the third and final single from “Flaming Pie”, and peaked at number 25 in the UK Singles Chart.
A promotional video directed by Julien Temple was shot in late October 1997, and premiered during the first airing of The Oprah Winfrey Show. The video had to be re-edited as a brief glimpse of a woman skinnydipping caused a minor controversy. Also appearing in the video were Ringo Starr, Linda McCartney (her final appearance in a music video) and the band Spud (although they are shown performing with McCartney, they did not contribute to the recording of the track).
“Beautiful Night” was remastered in 2016 for inclusion on the “Pure McCartney” compilation, and then in 2020 for the “Flaming Pie Archive Collection“, both times by engineer Alex Wharton. As explained on the Steve Hoffman forum:
It’s interesting that for both ‘Pure McCartney’ in 2016 and the new 2020 remaster the polarity is different. Which means something went wrong in the final mastering stage of the original 1997 issue. Because ‘Pure McCartney’ worked from a compressed and limited 1997 master, and this 2020 remaster from a tape without that compression and limiting.
by forum resident “mindgames”
Last updated on September 26, 2020
Lyrics
Someone’s gone out fishing
Someone’s high and dry
Someone’s on a mission, to the lonely Lorelei
Some folks got a vision of a castle in the sky
And I’m left stranded, wondering why
You and me together
Nothing feels so good
Even if I get a medal from my local neighbourhood
I won’t need a castle, they’ve got castles in Versailles
And I’m still stranded, wondering why
Make it a beautiful night for me
It’s a beautiful night for love
A wonderful sight for lovers of love to behold
Make it a beautiful night for me
It’s a beautiful night for love
A wonderful sight for lovers of love to behold
Some boat’s on the ocean
We’re here in this room
Seems to me the perfect way to spend an afternoon
We can look for castles, pretty castles in the sky
No more wondering, wondering why
Things can go wrong, things can go right
Things can go bump in the dead of the night
So let me be there, let me be there
Let me be there with you in the dead of the night
Make it a beautiful night for me
It’s a beautiful night for love
A wonderful sight for lovers of love to behold
Make it a beautiful night for me
Such a beautiful night for love
Such a wonderful sight for lovers of love to behold
Yeah, it’s a beautiful night
Yeah, it’s a beautiful night
Yeah, beautiful night, beautiful night
It’s such a beautiful night, beautiful night.
«Beautiful Night» lyrics
Paul McCartney Lyrics
Someone’s gone out fishing
Someone’s high and dry.
Someone’s on a mission to the lonely Lorelei.
Some folk’s got a vision of a castle in the sky
And I’m left stranded, wondering why.
You and me together
Nothing feels so good
Even if I get a medal from my local neighborhood
I won’t need a castle, they’ve got castles in Versailles
And I’m still stranded, wondering why
Make it a beautiful night for me
It’s a beautiful night for love
A wonderful sight for lovers of love to behold
Make it a beautiful night for me
It’s a beautiful night for love
A wonderful sight for lovers of love to behold
Some boat’s on the ocean
We’re here in this room
Seems to me the perfect way to spend an afternoon
We can look for castles, pretty castles in the sky
No more wondering, wondering why
Things can go wrong, things can go right
Things can go bump, in the dead of the night
So let me be there, let me be there
Let me be there with you in the dead of the night
Make it a beautiful night for me
It’s a beautiful night for love
A wonderful sight for lovers of love to behold
Make it a beautiful night for me
Such a beautiful night for love
Such a wonderful sight for lovers of love to behold
Yeah, it’s a beautiful night
Yeah, it’s a beautiful night
Yeah, beautiful night, beautiful night
Yeah, it’s such a beautiful night, beautiful, beautiful night
Beautiful night, beautiful night, beautiful night
Beautiful night, beautiful night, beautiful night
Beautiful night, beautiful night, beautiful night
Beautiful night, beautiful night, beautiful night
Beautiful night, beautiful night, beautiful night
Beautiful night, beautiful night, beautiful night
Beautiful night, beautiful night, beautiful night
Beautiful night, beautiful night, beautiful night