McCartney also recorded an instrumental version of "Too Many People" that was released on his Thrillington album. According to Vincent Perez Benitez, this strategy "enhance the coherence of the song," in a manner consistent with McCartney's earlier song " Maybe I'm Amazed." "Too Many People" incorporates guitar solos in both the middle and at the end of the song. This allows McCartney to go from the bridge to a repetition of the introduction music as a means of moving the music back to the verses. The introduction to the song as well as the bridge alternate the tonic chord of G major with its minor subdominant chord of C minor.
Rolling Stone stated that "Too Many People"'s "incredibly sweet melody is proof that McCartney could use his charm as a weapon when he wanted to." The line "You took your lucky break and broke it in two" was originally "Yoko took your lucky break and broke it in two" but McCartney revised it before recording the song. So that one got to be a thing about them.
It was just a bit the wagging finger, and I was pissed off with it. The whole tenor of the Beatles thing had been, like, to each his own. And I felt we didn't need to be told what to do. I felt John and Yoko were telling everyone what to do. But the first line is about "too many people preaching practices". Like, a piece of cake becomes piss off cake, And it's nothing, it's so harmless really, just little digs. The song begins with the line "piece of cake" (similar in sound to "piss off, cake") later revealed to be a veiled jibe at Lennon:
Oh, there was "You took your lucky break and broke it in two". There wasn't anything else on it that was about them. I mean, that was a little dig at John and Yoko. In one song, I wrote, "Too many people preaching practices", I think is the line. He'd been doing a lot of preaching, and it got up my nose a little bit. I was looking at my second solo album, Ram, the other day and I remember there was one tiny little reference to John in the whole thing. As he himself recalled in an interview with Playboy in 1984:
I was interested in his explanation of the lyrics to “Too Many People”, from 1971’s Ram."Too Many People" contains digs at McCartney's former bandmate and songwriting partner John Lennon, as well as his wife Yoko Ono. It has the lyrics to 156 McCartney compositions along with his commentary and loads of photos and memorabilia. I was browsing through the recent Paul McCartney book The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present that my wife gave me for Christmas. However, it can’t be denied that a mere 15 months later, on April 10, 1970, Paul McCartney announced that The Beatles had broken up through his ambiguous answers to the questions he was asked during an interview about his first solo album, McCartney.
PAUL MCCARTNEY TOO MANY PEOPLE MOVIE
The three episode documentary, directed by Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings fame, took 60 hours of film footage and 150 hours of audio tape - from 22 days in January 1969 - and reconstructed it into an 8 hour, “fly on the wall” experience that seeks to revise the negative vibe and historical record of what actually occurred during the sessions that culminated in the original Let it Be movie from 1970. Last November, Disney+ relased The Beatles: Get Back.
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