Linda was also the inspiration for ‘Warm and Beautiful,’ a piano ballad with a lyric that reads as effortlessly poetic and direct, and an ingenious chord progression that unfolds by Paul’s shifting a single note (or in one case, two notes) within a chord up or down a half-step. Understanding how this gradually morphing progression works tells us a lot about how Paul’s piano technique and his approach to the keyboard often led him to fresh ideas. <…> The introduction to one of Paul’s favorites among his Beatles-era songs, ‘Here, There and Everywhere,’ works similarly, and the connection was not lost on him. “I wrote ‘Warm and Beautiful’ just the same way as I did ‘Here, There and Everywhere’ on the Beatles’ Revolver album,” he explained a few months later. “It’s the same kind of effort. But I’m not a great analyzer of my own stuff.”
(Rockwell, John: “McCartney, Trying Wings in Three Shows, Talks of Yesterday,” New York Times, May 21, 1976 - in The McCartney Legacy: Volume 2: 1974-1980 by Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair, 2024)
…But the only – the person I actually picked as my partner, who I’d recognised had talent, and I could get on with, was Paul. Now, twelve or however many years later, I met Yoko, I had the same feeling. It was a different feel, but I had the same feeling…
(John Lennon, interview with DJ Dave Sholin December 8th, 1980)
“I find it a very emotional melody,” Paul said of the song, “and in the middle there’s a sort of slide guitar in the instrumental thing where it suddenly goes into harmonies. And it’s funny I always think of that song in close harmony, but the rest of the song isn’t—it’s pretty much just a solo — me and a piano.”
(The McCartney Legacy: Volume 2: 1974-1980 by Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair, 2024)
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