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Paul McCartneyhas recently revealed that he oncemasturbated with John Lennonandsaw God on a drug trip. Yet, possibly the biggest revelation of all is that the ex-Beatle — who’s highly-acclaimed 17th solo album,Egypt Station, has just been released — manages to pass unnoticed on the London Underground.
“If I’m on a train, I see everybody else just looking at their screens,” McCartney tellsBBC News. “But I’m looking out: ‘Oh look, there’s the London Eye! There’s the River Thames!'”
McCartney continues, “Sometimes they do look up and they take a little picture and they sell it to the newspaper. And this is the price of fame.”
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“So, we learned to keep moving forward and be very quiet and calm about it — out of necessity, to not make a crazy scene any crazier.”
“I was imagining talking to one of these young fans and saying, ‘Have you ever been bullied? Do you get bullied?'” he adds.
“Then I say, ‘Who cares about the idiots? Who cares about all this? Who cares about you? Well… I do.'”
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A second song, “Despite Repeated Warnings,” goes one step further into political territory and directs a chastening comment in the direction of climate change deniers with the lyric: “Those who shout the loudest/May not always be the smartest.”
“People who deny climate change… I just think it’s the most stupid thing ever,” McCartney, reveals to the BBC.
“So, I just wanted to make a song that would talk about that and basically say, ‘Occasionally, we’ve got a mad captain sailing this boat we’re all on and he is just going to take us to the iceberg [despite] being warned it’s not a cool idea.'”
And just who could the “Mad Captain” be?
“Obviously it’s Trump,” McCartney says before adding, “but there’s plenty of them about. He’s not the only one.”
source: people.com
