Paul McCartney
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So it's like the Salesman Saint song.
They had to carry on.
I think it's a theme in my stuff, in my writing, that even though stuff is hard, you are going to have to carry on or let it defeat you.
And I think that's very much from the wartime years that all of us grew up in.
Carry that weight.
But, you know, as I say, I never heard any of the uncles talk about the war.
They would always have a joke, some great joke.
that they would tell you.
And so you kind of learned that even though that had been a terrible period, and we'd seen the film of Hitler's bombers clouding the sky, and you'd seen the Belsen pictures of the,
Prisoners coming out in the striped uniforms, which is why I can never believe people July the Holocaust I mean that is so insane, but you know, we'd seen all of that and Yet the people we knew people were living amongst I'd gone on and we're now so glad to be away from that and
that now they were making something of their lives.
And I think that's why there was quite a rich period for us, our generation, that we could now do good stuff and say, hey, it may be bad, but we can,
We can work this out.
We can work it out.
Yeah, I would have been.
Yeah, well, we were hitchhiking down south
which is what one of the songs in the new album is about.
And we got a lift from a milk float, which was electric.
That was the only