B: Paul McCartney Is Esquire’s August Cover Star
Fame is something that many human beings throughout the ages have desired. Nevertheless, it is very difficult to achieve a considerable amount of fame, and it is usually only the best of the best, who achieve it. One of them is the former Beatle Paul McCartney, who has earned his fame by being a pioneer of and icon for British rock and pop music, and his fame has stretched over sev-eral decades. However, fame is able to change people and their personalities. McCartney’s fame is what Alex Bilmes scrutinises in the 2015-article “Paul McCartney Is Esquire’s August Cover Star” from the magazine Esquire by trying to answer the big question: has all the fame went to McCartney’s head and changed him,
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He describes McCartney as a clever person, who “went to the Liverpool Institute, one of the best state schools in the country” . His intelli-gence and level of ambition are not decreased with time, as he has “never quite lost the air of the ambitious grammar school boy” . This may have helped to choose the right decisions and keep his career on track.
Simultaneously, Bilmes does not want to deprive McCartney of his status as a world star with countless chart-toppers to his belt. Bilmes seems to be very fascinated of McCartney, who he la-bels as “one of the most recognisable people on the planet” . Just McCartney’s presence bedaz-zles Bilmes . By describing McCartney as a divine creature, Bilmes attempts to point out, how big an achievement it actually is to stay uninfluenced by the vast amount of fame that McCartney has
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McCartney’s rise to the top of the charts and criti-cal acclaim is also something that Bilmes deals within the article. He believes that McCartney’s personality could be an explanation for his popularity. He and the rest of The Beatles were “the acceptable face of youth culture, not like those dangerous, switchblade teddy boys who preceded them or the oafish, longhaired Rolling Stones who followed” . He was a one of a kind in the world of rock. McCartney was nothing but the opposite of the status quo at the time and that made the world fall in love with him. However, it was not only the personality that made him popular but also the qualities that he and The Beatles promoted. Qualities like, for instance, friendship, openness and love – all qualities that were and still remain “important things to cel-ebrate”
Many people in show business are viewed as role models in our society. Many of these people are just regular men and women that are placed high on a pedestal simply because they can sing or act, hence, becoming all the more famous. Although he was famous and popular in the entertainment world for almost four decades, Frank Sinatra was a singer and actor that had a side to him that not everyone knew. He hid behind the facade of an entirely happy, successful performer, when, in reality, he had many problems that the public was not even aware of. Some of these problems are the same that the average person faces day to day, but many went far deeper than trivial troubles. Some of these specific quandaries had to do with hidden aspects of his personal relationships, hidden connections with criminal elements, and other unknown aspects of his life.
The Beatles are known, respectively, as the fathers of modern pop music. After their first #1 hit “Please Please Me” was released in 1963 the Beatles were set in motion to become one of the most influential groups of musicians to ever rock our world. With over forty-nine records, 37 #1’s, and thirty- four number one albums (the highest amount of any band in history), there is no denying that they made a monumental ripple in the musical world. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr surprisingly all come from humble beginnings in a town that, until their superstardom, was barely noticed on the map. Liverpool, being kn...
“You’ve Got to Hide You Love Away” exemplifies Lennon as a maturing artist, no longer producing lyrics for moving and dancing but for sitting and thinking. As Lennon continues in his career, his songs become even more introspective as he delves deeper into the use of drugs and trying to discover himself. The story this song tells, both as a member of the album Help! and as an individual entity, marks the true influence that Bob Dylan held over Lennon in his early Beatlemania years and the influence’s lasting impact on Lennon’s years to come.
British rock ‘n’ roll began in the 1950’s and it wasn’t until the 1960’s when The Beatles heightened the start of the British Invasion. The band consisted of eclectic individuals such as John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. The Beatles’ group dynamic was founded on team-based operations as well as two-way innovations such as problem-to-solution and solution-to-problem of team building. However, like every group, internal and external interaction arose creating competition, which lead to both positive and negative conflict.
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John Lennon was a gifted and talented artist, so unique and phenomenal that millions of American youths followed him and the Beatles during the 1960’s. Even after the Beatles disbanded, his fan base continued to follow him. John was an extraordinary composer and wrote hundreds of songs by himself and with his fellow Beatle’s band member, Paul McCartney. While John is primarily known for his singing, he also staged peace demonstrations in hopes to impact the day’s youth and change world governments. His artistic accomplishments also included drawing cartoons and writing poetry. Because he was so controversial at times, some people were scared or hated him. Unfortunately, John suffered an untimely death, but his legend will always live on.
John Lennon was well known for mostly his music, both in the Beatles and his solo career, but he was also known for promoting peace and well being. A quote from Lennon and what he believed is “If everybody demanded peace instead of another television set, there’d be peace(johnlennonpwace.com).” He was also a important part of the protest against the war in Vietnam. He believed that the situation in Vietnam was not our problem or concern, and that young men should not be dying because of this. He tried to persuade people of this “Peace Movement” as well. He participated in parades and peaceful protests. The reason John Lennon’s ideas were so powerful because he was extremely famous and well known, and he is one of the few celebrity who used his fame to communicate a positive message to the world(johnlennonpeace.com).
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