98: McCartney II - Dan Rebellato

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Arts, Performing Arts, Music, Music Commentary

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🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Dramatist, author and playwright Dan Rebellato discusses Paul McCartney's 1980 album McCartney II, with Chris Shaw.

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0:00.0	One, two, three, four.
0:04.0	Yeah.
0:05.0	Yeah. Hello and welcome to I am the Eggpot with me Chris Shaw.
0:35.4	The Egg Ports take a jaunty stroll through Pepperland, discussing the Beatles and solo Beatle albums with a popery of delicious guests.
0:43.0	In this episode, it's a welcome return to dramatist, author and playwright Dan Rebellato. Hello. Hi, Chris. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. How's your pandemic been?
0:55.4	Oh, it's good that it's being so well handled.
1:00.0	Exactly. The gift that keeps on giving.
1:03.5	So, the album you're talking about today, there's a bit of history with this one,
1:07.5	because we have actually talked about it before on the podcast a while back with beardy
1:12.2	man it's mccartney too and shortly after that was uploaded you contacted me and i had a feeling
1:20.2	things weren't right because you referred to him as mr beardy man so you want to do a re-evaluation of
1:27.4	this out well um to Beardy Man. So you want to do a re-evaluation of this?
1:28.0	Tell me why, first of all.
1:29.9	Well, yeah, I think because in the podcast that you do with Beardy Man,
1:35.3	I think McCartney too does get a bit of a kicking.
1:39.3	And I really love this album.
1:42.4	And I thought it would be appropriate to give it a slightly jauntier stroll
1:47.3	through Pepperland than you afforded it the first time. It's a way of a kind of a rebuttal or a
1:54.5	defence or something like that because I think there's lots, I think there are lots of really
1:58.7	odd things about this record. It's a very easy record to dislike.
2:02.5	But actually, I think there are so many wonderful things about it.
2:06.9	And some of the reasons why it's easy to dislike are actually the reasons why I love it.
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