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Paul McCartney’s homespun classic album, Ram, is my favourite Symphony. It has all the grandeur, playfulness and adventure of the Beatles at their best but, unlike any Beatles album, is a total embodiment of love, celebrating his life with his wife Linda partially replacing his former partner John Lennon in his music.. Notes on some of the songs: Too Many People: soaring lead guitars back the primary message to his preaching lefty former collaborator John, pull your head in. Ram.On: the right of men to love. Ride away. Right away. Dear Boy: chattering rhythms reflect the imprecisions of love. It...

She was born in New York City on Sept 24, 1941, and died in Tucson, Arizona, in 1998. Perhaps the greatest Beatle mum. She had childhood fantasies of living in a log cabin and spent much of her life living with their kids on farms with Paul. Linda lead her man from the world’s 1960’s obsession with Beatlemania into a rural life raising a family. As his wife and as the mother to their children, she gave him the healthy base where he created what many people now see as the first two great Indie albums, “Ram”, a homage to...

I always loved Wings Wild Life, Mumbo was and is sexier than John Lee Hooker or Elmore James. Tomorrow - a beautiful little bit of pop. Dear Friend - an enigmatic hymn to yearning for reconciliation with John Lennon. It was recorded for Ram but I'd be guessing the intense emotions of the breakup delayed it. The Lovely Linda underpinned both albums. A marriage that lasted. Ram on. Read on ........ for more ...... please .......

Filed at 6:45 p.m. ET LONDON (Reuters) - Paul McCartney is to release a Beatles track unheard for 35 years as the soundtrack to a film montage of his late wife Linda's photographs, The Sunday Times said. The 14-minute ``Carnival of Light,'' first recorded by the Beatles when they were making their Sgt. Pepper Album, had last been played at a London avant-garde festival in 1967. Beatles producer George Martin was quoted by the paper as saying: ``It was one of those weird things. It was a kind of uncomposed, free-for-all melange of sound that went on. ``It was not...