![]() (Interestingly the videos and stills inserts are mostly in color, accentuating the difference.) And not forgetting that everything is in a beautiful black and white tint. The show leans on those operators to pick out the best shots in isolation for the edit. It’s a multi-camera look with the operators often in shot. Theatrical lighting on a near empty sound stage have Rubin and Sir Paul amiably chatting like musos do about their music. ![]() What immediately strikes you about McCartney 3, 2, 1 is the visual style it’s gorgeous. ![]() Using a fellow musical brother talking in a safe space might just be the key that unlocks those golden moments. Through 50 years of his musical life there must be pure gold waiting for the right interviewer or interview style. The main challenge for the documentary makers was to lift it out of the many that McCartney has either auto-piloted through or clammed up to. However, there is a moment when they are listening to the takes of “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” that McCartney says with some embarrassment, “This is why we don’t go in to tapes,” after hearing a soloed out of tune shriek.īut McCartney 3, 2, 1, directed by Emmy Award-winning Zachary Heinzerling, is a haven of good vibes and intentions part of Hulu’s growing library of documentaries on influential and significant figures including Hillary Clinton and Greta Thunberg. In a new The Beatles documentary called McCartney 3, 2, 1 from Hulu, he and producer and interviewer Rick Rubin pick apart multi-tracks of some of The Beatles and Wings albums, soloing with some relish. It didn’t show her in a great light and was grossly unfair to her and the project.īut Sir Paul had either never heard it or had long forgotten it. Back in the nineties there was an illicit soloed track of Linda McCartney singing background vocals doing the rounds. You’re usually hearing a naked, jarring snippet that was never designed to be heard out of the full sound mix. There’s usually nothing good about soloing a track on a sound desk unless you’re working on it.
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