{"id":183301,"date":"2025-08-28T23:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183301\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:15:14","slug":"oh-god-its-a-bloody-good-song-the-1970s-defining-sound-paul-mccartney-wishes-the-beatles-had-come-up-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183301\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Oh God, It\u2019s a Bloody Good Song\u201d: The 1970s-Defining Sound Paul McCartney Wishes The Beatles Had Come up With"},"content":{"rendered":"

No amount of success from another band can discredit what the Beatles<\/a> had going on. They are seen as the roots of music itself. Although many artists came before them, the Beatles marked a turning point in music that broke off a new lineage in the industry. Despite their immeasurable success,\u00a0Paul McCartney\u00a0has still spoken about sounds he wished he could\u2019ve come up with. There was one band in particular that made McCartney jealous. Find out which band accomplished that feat below. <\/p>\n

The Sound Paul McCartney Was Jealous Of<\/p>\n

The Beatles\u2019 breakup left a hole in the music industry. Although no one was genuinely able to fill their shoes, many stepped up to the plate and made an effort. New sounds were coming from all over, taking rock in a direction it had never been before. Prog rock took the genre\u2019s crown, with Electric Light Orchestra being one of its best purveyors. <\/p>\n

The man at the helm of ELO, Jeff Lynne, is credited as one of the most inventive rockers in history. Like the Beatles, he enjoyed experimenting with sound. Those experiments caught the ear of McCartney. <\/p>\n

The Beatles\u2019 Influence on ELO<\/p>\n

While issuing a compliment to ELO, Paul McCartney ceded that part of their era-defining sound was deeply inspired by the Beatles. As all subsequent rockers did, ELO took notes from the Beatles\u2019 more inventive albums. However, McCartney felt that Lynne managed to one-up the Beatles\u2019 already era-defining sound.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I heard ELO, it was very what we been doing on\u00a0Sgt. Pepper\u2019s, very much what we been into, very sort of mathematical strings,\u201d McCartney once said<\/a>. \u201cSo I think the first thing was: \u2018Oh, I know where he got that from.\u2019 But then you can\u2019t resist it. It\u2019s just so good. You go, \u2018Oh God, it\u2019s a bloody good song, I wish we\u2019d done that one.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJeff\u2019s got a great voice,\u201d McCartney added. \u201cBeing a singer, it\u2019s not easy to do what he does. It\u2019s an individual voice too, it\u2019s distinctive, it\u2019s nobody else, it\u2019s Jeff Lynne.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s somewhat comforting to know that even the Beatles occasionally felt jealous of other groups. It certainly underscores the need to continue creating in the face of so many great works of art already available. If ELO can make McCartney wish he had done things differently, then anything is possible. <\/p>\n

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