Getting Better
by Jonathan Morrill
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16.000 x 20.000 inches
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Title
Getting Better
Artist
Jonathan Morrill
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
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With lyrics co-written by Lennon and McCartney and music mostly by McCartney, the idea for Getting Better came from a favorite phrase of Jimmie Nicol, The Beatles' stand-in drummer for eight days of their 1964 world tour.
According to Beatles biographer Hunter Davies, the phrase popped into McCartney's head one day in 1967 while he was walking his sheepdog Martha in Hampstead.
Getting Better I wrote on my magic Binder, Edwards and Vaughan piano in my music room. It had a lovely tone, that piano, you'd just open the lid and there was such a magic tone, almost out of tune, and of course the way it was painted added to the fun of it all.
It's an optimistic song. I often try and get on to optimistic subjects in an effort to cheer myself up and also, realising that other people are going to hear this, to cheer them up too. And this was one of those. The 'angry young man' and all that was John and I filling in the verses about schoolteachers. We shared a lot of feelings against teachers who had punished you too much or who hadn't understood you or who had just been bastard generally.
Paul McCartney
Many Years From Now, Barry Miles
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May 14th, 2017
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