I've Got a Feeling

With The Beatles eagerly-awaiting re-imagining of the ridiculous "documentary" Let it Be coming out as Get Back in a coupla weeks, the New Yorker's David Remnick observes McCartney watching the documentary for the first time, and marvels that all these decades later he's still doing what he's graced a lucky world with for decades:

The screening had been emotional. He watched images of Linda as a beautiful young woman, pregnant with Mary, who was now sitting beside him. And he saw himself with his friends, at the end of the film, performing not at a Syrian amphitheatre or in a London park but on the roof of the Apple building, running through sublime takes of songs they’d been working on, nailing them at last.

The performer was now the spectator, the observer of his younger self and his “fallen heroes.” Amid that footage of the Beatles, dressed in woolly winter getups, playing with pace and precision, all the bad stuff seemed to melt away.  As McCartney watched, he got a flash of the “old feeling”—but time, coupled with a new framing of the past, has allowed him, and the audience, a more benign view of things. They were a gang, a unit, even a family, and happy families are a bore, if they exist at all. He raised his voice above the sound of workmen outside packing up the tents. “Buying into this myth that I was the bad one, it bothered me for years. But I sort of feel like it doesn’t bother me now, because I feel like a lot of people sort of get it.” If he’s not entirely over it, it’s because he’s still in it. 

My bold. 

Not sure why Remnick felt the need to also pack in about 6,000 words running through the entire history of the band, but okay.

I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS DOCUMENTARY NEXT MONTH!!!!!! 🤗