09-03-2025, 02:43
(15-10-2016, 04:28)Jerome Wrote: I never really got that album cover??? A nice picture but as a choice for an album cover?
^^
this was in reference to the cover of Paul McCartney's debut solo album titled "McCartney"
![[Image: 220px-Paul_McCartney_-_McCartney.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/Paul_McCartney_-_McCartney.jpg/220px-Paul_McCartney_-_McCartney.jpg)
so i have found the answer to a possible meaning behind the cover art Jerome...
while it maybe not a definitive answer Jerome but one i found quite interesting and highly plausible with McCartney's cryptic nature:
so the cover depicts cherries and a bowl,
"life is a bowl of cherries" is a common phrase in the North of England meaning 'life is dandy',
with the cherries spilled out and juice in the bowl it means that "the life has been squeezed out of them".
i suspect this is how McCartney probably felt around that time with the implosion that was the break up of the Beatles with the negativity he received from the media at the time and looming legal processes between himself and the other three Beatles.
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.