When I was working as an entomology technician at Cornell in an underground quarantine facility I went to work in the dark and came home in the dark never seeing sunlight. Love it in SW FL where the short days are not so short.
Paul has had a few memorable tunes, but I'll take Lennon's post-Beatles catalog any day of the week, and George ("Isn't It a Pity") and Ringo ("It Don't Come Easy") wrote better songs than "Band on the Run" and "Jet."
The artist behind that "Christmas tree" does quite a few "art" things with that shape. This thing lasted for well less than a day when someone punctured it.
I would chalk it up to Paul's being difficult to work with, from a certain perspective. Towards the end, he was not nearly as interested in collaboration as he was in seeing his vision realized by the other three, and he wasn't always entirely diplomatic about it. Watching "Let It Be" really brings this home, where we can see George's exasperation with being reduced to simply playing what Paul told him to play at any moment. Paul wasn't even above recording Ringo's drum parts and letting him find out about it the next day. When you have one guy who wants to run the show, and three others who are more into being a real band, and that one guy gets his way more often than not, that can result in a lot of resentment. Bottom line, Yoko didn't break up the Beatles, Paul did. I still love the guy, don't get me wrong, but everyone involved including Paul has confirmed this is pretty much how it all went down at the end.
As for not retaliating, go take a closer listen to "3 Legs", "Dear Friend", and *especially* "Too Many People" sometime. He was hardly above it.
I could never understand why John, George and even Ringo went public with their critisisim of Paul's early work. I always attributed it pure 100% jealousy as Paul was always the most popular Beatle whom the girls all screamed for. Have to give Paul credit for forgiving all 3 and not retaliating. I always thought John's song "Jealous Guy" was an apology of sorts to Paul. How can you experience what the Beatles experienced and not love and respect each other eternally?
When I interview for a new job, I ask questions (and make observations) to ensure it doesn't have the same terrible issues as my prior job. Problem is, it's always a DIFFERENT kind of terrible. In hindsight there were always a few subtle signs that I might have spotted, had I known to look for them. Experience is something you get right AFTER you needed it.
So that's what it looks like. First time on it, I had no clue it was an indoor coaster. Then as I am being given a mild type of whip lash, I realized what it was.
As for not retaliating, go take a closer listen to "3 Legs", "Dear Friend", and *especially* "Too Many People" sometime. He was hardly above it.