EVERYBODY HATES PAUL: Did I miss the memo on this being "Crap on 'Ebony and Ivory' Week"? Yesterday, the song, which did more to further the cause of racial harmony in this country than any other pop song since Sly and the Family Stone's "Don't Call Me N----r, Whitey," made the the list of worst music collaborations of all time.
Today comes news that based on poetry like "Ebony and ivory/ Live together in perfect harmony/Side by side on my piano, keyboard/Oh lord, why don't we?" Paul McCartney, the person largely responsible for "Eleanor Rigby," "Blackbird," and "Penny Lane" has been named one of the 40 worst lyricists of all-time by Blender Magazine. While Paul is way down the list at No. 38, the top spot is reserved for the Nabokov name-dropped Sting. The Police frontman is followed by Rush's Neal Peart, Creed's Scott Stapp, Oasis' Noel Gallagher, and Dan Fogelberg (ooo, that should be a controversial pick).
Missing from the list? The man who wrote: "Rock and roller cola wars/I can't take it any more."
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