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What is Paul's favorite Beatles song?

As for which one of the many, many Beatles songs he's listened to the most throughout his life, it's “Let It Be,” naturally. “It's the most ubiquitous,” he said. “It sort of got everywhere. Ubiquitous from the Latin, ubi quo, meaning 'everywhere.

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Sir Paul McCartney is an infinitely patient man. The 78-year-old music legend has been answering many of the same questions about his time in The Beatles for the past 50 years, but ever the proper English gentleman, he never fails to provide cheery, thoughtful responses. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Paul McCartney The Beatles See latest videos, charts and news Case in point: McCartney sat down with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe to talk about his new quarantine solo album, McCartney III, as well as the tumultuous time after the Fab Four broke up, and his feelings about John Lennon leaving the group. So when talk turned to running down his all-time favorite Beatles tracks, McCartney offered his frequent oddball reply, the loose, samba-esque 1970 “Let It Be” B-side, “You Know My Name (Look Up the Number).” “[It’s] a zany, zany little B-side that nobody knows, but we had so much fun making it,” McCartney said. “But there’s a lot of songs that I love of the Beatles. I think ‘Strawberry Fields’ is a great song, I think, ‘Hey Jude’ worked out great. I’ve got a lot of favorite songs. ‘Blackbird’ I love. ‘Eleanor Rigby’ I love.” As for which one of the many, many Beatles songs he’s listened to the most throughout his life, it’s “Let It Be,” naturally. “It’s the most ubiquitous,” he said. “It sort of got everywhere. Ubiquitous from the Latin, ubi quo, meaning ‘everywhere.’ Come on, give it up.” In the wide-ranging interview, McCartney also said that he definitely “rocked down” during the COVID-19 lockdown while recording the just released McCartney III, finishing off a group of songs he’d meant finish in 2019, and inadvertently saving his sanity by staying busy. “There was a big connection with trying to keep equilibrium. Because you know, the whole world was going mad,” he said. “Suddenly there was a thing that we’d never heard before. I mean there was AIDS and there was SARS, and there was avian flu, but all these things seem to happen to other people and then suddenly it was happening to everyone and everyone I knew, and everyone in the world. So it was quite a shock. It was really good to be able to play music, and make up music, and put your thoughts and your fears, and your hopes and your love into the music. So it kind of saved me, I must say, for about three or four months it took to make it.” The chat also touched on the “difficult” period he went through after the Beatles’ breakup, understanding Lennon’s frame of mind when he announced he was quitting, and how the dynamic songwriting duo had begun to mend their rift before John’s murder in 1980. “With John, the great thing was, we had begun to get our relationship back together,” he told Lowe. “That was a huge blessing for me because when he was tragically murdered, I think if we’d have still been fighting, I’m not sure how I would have dealt with that. But it was great that we’d been speaking to each other.”

Check out McCartney’s interview below.

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Are people who play piano more intelligent?

Piano practice also boosts cognitive and intellectual abilities, which is to say it makes you smarter and activates similar parts of the brain used in spatial reasoning and math.

Sharpen the intellect

Piano practice also boosts cognitive and intellectual abilities, which is to say it makes you smarter and activates similar parts of the brain used in spatial reasoning and math. Studying piano has also been shown to amazingly improve memory — particularly verbal memory — and build good habits like focus and perseverance, diligence and creativity. Children who had a few years of piano study under their belts could remember twenty percent more vocabulary words than their peers. And childhood musicians are better equipped later in life to retain information from speeches and lectures. Playing piano has been shown to increase spatial-temporal ability, which figures heavily in math, science and engineering. Regular music practice at an early age can even make structural changes to the brain that stay with you for the rest of your life, making your brain more efficient both while playing and in extra-musical endeavors. Children who had a few years of piano study under their belts could remember twenty percent more vocabulary words than their peers.

Calm the mind

Studies show that time spent at the keyboard improves mental health: people who make music experience less anxiety, loneliness, and depression. Playing piano has also been shown to be a great source of stress relief, and provides ample opportunities to bolster self-esteem. It is also a widely used form of therapy for Attention Deficit Disorder.

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