18 Elemente der Personalstile im Überblick knowledge of harmony through my dad.I actually knew what the word harmony meant.« 4 Paul sang in a church choir as a boy,was given a trum-pet when about thirteen,and learned enough chords,six,on his cousin Bett Robbins’s banjolele to play » Five Foot Two,Eyes of Blue.« 5 In November 1987 he said:» [When]people of my generation ...were growing up,rock and roll hadn’t been invented yet!Blues had started,but was nowhere near as popular;you had to be a real folkie to be into blues.Anything up to the 1950s was the old traditions,and in Britain that was the music hall....My dad [would be]sitting around the house tapping out things like ›Chicago‹on the ivories....There was a lot of that music-hall around our house on the radio and the telly.« 6 The cheery,superficially bubbly sounds of the British music hall,chromaticized in bouncing dotted rhythms by reed sections and jolly root-fifth oom-pah figures in the bass,and telling the colourful tales of char-acters such as Champagne Charly,Lucy Jaggs,Jim O’Shea,Lily of Laguna,Cushie Butterfield,Billie Bates,and ›En‹ry Hawkins,took a firm hold on McCartney’s imagination.Not only was the vaudevillian » When I’m Sixty-Four « one of his earliest written tunes and not only was he to produce many dance band numbers and fluffy story-line characterizations with the Beatles and afterward,but his lifelong,often dominating motivation to entertain –to give the public a rollicking good time,however light –is utterly consonant with what we know of his father’s musical interests.(Everett,Musicians I,12;Klammern und Auslassungszeichen sind original,in den Fußnoten werden folgende Quellen für die Zitate angegeben:4 Goodman,Playboy-Interview [amerikanische Ausgabe],90;5 Coleman,McCartney,25f.;6 White,143)Lennon hingegen lernte nur einige Akkorde von seiner Mutter.Mimi only allowed him to play it [seine Gitarre]on her tiny enclosed front porch.By 1956 Julia had shown John a good bit on the banjolele,a hybrid instrument joining a banjo head and bridge with a small-scale ukulele neck.Unschooled in the guitar’s proper tuning,John and Julia removed two strings and tuned the other four to her uke configuration,probably an octave below the soprano ukulele’s G tuning:G-B-f ]-a.Mother and son worked out all John’s chords with unorthodox positions –it certainly made no difference for a skiffle player.(Everett,Musicians I,21)Paul konnte Gitarre,Trompete und Klavier spielen.Das muss zwar nicht unbedingt heißen,dass er talentierter ist,aber seine musische Erziehung war besser.Als wir uns kennen lernten,konnte ich nur Mundharmonika und zwei Akkorde auf der Gitarre spielen.Ich stimmte die Gitarre wie ein Banjo,weswegen meine Gitarre auch nur fünf Saiten hatte.(Paul brachte mir bei,wie man richtig spielte –aber ich musste die Akkorde linkshändig lernen,weil Paul Linkshänder ist.Also lernte ich sie verkehrt herum,ging dann nach Hause und drehte sie um.)(Lennon in Anthology,12)Obwohl auch Lennon kein schlechter Gitarrist wurde,war McCartney ihm durch seine bessere Vorbildung,vor allem aber durch seine Lernbegierde und seinen Ehr-geiz als Spieler überlegen,wie Martin es später einschätzt:There’s no doubt that Lennon and McCartney were good musicians.They had good musical brains,and the brain is where music originates –it has