Bungie composer Ella Feingold, who has been orchestrating Destiny since 2015, has posted an image on Instagram of a score sheet with a notable name on it: P. McCartney (spotted by VGC). The title of the composition has been obscured, while the orchestration is credited to Feingold and Jordan Cox, and lest there were any doubt, Feingold's caption reads «Yeah that P. McCartney. That's all I can say for now.»
Paul McCartney is one of the most prolific and influential songwriters and performers of our time, and best-known for being the driving force of The Beatles. He composed several tracks and motifs that went into shaping the original Destiny's soundtrack, with credits on five of the eight tracks that feature in The Music of Destiny: Volume 1, and various other credits on the full OST. Most notably McCartney composed and performed Hope for the Future, released as a single, and seen by some as Destiny's theme.
Unfortunately, Bungie and its longtime composer Marty O'Donnell had a major falling out in 2014, the repercussions of which have been ongoing and have resulted in O'Donnell's contributions to Destiny being sidelined. O'Donnell composed alongside McCartney for Destiny, with many of the tracks featuring credits for both (here's a great account of how it all came about). That may or may not have been a factor in this, but one thing is clear: Because of O'Donnell's dispute with Bungie, current Destiny players would be forgiven for not knowing that an actual fricking Beatle composed music for their game.
Well, some of them. Hope to the Future is actually in Destiny 2 as an easter egg, in the raid The Last Wish. This features a secret code wall that you can use to activate a bunch of different effects, and one of them
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