Paul's self promotion over the decades
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When I became a fan of his back in the early 70s with Ram and then after Ram going backwards to see what his first solo album was all about -- and liking it a lot, though I never was a Maybe I'm Amazed person. It's a great song but to me I like other quirkier songs on that album that are less blatantly pop oriented. And then of course Wings of Wildlife and then as the years went by Red Rose Speedway and Band on the Run. That album kind of ended my feeling of being a fan of McCartney. Venus and Mars and Rock Show, of course, were very cool, but not enough to sustain that album.
From then on I kept looking forward to the next album, but I kept being disappointed, so my interest in Paul steadily diminished over the decades. Even so, I would check out this or that album just to make sure, like Press to Play, which to me only had one interesting song, angry. Or much later, Memory Almost Full, and again there were two good songs on that one but two out of a whole album isn't much to sneeze at.
Anyway there was no internet back then though that didn't prevent certain celebrities from self promoting in grandiose ways. I just noticed as the '80s unfolded into the 90s that Paul wasn't doing much in terms of getting on TV or having cameos and movies or maybe doing duets with famous people or doing interviews, whatever. I wished back then that he would do more like that. But at the same time I was wishing he would do more I was also not really into him anyway. So a long time elapsed into the 2000s and occasionally I would check back with him and say okay what are you up to now have you any kindled your old inspiration or are you still doing mostly schlocky stuff? The first decade of the century I didn't really investigate Paul, but into the second I joined Beatles Bible and other people would mention now and again various albums like Chaos and Creation or Flaming Pie or Egypt Station and I would check out a few songs from these albums and be very unimpressed and say well I guess he's still not rekindled his inspiration so I'm not really missing anything...
Then I started noticing into that second decade of the 21st century that he was suddenly appearing everywhere and he was touring more than ever before and he was on this show and that show and doing all kinds of internet stuff. I think if anybody really researched this and did an honest measuring of it comparing his last 10 years with all the time previously since he first began his soul career, they would find that his self-promotion has skyrocketed and he has become very industrious and almost treating himself like a marketing company or something. That's what I wish he was doing back in the late 70s!
When in the summer of 1980 I suddenly saw him on Saturday Night Live, I thought wow this is fantastic! But that kind of a thing was very rare back then, whereas now it's very common for him. I remember I was working as a security guard in Seattle, I had just finished my first BA degree at the University of Washington, and I was working to make some money and deciding what I wanted to do. So anyway there was this one guy among the security guard team -- we were guarding the Rainier Bank Tower vault down in the parking garage below ground level -- the only guy there other than me who was like a super Paul McCartney fan. This was exciting for me because with the exception of two of my high school friends, I didn't know anybody who liked McCartney, and there was no internet to find more that might exist around the world. So anyway one night as he was getting off his security guard shift and I was walking towards him to start mine, I said hey did you see Saturday Night Live? He said yeah that was pretty cool wasn't it! And he recounted all the characters that Paul had impersonated in his special video he made including of course, Buddy Holly.
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@fast-city-line Did you mean to say “less” not “more” in the 2nd part of your sentence?
Also, here’s Paul’s SNL gigs. It was spring, not summer of 1980.
https://snl.fandom.com/wiki/Paul_McCartney#:~:text=He appeared on Saturday Night,Biker Like an Icon" andI think what happened was you weren’t consistent over the years like a lot of us were, in keeping up with his career. I have had a subscription to Beatlefan magazine since the fall of 1980, right before John was killed. I think it was started in 1978. It is published fairly near me in Decatur, GA and I met the publisher and a bunch of people who write for the mag at a Macca 40th birthday party in 1982. So, I have kept up with everything each Beatle was doing, even after John was murdered, they still have articles on every John thing released, etc. Of course now Paul & Ringo have the lion’s share of articles, but George is never forgotten! Then I originally joined this forum in Mar. 2011 and it has helped me enormously in keeping up with when concert tickets go on pre-sale, etc. I’m a “completist” so I buy every album by Paul & Ringo (and I have all of John’s & George’s - even some of the big remastered ones like “Lennon” but did not get “All Things Must Pass” remaster)
Back to Paul: I agree there several crappy albums that I never listen to (like Press to Play - although I like the song & video for “Press.”) The one album I don’t have to skip any songs is “Flaming Pie!” (1997) And “No More Lonely Nights” from Give My Regards To Broad Street (1984) is a masterpiece imho. I like all the songs on that album. I’m by no means a connoisseur of Paul’s solo catalogue, my BFF in Nashville who is 12 years younger than me is! (she was born in 1967) I wish she would get on this board, but she’s not interested and likes to listen to Beatle Brunch, Sirius XM Beatles channel 18, etc. Plus she still has to work full time! -
@njr said in Paul's self promotion over the decades:
@fast-city-line Did you mean to say “less” not “more” in the 2nd part of your sentence?
Also, here’s Paul’s SNL gigs. It was spring, not summer of 1980.
https://snl.fandom.com/wiki/Paul_McCartney#:~:text=He appeared on Saturday Night,Biker Like an Icon" andI think what happened was you weren’t consistent over the years like a lot of us were, in keeping up with his career. I have had a subscription to Beatlefan magazine since the fall of 1980, right before John was killed. I think it was started in 1978. It is published fairly near me in Decatur, GA and I met the publisher and a bunch of people who write for the mag at a Macca 40th birthday party in 1982. So, I have kept up with everything each Beatle was doing, even after John was murdered, they still have articles on every John thing released, etc. Of course now Paul & Ringo have the lion’s share of articles, but George is never forgotten! Then I originally joined this forum in Mar. 2011 and it has helped me enormously in keeping up with when concert tickets go on pre-sale, etc. I’m a “completist” so I buy every album by Paul & Ringo (and I have all of John’s & George’s - even some of the big remastered ones like “Lennon” but did not get “All Things Must Pass” remaster)
Back to Paul: I agree there several crappy albums that I never listen to (like Press to Play - although I like the song & video for “Press.”) The one album I don’t have to skip any songs is “Flaming Pie!” (1997) And “No More Lonely Nights” from Give My Regards To Broad Street (1984) is a masterpiece imho. I like all the songs on that album. I’m by no means a connoisseur of Paul’s solo catalogue, my BFF in Nashville who is 12 years younger than me is! (she was born in 1967) I wish she would get on this board, but she’s not interested and likes to listen to Beatle Brunch, Sirius XM Beatles channel 18, etc. Plus she still has to work full time!Which sentence are you asking about? I searched the word more and found like three or four instances.
Yes that SNL appearance was in May. I was thinking of May as summer even though according to Expert Scientists it's still spring.
Your description of your fandom activity is the kind of activity I was thinking of that I just never got involved in. Technology-wise, back then it would be heavily dependent upon magazines, less so newspapers, even less so TV unless the musician capitalized on using TV as a medium which some did and some did not -- seems like Paul to my mind through the 70s - 90s didn't really capitalize enough on television. Television was really my only medium to follow musicians, because I didn't get into that whole subculture of magazines and even more hands on, little clubs or organizations that have meetings, etc.
Off topic but related to this, I recall back in the 90s before the internet really got its hooks and claws into society and into reality itself, I had a clunky desktop computer and very bad dial-up connection, and rarely surfed the web, such as it was back then. So in the newspaper I saw a little blurb about how there existed a tiny organization of fans of the show The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan. I too was a fan but I never connected with anyone about it, I just had memories of having watched it. So somehow I got a hold of that person's address, not email but snail mail, and I asked him a question I could not find because there was no Google back then, and that was what were all the Columbo episodes that Patrick McGoohan directed? And was he a friend of Peter Falk? It turns out there were two or three episodes, the best by far being Last Salute to the Commodore, co-starring Robert Vaughn. Patrick's direction was delightfully quirky and had scenes that often seemed to make no sense, which is right up my alley.
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Ok. Paul did tons of publicity for FITD album (TV shows, media interviews) and his first tour without Wings in 1989. He also promoted his album OTG and his tour in 1993 which included TV performance on SNL (Saturday Night Live). Linda McCartney was diagnosed with cancer in 1995 if my memory was correct and died in 1998 so it makes sense as to Paul keeping a low profile those years. In 1999, he released RDR which was mostly cover of "Rock And Roll" standards and he played on TV shows in the UK (like Lulu show) to promote the album. He also did high profile shows in places like the Cavern Club show to promote the album.
What can I say if you were not impressed with CHAOS, Flaming Pie and Egypt Station. All three of them were critically acclaimed and got Grammy nominations. In addition, it is hard to find anyone on this board who did not think at least one of those albums were very good. To each their own.
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@yankeefan2 said in Paul's self promotion over the decades:
Ok. Paul did tons of publicity for FITD album (TV shows, media interviews) and his first tour without Wings in 1989. He also promoted his album OTG and his tour in 1993 which included TV performance on SNL (Saturday Night Live). Linda McCartney was diagnosed with cancer in 1995 if my memory was correct and died in 1998 so it makes sense as to Paul keeping a low profile those years. In 1999, he released RDR which was mostly cover of "Rock And Roll" standards and he played on TV shows in the UK (like Lulu show) to promote the album. He also did high profile shows in places like the Cavern Club show to promote the album.
What can I say if you were not impressed with CHAOS, Flaming Pie and Egypt Station. All three of them were critically acclaimed and got Grammy nominations. In addition, it is hard to find anyone on this board who did not think at least one of those albums were very good. To each their own.
Well when you say tons of publicity through the medium of TV, do you mean local TV broadcast in the UK? The thing about TV back then late '80s into the '90s, it could still be regional, so there might be some German pop star who is on TV all the time only in Germany or maybe Germany, France and UK, but nowhere else. That's how TV was different from the internet: it was very rare for a celebrity or an event to electrify the entire world through TV, and if a celebrity wanted to self-promote globally he would simply have to go on TV everywhere on the planet or do something outrageous that would get in the news around the world. So for the American market, Paul would have had to not merely go on SNL but go on everything -- the Tonight Show, Late Night, Arsenio Hall, the morning news chat shows, Phil Donahue, Oprah Winfrey, etc.
Yeah, as I have said elsewhere on this forum, I'm one of those Paul fans that only loves him on that high level based on his Beatles output and his first five albums -- with exceptions here and there sprinkled amongst the later albums. I don't know how to describe or defend my position, other than I can just feel when a Paul song is inspired, and I can feel it immediately, and when it's uninspired. An uninspired Paul song can be quite good, but it lacks that magical ingredient that puts it up to the top, and when you hear it the first time you say "yep that's one of those." Paul tried to write a good song there but never actually ignited the fire of his genius, and only succeeded in a good song.
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@fast-city-line said in Paul's self promotion over the decades:
@njr said in Paul's self promotion over the decades:
@fast-city-line Did you mean to say “less” not “more” in the 2nd part of your sentence?
Also, here’s Paul’s SNL gigs. It was spring, not summer of 1980.
https://snl.fandom.com/wiki/Paul_McCartney#:~:text=He appeared on Saturday Night,Biker Like an Icon" andI think what happened was you weren’t consistent over the years like a lot of us were, in keeping up with his career. I have had a subscription to Beatlefan magazine since the fall of 1980, right before John was killed. I think it was started in 1978. It is published fairly near me in Decatur, GA and I met the publisher and a bunch of people who write for the mag at a Macca 40th birthday party in 1982. So, I have kept up with everything each Beatle was doing, even after John was murdered, they still have articles on every John thing released, etc. Of course now Paul & Ringo have the lion’s share of articles, but George is never forgotten! Then I originally joined this forum in Mar. 2011 and it has helped me enormously in keeping up with when concert tickets go on pre-sale, etc. I’m a “completist” so I buy every album by Paul & Ringo (and I have all of John’s & George’s - even some of the big remastered ones like “Lennon” but did not get “All Things Must Pass” remaster)
Back to Paul: I agree there several crappy albums that I never listen to (like Press to Play - although I like the song & video for “Press.”) The one album I don’t have to skip any songs is “Flaming Pie!” (1997) And “No More Lonely Nights” from Give My Regards To Broad Street (1984) is a masterpiece imho. I like all the songs on that album. I’m by no means a connoisseur of Paul’s solo catalogue, my BFF in Nashville who is 12 years younger than me is! (she was born in 1967) I wish she would get on this board, but she’s not interested and likes to listen to Beatle Brunch, Sirius XM Beatles channel 18, etc. Plus she still has to work full time!Which sentence are you asking about? I searched the word more and found like three or four instances.
Yes that SNL appearance was in May. I was thinking of May as summer even though according to Expert Scientists it's still spring.
Your description of your fandom activity is the kind of activity I was thinking of that I just never got involved in. Technology-wise, back then it would be heavily dependent upon magazines, less so newspapers, even less so TV unless the musician capitalized on using TV as a medium which some did and some did not -- seems like Paul to my mind through the 70s - 90s didn't really capitalize enough on television. Television was really my only medium to follow musicians, because I didn't get into that whole subculture of magazines and even more hands on, little clubs or organizations that have meetings, etc.
Off topic but related to this, I recall back in the 90s before the internet really got its hooks and claws into society and into reality itself, I had a clunky desktop computer and very bad dial-up connection, and rarely surfed the web, such as it was back then. So in the newspaper I saw a little blurb about how there existed a tiny organization of fans of the show The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan. I too was a fan but I never connected with anyone about it, I just had memories of having watched it. So somehow I got a hold of that person's address, not email but snail mail, and I asked him a question I could not find because there was no Google back then, and that was what were all the Columbo episodes that Patrick McGoohan directed? And was he a friend of Peter Falk? It turns out there were two or three episodes, the best by far being Last Salute to the Commodore, co-starring Robert Vaughn. Patrick's direction was delightfully quirky and had scenes that often seemed to make no sense, which is right up my alley.
This:
I wished back then that he would do more like that. But at the same time I was wishing he would do more
I was a member of The Beatles U.S. Fan Club and one of the members who lived near me in Ohio, Pat Simmons, had a party in 1968 or 1969. She pulled out her copy of Two Virgins! (I was 13 or 14!) In 1978 I ran into her at the Atlanta Beatlefest!
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@njr said in Paul's self promotion over the decades:
@fast-city-line said in Paul's self promotion over the decades:
@njr said in Paul's self promotion over the decades:
@fast-city-line Did you mean to say “less” not “more” in the 2nd part of your sentence?
Also, here’s Paul’s SNL gigs. It was spring, not summer of 1980.
https://snl.fandom.com/wiki/Paul_McCartney#:~:text=He appeared on Saturday Night,Biker Like an Icon" andI think what happened was you weren’t consistent over the years like a lot of us were, in keeping up with his career. I have had a subscription to Beatlefan magazine since the fall of 1980, right before John was killed. I think it was started in 1978. It is published fairly near me in Decatur, GA and I met the publisher and a bunch of people who write for the mag at a Macca 40th birthday party in 1982. So, I have kept up with everything each Beatle was doing, even after John was murdered, they still have articles on every John thing released, etc. Of course now Paul & Ringo have the lion’s share of articles, but George is never forgotten! Then I originally joined this forum in Mar. 2011 and it has helped me enormously in keeping up with when concert tickets go on pre-sale, etc. I’m a “completist” so I buy every album by Paul & Ringo (and I have all of John’s & George’s - even some of the big remastered ones like “Lennon” but did not get “All Things Must Pass” remaster)
Back to Paul: I agree there several crappy albums that I never listen to (like Press to Play - although I like the song & video for “Press.”) The one album I don’t have to skip any songs is “Flaming Pie!” (1997) And “No More Lonely Nights” from Give My Regards To Broad Street (1984) is a masterpiece imho. I like all the songs on that album. I’m by no means a connoisseur of Paul’s solo catalogue, my BFF in Nashville who is 12 years younger than me is! (she was born in 1967) I wish she would get on this board, but she’s not interested and likes to listen to Beatle Brunch, Sirius XM Beatles channel 18, etc. Plus she still has to work full time!Which sentence are you asking about? I searched the word more and found like three or four instances.
Yes that SNL appearance was in May. I was thinking of May as summer even though according to Expert Scientists it's still spring.
Your description of your fandom activity is the kind of activity I was thinking of that I just never got involved in. Technology-wise, back then it would be heavily dependent upon magazines, less so newspapers, even less so TV unless the musician capitalized on using TV as a medium which some did and some did not -- seems like Paul to my mind through the 70s - 90s didn't really capitalize enough on television. Television was really my only medium to follow musicians, because I didn't get into that whole subculture of magazines and even more hands on, little clubs or organizations that have meetings, etc.
Off topic but related to this, I recall back in the 90s before the internet really got its hooks and claws into society and into reality itself, I had a clunky desktop computer and very bad dial-up connection, and rarely surfed the web, such as it was back then. So in the newspaper I saw a little blurb about how there existed a tiny organization of fans of the show The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan. I too was a fan but I never connected with anyone about it, I just had memories of having watched it. So somehow I got a hold of that person's address, not email but snail mail, and I asked him a question I could not find because there was no Google back then, and that was what were all the Columbo episodes that Patrick McGoohan directed? And was he a friend of Peter Falk? It turns out there were two or three episodes, the best by far being Last Salute to the Commodore, co-starring Robert Vaughn. Patrick's direction was delightfully quirky and had scenes that often seemed to make no sense, which is right up my alley.
This:
I wished back then that he would do more like that. But at the same time I was wishing he would do more
I was a member of The Beatles U.S. Fan Club and one of the members who lived near me in Ohio, Pat Simmons, had a party in 1968 or 1969. She pulled out her copy of Two Virgins! (I was 13 or 14!) In 1978 I ran into her at the Atlanta Beatlefest!
I think I left out a word, so it should have been "But while at the same time I was wishing, ...etc."
Wow that's interesting about your fan club. So you just regularly had meetings at someone's home? Or did you guys rent out a hall or something?
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I will only go by what I know better and that is TV in the US. Paul doing SNL (Saturday Night Live) back then was a huge thing in the US. SNL is done in NYC and the appearance made all the newspapers in the largest media market in the world. Paul did go on Oprah to promote the Flaming Pie album. Oprah promoted the heck out of the appearance leading up to it being on TV. I don't know the effect of him appearing on TV back then in the UK, not sure how big a deal the shows like "Lulu" were in the UK. Paul did major interview with Rolling Stone magazine (he was on the cover) before his 1989 tour, that is when Rolling Stone magazine was a big deal and sold many copies.
Everybody has different taste in music so once again "to each their own". I am glad my musical taste is not stuck in the past (about 50 years ago) and moved on to appreciate some awesome music by Paul McCartney.
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@fast-city-line said in Paul's self promotion over the decades:
@njr said in Paul's self promotion over the decades:
@fast-city-line said in Paul's self promotion over the decades:
@njr said in Paul's self promotion over the decades:
@fast-city-line Did you mean to say “less” not “more” in the 2nd part of your sentence?
Also, here’s Paul’s SNL gigs. It was spring, not summer of 1980.
https://snl.fandom.com/wiki/Paul_McCartney#:~:text=He appeared on Saturday Night,Biker Like an Icon" andI think what happened was you weren’t consistent over the years like a lot of us were, in keeping up with his career. I have had a subscription to Beatlefan magazine since the fall of 1980, right before John was killed. I think it was started in 1978. It is published fairly near me in Decatur, GA and I met the publisher and a bunch of people who write for the mag at a Macca 40th birthday party in 1982. So, I have kept up with everything each Beatle was doing, even after John was murdered, they still have articles on every John thing released, etc. Of course now Paul & Ringo have the lion’s share of articles, but George is never forgotten! Then I originally joined this forum in Mar. 2011 and it has helped me enormously in keeping up with when concert tickets go on pre-sale, etc. I’m a “completist” so I buy every album by Paul & Ringo (and I have all of John’s & George’s - even some of the big remastered ones like “Lennon” but did not get “All Things Must Pass” remaster)
Back to Paul: I agree there several crappy albums that I never listen to (like Press to Play - although I like the song & video for “Press.”) The one album I don’t have to skip any songs is “Flaming Pie!” (1997) And “No More Lonely Nights” from Give My Regards To Broad Street (1984) is a masterpiece imho. I like all the songs on that album. I’m by no means a connoisseur of Paul’s solo catalogue, my BFF in Nashville who is 12 years younger than me is! (she was born in 1967) I wish she would get on this board, but she’s not interested and likes to listen to Beatle Brunch, Sirius XM Beatles channel 18, etc. Plus she still has to work full time!Which sentence are you asking about? I searched the word more and found like three or four instances.
Yes that SNL appearance was in May. I was thinking of May as summer even though according to Expert Scientists it's still spring.
Your description of your fandom activity is the kind of activity I was thinking of that I just never got involved in. Technology-wise, back then it would be heavily dependent upon magazines, less so newspapers, even less so TV unless the musician capitalized on using TV as a medium which some did and some did not -- seems like Paul to my mind through the 70s - 90s didn't really capitalize enough on television. Television was really my only medium to follow musicians, because I didn't get into that whole subculture of magazines and even more hands on, little clubs or organizations that have meetings, etc.
Off topic but related to this, I recall back in the 90s before the internet really got its hooks and claws into society and into reality itself, I had a clunky desktop computer and very bad dial-up connection, and rarely surfed the web, such as it was back then. So in the newspaper I saw a little blurb about how there existed a tiny organization of fans of the show The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan. I too was a fan but I never connected with anyone about it, I just had memories of having watched it. So somehow I got a hold of that person's address, not email but snail mail, and I asked him a question I could not find because there was no Google back then, and that was what were all the Columbo episodes that Patrick McGoohan directed? And was he a friend of Peter Falk? It turns out there were two or three episodes, the best by far being Last Salute to the Commodore, co-starring Robert Vaughn. Patrick's direction was delightfully quirky and had scenes that often seemed to make no sense, which is right up my alley.
This:
I wished back then that he would do more like that. But at the same time I was wishing he would do more
I was a member of The Beatles U.S. Fan Club and one of the members who lived near me in Ohio, Pat Simmons, had a party in 1968 or 1969. She pulled out her copy of Two Virgins! (I was 13 or 14!) In 1978 I ran into her at the Atlanta Beatlefest!
I think I left out a word, so it should have been "But while at the same time I was wishing, ...etc."
Wow that's interesting about your fan club. So you just regularly had meetings at someone's home? Or did you guys rent out a hall or something?
I went back and re-read your post. This was the full 2 sentences:
“I wished back then that he would do more like that. But at the same time I was wishing he would do more I was also not really into him anyway.” Now I understand it. I thought you meant to put a period after the 2nd “more!” (should have been a comma)No, we didn’t have meetings. The only time we got together was that one time. Somehow Pat got the names and addresses of nearby fan club members and wrote us invitations to the party. She was a couple years older than me. I got regular newsletters and goodies (photos) from the fan club and and the Christmas records. When they disbanded the club in 1970, they sent out an album of ALL the Christmas records on one vinyl LP. (I didn’t have some of the early ones) Mine is in mint condition and probably worth a small fortune! Here’s the cover:
They are selling for over $500 on eBay!
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@yankeefan2
It could well be that it was my habits through the '80s and '90s that made me think McCartney was not doing that, because I wasn't really looking for it or tuning in all the time. In fact I do recall dimly I can't pinpoint exactly the dates, but there were at least two maybe three times during the '80s and '90s when I just got rid of my television and was without it for many months possibly a year or so each time. I missed vast swaths of SNL that way, like my memory is a complete blank for anything to do with Joe Piscopo, since apparently that was one of the times I threw my TV away (not as big a loss as the amount of Eddie Murphy I may have missed). -
@njr Yes, a comma there would have been most economical.
The phenomenon of the fan club, or even of just fans, sociologically is interesting. There probably were many different varieties, ranging all over the spectrum from very well organized with regular meetings, down degrees of less organized, all the way down to individuals or maybe a high school circle of friends who like to read a teen magazine once in a while together in the lunchroom.
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@fast-city-line said in Paul's self promotion over the decades:
@yankeefan2
It could well be that it was my habits through the '80s and '90s that made me think McCartney was not doing that, because I wasn't really looking for it or tuning in all the time. In fact I do recall dimly I can't pinpoint exactly the dates, but there were at least two maybe three times during the '80s and '90s when I just got rid of my television and was without it for many months possibly a year or so each time. I missed vast swaths of SNL that way, like my memory is a complete blank for anything to do with Joe Piscopo, since apparently that was one of the times I threw my TV away (not as big a loss as the amount of Eddie Murphy I may have missed).All I can say is WOW! (mind complete blown!) I can only live without my TV when I’m on vacation and then I just DVR the shows I don’t want to miss. It took me about 3 months to catch up after my 12 night U.K. trip and I’m retired! I’ve watched TV since I was a toddler: The Mickey Mouse Club, Romper Room, later Captain Penney & Mr. Greenjeans, Captain Kangaroo, and as I got older, Lassie, My Three Sons, Ozzie & Harriet, Leave It To Beaver, and the list goes on & on. So of course I was glued to the set on Feb. 9, 1964 at age 8 when The Beatles premiered on The Ed Sullivan Show! Our family never missed it. I also watched every single episode and movies of the Star Trek franchises. Others I watched completely (and also have on DVD) were Highlander, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (met and have photos with their respective stars, Adrian Paul and Kevin Sorbo), The X-Files, Xena:Warrior Princess, True Blood and Outlander.
Before the internet I used to go out to the movies more, but now I usually just wait and watch them on the various channels I subscribe to, like HBO, HBO MAX (free w/HBO), STARZ, Showtime, EPIX (which is now MGM+) or buy the DVD if it’s something I would really want to watch again, like ELVIS starring Austin Butler. (used to rent a ton of movies from Blockbuster!)
TV is to me what drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise spending money (like on drugs or something) is to some people. I also like to read books about anything Beatles related - my mom got me a novel about Mal Evans for Christmas. And I’m on the 3rd Outlander novel (there are 10 really thick paperbacks!) -
@fast-city-line said in Paul's self promotion over the decades:
@njr Yes, a comma there would have been most economical.
The phenomenon of the fan club, or even of just fans, sociologically is interesting. There probably were many different varieties, ranging all over the spectrum from very well organized with regular meetings, down degrees of less organized, all the way down to individuals or maybe a high school circle of friends who like to read a teen magazine once in a while together in the lunchroom.
As a young teen I subscribed to 16 Magazine, but would also buy others if they had a particularly good photo of The Beatles on the cover, like Tiger Beat or whatever. I have tons of magazines in my “Beatles Room!” The old ones are in large plastic containers and the newer ones like MOJO and Uncut are on display. I’ve run out of room in there, so need to get some other shelving for books or the tilted kind for magazines in my mom’s old room. I have a hope chest she gave me FULL of Beatles-related books and magazines I haven’t had time to read!
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@njr said in Paul's self promotion over the decades:
@fast-city-line said in Paul's self promotion over the decades:
@njr Yes, a comma there would have been most economical.
The phenomenon of the fan club, or even of just fans, sociologically is interesting. There probably were many different varieties, ranging all over the spectrum from very well organized with regular meetings, down degrees of less organized, all the way down to individuals or maybe a high school circle of friends who like to read a teen magazine once in a while together in the lunchroom.
As a young teen I subscribed to 16 Magazine, but would also buy others if they had a particularly good photo of The Beatles on the cover, like Tiger Beat or whatever. I have tons of magazines in my “Beatles Room!” The old ones are in large plastic containers and the newer ones like MOJO and Uncut are on display. I’ve run out of room in there, so need to get some other shelving for books or the tilted kind for magazines in my mom’s old room. I have a hope chest she gave me FULL of Beatles-related books and magazines I haven’t had time to read!
Cool!