@calicoskych2001 said in Forum acting up again???:

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https://maccaboard.paulmccartney.com/topic/4082/wheres-paul-been-lately

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Paul McCartney on Life, Art and Business After the Beatles

@njr said in Where's Paul been lately?:

@wandy said in Where's Paul been lately?:

@oobu24 haven't seen him wearing shoes for a long time. It's usually trainers. Maybe he's not veggie anymore ( joking! )

Somehow he gets his shoes and “Beatle boots” that he wears on stage made with something other than leather, but they look great!

Yeah probably made from Rubber Soles ( Souls) 😀😉

https://www.culturesonar.com/the-beatles-first-album-one-groundbreaking-day/

@bruce-m said in It was 59 years ago today!:

The U.S. press in 1964 almost universally thought the Beatles were, at best, a mildly interesting novelty that would be forgotten in a year. They were, it appears, somewhat mistaken.

😂 ROTFLMAO!

@wandy said in BBFC Magazine:

@njr said in BBFC Magazine:

@wandy Now I realize they advertised that club in Beatlefan mag!
P.S. Too bad they printed that nice photo backwards! ☹️

I love the way Ringo got 2 hands waving. The second one waving out of his right shoulder. 3 hands in total. No wonder he was such an amazing drummer!!😆😉

Hardy har har. 🙄😉

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@wandy said in 8 celebrities still doing what they love after 80:

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@njr said in 8 celebrities still doing what they love after 80:

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@kㅤ said in 8 celebrities still doing what they love after 80:

@wandy said in 8 celebrities still doing what they love after 80:

@njr said in 8 celebrities still doing what they love after 80:

Of course, Paul is one of them!

https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/celebrities/info-2023/stars-excelling-after-80.html

Wish John and George were 2 of them 😭

Indeed! 😭

I bet someday (in the year 2525, if man is still alive) they will be able to clone them and start all over from the beginning! Wouldn’t that be a wild experiment to see what those 4 would come up with if they had them grow up in a created city that looked like Liverpool back then? They’d have to clone Pete too and have everyone else be lifelike androids! I know, a total fantasy and wildly unethical!
I bet @LadyLeslie would like my idea, though! Are you out there, woman?!

I understand what your saying, but it's a bit like Back To The Future 2. EVERYTHING MUST be timed to perfection. Paul MUST meet John to become Lennon and McCartney. The horse that Mona Best, bet on (Never Say Die) MUST WIN the race that provided her with the money to enable her the buy the house for the Casbah Club. And most important too is George Martin MUST be at Abbey Road Studios to hear the Beatles, for it was only George that got them the recording contract with EMI. Cor blimey!! This would make a fantastic movie. Back To The Beatles (part 1) Part 2, could be about what if Paul had never met Denny Laine, to help him form Wings. What if Linda had flatly refused to play in the band. What if Henry Mucullock, and the other guy, HAD gone to Lagos to be part of the recording of Band On The Run. What if Paul's Japanese drug bust had got Paul 7 years, or more, jail time. What if he hadn't of been busted AT ALL. Would Wings have lasted another 10 years? Would Wings still been going now? :::: hmm thinks🤔:::: I must get to work trying to figure out a script for this. Me day dreaming ➡️🤑LOL!!!

Yeah, get right on that and submit it to Ron Howard and/or Peter Jackson and get Danny Boyle to direct it!
The point of the experiment would be to see what would happen if you tried to recreate everything as it was (all the same people) How much would happen as we knew it?
It would be kind of like that Jim Carrey movie The Truman Show.

Wow!! So that's 2 movies I gotta work on. 1. What woulda happened if John Lennon had lived. (Title of that movie is "Got Back" ) And 2. Back To The Beatles ( Part1) Oh god! Too many movies!! Not enough time!!🫨😀

Did you like that movie, by Danny Boyle? "Yesterday". I have it on DVD. I do basically like it, but having the "John" lookalike, look like John did in 1968, was a bit of an issue with me. Johns style had moved on a lot since 1968. Hair especially. Plus, Danny Boyle missed a trick. He shoulda got Paul and Ringo in the movie, playing cameo roles. Paul coulda been a busker outside a toilet playing Ed Shearan songs. And Ringo should have been the toilet attendant moving Paul on for making too much noise. They both woulda loved being in the movie😀

Somebody on here spoiled the John Lennon appearance before I could see the movie (I was royally pissed!) Anyway, yes, I liked the movie very much. I agree it would have been super cool if they had been able to get Paul & Ringo in it in cameos!
As far as Robert Carlyle playing John, I thought it was quite poignant. Who knows what hairstyle John would have had in 2019? They had to “age” the actor because he is only 62 today! He had the long hair for his role in the TV show Once Upon A Time and I guess they didn’t want to put a wig on him and just greyed his hair. He’s a lot shorter than John too (not quite 5’7”) but we do shrink in height as we age. Plus he’s Scottish, so the accent was a tad off. But just to think that in that reality John was alive, put a tear in my eye.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001015/

@toris said in 25 Best PM songs:

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@wandy said in 25 Best PM songs:

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@kㅤ said in 25 Best PM songs:

Disagree, Where is I Will and others?! Instead you have Freedom and Come On to Me on it!!! It is hilarious!
I wonder if the people who write the articles actually listen to the music.

Woops, forgot about I Will. I was concentrating so much on his solo career.

I Will, is a mini masterpiece, and deceptive. I Will, is the very example of the type of song that makes you think " I coulda wrote that". But you can't. And he's done it over and over again. Mother Nature's Son. Blackbird. Heart of The Country. Bluebird. I'm Carrying. Long Haired Lady. Love Awake. And probably more, I have forgotten. I would love to have learned the acoustic guitar just to play those wonderful songs, alone, nevermind other great songs, written by other artists. Another example of McCartney's genius is the tribute song he wrote about John. Here Today. It's a lovely song, but not overly sweet and syrupy. It's just about right in its sensitivity and kindness. I have heard several tribute songs to John, after his death. They were bloody terrible. I never heard one as good as Paul's.

Empty Garden by Elton John was pretty darn good! What others are there that you think are “bloody terrible?”

I still think that All Those Years Ago was the best John tribute. Terrific song. Terrific lyrics. Better than Here Today. Which I do love. But George nailed it. Brings tears to my eyes more than Here Today, which I do like. A great song. But, George got it brilliantly... "I always looked up to you."... Tears in my eyes.

Agreed! I forgot about George's song. Yes it too is great. Strangely jolly beat though, for such a sad subject.George used to ask John about "tips" on songwriting. He said the best advice John gave him was, once you start writing your song, stay with it, don't leave it and go back to it later because by then your mood will have changed. Best to stay with it till its done.

Wasn’t All Those Years Ago originally supposed to have different lyrics, then George changed it as a tribute to John?
And @wandy, you never said what tribute songs you thought were “bloody terrible.”

I'm not going to lie.... I googled it.... but I think the embryo of "All Those Years Ago" was meant for Ringo, but he rejected it... So, George 'reimagined' it. Didn't Ringo also reject John's 'Nobody Told Me'?' Perhaps posthumously.... I still find it astounding that John didn't think enough of that song as being good enough, so he was going to send it off to Ringo.... Nobody Told Me is one of my favourite John tracks of all time.

Yes, you’re correct - All Those Years Ago was meant for Ringo originally. I don’t know about Nobody Told Me (“most peculiar mama”) - would have to Google that, but I agree it’s a great song!
Yep:
The song was originally written for Ringo Starr to include on his 1981 album, Stop and Smell the Roses, but due to Lennon's death, Starr decided not to record it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_Told_Me

@njr said in Glastonbury 2022 - confirmed:

@jl4761 said in Glastonbury 2022 - confirmed:

@njr Hi NJR! How are you? Sorry it took so long for me to get back to you. I will send you an e-mail with the details.

Hi! Just answered your PM!

I just read it and answered your PM!

@oobu24 said in The Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney joins glamorous wife Nancy as they attend star-studded Interscope party hosted by Usher:

Wrinkles seem to be gone now.

Botox, I bet.
When I was referring to “work done” I meant major work, like a facelift, eyelid or brow lift.

@newland said in The day John met Paul:

@njr Thanks! Will see what I can do!

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So definitely YESTERDAYs news then.

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@wandy

Listening to this album again in full... I still will say 'From A Lover to a Friend' was a wasted opportunity... so much promise... 'Lonely Road' was a great opener! I like 'Driving Rain'. 'I Do' is a great song. Tiny Bubble is good fun... 'Your Way' is great!... a great underrated song. Reminds me of 'Put it There'... 'About You' gets a pass mark. Fine song. 'Heather' is wonderful, although should've got the full vocal treatment.... A great listen.... Joyful.

'Your Loving Flame'... not bad. Belongs on Press to Play, as a power ballad. I really like it.

'Freedom' doesn't annoy me as much as it used to, in fact I kinda now like it. Didn't like it when it was first released, cos it seemed forced, but it does sound so much better now.

Not a bad album. Two or three better songs would've helped. The absence of 'Back in the Sunshine Again' wouldn't have hurt.... My least favorite song. It goes for four minutes more than it should. 'Magic'... take it or leave it... She's Given Up Talking... started OK.

Spinning on an Axis... I kinda liked it. At first. Ends up sounding like a rejected song from the great Back to the Egg. Thereabouts. Not good enough.

One of "Riding into Jaipur' or 'Rinse the Raindrops', not both.

ps. I'm still getting over 'Deep Deep Feeling' and 'Deep Down' being on the same album.... still wondering if either of them should've been on it. Both Underwhelming. Ruined the album. Along, with no great overriding hit being on the album. Bring on the next album!

pps. I'm kinda liking listening to 'Rinse the Raindrops' again.... a worthy addition. I never took it seriously back in the day... but, I was wrong.... very wrong. It gets my tick. I'm really enjoying listening to it again, after all these years.... in fact, it is quite wonderful.... Very wonderful!!.. Wow!!!!... A great song. Serves its purpose on the album with majestic poise. ... In retrospect, it might be one of his most-unheralded songs. I missed it as being so good, when I first heard it, but happy to be proven wrong. The voice. He lets it rip. Like, we haven't heard since. The attitude. Shades of The Doors.... He nailed it. Underrated. A long listen. But, a great song.

Overall... Driving Rain...not a bad album. 7/10

@fast-city-line said in Taxman intro:

@njr said in Taxman intro:

@fast-city-line I agree that it is George doing the slow countdown and I think it’s Paul doing the fast one and he yells “Go!” The cough could be Paul too.
As far as the Aaaahhs in A Day In The Life I’m torn between John & Paul on that. Would have to listen again with earphones.

I just listened to it myself with my high-powered headphones. Aside from a few other details I picked up that interest me, I paid keen attention to that portion, but also to John's singing elsewhere as I think it's relevant because he does a couple of things with his voice that go up high like with "Albert Hall", and you can detect the Lennon twang in those, as one does in the "Ahhhs". So to me, if Paul did it, and he certainly is capable of doing that, he purposefully tried to sound like John, because it clearly sounds like John with that nasal twang and thin quality. I don't know why Paul would try to sound like John, particularly as he's not sounding like John during his little portion right before. Also I have heard isolated tracks of the "Ahhhs" and it sounds to me like whoever did it tracked over more than once maybe two or three times to get an effect of two (or more) voices merging down one note into a half step below it simultaneously so to speak. Those isolated "Ahhhs" sound to me even more like John.

I tend to lean toward it being John as well. So busy today didn’t have time to listen! Tomorrow I just have to do my taxes (super easy this year!) so will pop the CD in my blu-ray player and listen with earbuds plugged into TV!

@andrewmbarros Well, now he has to write a new song called His Majesty!

Here’s “Good Ole Freda” with Paul circa 1963 and sometime in the 21st century! I first saw her at Abbey Road On The River around 2012 and she looked pretty much like that.

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@calicoskych2001 said in Why is Post Anything You Want thread locked?:

@njr
I have now split the most recent posts from the locked thread and merged them into the one in TMT.

Okay, thanks!

@yankeefan2 said in Tribute Band Playing Tonight in Atlantic City:

@njr

Thanks, I will check it out. It is all about the music for me, don't care about the "boots and suits" -lol.

I like both! 😉