Sam Leach - KEEP
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Excellent piece Mike. I didn't realise Philip had written this rubbish. Perhaps I'd better write to him also. Will you e-mail me his address and/or e-mail. Cheers. Sam.
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Thanks Sam -- if you read down the article of his which I just posted -- it includes an email address.
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Hi MIke It shocks me to see an educated man like Philip Norman writing in the style of an uneducated and jealous lout. I'm writing to him tomorrow. Cheers. Sam.
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Hi Sam Great, go get him! Cheers! Mike
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mikeskapla:
But hanging onto youth is only part of the reason why, despite all your colossal achievements, you continued to push yourself to such an extent, touring for months on end and pumping out records as well as writing classical symphonies, exhibiting your (not very good) paintings and publishing your (at best mediocre) poetry. It seems you cannot rest until you've persuaded us that our typecasting of The Beatles all those years ago was so completely wrong; that you weren't just the 'nice' one while John Lennon was the arty and edgy one; that you can do anything John ever did, and still more. Yours, Philip Norman
I have nothing to say about the rest of the article because they are private life issues, not musical. If that man think that Paul was "just the nice one" and Lennon the artist... I guess that man has not played a single chord or a melody in his whole life. And if has played them it seems he has no ears. (All you need is ears, George Martin). Paul is not trying to... top Lennon or even trying to be similar... He's Paul with his virtues and faults, like everyone. How many classic symphonies wrote John Lennon?. Paul is doing live the songs he wrote with the Beatles, a thing that I think almost all the fans are happy to see. He even critize him to release an album. So, he would be a better person if he retired from music? I think he is STILL the best songwriter in the world. And you only got to see him live to know about how great he is. I don't mess with the paparazzi stuff because that is for the pros... But that story of Paul as the John's shadow and an "empty" part of the Beatles... well, he got to LISTEN to recent Paul live's albums and that emptiness he has... NANANANA HEY PAUL!
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well i didnt need to bump this thread today it's been pretty active, hey there everyone!
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Hi Sara as you know I replied to you and sang LEt'Em In. I was so happy to see Paul sing it live on the Red Aquare special. Mike I'll ignroe Phillip as Sam has told me to. He said fo me to ignroe people who put Paul down as it wil make it worse for me. Anyway I ahve some good news for you,I talked toa friend of mine on Friday night and he said he listened to magical Mystery Tour on the way down here and loved it and I told him how people regard John as the true talent and Macca as too soft and he said they are both very different but very talented. He said Paul is more of a poppy guy but writes great music. That made my dayd. HE also plays guitar too. He prefers more upbeat music but admitted to thinking Macca as a great songwriter. As for Phillip he is jealous of Macca that is all I can say.
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Hi Mike and everyone on this thread. This is the reply I've sent to Philip Norman. Cheers. Sam. (See below). Mr. Norman When you interviewed me for `Shout' in 1979 you had a completely different opinion about Paul McCartney to the character assassination you've just carried out on him. Doubtless that suited your purposes at that time but to me it now illustrates your utter deceit. In your totally one-sided article you throw in as many insults as you can think up. I say `think up' because your spurious `report' on Macca has words such as `I'm told' and `it's been reported'. This clearly proves your article is peppered with hearsay. No one in the Beatles or from Merseybeat EVER referred to Paul as `the Star' as you falsely claim. In case people that may read this piece don't know I've both promoted and been a friend of The Beatles from way back. Your accusations are totally unfounded and without merit. Then you try to attack his personal life. Paul stayed faithful and happy with Linda, brought his children up admirably, not allowing his fame and wealth to spoil them. Instead of becoming a tax exile like Mick Jagger or retreating to America as others whom YOU admire did, he stayed in Britain, paid his taxes and brought many millions back into this country with his highly successful albums and world tours. That is why he is now Sir Paul and deserves our respect if not yours. Despite being over 60 he doesn't sit around resting on his many laurels but is quite happy to risk his reputation by going back on tour, writes a musical Opus, poetry, paints and continues to help and support Charities around the World. By happily indulging in these new and risky ventures, he knows full well that envious `poison-pens' such as yours will slag him off and try to denigrate his achievements. But he goes on..and on..and on And you can't stand it !! Yes he thinks enough of his appearance to dye his hair and dress trendy, marry a young woman who is now having his baby. And isn't frightened to let people know his opinion about important matters. And what's wrong with that....I'd like to know. He has NEVER ignored his roots, coming back to Liverpool as often as he can. He endeavors to remain the same Macca that I once knew... ...and he has succeeded. Put you bias away and take a closer look at the beautiful songs and music he has written. Paul was the main inspiration on `Sergeant Pepper' the most innovative concept album of all time and which caused Mick Jagger and Roger Daltry to re-think their careers. Paul has composed more quality music than anyone else in modern History. And think again of the irony that Yoko earns more from songs such as `Yesterday' than Macca does. Whilst you're in a minority of one, unfortunately the position you hold by being a `writer' enables you to attack a nice guy like Paul who hopefully won't lower himself to bother replying to your daft and nonsensical claims. I just hope the Mail grants this e-mail, or others like it, the same prominence you received. Yours in utter disgust. Sam Leach.
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Hey Paulfan! Thanks for sharing that, well Paul is a great songwriter, as for phillip yes it's best to ignore him i've learned that here some you just have to ignore! You'll save a lot of time and energy than getting into a huge debate with them. Maybe your friend can come and check out Paul's site sometime!
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You are welcome Sara. Yes Sam told me to ignore people who bash Paul. I don't feel like getting into too many debates anymore. I did it for tow years on here. The only thing is we shouldn't let peopel push us around. As for my friend yes I would love for him to hcekc out this site only thing is he is a very busy man and may not have alot of time for checking out websties or chatting. I only talk to him once in a while. He is Mike's age so maybe him anad Mike would get along.
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Nice article Sam. The only thing is what is a tx exile? Forgive my ignorance but I haven't heard that phrase used. Also what is the musical opus Paul wrote? You can also mentione that how Paul being the good looking guy that he is stayed with Linda and didn't need lots of women when he could have had them and how parents don't mind their children listening to him when they object to other rock stars such as Jim Morrison,and the Sex Psitols.
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I meant tax exile.
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Hi Paulfan A tax exile is a person who leaves his country for at least a year and registers an off shore bank account in order to avoid paying taxes. The Musical Opus was his `Liverpool Oratario' which was well received. Glad you liked my reply to Norman. Cheers. Sam.
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great letter Sam!
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Bravo to both Sam and Mike for those letters! Well done!
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Great letter Sam Here's a decent article I found on the subject -- I don't agree with all of it but it least it's much more complementary September 25, 2003 -- The Scotsman HEY, PAUL DON,T MAKE IT BAD Paul McCartney should be absolutely beloved by Britain adored and worshipped for putting our music on the map all over the world, for being a genius ("Frog Chorus" excepted); flying the flag, never moving overseas and dodging his taxes; staying faithful to his wife to the day she died; holidaying in Scotland; looking after all the fluffy little animals and sending his (successful and unmessed-up) kids to comprehensive school... You'd think people would fall on the ground and worship him every time he leaves the house. But Sir Paul just seems to be one of those people who get up other people's noses, like Vanessa Feltz and Cliff Richard, neither of whom have ever added a penny to the sum of human art or happiness in the way he has. The Macca Fracas, which sounds like one of those headlines that newspapers have been waiting to use for years - like 'Queen Prince' if a member of the royal family was ever discovered to be homosexual (which of course could never happen) - took place last week when he threatened photographers and told everyone to eff off on a trip to see David Blaine. He should have thought that one through. After all, it's not like the David Blaine box is somewhere likely to be free of cameras, people or publicity. (In fact, nicest news of the week is that the David Blaine phenomenon has now got so enormous that Legoland, in Windsor, has made a tiny David in a box out of Lego to hang next to their reproduction of Tower Bridge.) Anyway, the press has since been dumping on Paul from a great height, insisting that he's always been a tightwad paranoid control freak. I mean, I can see his down points. No wonder Stella always has that slapped-arse look on her face after the years of no bacon, smelly plastic shoes and having to holiday on the Mull of Kintyre all the time - which, yes, OK, is beautiful but it's chucking it down, and Mick Jagger's kids are all off to a private island in the Caribbean. My favorite ever letter in Viz said "Dear Linda McCartney - if you stop playing Minimoog and pretending to sing, thus ruining all of Paul's records, me and five of my mates will stop eating meat forever thus saving the lives of countless innocent animals." She never did, you know. Subsequently marrying that woman with a reputation for being somewhat economical with the truth didn't help, especially when she said, in her own defence, "If I was marrying Paul for his money, I'd marry someone a lot richer." (Aha! So you've thought about it.) Heather professes not to miss eating meat at all, although she's certainly making him dye his hair that weird orange color in return for something. But so what. Stacked against his stunning achievements (OK, forgetting perhaps the godawful paintings, poetry, symphonies and films for a second) he still comes out ahead, good taste in women or not. The excellent book "Revolution in the Head," by Ian MacDonald, who died at a very young age last week, shows very clearly that actually Paul wrote all the best songs and John, far from being the creative genius, was actually an annoying selfish ponce who sang drippily about imagining no possessions from his gigantic all-white mansion with a fur locker and imagining a brotherhood of man while ignoring his own son so badly McCartney had to write the staggering "Hey Jude" about it. But then Paul goes and messes it all up for himself, again, by insisting on changing Lennon/McCartney to McCartney/Lennon. Stop it. Every time he does something great, he goes and makes a record like "The Girl is Mine," which saw Paul and Michael Jackson spar over the same woman (what on earth must she have looked like? A blonde stringy-haired small boy monkey?). He seems to have a likeability self-destruct button that he presses every time he thinks he's getting on with the rest of us too well. But at the end of the day, this is still the man who wrote "Maybe I'm Amazed," the greatest love song of all time. And for that alone, he's entitled to tell the world to go f*** themselves whenever he feels like it.
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Thanks Swaying Daisy!
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Sam thanks for explaining what a tax exile is. It sounds like Mick jagger is a coward who runs away all the time from everything. Not only that but eh can't be faithful to any woman like Paul was to Linda. I'm also glad that you wrote the letter. You at least can set the recrod straight since you knew Paul. Like you said I should ignore people who put him down which is why I decided not to debat with Phillip Norman.
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I forgot to add I saw the Liverpool Ortario on television when it first came out.. I'm glad Paul tried his hand at classical music. Listening to A Garland For linda made me sad because ti was relased after Linda died. Anyway Mike and Sam let me know if Phillip Norma replies. I would love to hear what he has to say to you guys.
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(Clapping hands for the answer of Sam) But I agree that we must not give many importance to the people who bashes people, the problem is that sometimes they use many evident lies, and that what sometimes we can stand. BTW, The Frog Chorus is a brilliant piece, I think. I think that only Mozart and Paul McCartney could wrote that thing. I think it would be like bash some pieces of Mozart's Magic Flute, because sometimes gets this style. Anyway... I'm not gonna discuss by such little thing :-). Tax exile is usual in rock stars. I remember bout the manager of Queen telling them to stay some days out of the U.K. especially to avoid taxes. And the U.K. tax system is "harder" than the american, I guess... I read an article of differents kinds of intelligence. They mentioned the sexual intelligence and gave the example of Paul McCartney-Linda Eastman pair as a model of sexual intelligence in a relation... But well I like the Stones too in spite Jagger is not a faithful lover... That's not the question, the thing is attacking some person liying, a common thing is today's press.