Sam Leach - KEEP
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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.
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Im terms of Norman's comment about how Macaa treats his band, it's clearly hogwash. Here's a good article I found about his gutarist for an example September 5, 2003 -- World Beatles Forum Fanzine "The more I know Paul, the more I love him. I've always loved him. I've obviously been a big Beatles fan, but as I see the inner workings of the way things could be and the way they are, I just have so much respect for him. "All I can say is for anyone who's interested, Paul is a fantastic person. He's a family person. He is a mentor to me, now more as a personality and someone who is truly concerned with other people's well-being and he's a very social, wonderful guy. And yet he's still able to switch into rock star, musician, creator, painter--all of that kind of stuff--artist. He's an artist. He somehow fuses art with social skills and that's an art too. I love him. He's a great guy. "He's such an incredible singer, obviously. But the thing I've noticed that's weird is that he has a break at G. He can just get a G which is a common break for people. Mine's actually a little lower. But then, after that, he has this whol other range that he shifts into where he has a break at about C which is weird. It's like he has this whole other voice that most people don't have. Once he gets above a G, then G-sharp is easy. It's really weird...He has this freaky instrument. It's like it's alien. And he's always singing. He'll introduce somebody and walk back to the piano. He'll be singing on the way back. We'll be playing some music riffs that are completely instrumental--Band on the Run or something and I'm standing next to him and nd hearing him sing the whole melody along with it.. no microphones by him, but he's just one of thsoe freaky guys who just has this incredibly durable, incredibly wide-ranged, versatile, beautiful instrument of a voice." -- Rusty Anderson
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The break on the G ot have "another voice up to C or more" is not an alien thing .... Some singers we have various voices, when you reach the "spoken voice" that stop at that G, you bring out the singing voice that sounds very different to the spoken. If you listen to Paul talking you wouldn't figure reaching high tenor notes, the same thing that my friends tell to me.
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Thanks for the article from Rusty Mike. This is how I feel about Paul too. By the way did you watch the Red Square special? FI so what did you think? I was happy to see Paul sing LEt'Em In and it was pretty interesting to hear what the Russiand people had to say.
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Paulfan Of course, I did see the Russia special -- great show. Cheers! Mike
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Mikeskapla: I liked your response to Philip Norman. Like you, I agree it's too bad he lets his obvious talents as a writer be wasted on such unfounded negativity. Reading "Shout!", it's apparent the man put in a lot of time researching the book. But unfortunately, he's not the first biographer to put his own personal spin on things, rather than let the already compelling facts speak for themselves. As for the "Scotsman" article you posted, like you, I didn't agree with everything in it, but I appreciated the writer's humor and, unlike Norman, his obvious affection for Macca.
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Sam: I'm glad you joined those who responded to Norman's "hit piece." It's great when someone like Norman talks about how Paul was viewed in the old days, to have someone who actually KNEW him and his crowd from the "old days" speak up and say, "excuse me, I was there.. and that's NOT the way I remember it.."
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Mike I'm glad you liked the Russian special. I ust wondered if you got too busy and missed it but it is good that you saw it.
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Thanks Edbeebout `Shout' was a great book, my favourite in fact, and Philip Norman was a decent bloke but it seems time and life has poisoned his mind. Or closed it !! I just hope Paul doesn't respond to his nonsense. Cheers. Sam.
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Hey Sam congrats on getting over 1000 posts on this thread! How cool! This darn internet keeps locking me on sites even here! Oh well! I voted at your site over the weekend, we'll get you back on number 1. Have a good evening. GO CUBS!
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Hi Sara (Starr). Thanks for telling me we'd reached 1000...I hadn't realised. Wow !! We've built up a no=ice little group of pals. I'm switching off now as I'm playing golf early tomorrow. Goodnight and love, hugs and cheers to everyone. Sam.