RIP...for all that have passed
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Jerry Allison Dies: Crickets Drummer Who Co-Wrote Buddy Holly’s “Peggy Sue” Was 82
Paul's MPL Music owns the bulk of the Buddy Holly songs including Peggy Sue.
The Crickets (without Holly) would have a hit with MORE THAN I CAN SAY written by Jerry Allison and Sonny Curtis. In 1980, Leo Sayer would have a big hit with his version
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Gerald Potterton Dies: ‘Heavy Metal’ Director, Animator On ‘Yellow Submarine’ Was 91
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Was sorry to hear this. She's always been a trooper. I was expecting she'd live to be over 100, like her mother, who was 104 at her passing.
The Queen defined an era, and her life was a wonderful example to not just the people of Britain but to the entire world. Thoughts and prayers are with her family and the people of Britain at this time.
Paul and Ringo will probably be posting statements of condolence soon, if they haven't already as I type this. Paul always thought very highly of her. He was a boy when she began her reign and has lived to see all her years as monarch. He must have so many special memories and thoughts at this time.
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What an incredible life of service and devotion to the people of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. At a time when politicians are held in very low esteem, it is clear that having a non-political head of state has been a tremendous asset to the U.K. Admired round the world, her Christian faith drove her on to fulfil the promises she made as a young woman. She showed an interest in countless people from ordinary backgrounds, as well as building an amazing store of knowledge from meeting every world leader of the last 70 years. The Commonwealth is one of her greatest achievements, overseeing the transition from Empire, and building an organisation of 56 nations representing a quarter of the earth's population. A tough act to follow, to say the very least.
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DOUBLE RAINBOW PUTS IN AN APPEARANCE OVER BUCKINGHAM PALACE in LONDON AS CROWDS MOURN THE PASSING OF QUEEN ELIZABETH
Reports Bloomberg News in morning tweets: "People among the thousand-strong crowd outside the Palace gates in central London turned round to take pictures of the rainbow that appeared after a heavy downpour. The rainbow could be seen over major landmarks across the capital including Elizabeth Tower in Westminster and the Queen Victoria Memorial."
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It's hard for me to process that I was just visiting the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace on Sept. 2nd, flew home on the 5th, and she died on the 8th! And on the 6th she was well enough to greet the new Prime Minister! And that double rainbow was amazing! Also odd was the fact that it didn't rain at all while we were in London (Aug. 31 - Sept 5) but then there was a downpour the day of her death! ("Tears From Heaven")
Oh, and Leslie, the Queen Mother was 101 when she died on Mar. 30, 2002. She would have been 102 on August 4th.
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Paul being Knighted in 1997:
This is actually a GIF which isn't working here, but it shows the Queen in a blue outfit touching his right shoulder with the sword.
The photo Leslie posted was from when he got the Companion of Honour May 4, 2018.
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Paul posted this on Facebook:
On the sad occasion of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s passing, my memories came flooding back and I would like to share these with you.
I feel privileged to have been alive during the whole of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign. When I was 10 years old I entered an essay competition in Liverpool and won my division for my essay about the British Monarchy so I have been a fan for a long time. In 1953 when the Queen was crowned everyone on our street in Speke, Liverpool finally got a television set and we settled down to watch the Coronation in glorious black and white.
Looking back I am honoured and amazed to see that I met Her Majesty eight or nine times and each time she impressed me with her great sense of humour combined with great dignity. These times were:
Firstly, when The Beatles got the MBE on 26th October 1965. I remember us being taken aside and shown what the correct protocol was. We were told how to approach Her Majesty and not to talk to her unless she talks to us. For four Liverpool lads, it was, “Wow, hey man.”
The next time we met was some years later at the Royal Albert Hall on 13th December 1982. It was at an event Linda and I attended called An Evening for Conservation. Part of the evening included some orchestral re-workings of some Beatles songs and I remember chatting with Her Majesty about them. She also re-introduced me to Prince Philip who said he remembered our previous meeting in the sixties!
Our third meeting would come in the next decade. In June 1996 The Queen graciously agreed to open the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts on the site of my old school that George Harrison and myself attended. She also had previously given a donation which the school was very honoured to receive.
Just one year later and our next encounter was a very proud day for me. It was one of the best days ever. I felt very honoured to be offered a Knighthood and of course it would have been rude to turn it down! I remember it was in the springtime and the skies were blue. It was a wonderful day and I remember thinking I’d come a long way from a little terrace house in Liverpool!
It was a new millennium the next time we were together again and what an occasion it was! Celebrating her Golden Jubilee, we got to rock out in her garden. As Her Majesty was on stage receiving applause at the end of the show I joked, ‘Well I suppose this will be happening next year then?’ to which she replied, ‘Not in my garden it won’t!’
We were to see each other again shortly afterwards, but this time on my home turf! I was very honoured to be given a painting exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery, which John and I had visited on many occasions as students. It was my extreme privilege to be able to show Her Majesty around the gallery.
A decade on and Nancy and I attended a special event titled Celebration of the Arts at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and it was a thrill as ever to talk with Her Majesty.
On June 4th 2012, The Queen would celebrate her Diamond Jubilee and it was so special in many ways. This was the first time I performed in front of her since her last Jubilee, and seeing all the people stretching down Pall Mall was great, as was meeting other members of the Royal Family afterwards. It was a great weekend to be British.
Our last meeting came in 2018. Because of my respect and love for the Queen and her fabulous sense of humour when I was given the Companion of Honour medal I shook her hand, leaned in and said, ‘We have got to stop meeting like this,’ to which she giggled slightly and got on with the ceremony. I did wonder if I was a bit too cheeky after saying this, after all this was The Queen, but I have a feeling she didn’t mind.
God bless you. You will be missed.
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Thought what Paul wrote was perfect.
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LadyLeslie wrote:
Thought what Paul wrote was perfect.
Totally agree! ️
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Woke up just before 7am (after only 3.5 hrs. sleep) and am watching live the funeral procession of the Queen. I recorded everything all night on BBC America.
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NJR wrote:
It's hard for me to process that I was just visiting the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace on Sept. 2nd, flew home on the 5th, and she died on the 8th! And on the 6th she was well enough to greet the new Prime Minister! And that double rainbow was amazing! Also odd was the fact that it didn't rain at all while we were in London (Aug. 31 - Sept 5) but then there was a downpour the day of her death! ("Tears From Heaven")
Oh, and Leslie, the Queen Mother was 101 when she died on Mar. 30, 2002. She would have been 102 on August 4th.
I was in the state rooms on the day she died! I had 3 days in London for my sisters 50th birthday, and it was back in May she booked it all, to go inside Buckingham Palace for the 8th Sept.
We were having a brilliant time, i pretended i was getting an MBE and pictured Paul, i loved all the rooms, we took it all in, the throne room, it's just so wonderful. I stood in the music room of the palace and said a little soft but out loud thanks to her for being such a brilliant Queen... if only i knew what was coming hours later. We stood in the Bow Room - the last spot of the tour, and took it all in. Having no clue that in less than a week her coffin would be spending her last night there in that very room. We spent 3 hours inside, as we kept sitting and taking it all in..
We left the interior of the palace at half 12, unaware that the media were just being briefed that the family were travelling up to Scotland.. And then we spent til 4pm in the gardens. It had been a movingly brilliant day...
And then at 2.30pm, having a coffee on the seats in the garden, by the Bow roo of the palace, someone on the next table told me the news, i looked it up... couldn't take it in. Told my sister, we spent the next hour in a daze, we were IN her garden, and she was dying..
Left at 4, went round to the front of the Palace outside, the press were forming.. We looked at the palace in tears and said our thanks to the Queen and left at 4.25. It seems the Prime Minister was privately informed at 4.30 that she had died, although it wasn't public until half 6.
So the Queen died while we were in the Palace gardens it seems. And i can't get my head around that i of all people was in there on that day..
We were so moved that we actually went back down to London last week and i stayed up from midnight to have a spot right outside the Palace to watch the procession of the family and the Queens coffin leave the palace for the last time. Being on the mall, for her last night in her home, watching the sun come up after the last night her body was ever in her home... and then seeing them all go past. It was very very moving.
I never thought i'd be someone who would go down to London for it - my sister always said over the years when anything happens to the Queen we must go, and i always thought no it'll be too busy i can't face it. But i love the Queen, and it was being inside the Palace on the day she died that has really bonded the whole thing and given me a huge huge sense of upset.
Just wanted to say - after seeing you too have been in recently Nancy x
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^ Yes, we were there on Sept. 2nd (and Windsor Palace on the 1st!) Couldn't hardly believe it after we got home on Sept. 5th and she passed on the 8th!
That is just so wild you were IN Buckingham Palace when she passed!
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Buckingham on Sept. 2nd:
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I know... i can't get my head around it really.
You went to Windsor Castle too, that's great - i haven't been but my sister went with my mum a few years ago.
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Eeee Cor Blimey wrote:
I know... i can't get my head around it really.
You went to Windsor Castle too, that's great - i haven't been but my sister went with my mum a few years ago.
I was last there in 1993. The town has changed a lot!
The castle:
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She was a wonderful Monarch and woman. I wrote her (snail mail), three times over the years. She was kind enough to reply to me via her senior Lady in Waiting each time. So I know she got my letters/work. I also sent her a small portrait of Her Majesty & Prince Phillip I did for her for their 70th Anniversary. She was pleased. I treasure those letters, as I will always treasure her. I hope she is with Philip now. I also have a reply from the late Queen Mother too. I write this not to brag, but to show that they were both very kind women. I will not tolerate anybody claiming anything else, no matter who they are.
Rest in peace, Your Majesty.
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^ That is fantastic you got replies from both the Queen and Queen mum!