9/10 because I forgot one of the WOA songs.

Bruce M.:

wingsoverkc:

No Kestrel, New is not a much better album than Memory Almost Full. And the math sort of proves it. 636 to 219!

While popularity absolutely does not equal artistic greatness, MAF runs circles around New in terms of quality. Not even close.

LadyLeslie:

Thanks, Denise! Appreciated your kind words very much I will enjoy the experience, and hopefully will have so much fun, I won't get a chance to faint! Will be sure and write a full report later It's wonderful you were able to experience seeing Paul and Linda in concert in 1993, and have seen him a few other times. Hopefully you'll be able to see him again in the not too distant future

Yes, I'd like to see him on a different tour next time. Saw him last year in Grand Rapids on One on One. Still very grateful to have seen Linda on her last tour. She had awesome energy onstage. Was a pretty big fan of hers outside of Paul due to her cookbooks and animal advocacy.

LOL! That is awesome, LadyLeslie. I know the feeling well. My first McCartney concert was in 1993 and the anticipation was incredible. I've seen him 3 more times since 2011 and I may have been older but the buildup is still there. Enjoy the experience (like I need to say that ) and have fun. I'll be envying you since I'm sitting this year out.

I bought the People Magazine special issue for Sgt Pepper. Also bought the book Dreaming the Beatles by Rob Sheffield but am saving it for my vacation next week. And from Amazon UK I ordered Visualizing the Beatles by John Pring and Rob Thomas but it probably won't arrive before I leave on vacation. Very excited about that book. The authors created infographics detailing facts and figures from the Beatles' career and the excerpts I've seen are very cool.

love2travel:

Just saw it and it went so quickly. Didn't hear the joke! He did look really good!!! What was the bit at the end after all the credits, was that Jack Sparrow?

SPOILER WARNING It was Davy Jones coming into the bedroom at the end before Will wakes up but the barnacle on the floor suggests he was really there and still under the curse.

B J Conlee:

Just for the hell of it, I googled "the Beatles - Ranking all their songs". Looking through the articles I found one that despite the ridiculous concept I really liked. The blog was called...Beatles from Worst to First by Charles Olney. Mr. Olney surprisingly is a Professor of Constitutional Law. What I liked most about the writer was his comments on almost every song. Also, you couldn't tell if he was biased towards John or Paul. And he liked both George and Ringo a lot too. As I said, the concept is crazy given the "subjective" nature of music but at least this writer wasn't glaringly off on many of his choices. His top 50 for example fell in line generally with my opinion as a big time fan. I also got the feeling that he truly believes that John and Paul were both geniuses and equal (but different) in their talents and strengths. And when they truly collaborated to make each one's songs "better" the Beatles were at their best. For anyone who has the time, you might want to look up Mr. Olney's article. And yes, "Here There and Everywhere" did make the top 50!

Thanks for sharing that blog. I'm 2/3 of the way through his list and it seems so much more fair than the original one posted in this thread. Disliked the anti-Paul bias in that one.

Some good questions. 21 for me.

Sgt Pepper 2 disk set.

oobu24:

Pirates of the Caribbean-directors reveal how they got Paul McCartney to play a role

That was awesome! Thanks for finding it.