YOU SAY IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY?
Paul McCartney's birthday is June 18th!
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For the vast majority of women I know, Paul McCartney was their favorite among The Beatles. This past week has been quite amazing as I've Blogged about a given subject only to see it appear in the news the following day or so. I can hardly believe it, but on June 18th, Paul McCartney will be 65. His new CD, "Memory Almost Full" tickled me, because this was the message that popped up when his cell phone's memory was near capacity! For me, Paul has always been "the optimistic Beatle" and so I felt it might be refreshing to glean some of his thoughts below.
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"A lot of our Beatles songs were quite retrospective. Penny Lane was about our youth. Songwriters often base material on memory. It happened by accident as a lot of my stuff does"
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"In modern life, there's so much sensory overload. There's so much coming at you these days that you have to delete something to make room for something else. And it applies equally to a 20-year-old as it does to me"
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"For a while there, I had to say.'Look, I don't want to talk about The Beatles'. I was trying to set up Wings and we knew we had a mountain to climb, and The Beatles were a bigger mountain. I didn't do Beatles songs. All of that's gone away.I look at it now with great fondness and as something to be proud of. I love singing Beatles songs"
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I had listed "Free As a Bird" on my last Blog post from The Beatles mid 1990's "Anthology". However, I just learned that McCartney, Ringo Starr and the late George Harrison added parts to "Now and Then" --a late 1970's John Lennon demo, "but we gave up", says McCartney. "John's vocal on the tape, it's pretty bad quality, but emotional. With technology these days, you never know. I'd be interested to see if anything could be done. There is something there in the bushes". To that end, Paul will be speaking with Yoko Ono, Ringo Starr and George Harrison's widow Olivia. In signing off here, this is all obviously a ray of light to me! But it's also proof of a continuation of our love affair with "The Four Lads from Liverpool". And so, there is great reason to be optimistic!
posted by Michael Manning @ 3:10 PM
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I've loved all his music, and Wings too, but I haven't heard his latest songs made after his wife died.
June 18th? Man, I haven't even begun started birthday shopping. Anyone any idea on a present?
ellee: Now that you mention it, I haven't either. That was such a loss. And now to be going through a consuming divorce. I wish Paul the best. Friends of mine have seen Paul and Linda with Wings live in years past!
Denny: His CD is available only through Starbucks, as he split from Capital for the second time I can recall reading about; the first time was in the early 1980's when Paul wanted to produce Rick Nelson's CD. They met at an industry convention. The Beatles were quite big fans of Rick, who by all accounts was quite shy and taken back by their admiration!
I have always loved the Beatles and yes Paul was always my favorite. Odd to think he's only 6 years younger than my parents!
65. It's very hard to believe. I remember when their song about turning 62 seemed unbelievably far away. Not anymore...
Michael -
since you always stop by my blog just wanted to let you know that I've had to switch it to private. Email me at kimsmith@loveable.com and I'll send you an invite... Thanks!
Patti_Cake: He's such a great artist!
Utenzi: He seems well adjusted about it all though!
Kim: Will do.
can't believe he's 65, but then I think I must of screwed up the math for me to be 50!
Sage: As Paul proves, it's all a number!
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