Tag: Paul McCartney
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Paul McCartney, Wings and The Making of Band on the Run
Introduction I have a friend who has never heard any of Paul McCartney’s solo and Wings LPs, except for, as he put it, the Frog Chorus, the one about no man’s land at Christmas, and Ebony and Ivory. His view of McCartney is tainted. As he puts it, “my whole opinion on him is based…
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McCartney in 1972/3: Red Rose Speedway
Introduction: I have a friend, Steve, who has never heard any of Paul McCartney’s solo and Wings LPs, except for, as he put it, the Frog Chorus, the one about no man’s land at Christmas, and Ebony and Ivory. He’s not much of a fan of (who some might describe with justification as) England’s greatest…
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Paul McCartney in 1971: Wings – Wild Life
What’s this all about? I have a friend, Steve, who has never heard any of Paul McCartney’s solo and Wings LPs, except for, as he put it, the Frog Chorus, the one about no man’s land at Christmas, and Ebony and Ivory. My job is therefore to share with him some of McCartney’s best songs,…
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The Story of Paul and Linda McCartney’s Ram:
Are Paul McCartney’s solo and Wings albums worth buying? Was Wings really “the band the Beatles could have been”? This is the third in a series of McCartney articles, but you can read each one independently should you prefer. The first part is here I have a friend, Steve, who has never heard any of…
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McCartney
Part two of a series. To recap, I have a friend who has never heard any of Paul McCartney’s solo and Wings LPs, except for, as he put it, the Frog Song, the one about no man’s land at Christmas, and Ebony and Ivory. My job is therefore to share with him some of McCartney’s…
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Sir Paul McCartney at Eighty: Were Wings Really The Band The Beatles Could Have Been?
“It is hard to understand quite how it happened, but there are millions of teenagers running around now who don’t know who U2 are.” I was talking to my friend Steve the other day after reading this comment online where someone with enough music knowledge to share opinions about Arcade Fire and Coldplay had nevertheless…
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New Evidence Reveals The Place Where John First Met Paul Is Not Where You Think It Is…
It’s a great story. The Woolton Village church fete, on 6th July 1957 is where John’s band The Quarry Men are playing on the back of a truck. Ivan Vaughan introduces his schoolfriend Paul McCartney to his friend and band mate John Lennon. Paul borrows John’s guitar, turns it around and tunes it, then rolls…
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Beatles Reunite As Ringo Starr Joins Paul McCartney Onstage In London
Beatles fans received an early Christmas present last night as the two surviving Beatles, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, played together onstage for the first time since Ringo’s 2015 inauguration into the Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame, for the first time since 2002’s Concert For George in the U.K., and for only the tenth…
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Rock Star Names: Lots Of Roger-ing, Not A Lot of Colins
We all know that rock stars have a free pass when it comes to choosing the names of their offspring. From Chris Martin naming his child after a technology company to David Bowie wanting to find a name that rhymed with his made up surname, there are plenty of slightly left-field choices. And good luck…
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How George Michael Had Help With Young Guns, Macca Dislikes Wrinkly Front Rows and Other Quite Interesting Stories
“The 120 Greatest Stories in Rock n Roll” proclaims the latest issue of Q Magazine, promising tales of debauchery more extreme than an episode of Celebrity Big Brother. Almost. Claiming to have Rock n Roll’s Greatest Stories is a pretty punchy boast, and as it happens, what they were really compiling was “Rock’s 120 Most…
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Every Record Tells A Story Photos of 2013
“People take pictures of the summer / Just in case someone thought they had missed it / And to prove that it really existed…” Ray Davies: “People Take Pictures Of Each Other” As 2014 begins, I thought it would be good to look back at 2013 through the pictures I took at various gigs. It…
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The Top Ten Best Beatles Books
Want to know which are the best Beatles Books? With the release of the first part of Mark Lewisohn‘s trilogy of books on the Beatles “Tune In” I thought it might be worthwhile taking a look at the plethora of Beatles Books out there to try to make sense of it all. I have already…
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Christmas Gifts For The Music Lover In Your Life
By now, you have probably seen all those other Christmas Gift lists on other sites, telling you that there’s a nice set of headphones for a couple of grand, or an iPod dock for £800. (Who are these people who spend that much at Christmas? And why don’t I know any of them?) It’s enough…
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45 Years Ago Today – The Beatles White Album: But Is It Better As A Single LP?
Today is the 45th anniversary of the release of “The Beatles”, which was released on 22nd November 1968. Today’s news that a track listing has surfaced of The Beatles White Album as a single LP – drawn up collectively by the band in September 1968 – and found in a box of papers once belonging…
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Paul McCartney Plays Covent Garden. Best. Busker. Ever.
Friday lunchtimes don’t get much better than today’s. If it wasn’t enough stopping the traffic on Hollywood Boulevard and Times Square, Paul McCartney decided to add the woes of London’s traffic wardens by parking his great big lorry outside the Punch and Judy Tavern in Covent Garden today. “This is a change from the sixties…
Every record tells a story 