Paul McCartney

Happy 81 To Pop Genius PAUL McCARTNEY

Posted on by JL

18 June 2023

Former Beatle and grand pop singer/songwriter/composer
PAUL McCARTNEY is 81 today. He was born in Liverpool
on 18 June 1942.

Without a shadow of a doubt, one of the most influential artists ever with
an immense and astounding canon. With all what Sir Macca realized musically,
in the first place with the immortal fab four The Beatles, afterward with Wings
and his numerous solo albums he achieved, rightly so, a Godlike genius status.

3 big moments.

– HELTER SKELTER –

– HI HI HI –

– HEY JUDE –

Let it be Macca.

PAUL MCCARTNEY: Website – Facebook

(image on top: cover of McCartney II album – 1980)

PAUL McCARTNEY Book With Rare BEATLEMANIA Photos Out In June

Posted on by JL

26 April 2023

In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by
PAUL McCARTNEY himself on a 35mm camera was re-discovered in his archive.

They intimately record the months towards the end of 1963 and the beginning of 1964
when Beatlemania erupted in the UK and, after the band’s first visit to the USA, they became the most famous people on the planet.


Selfies Paris, 1964 (press photo via Macca site)

The photographs are Macca’s personal record of this explosive time, when
The Beatles, were inside looking out and were the EYES OF THE STORM.

The book features pictures of these intense, legendary months – Liverpool, London,
Paris, New York, Washington, D.C. and Miami – and many never-before-seen portraits
of John, George and Ringo.

Paul McCartney: “Anyone who rediscovers a personal relic or family treasure is instantly flooded with memories and emotions, which then trigger associations buried in the haze of time. This was exactly my experience in seeing these photos, all taken over an intense three-month period of travel, culminating in February 1964. It was a wonderful sensation to be plunged right back.”

Help, indeed

Publishing: 13 June 2023.
Pre-order: here.

Trailer

MACCA: Website

PAUL McCARTNEY Remembers The Death Of JOHN LENNON In A New Interview

Posted on by JL

27 December 2022

Eternal working class hero JOHN LENNON was killed on 8 December 1980.

More than 40 years later his songwriting Beatle brother PAUL McCARTNEY remembers the sad event in an interview with SiriusXM’s The Beatles Channel: “It was difficult for everyone in the world cause he was such a loved character and such a crazy guy, you know, that he was so special. And so it had hit me so much so that I couldn’t really talk about it. I remember getting home from the studio on the day that we’d heard the news he died and turning the TV on and seeing people say, ‘Well, John Lennon was this,’ and ‘What he was, was this,’ and ‘I remember meeting him’.

And it was like, I don’t know, I can’t be one of those people. I can’t just go on TV and say what John meant to me. It was just too deep. It’s just too much. I couldn’t put it into words. I was in a building that would become my recording studio, and there were just a couple of little empty rooms upstairs,” he explained. “So I found a room and just sat on the wooden floor in a corner with my guitar and just started to play the opening chords to ‘Here Today.’”

You can listen here to the audio clip.

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McCARTNEY And LENNON Reunited At Glastonbury Last Sunday

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A couple of weeks ago, living beatle legend PAUL McCARTNEY celebrated
his 80th birthday and last Sunday he was the star headliner who got tens of
thousands of the sing-along crowd into ecstasy at the Glastonbury Festival.

He also surprised everybody with two giant guests, Dave Grohl and Bruce
Springsteen, who each played a couple of songs (and one as a trio) with
the imperishable King Of Melody.

My pick of the concert. The performance of Beatles song
I’ve Got A Feeling with his third guest… JOHN LENNON.

Magical moments…

Afterward, McCartney and Dave Grohl went on the run…

MACCA: Instagram

Waking Up With… HELTER SKELTER

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Works fsster then caffeine

18 June 2022

JAMES PAUL McCARTNEY was born on 18 June 1942. Happy 80 to the songsmith genius who needs no introduction whatsoever. I wonder how many people never heard of Macca. The ones who lived/live on Mars?

In those 80 years the Liverpool icon has made 12 LPs with The Beatles, 7 albums
with Wings, 18 solo and several collaborative records. Lots of Hard Day Night work.

For this occasion, my wake-up song is this smoking live
version of his heaviest rock song ever HELTER SKELTER.

And  not done yet…

MACCA: Instagram – Website

(Image on top: cover of his best of album ‘Pure’)

Released 40 Years Ago Today – 3rd Critically Praised PAUL McCARTNEY Album ‘TUG OF WAR’

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Back in time

26 April 2022

John Lennon was the rocker, Macca was the smooth popster. It was that sublime combination that made The Beatles the best band ever (in my book). After the
break-up, they continued solo and made bad, good and fantastic albums.

McCartney’s 3rd LP TUG OF WAR came out 40 years ago today, on 26 April 1982
and got raving reviews. It was produced by the fifth Beatle Goerge Martin. It sold
more than 4 million copies worldwide.

Rolling Stone Magazine said back then: “Tug of War is the masterpiece everyone has always known Paul McCartney could make. In style and format, the album isn’t all that different from his earlier work, but the songs are far more substantial than the eccentric doodlings of recent albums. Instead of another homemade effort, McCartney has teamed up with producer George Martin to create a record with a sumptuous aural scope that recalls Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road.” Score: 5/5.

The lyrics of the title track Tug Of War seem like they were
written yesterday, about the alarming times we live in.

It’s a tug of war
What with one thing and another
It’s a tug of war
We expected more
But with one thing and another
We were trying to outscore each other
In a tug of war

The full album on Spotify…

.
And still going strong.
American tour dates.

PAUL McCARTNEY: Facebook