The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.
The moon was shining sulkily, Because she thought the sun Had got no business to be there After the day was done-- "It's very rude of him," she said, "To come and spoil the fun!"
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Re: Some recent Sir Paul brief news clips « Reply #51 on Aug 23, 2005, 9:34pm »
Only mentions Sir Paul briefly, but I thought the Doc might be interested in this:
musicheckLive Links with Noah’s Ark In Music Auction For Charity
ATLANTA, GA, August 22, 2005 – The musicheckLive music series announced today it would hold a silent auction of music memorabilia to benefit Noah’s Ark www.noahs-ark.org at its August 30th event.
musicheckLive will partner with All Star Enterprises to auction off autographed albums, lyric sheets and guitars by such music superstars as: Elton John, Paul McCartney, The Jackson 5, Carlos Santana, Sting and The Rolling Stones among others. “You usually don’t see a collection like this outside Christie’s in New York” said Charles K. Cunningham, Executive Producer of musicheckLive. “It’s a great collection and an even more worthy cause.”
Noah’s Ark runs a home for abused, orphaned, and troubled children, as well as a rehabilitation center for wildlife and other abused, injured, and orphaned animals. The philosophy of Noah's Ark is to bring children and animals together to provide a unique approach to rehabilitation for both.
The mission of Noah's Ark is "bringing children and animals together for the purpose of providing unconditional love, unconditional service, and a future full of hope." Board Chairperson Susan LeCraw said, “We are thrilled to welcome the support of the musicheckLive series for Noah’s Ark. We are all fans of music and coupling the items from music legends and the music of these great Atlanta artists is a wonderful combination”.
The bidding and happy hour starts at 5 p.m. with complimentary food and drinks. The show starts at 7 p.m. and, as part of musicheckLive’s formula for success, ends in time for concert-goers to be home by 10pm.
musicheckLive provides music loving adults with an eclectic blend of music by some of Atlanta’s best artists. musicheckLive is a series of concerts targeting music lovers age 30-plus. It will run as a monthly series the last Tuesday of every month thru November {September 27, October 25, November 29}. Each month the concert will rotate between a jazz, rock or soul- featured set, preceded by musically diverse mini-sets.
Performances include mini-sets by soul songstress Melissa Young, rock singer/songwriter Chris Cauley, featured artist jazz virtuoso Ron James, and a very special surprise guest at the historic Academy Of Medicine www.academyofmedicine.com in Midtown Atlanta. musicheckLive – music for adults.
"It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously."
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Re: Some recent Sir Paul brief news clips « Reply #52 on Aug 23, 2005, 9:38pm »
Resellers told how to avoid embarrassment
Asset management provider warns channel to protect from end-of-life PCs falling into the wrong hands Laura Hailstone, CRN 22 Aug 2005
Resellers should make sure they have adequate cover to protect them from the potential pitfall of data from end-of-life PCs falling into the wrong hands.
Steve Russell, managing director of IT asset management provider, BTR UK, pointed to some well-publicised instances of this happening, including the bank details of Sir Paul McCartney being found on a PC sold secondhand, or a group of statistics students stumbling upon a register of sex offenders on a PC supplied to them by police in Bristol.
“Such incidents can be both embarrassing and costly,” Russell said. He added that the recent emphasis on the Waste Electrical, Electronic Equipment directive had brought this issue to the forefront of end-users attention.
“Resellers involved in providing end-of-life disposal for their customers should be asking their professional waste disposal partner if they are covered against the eventuality that data ends up in the wrong hands. It is something that probably very few resellers have thought about.”
Currently, something known as a data erasure certificate is often used as a reassurance to customers that their data will be destroyed, but Russell said it is not enough. “The certificate is merely a bit of paper, not a contractual agreement. It has no legal bearing and would not protect a company that is being sued,” he said.
BTR offers to protect its customers with indemnity insurance cover. “Having professional indemnity cover running to £1m per incident gives extra protection to businesses that are highly conscious of the data they are disposing of,” Russell said.
Reseller ISC Services, which provides a disposal service to its customers, signed up with BTR four months ago.
Rob Windeler, business manager of professional services at ISC, said: “Clients trust us to destroy their data. If it ends up in the wrong hands, our reputation could be ruined.
“We went out to tender for a disposal specialist and spoke to five firms. The icing on the cake was the financial backing BTR has put in place with regards to the indemnity insurance.”
"It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously."
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Re: Some recent Sir Paul brief news clips « Reply #53 on Aug 24, 2005, 2:50am »
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Only mentions Sir Paul briefly, but I thought the Doc might be interested in this:
musicheckLive Links with Noah’s Ark In Music Auction For Charity
ATLANTA, GA, August 22, 2005 – The musicheckLive music series announced today it would hold a silent auction of music memorabilia to benefit Noah’s Ark www.noahs-ark.org at its August 30th event.
musicheckLive will partner with All Star Enterprises to auction off autographed albums, lyric sheets and guitars by such music superstars as: Elton John, Paul McCartney, The Jackson 5, Carlos Santana, Sting and The Rolling Stones among others. “You usually don’t see a collection like this outside Christie’s in New York” said Charles K. Cunningham, Executive Producer of musicheckLive. “It’s a great collection and an even more worthy cause.”
Noah’s Ark runs a home for abused, orphaned, and troubled children, as well as a rehabilitation center for wildlife and other abused, injured, and orphaned animals. The philosophy of Noah's Ark is to bring children and animals together to provide a unique approach to rehabilitation for both.
The mission of Noah's Ark is "bringing children and animals together for the purpose of providing unconditional love, unconditional service, and a future full of hope." Board Chairperson Susan LeCraw said, “We are thrilled to welcome the support of the musicheckLive series for Noah’s Ark. We are all fans of music and coupling the items from music legends and the music of these great Atlanta artists is a wonderful combination”.
The bidding and happy hour starts at 5 p.m. with complimentary food and drinks. The show starts at 7 p.m. and, as part of musicheckLive’s formula for success, ends in time for concert-goers to be home by 10pm.
musicheckLive provides music loving adults with an eclectic blend of music by some of Atlanta’s best artists. musicheckLive is a series of concerts targeting music lovers age 30-plus. It will run as a monthly series the last Tuesday of every month thru November {September 27, October 25, November 29}. Each month the concert will rotate between a jazz, rock or soul- featured set, preceded by musically diverse mini-sets.
Performances include mini-sets by soul songstress Melissa Young, rock singer/songwriter Chris Cauley, featured artist jazz virtuoso Ron James, and a very special surprise guest at the historic Academy Of Medicine www.academyofmedicine.com in Midtown Atlanta. musicheckLive – music for adults.
Jojo, thanks for sharing about that. I know the Academy of Medicine--its a cool building with a small auditorium in the back. Good cause--I am gonna look into maybe going one week.......
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Re: Some recent Sir Paul brief news clips « Reply #54 on Aug 25, 2005, 5:26pm »
Wow, deja vu! I wonder if anyone wrote a piece like this shaming the media for overreacting in Bill's day..
COMMENTARY: A fair-weather fan's NFL notes
BY JEFF JACKSON / THE CHIPPEWA HERALD Published: Thursday, August 25, 2005 12:36 AM CDT
Tuesday night on HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel," Randy Moss said he still smokes marijuana "every blue moon."
Big deal. Since this news was released last week, the sports talk shows have been taking numerous e-mails and calls about this topic -- most upset over Moss's comments.
As a very tiny member of the sports media, I'm going to have to go against my "colleagues" in the fact that this issue is a non-issue.
The media is treating Moss's comments as if he said he's used a performance-enhancing drug or beats kids every now and then.
What Randy Moss does on his own time is his business. Yes, he made it possible for his business to become well known when he told Gumbel. However, if HBO is worried about the wide receiver's comments influencing children who look up to him, it shouldn't be aired.
A similiar situation happened in the 1960s when the Beatles' Paul McCartney told an interviewer that he had experimented with LSD.
"I'm not trying to spread the word about this," McCartney said in a 1967 BBC interview. "But the man from the newspaper is the man from the mass medium. I'll keep it a personal thing if he does too you know ... if he keeps it quiet."
Moss just answered Gumbel's question.
Better for Moss to tell the truth than to deny like Pete Ross did for over a decade. At least Moss has the courage to tell the truth no matter the consequences.
It's obvious Moss has had his problems in the past, but this shouldn't be included. Bumping a traffic cop with your car -- bad. Telling the truth to an interviewer about something he does in his spare time -- good.
Shame on HBO and the media for focusing its attention on what should be a harmless statement simply to make money. Kudos to one of the best football players in the game for his honesty.
"It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously."
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Re: Some recent Sir Paul brief news clips « Reply #55 on Sept 16, 2005, 5:00pm »
McCARTNEY: 'LENNON ALWAYS TOPPED ME'
JOHN LENNON
SIR PAUL McCARTNEY insists he shared a fiercely competitive relationship with JOHN LENNON even after THE BEATLES split up.
The 61-year-old rocker recalls how the pair jousted creatively in a flurry of ongoing musical one-upmanship, but he admits Lennon always managed to top him.
He says, "I remember reading that when John heard COMING UP he said, 'Oh bastard McCartney. I've got to write again!'
"It reminded him of the standards we both could reach. It's interesting that it was a little song like that, not particularly earth-shattering.
"It would happen to me too. I would hear something and go, 'Oh, here we go again.'
"It was like a see-saw. He'd write NOWHERE MAN, so I'd have to write PAPERBACK WRITER.
"BRIAN WILSON (BEACH BOYS) would write PET SOUNDS, so I'd have to get the SERGEANT PEPPER concept, then John would have to write A DAY IN THE LIFE to top us all!" 15/09/2005 17:40
"It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Monday, October 3rd at 2:00pm, Barnes & Noble located in Rockefeller Center at 600 Fifth Ave will be hosting rock legend PAUL MCCARTNEY, who is promoting his first children’s book HIGH IN THE CLOUDS.
Nearly 10 years in the making, Paul McCartney's HIGH IN THE CLOUDS was inspired by his love of literature and the animated film “Tropic Island Hum” on which Paul collaborated with animator Geoff Dunbar and features characters from the book. In addition to the award-winning “Tropic Island Hum”, he has also worked with Geoff to create the animated award-winning “Rupert And The Frog Song,” and “Tuesday”, based on the book by David Wiesner.
Forced to leave his woodland home, destroyed by the expansion plans of the evil Gretsch, Wirral the squirrel vows to find the fabled land of Animalia, where all the animals are said to live in freedom and without fear. Aided and abetted by Froggo the hot-air-ballooning frog, Wilhamina the plucky red squirrel, and Ratsy the streetwise rodent, Wirral's personal quest turns into a full-blown plan to save enslaved animals everywhere -- a plan that is fraught with danger.
Please join us for the signing of this grand new adventure by Paul McCartney!
WHAT: Book signing event with Paul McCartney WHERE: Barnes & Noble 600 Fifth Avenue (48th Street & 5th Ave.) New York, NY Phone: 212-633-3311 Contact: Donna Passannante WHEN: Monday, October 3rd TIME: 2:00pm – 3:00pm (Media will be allowed the first 15 minutes of the signing for photographs and video. Valid ID and press pass is REQUIRED for admittance. Check-in will begin @ 1:30) MEDIA CONTACT: Keith Mutzman, Senior Publicist, Penguin Young Readers Phone: 212-414-3464 Cell: 646-483-7924
Can you imagine sitting in a packed jazz club listening to a trio blow away, then you see a couple walk-in and there is a buzz amongst the crowd. You can't really tell absolutely who the man is but . . . no it can't be, you can't miss the attractive blonde and then you put it together. Then this man, goes up to the stage and requests a song, the band starts to play "The Very Thought of You". He then jumps up on the stage and starts singing the song, later borrows a trumpet and jams for an hour.
This is what happened a few months ago at Shelly's in New York City where Joey Morant was playing with his trio. During one of his sets, in walked Paul and Heather. The place was packed with tourists and everyone was buzzing. Paul went up to Joey and asked if he knew how to play "The Very Thought of You". Joey replied yes, and the band began to play the tune. Paul did indeed go up on the stage and began singing along. He then asked Joey if he could play his trumpet. Paul use to play trumpet as a child and that trumpet was a "C" instrument. Joey's trumpet is in "Bb", and so Paul had to make a few adjustments. Not only did he play with the band, but stayed up there on stage for nearly an hour.
Tony B, a New York singer/songwriter who is a good friend of Joey Marant told me this story and was kind to let me share it with you all. Tony also sent the pictures from that evening. Tony unfortunately was unable to get to the club that night and missed not onlyon the jam but the chance to meet Paul McCartney. What an incredible evening for Joey Morant's Trio, and of course the delighted audience.
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Re: Some recent Sir Paul brief news clips « Reply #58 on Sept 28, 2005, 9:56pm »
It looks like a "red-eye" problem with the photograph. You know how you take a picture and sometimes the eyes are red? Well, that's what it looks like to me.
I'm not at all surprised Faul is a fan of jazz. Anyway, it fits the character... Paul's dad played in a band and he gave Paul a trumpet for his fourteenth birthday. So Paul was also into jazz because of his dad.
Faul also likes to ham it up with impromptu gigs. He did it at Lake Tahoe and now in New York. I'm surprised he didn't write a song on the spot--or maybe he did, who knows. Now "The Very Thought of You" is probably just a song he likes, but it's kind of ironic he picked it out too... Here are the lyrics:
The Very Thought Of You
The little ordinary things that everyone ought to do I'm living in a kind of daydream I'm happy as a king And foolish though it may seem To me that's everything
The mere idea of you, the longing here for you You'll never know how slow the moments go till i'm near to you I see your face in every flower Your eyes in stars above It's just the thought of you The very thought of you, my love
The mere idea of you, the longing here for you You'll never know how slow the moments go till i'm near to you I see your face in every flower Your eyes in stars above It's just the thought of you The very thought of you, my love
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Re: Some recent Sir Paul brief news clips « Reply #59 on Sept 29, 2005, 3:11am »
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It looks like a "red-eye" problem with the photograph. You know how you take a picture and sometimes the eyes are red? Well, that's what it looks like to me.
I'm not at all surprised Faul is a fan of jazz. Anyway, it fits the character... Paul's dad played in a band and he gave Paul a trumpet for his fourteenth birthday. So Paul was also into jazz because of his dad.
Faul also likes to ham it up with impromptu gigs. He did it at Lake Tahoe and now in New York. I'm surprised he didn't write a song on the spot--or maybe he did, who knows. Now "The Very Thought of You" is probably just a song he likes, but it's kind of ironic he picked it out too... Here are the lyrics:
The Very Thought Of You
The little ordinary things that everyone ought to do I'm living in a kind of daydream I'm happy as a king And foolish though it may seem To me that's everything
The mere idea of you, the longing here for you You'll never know how slow the moments go till i'm near to you I see your face in every flower Your eyes in stars above It's just the thought of you The very thought of you, my love
The mere idea of you, the longing here for you You'll never know how slow the moments go till i'm near to you I see your face in every flower Your eyes in stars above It's just the thought of you The very thought of you, my love
OK, that is one of the top coolest stories I've read about the McCartneys. Great song........jazz trumpet? Jazz vocal? I knew it. I knew it all along. Aha! Jazz! (Don't tell them down at MTV; jazz can be such a stigma for rock and roll figures.......no flat 5ths, please.)
Hmm. There are some uses of tritones/flatted fifths's/augmented chords in C&C in the Backyard. And a jazzy, bossa nova groove in "A Certain Softness"..........Shhhhhhhh! Don't tell!)
All Love Jan -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Paul McCartney: Yesterday and Today Sunday, September 25, 2005 By KEVIN O'HARE kohare@repub.com
Rock's renaissance man is back on the road.
After all, besides being one of the most recognizable faces on the planet, Paul McCartney is a singer, songwriter, painter, classical composer, avant-garde instrumentalist, occasional actor, activist, rich guy, family guy and keeper of one of the greatest musical legacies of the past century.
Oh, and there's that ex-Beatle thing.
At 63, it seems Sir Paul has done it all, but McCartney is hardly slowing down, as he's currently barnstorming around the U.S., touring behind one of his best solo albums in years "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard."
(His sold out tour plays the TD Banknorth Garden - formerly the FleetCenter - in Boston tomorrow and Tuesday).
On a mid-September evening, three nights into the tour, McCartney spoke on a wide variety of subjects during an interview prior to a show at Atlanta's Philips Arena. He'd just completed his soundcheck, warming up while rocking through songs like "San Francisco Bay Blues," "Midnight Special," "C Moon," "Lady Madonna," "Coming Up," Carl Perkins' "Honey Don't" and "Matchbox," and what he termed "a goofy jam about Atlanta."
Pondering his predilection for working almost continuously, McCartney said it really dates back to his family and his roots in England.
"My Liverpool family - I 'spose I saw so many people kind of out of work and I'd be lying on the floor as a kid and hearing parents and relatives talking about how they were getting a pension and how their job was really good and hearing about how somebody was out of work - all that working class stuff just made me think. And then I used to see a lot of people arguing and I figured out, I'm not alone. And what they'd argue about was money. So I tried to take that out of the equation. I just sort of grew up with the idea that working was a good thing. Luckily it translated into my hobby."
That hobby has taken him to amazing heights, first with John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in The Beatles in the 1960s, then on to Wings in the '70s, and now on his own.
Where he once steered clear of performing old Beatles' songs in concert, his recent tours have been loaded with them. Each time he hits the road for a new tour, McCartney digs out a few more Fab Four classics, many that he hasn't played on stage for a long, long time. For example, during the early shows on this tour, he's been doing songs like "Please Please Me," "For No One," "I Will," and "Helter Skelter," alongside the more obvious masterworks such as "Hey Jude," and "Let It Be."
Asked what he remembered most about "Please Please Me," which was released in England in 1962 - two full years before Beatlemania hit the U.S. - McCartney was at ease reminiscing.
"My main memory was coming down in our very early recording days and (Beatles producer) George Martin asking us what songs we had to offer. John offered 'Please Please Me.' It was mainly his song, though I sang it with him. But his original version was quite slow. It was very much like a Roy Orbison song. (McCartney sings a verse in the original style) So it was very sort of Orbison, melodramatic. George Martin said 'Let's try it fast,' and we all went 'No.' He said 'Please let's try it. We can always go back, if you don't think it works.' He was very diplomatic and very clever that way. So we tried it fast and thought, that's pretty cool. And that became our first hit. And when we recorded it and had it in the can, George Martin said 'This is gonna be your first No. 1.' And that was very nice, and it was. He was right."
McCartney recalled writing "For No One" "in a Swiss chalet while I was on a skiing holiday." He wrote it on guitar although it ended up being a keyboard-based song.
He also said that the most memorable thing about that recording was putting the French Horn solo on it during recording sessions in May of 1966. The Beatles were slated to work with one instrumentalist but he died in a car accident a month before the studio session. Then they hired one of England's finest classical players, Alan Civil.
"I wrote out a little solo," McCartney said. "And I had a note that actually was just out of the range of the French horn. And you get these great musicians that give you sort of a look and they go 'Um, surely this is, um, um.' And you give them a little look like 'Can you do it?' And they give you a little look like 'Yes I can.' It's really a great moment. It ruins it for all the other horn players who can't do it, but the greats will always go that little extra."
The Beatles' massive influence on music and culture and fashion has never been in doubt, though McCartney was often considered the one who wrote the softer, more pop-oriented material, whereas Lennon was viewed as the tougher rocker. Yet it was the bass-playing McCartney who wrote what may have been the band's most outrageous hard rock song and blueprint for the entire heavy metal genre, "Helter Skelter." He's doing that song on this tour too, even though the raucous vocal could challenge any singer, never mind someone in their 60s.
"It's pretty hard (to sing) y'know but I kind of enjoy it," McCartney said. "We stick it near the end of the show so it's an all-or-nothing kind of thing. So I just have a good old scream out."
Though he's very comfortable doing Beatles' songs on stage - and the audience loves them - McCartney generally steers clear of doing songs where Lennon sang the lead vocal.
"It makes more sense really," McCartney said. "There are a lot of the records like 'Get Back' which I mainly wrote and I sang. So it makes more sense 'cause I'm bringing the audience the voice that wrote and sang it ... It's OK to hear Harry Connick do 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco,' but it's kind of better to hear Tony Bennett do it. So it's sort of for that reason that I do it."
However, he made an exception several tours back when he went back home to Liverpool and wanted to play something special in memory of his murdered bandmate.
"It really was a tribute to John and I knew we were gonna go to Liverpool. It was our hometown, our final gig on that particular tour and I knew I wanted to do something of John's. So we cooked up 'Strawberry Fields' and 'Give Peace a Chance.' We did a little medley of some of John's stronger stuff. Of course you couldn't get the Liverpool crowd to stop. It just went into the night 'cause the crowd kept singing."
Since the Beatles breakup in 1970, and especially now with Lennon and Harrison both deceased, McCartney doesn't have the luxury of working alongside the people who knew him best. He's recorded with contemporaries like Brian Wilson, and performed with acclaimed artists such as Neil Young, but when asked if there's any one artist he'd like to record a full album with, he was blunt:
"I doubt it," he said. "I think they'd spring to mind fairly quickly if there was. It's a funny thing. Having worked with The Beatles, having worked with Wings and now working with this band, the idea of working with someone other than your own people is something that appeals to me only on a kind of one at a time basis."
So he recently recorded a duet with George Michael for an album of Michael's due next year, and McCartney also recorded "Too Much Heaven," with Robin Gibb for a forthcoming tribute album to Gibb's late brother and Bee Gees' partner Maurice Gibb.
"It was great to do," McCartney said in reference to "Too Much Heaven." "That's one of the records when I bring it home, it's very popular. It's one of those 'Put it on again, put it on again,' things, so that's a good sign."
Playing different songs is always a treat for McCartney, and sometimes they're even his own. The man who gave away wondrous compositions like "Woman," to Peter & Gordon and "On The Wings of a Nightingale" to the Everly Brothers has recently been heard rehearsing one of his best non-Beatles' songs from the 1960s: "Come and Get It," which became a huge hit for Badfinger. Might that make its way into this tour's set list?
"We were working it up," McCartney said in reference to "Come and Get It." "But suddenly you have like 38 songs, so we couldn't stick it in ...There are nice little things, but some others take precedent over them ... OK, we'll have to leave 'Come and Get It' out. But it's nice to play them and reevaluate them and see if we get a buzz off of them. And anything we get a buzz off goes into the set."
He's mixing the vintage material on tour with several tracks from "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard," which has generated predominantly glowing reviews since its release. The disc was produced by Nigel Godrich, who'd been previously best known for his work with Radiohead and Beck. Given McCartney's status, it's sometimes tough for him to get straight opinions on his music. That was not the case when it came to working with Godrich however, and McCartney says he treasured that frankness.
"That's really where it's at," McCartney said. "That mainly used to come from your band members who would just sort of say, 'Aw, let's not do that' or something. But the thing about Nigel, I knew from the minute I met him I could see he was conscious of that element and he wasn't going to do it ... He's a very good producer and he brought honesty, he brought great sound and he brought very definite opinions on what he likes and doesn't like. So that was good to have somebody with that absolute definite opinion."
One of the most uptempo tracks on the new album is the lead single, "Fine Line," which many people have interpreted as being a political song.
"It's funny isn't it? Because it was first inspired just by the idea that some people will jump off a cliff or drive a car off a cliff and think they're courageous. When someone like me will think it's actually just reckless. But I must say I was listening to it a couple of weeks ago and it suddenly struck me that it did have quite a political message. I suddenly realized you could apply it to troops serving abroad. 'C'mon brother, all is forgiven/ We all cried when you were driven away.' It's strange. I hadn't meant that, but that's one of the things I think is very interesting about writing songs. Because you can write one way with one meaning, and suddenly they can become applicable in other ways. But I like that. I want people to be able to draw their own meanings from songs. I would never say 'No it must mean this.'"
The man who seems to never stop working has several other projects that have been on hold, that fans have been waiting years for.
One is the expected DVD release of the Beatles' 1970 film "Let It Be," a documentary that vividly details some of the events that led to their breakup.
"I understand they've been cleaning the film up and it's looking great," McCartney said. "I should think that is coming ... but I haven't asked how long it's going to take."
Then there was the infamous "Hot Hitz and Cold Cutz," an often rumored album of Wings and McCartney solo rarities dating back to the 1970s. It includes some extraordinary unreleased songs including "Tragedy" and "Cage."
"Those songs, I think they appear all on bootlegs," McCartney said. "They're all around, I just never got quite inspired enough. I remember somebody saying 'Why would you call an album 'Cold Cutz'? It sounds like a failure right there. That kind of put me off."
Told that others strongly disagree McCartney quipped, "Well you put it out then."
He added, "I know there are a lot of people interested in that kind of thing. I think someday when I have a little bit of time, I might sort of look around at all that stuff that's been bootlegged or hasn't been released and figure out some way of getting it out."
Finally, he talked about one of the last great mysterious "lost" Beatles' tracks, a psychedelic era romp called "Carnival of Light," that remains locked away in the vaults, heard by only a few insiders for decades.
"Yeah, now that would be interesting. I know we were thinking of trying to get it on the 'Anthology' but it got voted off. It's a little too avant-garde or something. But it was a nice piece to do. I think it's kind of important in the scheme of things."
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Re: Some recent Sir Paul brief news clips « Reply #62 on Oct 16, 2005, 2:35pm »
Hehe..
SIR PAUL McCARTNEY has apologised on behalf of YOKO ONO for her embarrassing on him at the Q Awards - insisting the Japanese artist is "not the brightest of buttons".
Ono took a swipe at McCartney when she took to the stage at the London ceremony last week (10OCT05) to collect a special award on behalf of her late husband JOHN LENNON.
She told the gathering, "John... would say, 'They always cover Paul's songs, they never cover mine.' I said to him, 'You're a good songwriter, it's not June-with-spoon that you write."
But McCartney, who has repeatedly clashed with Ono since Lennon's death in 1980, is refusing to retaliate.
He says, "She's John's wife so I have to respect her for that, but I don't have to do any further. I don't think she's the brightest of buttons.
"I don't want to get in a bun fight but she's said some particularly daft things in her time.
"Yoko is something else. Her life is dedicated to putting me down, that's what she seems to do all the time.
"But she will notice that I attempt very strongly not to put her down, I have respect for her as my former comrades wife."
"It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously."
Roger Daltrey: Pete Doherty is wasting his life The Who frontman lays into the former Libertine
The Who frontman Roger Daltrey has attacked Pete Doherty, accusing the Babyshambles singer of wasting his life.
The singer, whose path crossed with Doherty at Live8, praised current bands like the Kaiser Chiefs and Arctic Monkeys but was critical of Doherty's drug addictions.
"It's a waste of a life really, because he's got talent," Daltrey told the Sunday Mirror. "He seems to be feeding of it, now he's become infamous for his drug addiction he seems to think 'that's what I do so I've got to do it', it's very sad."
Doherty however wasn't the only musician in Daltrey's sights, as he also knocked Sir Paul McCartney saying despite knowing the former Beatle for almost 40 years he doesn't feel he's met the real man.
"Paul acts like what is expected of him, I find it very strange, but it's how he deals with his life," said The Who man. "Everything, though, becomes the Paul McCartney show."
Daltrey did however praise The Rolling Stones, commending them for keeping their edge. "Mick (Jagger) is just remarkable," said Daltrey, "The amount of energy he has is amazing."
"It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously."
Paul McCartney gig beamed into space Former Beatle to broadcast a gig into orbit
Paul McCartney is set to become the first artist to broadcast a live gig in space this weekend.
The former Beatle is to wake up the crew of the international space station with the track 'English Tea' from his latest album 'Chaos And Creation In The Backyard', as well as the Beatles classic 'Good Day Sunshine' on Saturday (November 12) from a US gig in Anaheim.
The call to the station will mark the first time a live concert has been linked to an American spacecraft.
It will take place as the concert comes to a close and NASA astronaut Bill McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev are awakening for their 44th day in space.
Audio from the gig, the station and video footage of McArthur and Tokarev, will also be broadcast live on NASA Television.
The idea for the broadcast came after the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery were woken up by 'Good Day Sunshine' as they prepared for their second landing attempt back in August.
McCartney said: "I was extremely proud to find out that one of my songs was played for the crew of Discovery this summer. In our concert we hope to repay the favor."
McArthur and Tokarev are the 12th crew of the station which has had a continuous human presence aboard for more than five years.
You have to wonder what talks, if any, had gone on with the others for him to sign a contract like this? I find it difficult to picture John going along with this for any number of reasons..
SIR PAUL McCARTNEY planned to reunite THE BEATLES a year before JOHN LENNON was murdered, according to a newly released record contract.
In a 1979 deal with CBS Records, McCartney claimed he could again make music with Lennon, GEORGE HARRISON and RINGO STARR under the banner of The Beatles.
Details of the $10.8 million (GBP6 million) contract have been released to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Lennon's death on 8 December 1980 later this week.
An industry insider comments, "This is the earliest evidence of any Beatle making formal overtures towards a reunion."
Lennon was shot by assassin MARK DAVID CHAPMAN outside his New York City apartment.
"It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously."
Re: Some recent Sir Paul brief news clips « Reply #68 on Dec 6, 2005, 10:50pm »
Interesting to think how the covert Faul 1979 "Beatles reunion" attempt ties in with John and Yoko's pre-arranged arrest of Faul at Tokyo's Narita Airport in January 1980, and the assassination of Lennon in Deccember 1980. In addition, Dr. Robert Asher committed suicide (supposedly) in 1979.
You have to wonder what talks, if any, had gone on with the others for him to sign a contract like this? I find it difficult to picture John going along with this for any number of reasons..
SIR PAUL McCARTNEY planned to reunite THE BEATLES a year before JOHN LENNON was murdered, according to a newly released record contract.
In a 1979 deal with CBS Records, McCartney claimed he could again make music with Lennon, GEORGE HARRISON and RINGO STARR under the banner of The Beatles.
Details of the $10.8 million (GBP6 million) contract have been released to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Lennon's death on 8 December 1980 later this week.
An industry insider comments, "This is the earliest evidence of any Beatle making formal overtures towards a reunion."
Lennon was shot by assassin MARK DAVID CHAPMAN outside his New York City apartment.
06/12/2005 02:28
How surprising. My roommate and another friend were also a bit surprised and made it a point to tell me about it today.
I have never heard that. D'uh--I see it has just been released for the first time.
That would have been way cool. Kudos to Sir Paul and CBS records for the fact of them having tried to get the ball rolling on that.
Who announced it? Was it Sir Paul? Does that make it a Sir Prise? d'oh! OK, strike that pun from the official wreckard.
Re: Some recent Sir Paul brief news clips « Reply #70 on Feb 6, 2006, 11:56pm »
Paul's performance in front of a small audience at Abbey Road's Studio 2 back on July 28th, 2005 is going to be aired this month on PBS TV s' Great Performances. See PBS.org but here is their announcement of the show. PAUL MCCARTNEY: CHAOS AND CREATION LIVE AT ABBEY ROAD
In this unique concert, the legendary Paul McCartney returns to Studio 2 at London's Abbey Road Studios, where most of the Beatles' recordings were made, for a fascinating journey through his songwriting career, from his very first Beatles song to the work for his new album, CHAOS AND CREATION IN THE BACKYARD. Using a selection of vintage instruments from his own collection -- including the bass played by Bill Black on Elvis Presley's original recording of "Heartbreak Hotel" and the Mellotron and mixing console used by the Beatles -- McCartney revisits his back catalogue in new and revealing ways before an intimate studio audience. McCartney reinterprets old songs and new songs, performs some terrific cover versions, and enlists the audience's help in a demonstration of "in the moment" songwriting and arranging. Among the songs performed are "Blackbird," "Band on the Run," "Lady Madonna," and many others.
The program premieres on February 27, 2006 (check local listings); watch for the launch of the Web companion on February 20.
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Re: Some recent Sir Paul brief news clips « Reply #71 on Feb 7, 2006, 6:33am »
It was on here in England a few months ago, but alas i was unaware, and returned home from a night out to luckily catch the last five minutes.
"enlists the audience's help in a demonstration of "in the moment" songwriting and arranging"
I saw that bit and although fairly good, I just felt it was too "pre-arranged and totally not in the moment" but hey it would be unreasonable to make a decent thing up on the spot.
The Kinks frontman Ray Davies is desperate to see Paul McCartney move away from middle-of-the-road music and produce something extreme.
The Waterloo Sunset rocker is convinced the former Beatle is hiding behind a smokescreen and should either strip down his sound or take it to the other end of the spectrum and collaborate with Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Davies says: "I'd like to hear him stripped down musically. Then maybe more of him could come through.
"I still think there's a camouflage there and I don't know whether that's intuitive or planned. I'd like to hear him sound like what he is, one of our great folk heroes. Let's try to restore that.
"Or he should work with Andrew Lloyd Webber. I really think that is the marriage I am waiting for. Get more real or go that far."
"It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously."
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Re: Some recent Sir Paul brief news clips « Reply #73 on Apr 13, 2006, 6:40pm »
That sounds like a man that's in the know about his "non JPM past" but respects him for his other talents, and I agree with Ray, i'd love to see him produce something that has nothing to do with the Beatles, nothing to do with his own ego (or feeling he has to make it look that he's JPM) and be something that he can do with his own talent, perhaps initially uncredited then someone leaks "It's really Paul McCartney!"
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