Macca at 80

Subject: Macca at 80
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 08:22 PM

Paul McCartney of course. It's my bloody good luck to have been exactly the right age to follow the Beatles right through from Love Me Do to their demise at the end of the Sixties, from callow teenybopper in 1962 to pipe-smoking rock aficionado at 18 (pretentious, moi?). I bought every Beatles record on the morning it came out. Singles were 6/8d and LPs were £1.12s. I think that Paul will still be being talked about in a hundred years' time and I think that the mighty Beethoven would have absolutely LOVED the Beatles, especially Paul with his lyrical streak. Ye gods, I'm loving all the current retrospectives. I'd love to call it a jubilee, but maybe not right now...

Subject: RE: Macca at 80
From: RTim
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 09:33 PM

My wife went to see him last week at Fenway Park.....He sang for 3 hours and she said he was brilliant....Never gets old!

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: Macca at 80
From: Reinhard
Date: 19 Jun 22 - 01:15 PM

Andy Irvine also turned 80 earlier this week. Happy birthdays to both of them!

Subject: RE: Macca at 80
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 19 Jun 22 - 01:46 PM

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Subject: RE: Macca at 80
From: meself
Date: 19 Jun 22 - 04:58 PM

"I bought every Beatles record on the morning it came out" - Reminds me of an interview on CBC radio a few years back with a guy who, at 14 years of age, apparently had the first copy of Sgt Pepper in North America. His father had acquired it hot off the press - some kind of business connections - in England, just before flying back to Montreal. As soon as the son got it, he opened up the window of their apartment, mounted the stereo speakers on the window-sill, and blasted the music into the street - the times being what they were ... !