Current Paul McCartney news thread (interviews, articles, miscellaneous)

I gave up on keeping the separate threads on-topic, but this definitely suits the thread: I attended a "masterclass" by McCartney's sound man Paul 'Pab' Boothroyd in Melbourne, Australia last December, and this is the full video:



I checked it (I made my own recording), and not a second was cut out, while he did say a few things "off the record" (nothing too juicy though). He's less diplomatic than McCartney's band members (although I believe this edit is censored for curse words... fookin' Australians), but still obviously is promoting his boss. 26:10 though.

 

Following up, an article today in Billboard:

Laurence Juber Shares the Story Behind Wings' Unreleased Song 'Maisie'

 

From The Guardian: a Liam Gallagher interview where, at the end, he's asked to respond to reader's questions:

Have you ever asked for a selfie or autograph, or been so starstruck that you have been lost for words?
Alan Gregory, Stockport

“I asked Paul McCartney to sign a programme once, but it wasn’t for me, it was for the headteacher at my kid’s school. It was his 60th, he was a massive Beatle-head and a massive music-head. It was backstage at the Royal Albert Hall. Obviously, I always bang on about Lennon and that, but I was starstruck when I first met McCartney. Starstruck when I met Ringo as well. He was the first Beatle I ever met. Ringo’s a dude, man.”

 

And all this time I thought Ringo was a lady...

 

This doesn't warrant a thread of its own, and apologies it's not even news! But a question I have...

Does anyone know whether the versions of C Moon and Mull Of Kintyre on the CD single of The Long And Winding Road (here - Paul McCartney - The Long And Winding Road ) are the same versions/edits that appear on the 1990 All My Trials CD singles?

 

I believe that is the case.

I can't say I'm 100% sure, because I don't have both of them.. but I would say with 95% certainty they are the same. [Until someone here points out that I'm wrong... ]

 

Both wrong. Ringo is a man, dude.^^

 

And of course, from last year, the classic Margaritas story:

“I’ve met him a few times he’s been absolutely a dream. The last time was at the Royal Albert Hall. He goes, ‘Why are you always in a rush? Sit down, sit down’. I sit down and he goes, ‘Do you like margaritas?’ I said, ‘Yeah, but I had something before I come out, I don’t eat at this time of night’. He said, ‘They’re fookin’ drinks, you stupid prickk’. I thought he was offering me a pizza.”

 

I'm pretty sure he's a ladies' man.

 

Exact same timings on my copies - please don’t make me listen to C Moon to verify...

 

Back to 1987:

“All the Best!” Fest – Paul McCartney hits 1987 with multiple formats

 

Sometimes being famous is so difficult.

 

Awesome pic. You can hardly see the bruises.

 

Good old Peter Sellers.

 

Weren’t both Alice Cooper and Tom Seleck also in this movie?

 

Not sure about Tom Selleck, as it was from the late 1970s (and I'm not sure if Selleck was around yet).

Sextette is a 1978 American comedy/musical motion picture starring Mae West. Other actors in the cast included Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, George Hamilton, Alice Cooper and Walter Pidgeon.

 

Hey, any musical with Dom Delouise, Keith Moon, and Alice Cooper can't be bad... wait... no...

 

In an email I received from Wired magazine, one of the subject titles was "Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls". (It was just to enter some contest. No real content.) Did Paul originate the phrase? Or was he quoting something I'm unaware of?

 

McCartney sings "don't go jumping waterfalls" and "don't go chasing polar bears." The precise phrase "don't go chasing waterfalls" is from TLC's 1995 hit, also called "Waterfalls."



Paul noticed the similarity:

AVC: Are there any songs of yours that you think deserved to be bigger than they were?

PM: There's quite a few, actually. I like… There's one called "Daytime Nighttime Suffering," which I think's really cool. One called "Waterfalls," I think is nice. In fact, somebody had a hit, a few years ago, using the first line, "Don't go jumping waterfalls / Please stick to the lake…" And then they go off into another song. It's like, "Excuse me?"

AVC: TLC ripped off Paul McCartney? I had no idea!

PM: I think so.​

 

I thought so...at the time.

 

Could have been Myra Breckinridge that I was thinking of. I have not seen either film.

 

So did I and wrongly assumed he had a writing credit.