If you could ask Paul McCartney one question...and get a truthful answer.

How do you think the contents of the "Linda tapes" would affect the public's perception of you if they came out?

 

Why do you still dye your hair?

 

Ex-press officer Geoff Baker used to tell interviewers new to McCartney that they shouldn't bother with trying to ask anything new as 'He's heard them all before'.
This seems to have stuck with both press and fans as only exceptionally HAS anybody asked him anything new. Most of the questions here as well have already been answered.
But THIS one HASN'T

So, Paul...did you conspire with Terry Knight (he of 'Saint Paul') to launch the Paul is Dead rumour which you and John had already been playing with in The Beatles and was this in response to Lennon amending, in the proof for an Apple publication, a caption under a photo of your nuptials with Linda from 'Paul McCartney's Wedding' to 'Paul McCartney's Funeral'? And if you didn't can you tell us about what went down with his (aborted?) interview for Apple Records and the subsequent copyright claim by MacLen on that 'Saint Paul' track?

 

Why haven't you played "No More Lonely Nights" live yet?

 

Come on Paul, you fancied Yoko didn't you?!

 

Why don't you ever perform or record the songs you wrote for other artists? Woman, World Without Love, I don't want to see you again, Goodbye, etc. I would love to hear him do a medley in concert of the ones that got away.

 

Speaking of McCartney interviews, this one from 1994 was recently posted online and I found it much more 'real' than a lot of the other ones I've read. Sorry for being off-topic, but thought it might be of interest to some in this thread:

Interview: Paul McCartney On His Life as a Bassist | Bacon's Archive

 

How many levels are there really?

 

Perhaps understandably in view of your achievements, you come across as rather smug and self-satisfied. At the same time, you manage to promote vegetarianism in the sort reasonable and non-bombastic way that would be impossible for many of your fellow advocates-Morrissey and your ex-missus included. What gives?

 

I remember in the flowers in the dirt toward days on local DCradio that he said he wanted to work with Gladys Knight

 

A bowl of the Smile Away, please?

 

What's the combination to your safe?

 

His response: “You first.”

 

More like Pete WORST, amirite brah?

 

How impressed were you with Jason Falkner when recording Chaos and Creation?

 

How does it feel to have only contributed carrot and celery on the greatest album you ever appeared on?
Have you ever thought of editing the live performances of Hey Jude, down to under 25 minutes?
That Freedom song was rubbish, wasn't it?

 

Clarify, please.

 

Rings Around the World - Wikipedia

 

Can you take me back where I came from?

 

Much obliged.

 

What relationship are you referencing in Vanity Fair?

 

Check it out. I do love Abbey Road and RAM just as much; I was being silly with my questions.

 

Why don't we do it in the road?

Heh, Macca's probably heard all these "song title / lyrics questions" before.

Hi, Paul! Can money buy you love? Do you believe in yesterday yet? Has your monkey got anything to hide yet?

Ugh I feel like a journalist.

 

I may not be Paul but this image seems to confirm it

 

I'm checking something out on Youtube. I don't know if this is the actual album or not but it's enjoyable:

Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World - YouTube