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

Just noticed these items posted on Macca’s website -

What? They were rejected from inclusion in the deluxe boxes?
Deemed too desirable for a box-set and worthy of a separate sell off?

I guess one could light a Baked Alaskan Pie with the lighter and handle it with the pot holder - but a stamper and sweatpants?


McCartney III could have some real doozy merch ready for Christmas/Holiday sales .......LOL

• Flaming Pie Oven Mitt
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  Flaming Pie Zippo Lighter
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  Flaming Pie Stamp
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  Flaming Pie Jogger Sweatpants

 

Linda McCartney on Instagram:

"Mary, Paul and Heather, London, 1969⁣. One of the photos featured in the #LindaRetrospective @walkerartgallery in Liverpool. Due to popular demand the 'Linda Retrospective' exhibition is extended over the Christmas period until 10 January 2021."

 

Meat Free Monday on Instagram:

"@PaulMcCartney tells @TheSun’s Green Team today why skipping meat and dairy for at least one day a week is so important for animals, people and planet. "

 

Paul McCartney on Instagram:

"Paul's sixteenth solo studio album 'NEW' was released seven years ago this week! [...]

From Paul's surprise concert in Times Square on October 10th 2013"

 

It sounds silly, but it was because of McCartney that I started to work on eating meat alternatives, slowly working away from a lot of meat.

One funny or weird story happened in 2011, when my wife, daughter and I went to Washington, D.C. for a vacation. We were in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History when the shocks from the Virginia earthquake hit (funny enough, my daughter and I were in the room with meteorite fragments and showing what happens when one comes to Earth - thought the shaking was part of it, until the exhibits started falling off their stands!)

We got out of the museum quickly, and I look directly across to the Mall, where I see McCartney's face! It was a PeTA booth, playing a DVD Paul narrated and appears in, and his face was on the big screen right when I looked. Scared me even more, not expecting that!

 

I saw this and thought this photo must have been taken right after the rear cover photo of McCartney was taken, as Mary was about this small, but Paul has now shaved off his beard.

 

I was standing right beneath the street lamp pole with the BROADWAY sign. Fun time for a half-hour.
... The good old days, when you could congregate all together without the need to social distance, etc.

 

Yeah, but now that your famous - autograph seekers would be a pain!

Until we can gather again - stay safe everyone and Arnie thanks for all the “funnies!”
(Most appreciative).

 

Doesn't sound weird at all! For health reasons mostly my wife had suggested we reduce our meat consumption and she heard about meat free Monday’s she thought it was a fun idea.

Id been given Linda’s cookbook a few years back and started making a few recipes. Not bad!

Then my wife said I should start making the recipes but...with meat. I told her I wouldn’t feel right about it!!

Yeah we’re just that exciting...

 

Who in marketing greenlit these, my god.

big PMAC fan, but this entire set is shockingly bad

 

I remember questioning eating meat alreadybas a child, long before I knew even The Beatles. "If I can eat that chicken's leg, why can't I have my brother's arm?! I'm not eating meat!" That's the gist of one late 70's/early 80s lunch conversation, I was either not yet school or had just started.
I switched back to eating meat, though it always irked me as wrong.
When I had moved out and started studying in 1992, I very soon made a rule not to buy meat myself, but for social adaption I ate it if it was part of a finished meal. The next few years saw me more and more actively avoiding meat. In
1995/96 I spent a few months in London, and found Linda's book very early on and started cooking myself. That was the time when I really cut meat. I loved her recipes, quickly did my own versions, and there were a lot of new foods and ingredients to learn.
Today I am still veggie, bordering vegan. I am actively cutting eggs, milk etc but am still eating them as part of chocolate, cookies, cake etc.
I still love Lindas' cookbook, even though I have no longer cook that much myself now for quite a few years. My beloved is way better at it. The first years into our relationship I took care to have lunch / dinner ready when she came home, now she stays at home and took over. But I am starting to get back to cooking, especially as today I love sone things she had to stop eating.
Once we were in Prague and found an excellent vegetarian restaurante, that had some great delicious meals. I loooved their bohemian dumplings with Saitan.

So I cannot claim that the McCartneys made me go veggie, but Linda did play an essental teaching role at some point. Love her for that.
A variant of her celery tonatoe sauce was so simple and delucious it became one of my main foods along with noodles while I was writing my diploma. It was quick, easy and I could cook it without leaving my room using just a single electric cooker. I did not know Cellery, we never used it a lot, but it was / is awesome as part of such a sauce.
I took Honekookung back out of the bookshelf recently, I think her Shepherd's Pie could be nice.

 

The stamper and lighter were original promo items so these are a nod to that.

The oven mits make great sense! What else are you going to use to pull a flaming pie from the oven?

The sweat pants? OK, you got me there.

 

I'm predicting the McCartney III merch right now... a face mask, a Covid home testing kit, and a pair of sweatpants.

 

Here’s a summary of Paul’ reaction to Micheal Jackson's Purchase of The Beatles’ songs.

 

Latest clue to the McCartney III Rumor . . . while playing McCartney or McCartney II on Spotify a looped video of a hand rolling a die that continuously turns up 3 can be seen.

 

Latest?

 

Paul McCartney - McCartney III (Dec 11, 2020)

 

I just got sent by Capitol records a bag of three dice, each one have one side reading “McCartney” and the other sides all having three pips.

 

Nice!

 

Composer Michael Giacchino is Working With Paul McCartney on an Animated Movie – /Film

"Film composer Michael Giacchino and Sir Paul McCartney, best known for an obscure rock group called The Beatles, have been working on an animated film together. Giacchino, who’s the Oscar-winning composer behind Up and Star Trek, is hopeful we’ll see the film one day. Unless we’re mistaken, the jovial composer is possibly alluding to a McCartney-Netflix project called High in the Clouds.

We recently spoke to Giacchino about his debut solo album, Travelogue Volume 1, which is a pure delight that tells the story of an alien visiting Earth. During the interview, he told us about his love for The Beatles and a bit about the McCartney project. “There’s an animated film he was putting together and wanted to do, so he called and asked if I’d want to work with him on that,” he said. “It’s something we’ve been working on in the last bunch of years. One day, one day it’ll come to fruition.”"

 

Amazing news ! I’m so glad to hear that it’s still ongoing and not scrapped.

 

This is an amazing book! Wonderful paintings and extensive essays on the creative process.

There are many very affordable good to excellent used versions, for the price of a used CD
I ordered a simple “good” on Amazon and it’s like new.


If you have any interest in Art or Paul McCartney - Especially, both, it’s a must.


See this image


Paul McCartney: PaintingsHardcover – September 1, 2000
by Paul McCartney & 5 more
52 ratings

 

Here’s a nice story on Stella doing a very, very nice thing with a very serious issue. She especially resonates with it - since her Mom had to deal with it.
Give a read:

Stella McCartney Campaign Shines Light on Breast Cancer Survivors

 

Despite the Iron Curtain and the embargo on Western music, Paul's music somehow managed to be heard "on the other side", as shows this rare 1973 cover of "C Moon" by Czechoslovak singer Marie Rottrová just uploaded on Youtube.