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I'm trippin Barack Obama is our new President!
Yeah, I can't believe it-It's all good. It is soo, surreal. I know I'm not the only one that feels this way? Dang, I hope MSNBC or CNN show This history making Inauguration -again, in it's entirety, for those of US millions of Americans- who missed it!~ Why? We had to work!!
I wonder if Paul McCartney watched?- seriously more on Obama tomorrow...
Rumour, Macca-Paul, to play Coachella
Not sure how accurate this is, but Paul McCartney is rumoured to rock it out at this years 10th annl. Music & Arts festival-Coachella, Hey why not Paul? After all he played Glastonbury~duh.
He could play some of em wicked Fireman cuts off Electric Arguments?...now that would be somethin? wouldn't it!..
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What is Coachella?- a Music & Arts experience in Indio, S.Ca
Where? Indio, Ca
date: April 17th 18th & 19th
Who?--more later..
More on Obama
Well after thinkin about this a few days I still haven't gotten my thoughts together regarding our new President Barack Obama. I know this tho, I feel hope for this country. I'm thinkin Barack Obama will be one of those Presidents "For the People" Now when is the last time we had a President for the people, and not about, big Government? I believe the economy will fall harder... before it gets better. So, we need to give our new Prezzie a "Chance"
Last night even Jay Leno was playfully jokin around about Barack Obama..his Monologue was on hit. I loved the lil skit of Barack Obama in The White House bowling alley! that was too freakin funny! Cannot find it on YouTube at this time.. Even the comedians are light hearted about Bama, gives ya that warm fuzzy feelin..This is what the country needs something that brings us together..I'm feelin it.. He is just a man not the messiah or God..
Obama has Lil Wayne on his Blackberry
Oh and I heard this lil snippet last night on the telly from Obama himself. His good friend/ lil-brother Reggie, how he downloaded Lil Wayne-onto his Ipod-or Blackberry? would that be the clean or explicit versions- Mr. President? lmao!
Barack Obama feels like what the Beatles were to the 60's with all the mania surrounding him...I like that! you know it's true!
Jay Leno Tonight Show monologue
On another note..Tonight Show please post Jay Leno's skit from Jan 23 rd 09..of Barack Obama, that was really funny.. I laughed so hard...hell, post the entire monologue it was brilliant one of Jay Leno's best..
well I'm taillights for now
hb.
Ps. Obama forget bailing out the banks! They just rip us off! Help the people of this country with afforable housing.. the price of houses on the west coast is ridiculous! JOBS & healthcare!.
i'm out..
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Must read article: Twisting the words of Paul McCartney the author gives it straight
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Must read article: Twisting the words of Paul McCartney the Author gives it straight
Jonathan Power
11:55pm Thursday late
An excellent article written by the man who interviewed Paul McCartney. The interview was in turn, published in Britain's "Prospect magazine" I haven't read the Prospect article myself however, I did catch a snippet about 'Paul was the more political Beatles not John Lennon'. and posted it in my other blog, I disagreed. Mr Power is correct, quotes, are all over the place. Read below the authors, passionate stance, in correct news reporting, and publishing of news articles. The author sets the record straight-nice. Pay attention news agency's I'd be hot too..hb
Paul McCartney is big news
Whatever Paul McCartney says or does is news, sometimes big news. In September, when he went to give a concert in Israel - making up for the Beatles concert that the Israeli government forbad at the last moment, 43 years ago - he was slashed at by some pro-Palestinian critics for "singing to the enemy".
No matter the "enemy" audience was perhaps 20 percent Arab, that he also used his trip to visit the West Bank not only to see Jesus' birth place but to call in on Edward Said's music school. When he sang he also in his trademark low- key, non-preachy, way pointed his audience in the direction of compromise and healing. One of the prices of the fame he has is to see his honest words and honest thoughts twisted almost out of recognition.
I saw this happen close up last week when my long conversation with McCartney was published in Britain's leading intellectual monthly, Prospect magazine. It was if the press has a mindset about the McCartney-John Lennon relationship that demands that anything he says be squeezed into some previous mold, and if doesn't quite fit then an extra shove is made so that the verbal tentacles are distorted beyond recognition as they are pressed down.
After banner headlines over the misleading story in British newspapers, led by the big circulation, Rupert Murdoch paper, the Sunday Times, the wire service, Associated Press, carried the story around the world, where it was printed in literally hundreds of papers. One report, one identical story, the world is covered with misleading information by editors too uncaring or unmotivated or just plain lazy to make a call to Prospect to ask for the original wording. Not one journalist called me.
"The fact is the interview carries not a word of rivalry with John Lennon. Neither about which Beatle discovered the Vietnam War first, (the main themes of the Sunday Times/AP story). Nor about the allusions the story made to McCartney's (mythical) claim, at Lennon's expense, to have written the best of the Beatles' tunes."
The interview runs to about 5000 words - double that in its uncut form. The discussion on the Vietnam War is perhaps a dozen lines of that. The mention of John Lennon is once - when Paul describes how he returned from a conversation with Bertrand Russell to tell the other three what he had heard from the old philosopher about the evils of the war in Vietnam.
The original interview, the beginning of the Revolution
My interview with Paul originated in the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys over 50 years ago. We were classmates. We played cricket together and I witnessed the first Beatles' concert when he and George Harrison (in the year behind us) played for our class on the last day of school. We yelled like groupies! We have stayed in touch.
I wrote to Paul in May to send him the column I wrote on the newspaper hype about the 40th anniversary of the student rebellion in Paris. I wrote that the "revolution" did not begin in 1968. It began in 1955 when an old black lady, Rosa Parks, in Montgomery, Alabama, sat down in a bus on a seat reserved for white people. She was arrested and out of the shadows stepped a young preacher, Martin Luther King. The rest is history. King's driven nonviolent campaigns resulted in the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. Millions of blacks were liberated and enfranchised. The long road out of oppression led to the election of Barack Obama.
What a real revolution that has been! Along the way in 1961 came the Beatles, a liberating force for millions of young people. Also in Britain in the same year Amnesty International was founded - a milestone in the rise of human rights consciousness. To start contemporary history in 1968 is a fatuous mistake.
Paul agreed we talk about this and we decided we would meet and go over our lives and discuss what had affected us though our lifetime and what had tuned us both in at school to fight racism and war. We met twice, once for two hours and once for an hour and talked - about school, the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, right through to the Russian invasion of Georgia. On the way we talked about literature and the impact of FR Leavis, the great Cambridge Shakespearian scholar, on the writing of Eleanor Rigby, and Paul's feelings on the likelihood that his songs will still be sung in 500 years' time.
Paul is a self-effacing, wise, intelligent man. He may grab the spotlight on the stage. But he has no need to twist history. And neither should the press when reporting on him.
Nice article, correction Brilliant article Mr. Power- what a friend you are too Macca, hats off to ya... I have to say myself, this was a a gutsy article..straight talk.... c'mon he calls a spade a spade good for him. Wouldn't you be pissed if someone butchered your words or article?
ta
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Must read article: Twisting the words of Paul McCartney the Author gives it straight
Jonathan Power
11:55pm Thursday late
An excellent article written by the man who interviewed Paul McCartney. The interview was in turn, published in Britain's "Prospect magazine" I haven't read the Prospect article myself however, I did catch a snippet about 'Paul was the more political Beatles not John Lennon'. and posted it in my other blog, I disagreed. Mr Power is correct, quotes, are all over the place. Read below the authors, passionate stance, in correct news reporting, and publishing of news articles. The author sets the record straight-nice. Pay attention news agency's I'd be hot too..hb
Paul McCartney is big news
Whatever Paul McCartney says or does is news, sometimes big news. In September, when he went to give a concert in Israel - making up for the Beatles concert that the Israeli government forbad at the last moment, 43 years ago - he was slashed at by some pro-Palestinian critics for "singing to the enemy".
No matter the "enemy" audience was perhaps 20 percent Arab, that he also used his trip to visit the West Bank not only to see Jesus' birth place but to call in on Edward Said's music school. When he sang he also in his trademark low- key, non-preachy, way pointed his audience in the direction of compromise and healing. One of the prices of the fame he has is to see his honest words and honest thoughts twisted almost out of recognition.
I saw this happen close up last week when my long conversation with McCartney was published in Britain's leading intellectual monthly, Prospect magazine. It was if the press has a mindset about the McCartney-John Lennon relationship that demands that anything he says be squeezed into some previous mold, and if doesn't quite fit then an extra shove is made so that the verbal tentacles are distorted beyond recognition as they are pressed down.
After banner headlines over the misleading story in British newspapers, led by the big circulation, Rupert Murdoch paper, the Sunday Times, the wire service, Associated Press, carried the story around the world, where it was printed in literally hundreds of papers. One report, one identical story, the world is covered with misleading information by editors too uncaring or unmotivated or just plain lazy to make a call to Prospect to ask for the original wording. Not one journalist called me.
"The fact is the interview carries not a word of rivalry with John Lennon. Neither about which Beatle discovered the Vietnam War first, (the main themes of the Sunday Times/AP story). Nor about the allusions the story made to McCartney's (mythical) claim, at Lennon's expense, to have written the best of the Beatles' tunes."
The interview runs to about 5000 words - double that in its uncut form. The discussion on the Vietnam War is perhaps a dozen lines of that. The mention of John Lennon is once - when Paul describes how he returned from a conversation with Bertrand Russell to tell the other three what he had heard from the old philosopher about the evils of the war in Vietnam.
The original interview, the beginning of the Revolution
My interview with Paul originated in the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys over 50 years ago. We were classmates. We played cricket together and I witnessed the first Beatles' concert when he and George Harrison (in the year behind us) played for our class on the last day of school. We yelled like groupies! We have stayed in touch.
I wrote to Paul in May to send him the column I wrote on the newspaper hype about the 40th anniversary of the student rebellion in Paris. I wrote that the "revolution" did not begin in 1968. It began in 1955 when an old black lady, Rosa Parks, in Montgomery, Alabama, sat down in a bus on a seat reserved for white people. She was arrested and out of the shadows stepped a young preacher, Martin Luther King. The rest is history. King's driven nonviolent campaigns resulted in the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. Millions of blacks were liberated and enfranchised. The long road out of oppression led to the election of Barack Obama.
What a real revolution that has been! Along the way in 1961 came the Beatles, a liberating force for millions of young people. Also in Britain in the same year Amnesty International was founded - a milestone in the rise of human rights consciousness. To start contemporary history in 1968 is a fatuous mistake.
Paul agreed we talk about this and we decided we would meet and go over our lives and discuss what had affected us though our lifetime and what had tuned us both in at school to fight racism and war. We met twice, once for two hours and once for an hour and talked - about school, the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, right through to the Russian invasion of Georgia. On the way we talked about literature and the impact of FR Leavis, the great Cambridge Shakespearian scholar, on the writing of Eleanor Rigby, and Paul's feelings on the likelihood that his songs will still be sung in 500 years' time.
Paul is a self-effacing, wise, intelligent man. He may grab the spotlight on the stage. But he has no need to twist history. And neither should the press when reporting on him.
Nice article, correction Brilliant article Mr. Power- what a friend you are too Macca, hats off to ya... I have to say myself, this was a a gutsy article..straight talk.... c'mon he calls a spade a spade good for him. Wouldn't you be pissed if someone butchered your words or article?
ta
hb~
Saturday, November 22, 2008
McCartney confronts the ghosts from his past
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McCartney confronts the ghosts from his past
Mark Edmonds
This story was originally posted by the Times Online.co.uk- who torn it down for some reason. A very good read. Posted here,. is the entire article as Macca reflects on the past, from John Lennon, The Beatles, Geoff Baker and others.
He overcame losing the love of his life and survived a disastrous second marriage. So what continues to torture him? In his most revealing interview yet, Sir Paul McCartney confronts the ghosts of his past.
The interview
Sir Paul McCartney is sitting outside his dressing room, a tent actually, which he shares with his new American girlfriend, Nancy Shevell. It has been erected backstage with its own intimate tea lights, and one hour from now, on this September night, he will perform live before 50,000 fans in Tel Aviv. He’s relaxed, biding his time, an already busy day behind him spent meeting Palestinian and Israeli peace activists. He downplays his contribution to harmony in the Middle East.
It was just some geezer showing up, who happens to be a musician. I am trying to do my own little bit and find out more.” Some geezer?
“Yes, I am allowed to say that. In my mind I am just an ordinary guy.”
McCartney and world leaders
The most famous “ordinary guy” in the world enjoys a £400m fortune, travels in a private jet, owns a dozen or so homes around the globe and has an entourage to attend to his every whim. For this night’s work the “ordinary guy” will earn $4m. He has been voted, questionably, the greatest composer ever, ahead of Mozart or Beethoven, and Messrs Putin, Blair, Bush and Clinton have courted him. The meeting with Barack Obama hasn’t happened yet, but McCartney says he will find room in his diary when the moment arises.
For decades McCartney has been written about, talked about, parodied and analysed, most recently during his divorce from Heather Mills, a split that revealed more about his private life than he has ever allowed. There’s nothing ordinary about this “geezer” and hasn’t been since 1962, and yet it is a theme he will return to time and time again, enough to beg the question, why? What’s bugging him that he needs us all to reappraise him?
Macca in Israel
In a scruffy, dusty street in Bethlehem, a small music school has been set up by the conductor Daniel Barenboim. The school is intended to bridge the cavernous divide between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Here there are no autograph hunters, no paparazzi. It is just McCartney, Nancy, a handful of staff and a bodyguard. Inside, McCartney plays the boogie-woogie intro to Lady Madonna on a Steinway. The children he has come to visit are politely baffled. For once, McCartney really is an ordinary geezer. Nobody has heard of him in this dirt-poor district.
During an unscheduled stop at the Church of the Nativity, he and Nancy light candles for peace. He pauses for autographs and a group of students interrupt the reverence with a rendering of Yellow Submarine in Spanish. He apologises to those who have come to pray. Someone shouts: “You’re fantastic, Paul!” “No, you’re more important than me,” he replies, warmly. His manner with ordinary people is intuitive and yet polished. At the church he teases a group of women: “Make sure you behave yourselves, ladies”. They purr gratefully. I can safely predict them dining out on what a nice guy he is for the rest of their lives.
McCartney now
At 66, McCartney is still the man your mum would want to meet. But when he is not parading before his public, he is on guard, and he politely ignores questions he deems uncomfortable. We have to remember that he is an old hand at this — he has been famous for nearly 50 years. He is still recording, but not, he says, making much money out of the new releases. Increasingly he has been building up his music-publishing interests. He still paints, and his classical works have sold well, although critics have been sniffy. More than anything, he loves performing. “I never want to get jaded. It’s still exciting for me to see people lining the route and waving out of the car. And yes, it is ego.”
But he keeps pushing the message of the ordinary guy from an ordinary house in Liverpool who’s still modestly perplexed by it all. That ordinary house, paradoxically, is now owned by the National Trust. McCartney has not been back since. “It gets dangerous when you start believing your own legacy. That’s why I’ve not gone back.”
Legacy is a tricky issue for him. He doesn’t want to be seen to be bothered by it, yet clearly it bugs him. Wherever he makes an appearance, he is followed by his own video crew; every minute of every public moment is recorded. Two stills photographers are part of the team, and he retouches and vets every image they release to the media. He even did this in the hubbub of Tel Aviv. Why? To preserve his legend for prosperity? The question draws a defensive response.
“I just don’t like to see terrible photos of myself…it’s straightforward vanity. You tell me someone who wants to see terrible photos of themselves
I hesitate to say I know a lot of women who’d agree, but not many men who are that bothered.
On The Beatles & Lennon
The Beatles were together for just eight years, until the split in 1970. McCartney has spent the greatest part of his life and career as a solo performer, with painfully less success than he enjoyed with Lennon. He concedes that he will probably never again write songs with the luminescence of Here, There and Everywhere or Eleanor Rigby.
It becomes clear during our sporadic conversations over five months that McCartney feels real, tangible, lingering pain about the Beatles, and particularly the fact that he has carried the blame for their break-up. It might be guilt, it might be hindsight and it might just be a desire to clear his name. It might be the reason he is so intent on presenting himself as the “nice ordinary geezer” who teases old ladies — as if to rehabilitate himself. It’s possible that the McCartney who
was cast as the villain in the break-up wants redemption, and with only two Beatles left, he’s
keen that posterity records his side of the story.
Those who really know McCartney say there are those who are overawed by him, those who are intimidated by him, and those who just want a piece of him. When he visited Washington a few years ago, George Bush and Colin Powell were squabbling over a book McCartney had autographed for Powell. Staff were dispatched to obtain a second copy for the president.
When Tony Blair heard that McCartney was to attend a Children of Courage lunch in 1999, he kept the cabinet waiting while he posed for a picture with the former Beatle. When McCartney played Red Square, Putin invited him to hang out with him. McCartney allowed one tea and a tour of the Kremlin; he was busy.
His musical legacy is guaranteed, but that of “the man who broke up the Beatles” because he couldn’t be the boss, haunts him, as does his relationship with John Lennon — the blame for the break-up still has traction 38 years later. Whatever the catastrophic nature of his marriage to Heather Mills, a line has been drawn, but with Lennon it is still untidy, unfinished business, and it’s the one personal issue McCartney doesn’t duck. Indeed, he seems driven to seek an acquittal — a pardon won’t do.
The roots of the Beatles’ break-up go back to 1967, with the death of Brian Epstein. The group’s finances soon became chaotic and McCartney pushed for the Eastmans, his in-laws, to take over their management. Lennon opposed McCartney’s desire to control the band’s destiny and legacy, and proposed a new manager, Allen Klein, with whom he, George and Ringo had already signed.
Stalemate ensued. McCartney wouldn’t budge, nor would Lennon. By then all four were ready to go their separate ways. McCartney sued to legally wind up the band, ensuring it couldn’t reform without him and leaving none of their legacy under Klein’s control. The split was messy and brutal. McCartney probably said “I told you so” when Lennon subsequently fell out with Klein, but by then his intimate relationship with Lennon was beyond repair.
In 1971, Lennon released a song called How Do You Sleep? It was aimed at McCartney — a bilious, vituperative attack, mocking him, accusing him of possessing a petit bourgeois, suburban mentality and being under his wife Linda’s thumb — “You live with straights who tell you you was king… Jump when your mama tell you anything…”
The fact that George and Ringo also played on the track made it more painful. To his credit, McCartney tried to build bridges, contacting Lennon whenever he was in New York, but sources say he was systematically and rudely rebuffed. In 1972 they did meet briefly — and frostily. Lennon’s biographer Philip Norman refers to a guarded truce that soon evaporated, though McCartney still wanted to reach out. He would call Lennon regularly, often to be greeted with “What the f***, do you want, man?”
For some reason Lennon was particularly annoyed by McCartney’s tendency to talk about his young children. John said that the man he once dismissively described as the best PR in the business had become “all pizza and fairy tales”. It’s hard to escape the conclusion that Lennon could be a boorish snob. They played together just once after the break-up, at Lennon’s house in Santa Monica. McCartney and Linda arrived and they joined an all-star jam session.
The one-time friends met for the last time over an awkward dinner in New York about two years before Lennon’s death: one person who was there said they had nothing left to say to each other.
McCartney seems painfully conscious of the shadow John still casts over his life three decades later. He would live to regret the insanely glib remark he made on TV when asked about John’s death: “Drag, isn’t it?” A clip of it has ended up on YouTube; McCartney appears callous, but those close to him defend him vigorously. McCartney was in shock at the loss of his closest-ever friend, they say, and for once his composure deserted him. Two years later when the BBC filmed McCartney recording a special edition of Desert Island Discs, he wept as he talked about Lennon.
Throughout our conversations McCartney is keen to return to the subject of Lennon. There is the overwhelming sense that their prodigious, at times toxic, relationship is never far from his mind. I ask if he would ever consider performing Lennon’s How Do You Sleep? He doesn’t take the bait. “Maybe I wouldn’t do that one. I doubt it,” he answers with a wry smile. But it sparks an attempt to set the record straight, to varnish the epitaph and insist that the Lennon/McCartney friendship survived and endured. “The answer to John was well — I was sleeping very well at the time.
“Before John died I got back a good relationship with him. That was very special. The arguments we had didn’t matter. We were able to just take the piss about all those songs; they weren’t that harsh. In fact, I have been thanked by Yoko and everyone else for saving the Beatles from Allen Klein. Everything comes round in the end.” I ask him why it still matters so much. “I was placed in the most awkward position I’ve ever been placed in. I had to fight three mates to save their legacy, their money, as well as mine, and I did so knowing it would put me in a very dodgy position.”
He goes on, eager to impress his defence upon unforgiving or undecided Beatles fans. He only sued his mates to stop Klein destroying them. “Anyone who didn’t thoroughly review the whole thing would be forgiven for thinking ‘What a tosser’. So yes, that matters to me, it is still a haunting episode… It was pretty scary having to say to Johnny, Georgie, Ringo, I’m suing you!”
When he started touring with Wings in the 1970s, McCartney refused to sing any Beatles songs. Now the set he has brought to Israel, one of a series of special gigs this year, consists mainly of the songs he wrote and recorded with Lennon. “I love John’s songs. In the Beatles, if you said it was one of your songs, it basically meant it was your idea. So Eleanor Rigby was my song, but John helped me finish it. A Day in the Life was his, but I helped him finish it. He came up with ‘I read the news today’ and I came up with ‘he blew his mind out in a car’. At the end of the song in Tel Aviv, McCartney segues into Lennon’s Give Peace a Chance, which in recent years he has quietly appropriated.
In Tel-Aviv
McCartney’s decision to play in Tel Aviv has prompted huge controversy, pushing him onto the front pages for the first time since the divorce settlement that cost him £24.3m. Omar Bakri Mohammed, a radical sheikh based in Syria, makes death threats.
“I don’t get worried — if I did I’d get worried about walking across the street and getting run over in London.” The Israeli ambassador to the UK has already publicly apologised to McCartney and Ringo for banning the Beatles in the 1960s — their music was deemed too decadent — and the government is milking this visit. McCartney, meanwhile, has decreed that he wants to meet some Palestinians.
We wait for hours in the hotel lobby for McCartney to emerge from his suite. He has had a long lie-in. His famous love of punctuality doesn’t always apply to himself. If you arrange to call at his office, a member of his staff will send a nervous text five minutes before asking: “Where are you?” As he finally enters, he cannot resist a tinkle on the piano. He strides purposefully; he has learnt to walk faster than most over the years, which may be why he wears trainers with suits.
For a 66-year-old, he looks relaxed and fit, with not a grey hair on his head. He and Nancy get into a bomb-proof Land Rover, the rest of us in a Mercedes minibus. We drive into the West Bank.
The trip gives us a snapshot of vintage McCartney: it shows how he operates and how he has survived for so long. He is not a great political thinker, but in politics, as in so many things, his approach is instinctive and pragmatic. He is disarmingly honest. “I’m not very politically aware of the situation, I suppose like the average British person. We do know there’s a conflict, but we didn’t know all the ins and outs. You don’t have to visit a refugee camp to know there are a lot of Palestinians who have become dispossessed.”
On tour, as at home, with staff, officials, crew and the public, he is polite and warm. When faced with the dull prospect of a “meet and greet” with local bigwigs before the concert, he still manages to pretend he is enjoying himself. The mayor of Tel Aviv is here, anxious to be seen — and photographed — shaking McCartney’s hand. “It’s okay. I understand why it has to be done. I know it’s not going to go on for long. It’s not entirely boring.”
There is a part of McCartney that relishes being famous, even now. He enjoys ringing people up out of the blue. “Most people think it’s Frank from the office having a laugh. But then I say, ‘No, it’s Paul, you know, She Loves You?’” (hb: Paul you can call me! hehehe)I’m not convinced he could cope with being the ordinary guy he claims to be. “This morning,” he says, “I was walking into a cafe. A girl shouts, ‘Hi Paul, you are fantastic. I really love you.’ I take it with a pinch of salt, but I am honoured. I am pleased she didn’t say, ‘You’re a total arsehole and I hate you.’ I am pleased I have got a compliment, and I can still walk around Soho as I’ve always done.”
Macca on Macca
People who know him say there is the real McCartney and there is Beatle Paul. “I’ve learnt to compartmentalise,” he says. “There’s me and there’s famous Him. I don’t want to sound schizophrenic, but probably I’m two people. I’m the guy who does shows in Israel, but I’m also the guy who goes home to the kids. There I am just Dad.
Apart from the “ordinary guy”, McCartney is also the “family guy”. He is close to all his children. “They’ve not been cloistered — Linda and I were very conscious of that. They’re likable people.” But they are different from others, financially at least. “If you’re as well off as I am, inevitably they will benefit. They’ve never understood hunger, like I did. I’m still hungry because I had that hunger, I’ve never lost it. It’s good to have.”
One of his gripes with Heather was not the money but his wish that their daughter Beatrice did not grow up in “a gilded cage” with 24-hour security, which his other children never had. There’s that ordinary guy again. I wonder why he needs it so much.
Paul in public David Blaine inccident & Geoff Baker
Throughout his public life McCartney has appeared calm and in control. Even when his ex-wife was portraying him as a cannabis-smoking, wife-beating Scrooge, he kept his cool. But there are times when he loses it and the ordinary guy can be ruthless.
In 2003 he let rip in public, getting annoyed with a photographer. At the time he was out at Tower Bridge in London watching the illusionist David Blaine, and referred to him as a “c***”. For McCartney, it was unprecedented: a moment of uncontrolled rudeness exposed to the world. His relationship with Heather was unravelling at the time. “We’d been out with a bunch of mates eating and drinking and going at it out late. We had our publicity guy there. He went out to tell the press ‘there he is’. I was more angry with him than anyone else. But I lost it that night. Yes.”
McCartney fired Geoff Baker, his press officer, that night, but reinstated him the following day. A year later he sacked him properly after 15 years’ service. McCartney himself put out an uncharacteristically mean press release: “Over the past few months, his behaviour has not reached the professional standards I had come to expect.”
Baker now says working as McCartney’s press officer in the Heather phase of his life had driven him to drugs and drink. “The pressure was massive… there’s the world there, Paul and Heather here, and I was in between. Nobody can blame my addictive failings on Paul or Heather or anything like that. But the pressure was unreal.”
The Blaine episode was trivial in itself, but revealing, in that it was McCartney’s first and, to date, last public explosion, although there have been gaffes, not least his response to 9/11.
“Are you gonna do a bombing campaign? How dare you! If you want to take my kids out — well, screw you. Come and talk about it, right in my face, baby,” was his public challenge to Osama Bin Laden. Unsurprisingly, Bin Laden never got back to him.
On them drugs
In 1984, four years after the drugs bust in Japan that sent McCartney to jail and finished off Wings, he spoke about drugs: “Cannabis is a lot less harmful than rum punch, whisky, nicotine and glue, all of which are perfectly legal.” Now, he told me, “Things have changed. A lot of people started on heroin because John did.
We didn’t know the dangers of overindulgence. The problems of cannabis have escalated and it really is more dangerous. “I’ve lost too many friends through drugs. I still believe basically the same things, but I don’t want to be a spokesman for legalisation.” When pressed, for the first time in our conversations he is irritated. “I think I’ve made my views perfectly clear.”
His prickliness over the drugs issue is an example of his refusal to deviate from his own agenda. I mention that I have recently interviewed the widow of Mal Evans, the Beatles’ long-standing roadie who felt let down by the group when they broke up — the comment is simply ignored as though he didn’t hear it. In McCartney’s world, he has to have the last word, and there is no doubt he is always right — probably because there is nobody ever there to say he is wrong.
Oh, the wrecking crew
We talk about the perceived wisdom that he only employs yes men. At his office, the atmosphere is relaxed and informal, but he is unquestionably the boss. His entourage call him, without irony, the Big Man, a contradictory term for someone surprisingly slight and skinny. “In any situation with a high-ranking official, any boss, it’s not always a good idea to tell him he’s crap. But I try to encourage people. We all have meetings — the best ideas carry the day. If someone goofs up I tell them off. There have been one or two moments when somebody has been out of order.”
Before a concert he is a stickler for detail: the music, the visuals, how he looks. But he can’t keep on top of everything. One crew member who joined him on stage told me: “Nancy should have done something about his nose hair.” Those who work for him tend to remain loyal, not least, as Baker says, because they enjoy being part of the inner sanctum. “He’s not the king of England; he’s not going to have you executed. But too many people don’t want to offend him, because they don’t want to be dropped.”
Probably the closest person to him other than family is his “executive personal assistant”, John Hammel, who began working for him as a roadie in the 1970s. On stage he still hands him his instruments and adjusts his strap, but he is now also his driver, confidante and maybe even his best friend. “It’s funny, but no one has ever asked me to reveal all. And I never would. I’d never give an interview, I’d never write a book. I’m too loyal to Paul.” It’s hard to tell who is close to McCartney. Since the death of Lennon, nobody has filled the void who doesn’t work for him.
It is remarkable how so few of his intimates have kissed and told. Jane Asher has never spoken of their relationship, and Neil Aspinall, the Beatles roadie who went on to run Apple, also remained loyal. When Aspinall retired McCartney gave him a gold watch, but, more tellingly, he also paid for Aspinall’s cancer treatment. McCartney flew to New York to say goodbye to him just before he died.
One thing does emerge from talking to his friends and associates: McCartney can be controlling, difficult and demanding, but he is fundamentally decent.
In the 1960s, the Beatles biographer Hunter Davies asked the group if he could keep some handwritten song lyrics they’d left lying around in Abbey Road, which would otherwise have been thrown out by the cleaners. They all agreed, but McCartney forgot about it until he took his daughter Mary to the British Museum and spotted a lyric in his handwriting in a case. (Davies had given them to the nation.) He wrote to Davies asking for the lyric back; they eventually agreed between them that McCartney would leave it in the museum.
Someone who has known him well for years says: “Rich and famous people like him are always bugged about something. The relationship with John was hard. He was in awe of him. He doesn’t care when people mock his art or his music. But more than anything he has the Beatles legend looming over him.”
don't question him about Heather
There are subjects that McCartney flags up firmly as no-go areas. On Heather, he will not say a word. He doesn’t have to. During and after their separation, he maintained a dignified silence. Mr Justice Bennett described him as “consistent, accurate and honest”. Perhaps the only lingering question anyone wants answered is why someone as worldly as McCartney would fall for a serial stalker of publicity, wealth and fame.
The answer could be that nobody had the nerve to tell him about the real Heather Mills. His children are thought to have tried, but it would have been easy for him to dismiss their objections as loyalty to their mother. One source says McCartney’s explanation after the divorce was simple and nearer the truth: he was thinking with the wrong head. In his judgment, Mr Justice Bennett was kinder; he said McCartney was “still very emotionally tied” to Linda when he met Heather.
the new woman
One day in October, when I call to see him at his London office, an assistant is mailing out the pink invitations to Beatrice’s birthday party; McCartney speaks of his daughter fondly. He is more circumspect about his new relationship with Nancy Shevell, a rich American businesswoman who is separated amicably from her husband. She is notoriously publicity shy. I asked her if she finds McCartney’s fame stressful. “I don’t find it stressful. I’m a cancer survivor, I run a trucking company and I’ve got a 16-year-old to raise. That’s stress.”
Nancy clearly idolises him. As McCartney performed in Tel Aviv, she looked on adoringly. It didn’t bother her that his set includes the song My Love, which he dedicates to Linda — Heather used to stomp out when he played it so he took it out. Nancy is confident, sophisticated and McCartney clearly feels safe and comfortable with her. “I just like being in love,” is all he’ll say on the subject.
the ordinary guy
It has been an insightful few months. The ordinary guy, the geezer from Liverpool, the rock’n’roll legend, the goodwill ambassador, they’ve all been on show, and what emerges is a man comfortable with his fame, even with his notoriety. It’s curious he doesn’t feel embarrassment over the questions his Heather episode pose about his judgment.
He has almost breezily drawn a line under the messiest divorce in decades, and yet his role in the split from the Beatles still cuts deep. McCartney is clearly in touch with his mortality, and he doesn’t want his immortality tarnished.
Electric Arguments, the latest album by the Fireman (Paul McCartney), is out tomorrow on MPL/One Little Indian Records
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McCartney confronts the ghosts from his past
Mark Edmonds
This story was originally posted by the Times Online.co.uk- who torn it down for some reason. A very good read. Posted here,. is the entire article as Macca reflects on the past, from John Lennon, The Beatles, Geoff Baker and others.
He overcame losing the love of his life and survived a disastrous second marriage. So what continues to torture him? In his most revealing interview yet, Sir Paul McCartney confronts the ghosts of his past.
The interview
Sir Paul McCartney is sitting outside his dressing room, a tent actually, which he shares with his new American girlfriend, Nancy Shevell. It has been erected backstage with its own intimate tea lights, and one hour from now, on this September night, he will perform live before 50,000 fans in Tel Aviv. He’s relaxed, biding his time, an already busy day behind him spent meeting Palestinian and Israeli peace activists. He downplays his contribution to harmony in the Middle East.
It was just some geezer showing up, who happens to be a musician. I am trying to do my own little bit and find out more.” Some geezer?
“Yes, I am allowed to say that. In my mind I am just an ordinary guy.”
McCartney and world leaders
The most famous “ordinary guy” in the world enjoys a £400m fortune, travels in a private jet, owns a dozen or so homes around the globe and has an entourage to attend to his every whim. For this night’s work the “ordinary guy” will earn $4m. He has been voted, questionably, the greatest composer ever, ahead of Mozart or Beethoven, and Messrs Putin, Blair, Bush and Clinton have courted him. The meeting with Barack Obama hasn’t happened yet, but McCartney says he will find room in his diary when the moment arises.
For decades McCartney has been written about, talked about, parodied and analysed, most recently during his divorce from Heather Mills, a split that revealed more about his private life than he has ever allowed. There’s nothing ordinary about this “geezer” and hasn’t been since 1962, and yet it is a theme he will return to time and time again, enough to beg the question, why? What’s bugging him that he needs us all to reappraise him?
Macca in Israel
In a scruffy, dusty street in Bethlehem, a small music school has been set up by the conductor Daniel Barenboim. The school is intended to bridge the cavernous divide between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Here there are no autograph hunters, no paparazzi. It is just McCartney, Nancy, a handful of staff and a bodyguard. Inside, McCartney plays the boogie-woogie intro to Lady Madonna on a Steinway. The children he has come to visit are politely baffled. For once, McCartney really is an ordinary geezer. Nobody has heard of him in this dirt-poor district.
During an unscheduled stop at the Church of the Nativity, he and Nancy light candles for peace. He pauses for autographs and a group of students interrupt the reverence with a rendering of Yellow Submarine in Spanish. He apologises to those who have come to pray. Someone shouts: “You’re fantastic, Paul!” “No, you’re more important than me,” he replies, warmly. His manner with ordinary people is intuitive and yet polished. At the church he teases a group of women: “Make sure you behave yourselves, ladies”. They purr gratefully. I can safely predict them dining out on what a nice guy he is for the rest of their lives.
McCartney now
At 66, McCartney is still the man your mum would want to meet. But when he is not parading before his public, he is on guard, and he politely ignores questions he deems uncomfortable. We have to remember that he is an old hand at this — he has been famous for nearly 50 years. He is still recording, but not, he says, making much money out of the new releases. Increasingly he has been building up his music-publishing interests. He still paints, and his classical works have sold well, although critics have been sniffy. More than anything, he loves performing. “I never want to get jaded. It’s still exciting for me to see people lining the route and waving out of the car. And yes, it is ego.”
But he keeps pushing the message of the ordinary guy from an ordinary house in Liverpool who’s still modestly perplexed by it all. That ordinary house, paradoxically, is now owned by the National Trust. McCartney has not been back since. “It gets dangerous when you start believing your own legacy. That’s why I’ve not gone back.”
Legacy is a tricky issue for him. He doesn’t want to be seen to be bothered by it, yet clearly it bugs him. Wherever he makes an appearance, he is followed by his own video crew; every minute of every public moment is recorded. Two stills photographers are part of the team, and he retouches and vets every image they release to the media. He even did this in the hubbub of Tel Aviv. Why? To preserve his legend for prosperity? The question draws a defensive response.
“I just don’t like to see terrible photos of myself…it’s straightforward vanity. You tell me someone who wants to see terrible photos of themselves
I hesitate to say I know a lot of women who’d agree, but not many men who are that bothered.
On The Beatles & Lennon
The Beatles were together for just eight years, until the split in 1970. McCartney has spent the greatest part of his life and career as a solo performer, with painfully less success than he enjoyed with Lennon. He concedes that he will probably never again write songs with the luminescence of Here, There and Everywhere or Eleanor Rigby.
It becomes clear during our sporadic conversations over five months that McCartney feels real, tangible, lingering pain about the Beatles, and particularly the fact that he has carried the blame for their break-up. It might be guilt, it might be hindsight and it might just be a desire to clear his name. It might be the reason he is so intent on presenting himself as the “nice ordinary geezer” who teases old ladies — as if to rehabilitate himself. It’s possible that the McCartney who
was cast as the villain in the break-up wants redemption, and with only two Beatles left, he’s
keen that posterity records his side of the story.
Those who really know McCartney say there are those who are overawed by him, those who are intimidated by him, and those who just want a piece of him. When he visited Washington a few years ago, George Bush and Colin Powell were squabbling over a book McCartney had autographed for Powell. Staff were dispatched to obtain a second copy for the president.
When Tony Blair heard that McCartney was to attend a Children of Courage lunch in 1999, he kept the cabinet waiting while he posed for a picture with the former Beatle. When McCartney played Red Square, Putin invited him to hang out with him. McCartney allowed one tea and a tour of the Kremlin; he was busy.
His musical legacy is guaranteed, but that of “the man who broke up the Beatles” because he couldn’t be the boss, haunts him, as does his relationship with John Lennon — the blame for the break-up still has traction 38 years later. Whatever the catastrophic nature of his marriage to Heather Mills, a line has been drawn, but with Lennon it is still untidy, unfinished business, and it’s the one personal issue McCartney doesn’t duck. Indeed, he seems driven to seek an acquittal — a pardon won’t do.
The roots of the Beatles’ break-up go back to 1967, with the death of Brian Epstein. The group’s finances soon became chaotic and McCartney pushed for the Eastmans, his in-laws, to take over their management. Lennon opposed McCartney’s desire to control the band’s destiny and legacy, and proposed a new manager, Allen Klein, with whom he, George and Ringo had already signed.
Stalemate ensued. McCartney wouldn’t budge, nor would Lennon. By then all four were ready to go their separate ways. McCartney sued to legally wind up the band, ensuring it couldn’t reform without him and leaving none of their legacy under Klein’s control. The split was messy and brutal. McCartney probably said “I told you so” when Lennon subsequently fell out with Klein, but by then his intimate relationship with Lennon was beyond repair.
In 1971, Lennon released a song called How Do You Sleep? It was aimed at McCartney — a bilious, vituperative attack, mocking him, accusing him of possessing a petit bourgeois, suburban mentality and being under his wife Linda’s thumb — “You live with straights who tell you you was king… Jump when your mama tell you anything…”
The fact that George and Ringo also played on the track made it more painful. To his credit, McCartney tried to build bridges, contacting Lennon whenever he was in New York, but sources say he was systematically and rudely rebuffed. In 1972 they did meet briefly — and frostily. Lennon’s biographer Philip Norman refers to a guarded truce that soon evaporated, though McCartney still wanted to reach out. He would call Lennon regularly, often to be greeted with “What the f***, do you want, man?”
For some reason Lennon was particularly annoyed by McCartney’s tendency to talk about his young children. John said that the man he once dismissively described as the best PR in the business had become “all pizza and fairy tales”. It’s hard to escape the conclusion that Lennon could be a boorish snob. They played together just once after the break-up, at Lennon’s house in Santa Monica. McCartney and Linda arrived and they joined an all-star jam session.
The one-time friends met for the last time over an awkward dinner in New York about two years before Lennon’s death: one person who was there said they had nothing left to say to each other.
McCartney seems painfully conscious of the shadow John still casts over his life three decades later. He would live to regret the insanely glib remark he made on TV when asked about John’s death: “Drag, isn’t it?” A clip of it has ended up on YouTube; McCartney appears callous, but those close to him defend him vigorously. McCartney was in shock at the loss of his closest-ever friend, they say, and for once his composure deserted him. Two years later when the BBC filmed McCartney recording a special edition of Desert Island Discs, he wept as he talked about Lennon.
Throughout our conversations McCartney is keen to return to the subject of Lennon. There is the overwhelming sense that their prodigious, at times toxic, relationship is never far from his mind. I ask if he would ever consider performing Lennon’s How Do You Sleep? He doesn’t take the bait. “Maybe I wouldn’t do that one. I doubt it,” he answers with a wry smile. But it sparks an attempt to set the record straight, to varnish the epitaph and insist that the Lennon/McCartney friendship survived and endured. “The answer to John was well — I was sleeping very well at the time.
“Before John died I got back a good relationship with him. That was very special. The arguments we had didn’t matter. We were able to just take the piss about all those songs; they weren’t that harsh. In fact, I have been thanked by Yoko and everyone else for saving the Beatles from Allen Klein. Everything comes round in the end.” I ask him why it still matters so much. “I was placed in the most awkward position I’ve ever been placed in. I had to fight three mates to save their legacy, their money, as well as mine, and I did so knowing it would put me in a very dodgy position.”
He goes on, eager to impress his defence upon unforgiving or undecided Beatles fans. He only sued his mates to stop Klein destroying them. “Anyone who didn’t thoroughly review the whole thing would be forgiven for thinking ‘What a tosser’. So yes, that matters to me, it is still a haunting episode… It was pretty scary having to say to Johnny, Georgie, Ringo, I’m suing you!”
When he started touring with Wings in the 1970s, McCartney refused to sing any Beatles songs. Now the set he has brought to Israel, one of a series of special gigs this year, consists mainly of the songs he wrote and recorded with Lennon. “I love John’s songs. In the Beatles, if you said it was one of your songs, it basically meant it was your idea. So Eleanor Rigby was my song, but John helped me finish it. A Day in the Life was his, but I helped him finish it. He came up with ‘I read the news today’ and I came up with ‘he blew his mind out in a car’. At the end of the song in Tel Aviv, McCartney segues into Lennon’s Give Peace a Chance, which in recent years he has quietly appropriated.
In Tel-Aviv
McCartney’s decision to play in Tel Aviv has prompted huge controversy, pushing him onto the front pages for the first time since the divorce settlement that cost him £24.3m. Omar Bakri Mohammed, a radical sheikh based in Syria, makes death threats.
“I don’t get worried — if I did I’d get worried about walking across the street and getting run over in London.” The Israeli ambassador to the UK has already publicly apologised to McCartney and Ringo for banning the Beatles in the 1960s — their music was deemed too decadent — and the government is milking this visit. McCartney, meanwhile, has decreed that he wants to meet some Palestinians.
We wait for hours in the hotel lobby for McCartney to emerge from his suite. He has had a long lie-in. His famous love of punctuality doesn’t always apply to himself. If you arrange to call at his office, a member of his staff will send a nervous text five minutes before asking: “Where are you?” As he finally enters, he cannot resist a tinkle on the piano. He strides purposefully; he has learnt to walk faster than most over the years, which may be why he wears trainers with suits.
For a 66-year-old, he looks relaxed and fit, with not a grey hair on his head. He and Nancy get into a bomb-proof Land Rover, the rest of us in a Mercedes minibus. We drive into the West Bank.
The trip gives us a snapshot of vintage McCartney: it shows how he operates and how he has survived for so long. He is not a great political thinker, but in politics, as in so many things, his approach is instinctive and pragmatic. He is disarmingly honest. “I’m not very politically aware of the situation, I suppose like the average British person. We do know there’s a conflict, but we didn’t know all the ins and outs. You don’t have to visit a refugee camp to know there are a lot of Palestinians who have become dispossessed.”
On tour, as at home, with staff, officials, crew and the public, he is polite and warm. When faced with the dull prospect of a “meet and greet” with local bigwigs before the concert, he still manages to pretend he is enjoying himself. The mayor of Tel Aviv is here, anxious to be seen — and photographed — shaking McCartney’s hand. “It’s okay. I understand why it has to be done. I know it’s not going to go on for long. It’s not entirely boring.”
There is a part of McCartney that relishes being famous, even now. He enjoys ringing people up out of the blue. “Most people think it’s Frank from the office having a laugh. But then I say, ‘No, it’s Paul, you know, She Loves You?’” (hb: Paul you can call me! hehehe)I’m not convinced he could cope with being the ordinary guy he claims to be. “This morning,” he says, “I was walking into a cafe. A girl shouts, ‘Hi Paul, you are fantastic. I really love you.’ I take it with a pinch of salt, but I am honoured. I am pleased she didn’t say, ‘You’re a total arsehole and I hate you.’ I am pleased I have got a compliment, and I can still walk around Soho as I’ve always done.”
Macca on Macca
People who know him say there is the real McCartney and there is Beatle Paul. “I’ve learnt to compartmentalise,” he says. “There’s me and there’s famous Him. I don’t want to sound schizophrenic, but probably I’m two people. I’m the guy who does shows in Israel, but I’m also the guy who goes home to the kids. There I am just Dad.
Apart from the “ordinary guy”, McCartney is also the “family guy”. He is close to all his children. “They’ve not been cloistered — Linda and I were very conscious of that. They’re likable people.” But they are different from others, financially at least. “If you’re as well off as I am, inevitably they will benefit. They’ve never understood hunger, like I did. I’m still hungry because I had that hunger, I’ve never lost it. It’s good to have.”
One of his gripes with Heather was not the money but his wish that their daughter Beatrice did not grow up in “a gilded cage” with 24-hour security, which his other children never had. There’s that ordinary guy again. I wonder why he needs it so much.
Paul in public David Blaine inccident & Geoff Baker
Throughout his public life McCartney has appeared calm and in control. Even when his ex-wife was portraying him as a cannabis-smoking, wife-beating Scrooge, he kept his cool. But there are times when he loses it and the ordinary guy can be ruthless.
In 2003 he let rip in public, getting annoyed with a photographer. At the time he was out at Tower Bridge in London watching the illusionist David Blaine, and referred to him as a “c***”. For McCartney, it was unprecedented: a moment of uncontrolled rudeness exposed to the world. His relationship with Heather was unravelling at the time. “We’d been out with a bunch of mates eating and drinking and going at it out late. We had our publicity guy there. He went out to tell the press ‘there he is’. I was more angry with him than anyone else. But I lost it that night. Yes.”
McCartney fired Geoff Baker, his press officer, that night, but reinstated him the following day. A year later he sacked him properly after 15 years’ service. McCartney himself put out an uncharacteristically mean press release: “Over the past few months, his behaviour has not reached the professional standards I had come to expect.”
Baker now says working as McCartney’s press officer in the Heather phase of his life had driven him to drugs and drink. “The pressure was massive… there’s the world there, Paul and Heather here, and I was in between. Nobody can blame my addictive failings on Paul or Heather or anything like that. But the pressure was unreal.”
The Blaine episode was trivial in itself, but revealing, in that it was McCartney’s first and, to date, last public explosion, although there have been gaffes, not least his response to 9/11.
“Are you gonna do a bombing campaign? How dare you! If you want to take my kids out — well, screw you. Come and talk about it, right in my face, baby,” was his public challenge to Osama Bin Laden. Unsurprisingly, Bin Laden never got back to him.
On them drugs
In 1984, four years after the drugs bust in Japan that sent McCartney to jail and finished off Wings, he spoke about drugs: “Cannabis is a lot less harmful than rum punch, whisky, nicotine and glue, all of which are perfectly legal.” Now, he told me, “Things have changed. A lot of people started on heroin because John did.
We didn’t know the dangers of overindulgence. The problems of cannabis have escalated and it really is more dangerous. “I’ve lost too many friends through drugs. I still believe basically the same things, but I don’t want to be a spokesman for legalisation.” When pressed, for the first time in our conversations he is irritated. “I think I’ve made my views perfectly clear.”
His prickliness over the drugs issue is an example of his refusal to deviate from his own agenda. I mention that I have recently interviewed the widow of Mal Evans, the Beatles’ long-standing roadie who felt let down by the group when they broke up — the comment is simply ignored as though he didn’t hear it. In McCartney’s world, he has to have the last word, and there is no doubt he is always right — probably because there is nobody ever there to say he is wrong.
Oh, the wrecking crew
We talk about the perceived wisdom that he only employs yes men. At his office, the atmosphere is relaxed and informal, but he is unquestionably the boss. His entourage call him, without irony, the Big Man, a contradictory term for someone surprisingly slight and skinny. “In any situation with a high-ranking official, any boss, it’s not always a good idea to tell him he’s crap. But I try to encourage people. We all have meetings — the best ideas carry the day. If someone goofs up I tell them off. There have been one or two moments when somebody has been out of order.”
Before a concert he is a stickler for detail: the music, the visuals, how he looks. But he can’t keep on top of everything. One crew member who joined him on stage told me: “Nancy should have done something about his nose hair.” Those who work for him tend to remain loyal, not least, as Baker says, because they enjoy being part of the inner sanctum. “He’s not the king of England; he’s not going to have you executed. But too many people don’t want to offend him, because they don’t want to be dropped.”
Probably the closest person to him other than family is his “executive personal assistant”, John Hammel, who began working for him as a roadie in the 1970s. On stage he still hands him his instruments and adjusts his strap, but he is now also his driver, confidante and maybe even his best friend. “It’s funny, but no one has ever asked me to reveal all. And I never would. I’d never give an interview, I’d never write a book. I’m too loyal to Paul.” It’s hard to tell who is close to McCartney. Since the death of Lennon, nobody has filled the void who doesn’t work for him.
It is remarkable how so few of his intimates have kissed and told. Jane Asher has never spoken of their relationship, and Neil Aspinall, the Beatles roadie who went on to run Apple, also remained loyal. When Aspinall retired McCartney gave him a gold watch, but, more tellingly, he also paid for Aspinall’s cancer treatment. McCartney flew to New York to say goodbye to him just before he died.
One thing does emerge from talking to his friends and associates: McCartney can be controlling, difficult and demanding, but he is fundamentally decent.
In the 1960s, the Beatles biographer Hunter Davies asked the group if he could keep some handwritten song lyrics they’d left lying around in Abbey Road, which would otherwise have been thrown out by the cleaners. They all agreed, but McCartney forgot about it until he took his daughter Mary to the British Museum and spotted a lyric in his handwriting in a case. (Davies had given them to the nation.) He wrote to Davies asking for the lyric back; they eventually agreed between them that McCartney would leave it in the museum.
Someone who has known him well for years says: “Rich and famous people like him are always bugged about something. The relationship with John was hard. He was in awe of him. He doesn’t care when people mock his art or his music. But more than anything he has the Beatles legend looming over him.”
don't question him about Heather
There are subjects that McCartney flags up firmly as no-go areas. On Heather, he will not say a word. He doesn’t have to. During and after their separation, he maintained a dignified silence. Mr Justice Bennett described him as “consistent, accurate and honest”. Perhaps the only lingering question anyone wants answered is why someone as worldly as McCartney would fall for a serial stalker of publicity, wealth and fame.
The answer could be that nobody had the nerve to tell him about the real Heather Mills. His children are thought to have tried, but it would have been easy for him to dismiss their objections as loyalty to their mother. One source says McCartney’s explanation after the divorce was simple and nearer the truth: he was thinking with the wrong head. In his judgment, Mr Justice Bennett was kinder; he said McCartney was “still very emotionally tied” to Linda when he met Heather.
the new woman
One day in October, when I call to see him at his London office, an assistant is mailing out the pink invitations to Beatrice’s birthday party; McCartney speaks of his daughter fondly. He is more circumspect about his new relationship with Nancy Shevell, a rich American businesswoman who is separated amicably from her husband. She is notoriously publicity shy. I asked her if she finds McCartney’s fame stressful. “I don’t find it stressful. I’m a cancer survivor, I run a trucking company and I’ve got a 16-year-old to raise. That’s stress.”
Nancy clearly idolises him. As McCartney performed in Tel Aviv, she looked on adoringly. It didn’t bother her that his set includes the song My Love, which he dedicates to Linda — Heather used to stomp out when he played it so he took it out. Nancy is confident, sophisticated and McCartney clearly feels safe and comfortable with her. “I just like being in love,” is all he’ll say on the subject.
the ordinary guy
It has been an insightful few months. The ordinary guy, the geezer from Liverpool, the rock’n’roll legend, the goodwill ambassador, they’ve all been on show, and what emerges is a man comfortable with his fame, even with his notoriety. It’s curious he doesn’t feel embarrassment over the questions his Heather episode pose about his judgment.
He has almost breezily drawn a line under the messiest divorce in decades, and yet his role in the split from the Beatles still cuts deep. McCartney is clearly in touch with his mortality, and he doesn’t want his immortality tarnished.
Electric Arguments, the latest album by the Fireman (Paul McCartney), is out tomorrow on MPL/One Little Indian Records
thoughts anyone? I laughed when I read George Bush and Colin Powell had a lil spat over a signed book from Paul? hahahaha
Monday, November 10, 2008
How sweet is that Macca wants to serenade Michelle Obama
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I was to lazy tired to post this yesterday, after posting the Kanye post-that wore me out! ha!
anyhow I thought that awfully sweet, Paul McCartney wants to sing for Michelle Obama. Well we all knew it would be Michelle, but why not Blackbird? 'hey, Paul tells the story best why he wrote that song in the 60's. black women's struggle and civil rights's issues back than. It's a lovely song.
The Spoof had written a story about Paul McCartney's Michelle was written for Michelle Obama in Sept. I posted it here,
Could you imagine Paul McCartney singing to you, too you personally? what an honor, I'd be blushing ear to ear! Paul recently said via People mag. he hoped Barrack Obama had won the election and thanked Americans for voting for him
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How sweet is that Macca wants to serenade Michelle Obama
I was to lazy tired to post this yesterday, after posting the Kanye post-that wore me out! ha!
anyhow I thought that awfully sweet, Paul McCartney wants to sing for Michelle Obama. Well we all knew it would be Michelle, but why not Blackbird? 'hey, Paul tells the story best why he wrote that song in the 60's. black women's struggle and civil rights's issues back than. It's a lovely song.
The Spoof had written a story about Paul McCartney's Michelle was written for Michelle Obama in Sept. I posted it here,
Could you imagine Paul McCartney singing to you, too you personally? what an honor, I'd be blushing ear to ear! Paul recently said via People mag. he hoped Barrack Obama had won the election and thanked Americans for voting for him
I was so 'fingers crossed' he would win it," said McCartney. "I'm so chuffed."Michelle Obama's favorite artist is Stevie Wonder, ok, why not Paul McCartney? ( Stevie was off-key during his performance of Obama's acceptance gig for Prez, remember?) give him, Paul a chance Mrs. Obama. Paul McCartney is brilliant!
Friday, November 07, 2008
Obama-Biden Beatles inspired Sgt. Pepper poster
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Oh man, check this out! an Obama-Biden Beatles inspired-Sgt. Pepper poster!
Named the Hopeful Hearts Club poster, inspired by the Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover. Created by San Francisco-based artist Michael Cuffe, sells for 20 bucks, that's a deal.
'I have never seen a Beatles inspired poster like this before, especially a political one, this poster is based on the Obama-Biden campaign. A must have for ANY Beatles lover!~ Hey, you know I am ordering one. I wonder if Paul and Ringo know about this poster, will they also get one? maybe Paul would. This Rawks!!! more details below. I'd love to own the real painting! lol
I see Paul, John, George & Ringo.
Top Row
Second Row
▪Gary Larson (cartoonist)
▪ Abraham Lincoln (President)
▪ Hunter S. Thompson (author)
▪ Joel Mchale (TV Host)
▪ John Lennon (musician)
▪ George Harrison (musician)
▪ Paul McCartney (musician)
▪ Ringo Starr (musician)
▪ Marilyn Monroe (actress)
▪ Alice Sebold (author)
▪ Wayne Dyer (author)
▪ Chris Rock (comedian)
▪ Greg Hildebrandt (artist)
▪ Lewis Black (comedian)
▪ Eckhart Tolle (author)
▪ Peter Jackson (filmaker)
▪Rick Overton (comedian)
▪George W. Bush (president)
Third Row
▪Mike Cuffe (artist)
▪Stephen Colbert (comedian)
▪Dick Cheney (Vice-President)
▪Bruce Lee (actor)
▪ Ronald Reagan (President)
▪George Carlin (comedian)
▪Tim Russert (TV Personality)
▪Michael Franti (musician)
▪Bob Ballard (Explorer)
▪Michael Phelps (athlete)
▪Teri Allmeroth (teacher)
▪Richard Branson (entrepreneur)
▪Jon Stewert (comedian)
▪Jane Roberts (author)
▪John F. Kennedy (President)
▪Dalai Lama(teacher)
▪JK Rowling (author)
▪Madelyn Dunham (Obama’s Grandmother)
▪Stanley Dunham (Obama’s Grandfather)
Front row
Martin Luther King (activist)
▪Oprah Winfrey (personality)
▪Jimmy Carter (President)
▪Bill Clinton (President)
▪Malia Obama (child)
▪Sasha Obama (child)
▪Al Gore (Vice President)
▪ Edward Kennedy (Senator)▪Joe Biden (Senator)
▪Jill Biden (Senator)
▪Barack Obama (Senator)
▪Michelle Obama (public speaker)
▪Hillary Clinton (Senator)
▪David Plouffe (Barack Obamas Campaign Manager
Other Objects in painting
▪Meditation Girl
▪Obama Signpost
▪Mark Twain Bust
▪Will, the Golden Retreiver
▪The Obama Fairy (little girl)
▪TV (Obama’s Use of Media)
▪Polar Bear
Michael Cuffe-Artist The Hopeful Hearts Club
hbTo order poster go to The Obama Experience.com This is beautiful.
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Named the Hopeful Hearts Club poster, inspired by the Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover. Created by San Francisco-based artist Michael Cuffe, sells for 20 bucks, that's a deal.
'I have never seen a Beatles inspired poster like this before, especially a political one, this poster is based on the Obama-Biden campaign. A must have for ANY Beatles lover!~ Hey, you know I am ordering one. I wonder if Paul and Ringo know about this poster, will they also get one? maybe Paul would. This Rawks!!! more details below. I'd love to own the real painting! lol
I see Paul, John, George & Ringo.
The Hopeful Hearts Club
1 out of 3000 Limited Edition Hopeful Hearts Club Poster Print
Each poster measures 11” x 17” and is signed and numbered by artist Michael Cuffe.
Certificate of Authenticity included & numbered.
Each poster measures 11” x 17” and is signed and numbered by artist Michael Cuffe.
Certificate of Authenticity included & numbered.
Top Row
Esther Hicks (author)
▪ David Blaine (magician)
▪ Charlize Theron (actress)
▪ Dave Chapelle (comedian)
▪ Sia (musician)
▪ Bernie Mac (comic)
▪ Stephen Hawking (scientist)
▪ David Sedaris (author)
▪ George Clooney (actor)
▪ Shepherd Fairy (artist)
▪ Obama “Hope” (artistwork)▪ Robert Downey Jr. (actor)
▪ Ron Paul (politician)
▪ Bob Dylan (musician)
▪ David Blaine (magician)
▪ Charlize Theron (actress)
▪ Dave Chapelle (comedian)
▪ Sia (musician)
▪ Bernie Mac (comic)
▪ Stephen Hawking (scientist)
▪ David Sedaris (author)
▪ George Clooney (actor)
▪ Shepherd Fairy (artist)
▪ Obama “Hope” (artistwork)▪ Robert Downey Jr. (actor)
▪ Ron Paul (politician)
▪ Bob Dylan (musician)
Second Row
▪Gary Larson (cartoonist)
▪ Abraham Lincoln (President)
▪ Hunter S. Thompson (author)
▪ Joel Mchale (TV Host)
▪ John Lennon (musician)
▪ George Harrison (musician)
▪ Paul McCartney (musician)
▪ Ringo Starr (musician)
▪ Marilyn Monroe (actress)
▪ Alice Sebold (author)
▪ Wayne Dyer (author)
▪ Chris Rock (comedian)
▪ Greg Hildebrandt (artist)
▪ Lewis Black (comedian)
▪ Eckhart Tolle (author)
▪ Peter Jackson (filmaker)
▪Rick Overton (comedian)
▪George W. Bush (president)
Third Row
▪Mike Cuffe (artist)
▪Stephen Colbert (comedian)
▪Dick Cheney (Vice-President)
▪Bruce Lee (actor)
▪ Ronald Reagan (President)
▪George Carlin (comedian)
▪Tim Russert (TV Personality)
▪Michael Franti (musician)
▪Bob Ballard (Explorer)
▪Michael Phelps (athlete)
▪Teri Allmeroth (teacher)
▪Richard Branson (entrepreneur)
▪Jon Stewert (comedian)
▪Jane Roberts (author)
▪John F. Kennedy (President)
▪Dalai Lama(teacher)
▪JK Rowling (author)
▪Madelyn Dunham (Obama’s Grandmother)
▪Stanley Dunham (Obama’s Grandfather)
Front row
Martin Luther King (activist)
▪Oprah Winfrey (personality)
▪Jimmy Carter (President)
▪Bill Clinton (President)
▪Malia Obama (child)
▪Sasha Obama (child)
▪Al Gore (Vice President)
▪ Edward Kennedy (Senator)▪Joe Biden (Senator)
▪Jill Biden (Senator)
▪Barack Obama (Senator)
▪Michelle Obama (public speaker)
▪Hillary Clinton (Senator)
▪David Plouffe (Barack Obamas Campaign Manager
Other Objects in painting
▪Meditation Girl
▪Obama Signpost
▪Mark Twain Bust
▪Will, the Golden Retreiver
▪The Obama Fairy (little girl)
▪TV (Obama’s Use of Media)
▪Polar Bear
Nice job Michael I'm ordering, as soon as I finish this posty!~ not convinced, watch the artist as he paints the poster, with a quickness
Michael Cuffe-Artist The Hopeful Hearts Club
“The Hopeful Hearts Club is a painting that reflects the essence of hope that the campaign has inspired in millions of Americans over the past 2 years. The 1967 Beatles Sgt. Pepper album manifested during a time of social, economic, and worldwide change.
I feel that we are in another moment where the choices we make are having a profound effect on our lives, and the world at large.
As with the original Sgt. Pepper album, I have taken careful consideration of individual placement, individuals accomplishments, and their relationship to the Obama campaign and this time of change. ” Michael W. Cuffe.
hbTo order poster go to The Obama Experience.com This is beautiful.
Thursday, November 06, 2008
McCartney hails Obama at MTV awards-Liverpool
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Accepting the honour, McCartney thanked fellow Beatles John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, adding: (hb: bless John & George)
Among the acts performing live were prominent Obama supporter West and Perry, who also welcomed Obama's election, saying: "Maybe Europe will love us again now".
The awards, voted for by viewers of music video channel MTV, were being watched by around 10,000 fans at the ceremony and some 30 million people on television worldwide.
Liverpool was chosen as one of this year's European capitals of culture partly because of its pop music heritage. (hb: wow, they were rawkin it out for Obama, HA!) While were are at it, When is the last time when Macca was on it's cover, as Person of the Year, Time that is?.
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LIVERPOOL (AFP) — Ex Beatle Sir Paul McCartney was given a special gong at the MTV Europe Music Awards Thursday in his home city of Liverpool -- and used the event to hail US president-elect Barack Obama.
(hb.Hey Paul, remember when you said 'vote for Kerry' at Bridge School? that was cool of Paul to give a shout out to Obama)
McCartney was presented with the Ultimate Legend Award, created especially for him, by U2 front man Bono, who compared him to the pope and described his work as "immortal".
(hb: yeah Bono Macca is Immortal-you should bow down to him!) note: I just read Bono, got some boo's from the crowd.
Accepting the honour, McCartney thanked fellow Beatles John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, adding: (hb: bless John & George)
"Many years ago, there were four little boys born here in Liverpool and we went on to do quite well.
"Thanks to all my family, to all you for coming along, to everyone in Great Britain, to everyone in America for voting in Mr Obama."
"Thanks to all my family, to all you for coming along, to everyone in Great Britain, to everyone in America for voting in Mr Obama."
Bono said that McCartney had driven him to the awards, pointing out his old haunts en route. "It was like being in the Popemobile with the Pope driving," the Irish star said. (hb: is Bono a kiss ass? remember him on the front cover of Time-with Gates geez!) 
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Other stars also joined in the celebrations over Obama's victory this week -- Sugababes took to the stage to present an award dressed in red, white and blue while actor Jared Leto, whose band 30 Seconds To Mars won the rock out award, got the crowd on their feet in Obama's honour.
"Let's hear it for Barack Obama," he said, to loud cheers from fans.
Among the acts performing live were prominent Obama supporter West and Perry, who also welcomed Obama's election, saying: "Maybe Europe will love us again now".
The awards, voted for by viewers of music video channel MTV, were being watched by around 10,000 fans at the ceremony and some 30 million people on television worldwide.
Liverpool was chosen as one of this year's European capitals of culture partly because of its pop music heritage. (hb: wow, they were rawkin it out for Obama, HA!) While were are at it, When is the last time when Macca was on it's cover, as Person of the Year, Time that is?.
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Perez Hilton meets Macca
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What the? I don't know who Perez Hilton is, I see that name come up on the web, he is a well known blogger, I guess? Well I went to his webby and guess what? He meets Paul tonight atthe MTV awards, a small snippet of him interviewing Paul and Paul talks about his 'Trousers' some people have all the freakin luck! No, I'm not hatin, a fan should have met Paul,. like me! lol see video
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Barack Obama is the NEW President of the United States!
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At 8pm west coast time it was announced, he did it, Barack Obama is now the New President of the United States! He has made history! He did it! WOW!
The United States is forever changed!
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8:03pm
At 8pm west coast time it was announced, he did it, Barack Obama is now the New President of the United States! He has made history! He did it! WOW!
The United States is forever changed!
Monday, November 03, 2008
Get out and VOTE Prediction Obama
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Get out and VOTE Prediction Obama
revised Obama's fav's song list-
Hey people, don't forget to vote tomorrow, Nov. 4th. Yes, I'm saddened Senator Hillary will not be in the White House, but feel, Senator Obama is the better choice to run this country for the people and the country. I believe Obama will win by a landslide, don't you? Your vote counts be a part of this history making, Election.
Congratulations to Senator Barack Obama for running a passionate, brilliant campaign and the new President of the United States, well done! Yes, I'm projecting. HA!
Oh... Good bye Gov. Sarah Palin & George Bush!
Barack Obama's top 10 Fav tunes
Imeem.com has a top 10 list of Barack Obama's fav songs here they are below if you want to give em a lsiten.
Ahh it's too bad that The Fugee's,. Ready or not- is not playing in it's entirety click here to listen to the song.
Of course he doesn't have a Beatles tune selected, but a great list, Rolling Stones, Gime Shelter, Woot-wooooo! I'm pretty impressed with the list lol Ready or not by the Fugee's and Whats going on Marvin Gaye, two must listens too's, enjoy!
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Hey people, don't forget to vote tomorrow, Nov. 4th. Yes, I'm saddened Senator Hillary will not be in the White House, but feel, Senator Obama is the better choice to run this country for the people and the country. I believe Obama will win by a landslide, don't you? Your vote counts be a part of this history making, Election.
Congratulations to Senator Barack Obama for running a passionate, brilliant campaign and the new President of the United States, well done! Yes, I'm projecting. HA!
Oh... Good bye Gov. Sarah Palin & George Bush!
Barack Obama's top 10 Fav tunes
Imeem.com has a top 10 list of Barack Obama's fav songs here they are below if you want to give em a lsiten.
Ahh it's too bad that The Fugee's,. Ready or not- is not playing in it's entirety click here to listen to the song.
Of course he doesn't have a Beatles tune selected, but a great list, Rolling Stones, Gime Shelter, Woot-wooooo! I'm pretty impressed with the list lol Ready or not by the Fugee's and Whats going on Marvin Gaye, two must listens too's, enjoy!
more later
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Semi-rant Sarah Palin is whacked!
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Semi-rant Sarah Palin is whacked!
Ok kids, please bare with me. I cannot stand it any longer. I almost cringe!- a small rant on Sarah Palin. Watching her campaign over the past 2 weeks or so,. I can't keep silent any longer, without commenting.
Just the other day, Saturday night in fact, I was telling a loved one, I believed Rep. Gov. Sarah Palin was "Wack"yep, that is slang for CRAZY!
If that wasn't enough, when I tuned into MSNBC countdown an unknown source in the McCain camp, today in fact, also called Sarah Palin a "Whack Job" my ears perked,. whaaaaa?. Whoa, something I can finally agree with on the Republican side, something straight forward, and honest coming from the McCain Camp! someone's on hit!
Hey,I'm not the only one who believes Sarah Palin is Whacked! talk about outta touch, this women is embarrassing she can't "Represent" me, or the US, give me a break. I can barely type, people. This women is 'Scary Sherry Dangerous' How will SNL run with this latest news of Palin the Wacko? they're gonnna run with it!
Oh and did you see that lil snippet of the Joe-ism's yesterday on the Palin campaign trail? paraphrasing here, Sarah Palin's favorite Joey-ism is:
I' am Joe-Mama!
WTF?
Sarah Palin thought that was funny?- Sarah Palin is Joe LAME!- whatta maroon plain and simple. Who is she tryin to appeal to the 8th grade class?
McCain needs to get a grip
I like John McCain,. I appreciate all his years of service to this country,. I applaud him for that. If McCain believed he could sway Hillary Clinton voters with 'Annie get your Guns?'-bullchips! Most American women are smarter than this Rep. VP and we aren't falling for it. I suspect many women are laughing there asses off at Palin. This women should be selling Mary Kay and disappear.
Keith Olbermann's campaign commentary on Palin the Fraud
Oh please enjoy this lil vid by Keith Olbermann from tonight's Countdown., If you must replay more than once, please do so that you may savior his gentleman rant! lmao~
Voting for Obama?
I got people trying to get my vote for Sen. Obama. Obama is highly intelligent,. a brilliant speaker with great ideals for the people of this country, who is best suited for the Presidency, there I said it, and admit it, rant over. I know people with much more skillz and more common sense than Gov. Palin, I'm done with Palin and all this bull.
hb
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Oct29th
Ok, here it is the next day and I still want to rant on Palin, like I told 'whiteline' in the comment section Gov. Palin should stand in the unemployment line with the rest of the poor people who have lost their jobs lately, than sell all them darn clothes and dole out that $150,000 grand to all the people in that line, the monies from the proceeds! errrrrrr!
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Ok kids, please bare with me. I cannot stand it any longer. I almost cringe!- a small rant on Sarah Palin. Watching her campaign over the past 2 weeks or so,. I can't keep silent any longer, without commenting.
Just the other day, Saturday night in fact, I was telling a loved one, I believed Rep. Gov. Sarah Palin was "Wack"yep, that is slang for CRAZY!
If that wasn't enough, when I tuned into MSNBC countdown an unknown source in the McCain camp, today in fact, also called Sarah Palin a "Whack Job" my ears perked,. whaaaaa?. Whoa, something I can finally agree with on the Republican side, something straight forward, and honest coming from the McCain Camp! someone's on hit!
Hey,I'm not the only one who believes Sarah Palin is Whacked! talk about outta touch, this women is embarrassing she can't "Represent" me, or the US, give me a break. I can barely type, people. This women is 'Scary Sherry Dangerous' How will SNL run with this latest news of Palin the Wacko? they're gonnna run with it!
Oh and did you see that lil snippet of the Joe-ism's yesterday on the Palin campaign trail? paraphrasing here, Sarah Palin's favorite Joey-ism is:
I' am Joe-Mama!
WTF?
Sarah Palin thought that was funny?- Sarah Palin is Joe LAME!- whatta maroon plain and simple. Who is she tryin to appeal to the 8th grade class?
McCain needs to get a grip
I like John McCain,. I appreciate all his years of service to this country,. I applaud him for that. If McCain believed he could sway Hillary Clinton voters with 'Annie get your Guns?'-bullchips! Most American women are smarter than this Rep. VP and we aren't falling for it. I suspect many women are laughing there asses off at Palin. This women should be selling Mary Kay and disappear.
Keith Olbermann's campaign commentary on Palin the Fraud
Oh please enjoy this lil vid by Keith Olbermann from tonight's Countdown., If you must replay more than once, please do so that you may savior his gentleman rant! lmao~
Voting for Obama?
I got people trying to get my vote for Sen. Obama. Obama is highly intelligent,. a brilliant speaker with great ideals for the people of this country, who is best suited for the Presidency, there I said it, and admit it, rant over. I know people with much more skillz and more common sense than Gov. Palin, I'm done with Palin and all this bull.
hb
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Oct29th
Ok, here it is the next day and I still want to rant on Palin, like I told 'whiteline' in the comment section Gov. Palin should stand in the unemployment line with the rest of the poor people who have lost their jobs lately, than sell all them darn clothes and dole out that $150,000 grand to all the people in that line, the monies from the proceeds! errrrrrr!
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Paul McCartney supports Barack Obama dont forget the VP debate tonight
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Paul McCartney supports Barrack Obama dont forget the VP debate tonight.
Today Macca attended the fashion show of designer daughter Stella McCartney in Paris. One reporter from the Associated Press asked Paul, which candidate he supported in the US election? Paul McCartney responded, he hopes Barrack Obama to win!
It's nice to know that Macca supports one of them, but remember when Paul played the Bridge School Bennie a few years ago and said "vote for Kerry" when he walked onto the stage? we all let out a slight gasp, than followed by cheers. I for one didn't think Paul would be Political.
The VP debate on in moments
Am I the only one waiting with anticipation for Sarah Palin to fall onto her face, with a splat? I swear her interviews with Charlie Gibson & Katie Couric were, well...quite dreadful. For me this women does not have much common sense-simply put, and she wants to "Represent" this country? Embarrassing!
S. Palin is not worldly enough, educated or sophisticated to step into the shoes of a high power leader such as the President of the United States. I'd call her backwoods, she is scary.
We would be the laughing stock of the world if such a women stepped into power. John McCain really screwed this one up. This entire Presidential race reminds me of a reality show with all it's cast of characters. I don't care if she is a women she has nothing on Hillary Clinton not now or ever, HA!
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Paul McCartney supports Barrack Obama dont forget the VP debate tonight.
Today Macca attended the fashion show of designer daughter Stella McCartney in Paris. One reporter from the Associated Press asked Paul, which candidate he supported in the US election? Paul McCartney responded, he hopes Barrack Obama to win!
It's nice to know that Macca supports one of them, but remember when Paul played the Bridge School Bennie a few years ago and said "vote for Kerry" when he walked onto the stage? we all let out a slight gasp, than followed by cheers. I for one didn't think Paul would be Political.
The VP debate on in moments
Am I the only one waiting with anticipation for Sarah Palin to fall onto her face, with a splat? I swear her interviews with Charlie Gibson & Katie Couric were, well...quite dreadful. For me this women does not have much common sense-simply put, and she wants to "Represent" this country? Embarrassing!
S. Palin is not worldly enough, educated or sophisticated to step into the shoes of a high power leader such as the President of the United States. I'd call her backwoods, she is scary.
We would be the laughing stock of the world if such a women stepped into power. John McCain really screwed this one up. This entire Presidential race reminds me of a reality show with all it's cast of characters. I don't care if she is a women she has nothing on Hillary Clinton not now or ever, HA!
Cartoon courtesy of slate magazine, lmao!
Dang, she cannot even answer simple questions, without dancing around the question, what is that about? I will stop there it's just too scary and I am being nice about it. I could go on but didn't want to waste too much energy on her- We shall see after the debate tonight. Whew! I hope she doesn't tell another lipstick joke,. What are the odds makers in Vegas giving in point spreads?
After the debate
Sarah Palin- more of the same, see above post blah blah blah boring-she Tanked, she couldn't answer the questions!!
Joe Biden-passionate, knowledgeable well done! I salute you sir, you rawked the debate!
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Monday, September 01, 2008
Just some random thoughts over the last week Politics, Music and other crap Change is gonna come
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Hello vistors out there
Hello people, a lil shout out to the visitor from, Harvard, coolio thanx for the visit. I encourage all brainiacs to visit my blog, Book or Street wise, your all welcome. I see where my visitor's are " coming from "on the left hand side from my flag counter you can get one too at NeoWorx see banner below "neoWorx" you can click on this get one there if you like- makes your blog come to life..
On the Political front
Anyhow I hadn't posted anything over the weekend due to my constant thoughts over the week. The Hillary/Obama saga Hillary not chosen for the Democratic nomination, Obama's acceptance speech, actually brilliant. McCain's VP running mate, eek not a great choice in my opinion but hey what do I know I'm not a conservative, HA. I tell you this, she, Palin, has nothing on Hillary both sides have let experience fly through the window this is a great psychology dynamic.
A flip of the script Obama less experienced Harvard grad with vision and ideals with a VP who is all Washington insider... you know it. Than McCain maverick conservative Washington insider, who doesn't get it.( Obama on point with that) with VP choice with no experience. hummm?...
A script Shakespeare and Political Science majors would be proud of "Death in Politics as the world knew it."
Otis Redding-Change is gonna come
A must listen to Great soulful song by the Great Otis Redding enjoy the video!
McCartney in Israel?
Moving on, Paul McCartney playing in the Middle East, Israel, this coming September 25th
and me just not wanting him to be there...at all..as one of his HUGE fans,.....a big fat NO period! Why Israel? OK, I'm not hatin here people but why hasn't Paul played Australia instead, after he cancelled years ago? there is a larger fan base in Australia I'm most certain.. no free concert for Israel like recent Paul McCartney gigs you gotta pay.
Micahel Jackson is 50?
Than Michael Jackson turns 50 is there just somethin weird about that? Michael the lil boy that never grew up I don't see Michael as 50 but as a boy my God we're all getting older. I wonder if Macca will ever forget or forgive Michael for ripping him off for the Beatles catalog?
Words of wisdom
Like my mother used to say "The only thing constant is change"and we all have been wittiness's to all these changes this past week. A huge universal change is in the air which we
all can grow and benefit from.. A changing psychology of a nation..I'm intrigued?. A change is gonna come like Otis Redding once sang. Are you feeling it?
I'm taillights~hb
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Hello vistors out there
Hello people, a lil shout out to the visitor from, Harvard, coolio thanx for the visit. I encourage all brainiacs to visit my blog, Book or Street wise, your all welcome. I see where my visitor's are " coming from "on the left hand side from my flag counter you can get one too at NeoWorx see banner below "neoWorx" you can click on this get one there if you like- makes your blog come to life..
On the Political front
Anyhow I hadn't posted anything over the weekend due to my constant thoughts over the week. The Hillary/Obama saga Hillary not chosen for the Democratic nomination, Obama's acceptance speech, actually brilliant. McCain's VP running mate, eek not a great choice in my opinion but hey what do I know I'm not a conservative, HA. I tell you this, she, Palin, has nothing on Hillary both sides have let experience fly through the window this is a great psychology dynamic.
A flip of the script Obama less experienced Harvard grad with vision and ideals with a VP who is all Washington insider... you know it. Than McCain maverick conservative Washington insider, who doesn't get it.( Obama on point with that) with VP choice with no experience. hummm?...
A script Shakespeare and Political Science majors would be proud of "Death in Politics as the world knew it."
Otis Redding-Change is gonna come
A must listen to Great soulful song by the Great Otis Redding enjoy the video!
McCartney in Israel?
Moving on, Paul McCartney playing in the Middle East, Israel, this coming September 25th
and me just not wanting him to be there...at all..as one of his HUGE fans,.....a big fat NO period! Why Israel? OK, I'm not hatin here people but why hasn't Paul played Australia instead, after he cancelled years ago? there is a larger fan base in Australia I'm most certain.. no free concert for Israel like recent Paul McCartney gigs you gotta pay.
Micahel Jackson is 50?
Than Michael Jackson turns 50 is there just somethin weird about that? Michael the lil boy that never grew up I don't see Michael as 50 but as a boy my God we're all getting older. I wonder if Macca will ever forget or forgive Michael for ripping him off for the Beatles catalog?
Words of wisdom
Like my mother used to say "The only thing constant is change"and we all have been wittiness's to all these changes this past week. A huge universal change is in the air which we
all can grow and benefit from.. A changing psychology of a nation..I'm intrigued?. A change is gonna come like Otis Redding once sang. Are you feeling it?
I'm taillights~hb
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Hillary Clinton cannot expect all her supporters to vote for Obama! plus updates
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Hillary Clinton cannot expect all her supporters to vote for Obama!
In just a few short minutes Senator Hillary Clinton will take the floor at the Democratic National Convention talking to US viewing audience as to why we should vote & support Barrack Obama, for President of the United States.
We know she will give an eloquent, powerful speech as she does that will un doubly "knock one outta the park!"~ She will attempt to convince her supporters old & young to stand by the Democrats, no matter what, and vote for someone you donot believe in however subliminal it will be..
I'm already NOT convinced and looking forward to what Lady Hillary has to say.. I cannot be swayed and I am not a disgruntled supporter,.. I have my own vision !
OK, heavy sigh I just have to say it, and alot of Hillary supporters know this.. or perhaps know this and not voicing their opinions because they feel they have NO voice, don't be scuured! We cannot be manipulated to support, Barrack Obama, if we do not believe in him? Would you support someone you did not believe in? Forget the Democratic party! You have a choice ..
Hillary, has received the short end of the stick in the primaries, from the DNC to the media's spin, a love affair, with a candidate that is- very good talk, but what action and subsance? I think this election has been biased towards the male gender and the good Ol boy network, what's new in this country?
Barrack would have been smart if he had chosen Hillary as his running mate but chose not too, Hillary has passion and cares for the people and issues of this country...Mr. Obama could have clinched this election!
Now, Obama wants Hillary's balls to the wall support, too fight for him to become the next President? I am NOT feeling that.. Barrack Obama wants Hillary to be his cheerleader..... but could not be her's in return?.. laughable.~
I believe that Hillary's supporters should stand firm and and "write her name in" as the President you want to lead as Commander & Cheif- when it comes to election time, and you go to vote at the polls..
18 million strong cannot be wrong, than who will be stunned? I'm just disgusted with the Democratic party and their puppeteering of Hillary C.~ Geez more later~
hb~
8.27
Is there any other Clinton fans that feel the same way as I do or will you support the Dems and Barrack Obama? I'd like to hear from supporters if you happen to land on this blog, thankyou~
8/28
Barack Obama is something else isn't he?
Listening to his speech at the Democratic convention tonight you see what an eloquent, powerful speaker he is .OK...m Obama is likeable.... I know all brothers have a gift for gab.. you know it's true, just like a fat man who loves to eat cake! He almost sounds like a preacher to me.
At times he made me laff during his speech........
All Americans want change - yeah, than why not give back to the middle class and those of us that make less than those in the middle- giving us a 3rd of our pay checks back so we will be able to pay rent, afford our bills and high gas prices .. Especially those of us in the west, To save, to afford the American dream. (if this is still possible?)
Taking care of the people of this country instead of providing support for everyone else in need..This is what I've had enough of Mr, Obama! This is when and only when, I will believe what Barrack Obama is promising America, not only in words.... but in deed... for change.
Making life in America an even playing field from those that have and have not..This is when America will be a great place to live again for all of us. what do you think?
8/29
HA! it was just announced John McCain just picked his Vice President running mate Alaska Gov...Sarah Palin (sp) a woman!~ let the games begin, wise move on McCain's part but will this prove to be a gamble?.. no way, no how am I conservative in any shape form or fashion and donot relate to woman of that calibur, too narrow minded. Will this VP nom.. perk the ears of the Clinton supporters still on the fence?.....
I'm out..
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Hillary Clinton cannot expect all her supporters to vote for Obama!
In just a few short minutes Senator Hillary Clinton will take the floor at the Democratic National Convention talking to US viewing audience as to why we should vote & support Barrack Obama, for President of the United States.
We know she will give an eloquent, powerful speech as she does that will un doubly "knock one outta the park!"~ She will attempt to convince her supporters old & young to stand by the Democrats, no matter what, and vote for someone you donot believe in however subliminal it will be..
I'm already NOT convinced and looking forward to what Lady Hillary has to say.. I cannot be swayed and I am not a disgruntled supporter,.. I have my own vision !
OK, heavy sigh I just have to say it, and alot of Hillary supporters know this.. or perhaps know this and not voicing their opinions because they feel they have NO voice, don't be scuured! We cannot be manipulated to support, Barrack Obama, if we do not believe in him? Would you support someone you did not believe in? Forget the Democratic party! You have a choice ..
Hillary, has received the short end of the stick in the primaries, from the DNC to the media's spin, a love affair, with a candidate that is- very good talk, but what action and subsance? I think this election has been biased towards the male gender and the good Ol boy network, what's new in this country?
Barrack would have been smart if he had chosen Hillary as his running mate but chose not too, Hillary has passion and cares for the people and issues of this country...Mr. Obama could have clinched this election!
Now, Obama wants Hillary's balls to the wall support, too fight for him to become the next President? I am NOT feeling that.. Barrack Obama wants Hillary to be his cheerleader..... but could not be her's in return?.. laughable.~
I believe that Hillary's supporters should stand firm and and "write her name in" as the President you want to lead as Commander & Cheif- when it comes to election time, and you go to vote at the polls..
18 million strong cannot be wrong, than who will be stunned? I'm just disgusted with the Democratic party and their puppeteering of Hillary C.~ Geez more later~
hb~
8.27
Is there any other Clinton fans that feel the same way as I do or will you support the Dems and Barrack Obama? I'd like to hear from supporters if you happen to land on this blog, thankyou~
8/28
Barack Obama is something else isn't he?
Listening to his speech at the Democratic convention tonight you see what an eloquent, powerful speaker he is .OK...m Obama is likeable.... I know all brothers have a gift for gab.. you know it's true, just like a fat man who loves to eat cake! He almost sounds like a preacher to me.
At times he made me laff during his speech........
All Americans want change - yeah, than why not give back to the middle class and those of us that make less than those in the middle- giving us a 3rd of our pay checks back so we will be able to pay rent, afford our bills and high gas prices .. Especially those of us in the west, To save, to afford the American dream. (if this is still possible?)
Taking care of the people of this country instead of providing support for everyone else in need..This is what I've had enough of Mr, Obama! This is when and only when, I will believe what Barrack Obama is promising America, not only in words.... but in deed... for change.
Making life in America an even playing field from those that have and have not..This is when America will be a great place to live again for all of us. what do you think?
8/29
HA! it was just announced John McCain just picked his Vice President running mate Alaska Gov...Sarah Palin (sp) a woman!~ let the games begin, wise move on McCain's part but will this prove to be a gamble?.. no way, no how am I conservative in any shape form or fashion and donot relate to woman of that calibur, too narrow minded. Will this VP nom.. perk the ears of the Clinton supporters still on the fence?.....
I'm out..
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Paris Hilton Slams!!! John McCain with campaign ad of her own
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Paris Hilton Slams!!! John McCain with campaign ad of her own..
It should only be fair, since I posted the Ludacris camp ad supportin Obama..that I post
Paris Hilton's ad....clowin McCain... Now fair is fair........right? it's hella funny ok! and rightly, so I would have responded too.
This video speaks for itsself...what trips me out is this John McCain decided to go hang out with the bikers in Sturgis this past weekend.. are you effin kidding me? that's a double WTF?? where is this campaign gonna take us next?
atta girl Paris, that was hot, you go!~ you are most eloquent I like your game plan! Ha
hb~
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Paris Hilton Slams!!! John McCain with campaign ad of her own..
It should only be fair, since I posted the Ludacris camp ad supportin Obama..that I post
Paris Hilton's ad....clowin McCain... Now fair is fair........right? it's hella funny ok! and rightly, so I would have responded too.
This video speaks for itsself...what trips me out is this John McCain decided to go hang out with the bikers in Sturgis this past weekend.. are you effin kidding me? that's a double WTF?? where is this campaign gonna take us next?
See more funny videos at Funny or Die
atta girl Paris, that was hot, you go!~ you are most eloquent I like your game plan! Ha
hb~
Thursday, July 31, 2008
WTF? C'mon Ludacris supportin Obama but callin Hillary Clinton a Bitch?
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WTF? C'mon Ludacris supportin Obama but calling Hillary Clinton a Bitch?
You know I awoke this AM and heard on K-Fog in San Fransisco that Ludacris had made a rap in support of Obama.. well after work I just had to hear it!~ I support Hillary and will not be voting this coming election ( maybe Green party?)
I do like Ludacris but..... WTF? calling Hillary Clinton an "Irrelevant Bitch", oh hell no!~ that is straight rude, If your gonna make a political rap have some class on yours...I'm disappointed in ya..........Luda, this rap is weak man, try again!
How would Ludacris like someone to call his Mama a Bitch?
Ludacris F'ed up vid check it!~
Hell NO I won't vote Obama!
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WTF? C'mon Ludacris supportin Obama but calling Hillary Clinton a Bitch?
You know I awoke this AM and heard on K-Fog in San Fransisco that Ludacris had made a rap in support of Obama.. well after work I just had to hear it!~ I support Hillary and will not be voting this coming election ( maybe Green party?)
I do like Ludacris but..... WTF? calling Hillary Clinton an "Irrelevant Bitch", oh hell no!~ that is straight rude, If your gonna make a political rap have some class on yours...I'm disappointed in ya..........Luda, this rap is weak man, try again!
How would Ludacris like someone to call his Mama a Bitch?
Ludacris F'ed up vid check it!~
Hell NO I won't vote Obama!
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Clinton suspends campaign but I will not support Obama
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Clinton suspends campaign but I will not support Obama
I appreciate those that come to take a peak-see at my blog and this will be the last rant on the Hillary/Obama saga. Hillary Clinton gave a brilliant, courageous speech, very powerful, very effective, did you watch? She is now asking her supporters to support Barrack Obama.
ahhh- NO!... No can do. I support Hillary Clinton but as I have said before, will not be part of this farse of this Democratic election.
The Obama campaign has been media driven from the start, the media and the DNC behind Barrack Obama all the way, you know it..Clinton was not given a fair shake in this campaign at all period and the Clinton supporters know this. Lets see how nice and warm and fuzzy the media will be towards Senator Clinton, now that she endorses Obama.. Laughable.
It's bad enough that Hillary has suspended her campaign, but NOW on her official webby they are asking for you to support Obama and sign up with his camp on her own website... WTF? what a slap in the face. No,,, no ... no....
Do they think that Clinton supporters will cow down and be coerced into supporting a candidate that we do not believe in? Supporters are passionate in not supporting Obama, but thinking of moving to the McCain camp, that's a lightbulb of an idea now isn't?.
You have to ask yourself whether the passion of the people will bring John McCain to the White House or will the people say ahh, lets go with the guy we don't like or believe in? Americans aren't as naive as some might believe and this will be interesting how this will all pan out in the next 5 months.
perhaps I'll be back later to add other lil tidbits
Damn I just had to post a Beatle vid!
The Word-The Beatles
As I rarely get comments on my blog and welcome them, here is a response I gave to a fellow blogger posted here:
Does it matter whether or not we vote McCain, what chances really do we have in this country if our concerns will not be heard? the DNC made that known two weeks ago. Clinton supporters just might make that shift...No Power too the people, but the puppeteers that hold the money bags, behind the scenes.
Respectively, I cannot see John McCain doing ANY worse than what George Bush has done in the last 8! Hillary never had a chance no matter what she did!~ But she has been brillant!
hb~
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Clinton suspends campaign but I will not support Obama
I appreciate those that come to take a peak-see at my blog and this will be the last rant on the Hillary/Obama saga. Hillary Clinton gave a brilliant, courageous speech, very powerful, very effective, did you watch? She is now asking her supporters to support Barrack Obama.
ahhh- NO!... No can do. I support Hillary Clinton but as I have said before, will not be part of this farse of this Democratic election.
The Obama campaign has been media driven from the start, the media and the DNC behind Barrack Obama all the way, you know it..Clinton was not given a fair shake in this campaign at all period and the Clinton supporters know this. Lets see how nice and warm and fuzzy the media will be towards Senator Clinton, now that she endorses Obama.. Laughable.
It's bad enough that Hillary has suspended her campaign, but NOW on her official webby they are asking for you to support Obama and sign up with his camp on her own website... WTF? what a slap in the face. No,,, no ... no....
Do they think that Clinton supporters will cow down and be coerced into supporting a candidate that we do not believe in? Supporters are passionate in not supporting Obama, but thinking of moving to the McCain camp, that's a lightbulb of an idea now isn't?.
You have to ask yourself whether the passion of the people will bring John McCain to the White House or will the people say ahh, lets go with the guy we don't like or believe in? Americans aren't as naive as some might believe and this will be interesting how this will all pan out in the next 5 months.
perhaps I'll be back later to add other lil tidbits
Damn I just had to post a Beatle vid!
The Word-The Beatles
As I rarely get comments on my blog and welcome them, here is a response I gave to a fellow blogger posted here:
Does it matter whether or not we vote McCain, what chances really do we have in this country if our concerns will not be heard? the DNC made that known two weeks ago. Clinton supporters just might make that shift...No Power too the people, but the puppeteers that hold the money bags, behind the scenes.
Respectively, I cannot see John McCain doing ANY worse than what George Bush has done in the last 8! Hillary never had a chance no matter what she did!~ But she has been brillant!
hb~
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