Happy Birthday, Sir Paul!

[howard lee]

It's the former Beatle's birthday, 82 years old today.

What are some of your favorite McCartney (during or after the Beatles) songs?

(Don't answer all at once.)  🤣

[John B]

Seriously. I love this one.

[martinfever]

I like the guitars...he used three acoustics and one electric.




Again the guitar, a bit more of an edge, reminds me of John.

[coachdoc]

3 of the most ‘eh’ songs of his I’ve heard.

[howard lee]

I like so many of his (their) songs, but this one gobsmacked me as a thirteen-year-old kid. I still love it.

And this one still does it for me.

And there are so many more, too numerous to list here.

[howard lee]

Not too many Beatle fans here, eh?

[Dub]

I’m a Beatles fan. I’m just like that “pretty nice girl,” who doesn’t have a lot to say.

My late brother, Paul, was a huge fan. He had worked up guitar arrangements for several of their tunes.

[Cornflake]

I'm a modest fan of the Beatles. I certainly admire and respect their work. I understand why a lot of people love it. But it never moved me very much. The Stones moved my hips more. Leonard Cohen moved my head more.

In any creative area there are people whose work connects with us and people whose work doesn't particularly connect with us. I respect T. S. Eliot's work but I've never been fond of it. (And I'm pretty sure I would have disliked him.) Yeats and Pound move me a whole lot more. Ain't no right or wrong to these things...just taste buds.

[Tamarack]

I am a Beatles and McCartney fan who has been away from the laptop for most of the week. I have liked most everything Sir Paul has done.

I Will is a particular favorite. I have attempted to play it on chromatic harmonica, but the attempt has not been successful.

Etched into my memory is Band on the Run. May 1974, month-long geology field trip. AM radios in the vans, this song was constantly blasting out.

[martinfever]

9FEB1964.
10 years old.
I wanted to watch The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh on Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. The Ed Sullivan Show was on the other channel. In attendance at our house were a coupla teenage girl cousins who wanted to see The Beatles on Sullivan. The girls prevailed. The screaming?? what the hell!?! But I liked the Fabs...thought they were cool and fun and sounded pretty good. Many Beatle records, tapes and CDs followed. And guitars.

Another thing that was so cool to me was George's guitar play and Paul's bass...damn tasty.

And an ohblahhdee to youse all.

[epaul]

I was in the car off to get milk or something. I turned on Sirius radio. The Beatles channel. Sirius was running their (new to me) annual Beatles countdown of the 100 most popular songs as chosen by listeners of the Sirius Beatles channel. The song playing was #88, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds". I kept listening. And driving. And listening. It was a lazy Sunday afternoon. I decided I would just keep listening to the Beatles countdown until they finished up with #1. So I went to Culvers and got an order of fries and a large chocolate malt, parked the car and listened all the way down to this year's #1 vote getter (Hey Jude). It was wonderful.

Later, I caught the countdown at the beginning and listened to the ones I had missed, 100-89. And more.

I love the Sirius Beatles channel.

[John B]

Jun 22, 2024 21:23:01 GMT -5 epaul said:

I was in the car off to get milk or something. I turned on Sirius radio. The Beatles channel. Sirius was running their (new to me) annual Beatles countdown of the 100 most popular songs as chosen by listeners of the Sirius Beatles channel. The song playing was #88, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds". I kept listening. And driving. And listening. It was a lazy Sunday afternoon. I decided I would just keep listening to the Beatles countdown until they finished up with #1. So I went to Culvers and got an order of fries and a large chocolate malt, parked the car and listened all the way down to this year's #1 vote getter (Hey Jude). It was wonderful.

Later, I caught the countdown at the beginning and listened to the ones I had missed, 100-89. And more.

I love the Sirius Beatles channel.

Depending on the week, I listen to 10-40 hours of that channel while at work. Back in public accounting, I could hit 70+.

[Marshall]

Jun 18, 2024 12:49:43 GMT -5 martinfever said:

I saw McCartney and Wings at the International Amphitheater about 50 years ago.

[millring]

Me and my sis
My god, were we cute?
Belting out the Beatles
On a one string uke

The unbroken string
Was the one that rings out, "fleas"
Wailing, "yeah, yeah, yeah"
Just as loud as you please

Love, love me do
Please, please me, please
On and on we sang
While the uke droned, "fleas"