Brother of chart-topping Mike. Usually right-handed, but plays the guitar left-handed – except in the cartoon series (voice done by Lance Percival). Absolutely NOT dead, it says here.
16 December 2015
paul f
First name James.
16 December 2015
paul f
Nearly fell off his piano stool at Anfield during the Capital of Culture concert in 2008, as the fireworks during Live and Let Die were sited a bit closer to him than when he is playing bigger stadia.
16 December 2015
paul f
Also, his NT-managed former home is 5 minutes walk from the house where I grew up. It’s a bit depressing growing up, knowing that becoming the most famous person from your estate is an unattainable goal.
16 December 2015
Dr desperate
Permanently banned from Preston Guild Hall since a gig in 1973 in which he incited the audience to get up and stamp their feet in a section of the auditorium which was known to have cracked concrete. Brinsley Schwartz were support, so I suspect that naughty Nick Lowe may have been involved.
16 December 2015
Dickhead in quicksand
@Paul F- with a different haircut, you could still aspire to be the hardest.
16 December 2015
peter mcornithologist
At the time of the 2012 Olympics I was in the small town of Boiro. Whilst enjoying myself in a wee bar, much laughter was to be heard as the opening ceremony blundered along on the small T.V. The giggling Galicians were being entertained by an out of tune elderly scouse rocker. If he had sang that garbage at Hartlepool club, he would have been hung.
16 December 2015
paul f
@DiQ. Well I reckon I could take Macca, but not many others out of my erstwhile neighbours these days.
And what’s wrong with my haircut? Problem, pal?
16 December 2015
paul f
@TLP – And voiced by Eddie Yates in Yellow Submarine.
16 December 2015
paul f
*Yeats
16 December 2015
paul f
And Chad Stuart in the Jungle Book.
16 December 2015
EXXo
The tours set off from by minibus from Speke Hall car park, so they don’t have tourists parking on the estate & associated ‘mind yer car’ issues.
Two adults & two kids visiting the Beatles’ NT homes then that wonderful Elizabethan Hall will be charged about £87, making annual NT family membership at £104 look like the value it certainly is (similar price to year’s supply of Marmite, for example). Though the NT adults will still have to pay £9.50 each “towards the costs of the minibus”, What does it run on? Moet & fucking Chandon or something!!??
A German friend of mine wanted to go when the house very first opened; she was an NT member and I took out a bank loan. Back at Speke Hall afterwards, we bumped into the typical stereotype of the American tourist. “So this is how the Upper Class lived eh? The McCartneys got that little house while Lord & Lady Muck lived here (nobody’s lived there since 1921, a few years before Paul’s estate I think), but I tell you what back home in Texas everybody’s got a bigger place than this …” His family then piled into a pre-arranged black cab to continue the 24-hour whistlestop ‘Beatles tour’ and take them back to Manchester airport afterwards.
As you’ve noticed my impecunity is becoming an obsession.
16 December 2015
EXXo
Impecuniousness, impecuniosity… no immunity for impecunity.
16 December 2015
WARDEN HODGES
Whatever next, Liverpool re-names a pub?……..No! Always be the Hanover Hotel to me.
16 December 2015
peter mcornithologist
@ Paul F. You could become Britains Mark Chapman. Nigel may even mention you in a future ditty.
16 December 2015
paul f
Well the Bootleg John Lennon did once address me directly from the stage. They were doing a corporate gig for my wife’s work. She was on the night shift so the original idea was for us to drive – see the show, she would go into work 2/3 of the way through, and I would drive home, coming back to pick her up in the morning. Instead, one of her colleagues offered to put me up nearby, so I could have a beer or two, with me leaving the car for Mrs F to pick me up in the morning instead. What we forgot was that she would need the keys. So at the end of the encore, she got the message through via the stage, with Bootleg Lennon reminding me to leave her the car keys.
16 December 2015
EXXo
And then straight into ‘Drive my Car’ or ‘Day Tripper’?
16 December 2015
paul f
That would have made for a far better story Exxo!
16 December 2015
(NOt) locked in Rock City, Notts
Long time reader, 1st time poster etc.
@Exxo. When I lived in Upton Green, Speke in the 1970’s, there wasn’t much money to be made from the ‘mind your car’ angle for the coachloads of tourists from America and Japan who turned up every summer to see George Harrison’s childhood home. What did prove to be lucurative was agreeing not to get in the way of the pictures being taken of the house. Can’t imagine why Ronald and Pam from Baddiddlyboing, Odawidaho didn’t want to add some local scally colour to a nondescript council house but as it generally paid more than my paper round, I didn’t stop to ask.
17 December 2015
Dirk Hofman
Receives regular plaudits and onions from the corporations and captains of music industry for pulling in the pork for them. The only artiste to have a number one hit as a soloist,duo,trio,quartet and quintet.. has sung and played with just about everyone. At first I thought o no, ono and bono but no eno maccaberation but apparently he sings in brian’s gospel choir of a Tuesday evening.. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/apr/28/brian-eno-brighton-festival
20 December 2015
Dr desperate
Also several multiples: ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ in 1984, ‘Ferry Aid’ in 1987 and ‘Ferry Cross The Mersey’ in 1989. (Unfortunately ‘We All Stand Together’ with the Frog Chorus only reached No.3 in 1984.)
20 December 2015
Dirk Hofman
Thanks for the multitudes Dr D, I had forgotten that he has done a lot of work for charities (obviously not as much as St Matthew of Kelly) and probably ate a lot of Linda’s sausages..
9 January 2016
Dr desperate
Which reminds me of my favourite Letter Sent to Viz: “WHAT a complete hypocrite Paul McCartney is. He won’t eat sausages, but he’s quite prepared to have ivory on his piano keyboard, oh Lord. Does he really expect us to believe that if they made pianos out of sausages, he’d suddenly start eating elephants again? Frankly, I think not.”
10 January 2016
dr desperate
In London robbed the house of the ex-member of legendary group The Beatles Paul McCartney. Where is Beatles band? Please give any news to Samuel K. Amphong of address similar to above. Yours as in rock! Samuel K Amphong, Thailand. http://micetimes.asia/in-london-robbed-the-home-of-paul-mccartney/
14 December 2018
dr desperate
(One wonders if they came in through the bathroom window.)
14 December 2018
Jim
Responsible for feeding me meat while loading a PA from his entirely vegetarian catered world tour onto a plane in Manchester. Bonded area so the only grub was bacon or sausage butties. Yum.
31 May 2020
EXXO
Did you get a ticket for tonight Sue?
24 June 2022
Hendrix-tattoo
Just watched his Glastonbury gig on the bbc I-player and all I can say is wow and God bless you Macca…
27 June 2022
Paul f
On seeing Springsteen in 2013 I suddenly felt embarrassed at my own lack of energy and vigour (at the age of 44) compared to the 63-year old Bruce. I’m now in slightly better shape at 53 than I was then, but bloody hell, Macca’s 80 and putting on a hell of a show (at least as good as when I saw him 14 years ago). So glad I got to see both of them while I still could.
THIS LEADEN PAUL
Brother of chart-topping Mike. Usually right-handed, but plays the guitar left-handed – except in the cartoon series (voice done by Lance Percival). Absolutely NOT dead, it says here.
16 December 2015
paul f
First name James.
16 December 2015
paul f
Nearly fell off his piano stool at Anfield during the Capital of Culture concert in 2008, as the fireworks during Live and Let Die were sited a bit closer to him than when he is playing bigger stadia.
16 December 2015
paul f
Also, his NT-managed former home is 5 minutes walk from the house where I grew up. It’s a bit depressing growing up, knowing that becoming the most famous person from your estate is an unattainable goal.
16 December 2015
Dr desperate
Permanently banned from Preston Guild Hall since a gig in 1973 in which he incited the audience to get up and stamp their feet in a section of the auditorium which was known to have cracked concrete.
Brinsley Schwartz were support, so I suspect that naughty Nick Lowe may have been involved.
16 December 2015
Dickhead in quicksand
@Paul F- with a different haircut, you could still aspire to be the hardest.
16 December 2015
peter mcornithologist
At the time of the 2012 Olympics I was in the small town of Boiro. Whilst enjoying myself in a wee bar, much laughter was to be heard as the opening ceremony blundered along on the small T.V. The giggling Galicians were being entertained by an out of tune elderly scouse rocker. If he had sang that garbage at Hartlepool club, he would have been hung.
16 December 2015
paul f
@DiQ. Well I reckon I could take Macca, but not many others out of my erstwhile neighbours these days.
And what’s wrong with my haircut? Problem, pal?
16 December 2015
paul f
@TLP – And voiced by Eddie Yates in Yellow Submarine.
16 December 2015
paul f
*Yeats
16 December 2015
paul f
And Chad Stuart in the Jungle Book.
16 December 2015
EXXo
The tours set off from by minibus from Speke Hall car park, so they don’t have tourists parking on the estate & associated ‘mind yer car’ issues.
Two adults & two kids visiting the Beatles’ NT homes then that wonderful Elizabethan Hall will be charged about £87, making annual NT family membership at £104 look like the value it certainly is (similar price to year’s supply of Marmite, for example). Though the NT adults will still have to pay £9.50 each “towards the costs of the minibus”, What does it run on? Moet & fucking Chandon or something!!??
A German friend of mine wanted to go when the house very first opened; she was an NT member and I took out a bank loan. Back at Speke Hall afterwards, we bumped into the typical stereotype of the American tourist.
“So this is how the Upper Class lived eh? The McCartneys got that little house while Lord & Lady Muck lived here (nobody’s lived there since 1921, a few years before Paul’s estate I think), but I tell you what back home in Texas everybody’s got a bigger place than this …” His family then piled into a pre-arranged black cab to continue the 24-hour whistlestop ‘Beatles tour’ and take them back to Manchester airport afterwards.
As you’ve noticed my impecunity is becoming an obsession.
16 December 2015
EXXo
Impecuniousness, impecuniosity… no immunity for impecunity.
16 December 2015
WARDEN HODGES
Whatever next, Liverpool re-names a pub?……..No! Always be the Hanover Hotel to me.
16 December 2015
peter mcornithologist
@ Paul F. You could become Britains Mark Chapman. Nigel may even mention you in a future ditty.
16 December 2015
paul f
Well the Bootleg John Lennon did once address me directly from the stage. They were doing a corporate gig for my wife’s work. She was on the night shift so the original idea was for us to drive – see the show, she would go into work 2/3 of the way through, and I would drive home, coming back to pick her up in the morning. Instead, one of her colleagues offered to put me up nearby, so I could have a beer or two, with me leaving the car for Mrs F to pick me up in the morning instead. What we forgot was that she would need the keys. So at the end of the encore, she got the message through via the stage, with Bootleg Lennon reminding me to leave her the car keys.
16 December 2015
EXXo
And then straight into ‘Drive my Car’ or ‘Day Tripper’?
16 December 2015
paul f
That would have made for a far better story Exxo!
16 December 2015
(NOt) locked in Rock City, Notts
Long time reader, 1st time poster etc.
@Exxo. When I lived in Upton Green, Speke in the 1970’s, there wasn’t much money to be made from the ‘mind your car’ angle for the coachloads of tourists from America and Japan who turned up every summer to see George Harrison’s childhood home. What did prove to be lucurative was agreeing not to get in the way of the pictures being taken of the house. Can’t imagine why Ronald and Pam from Baddiddlyboing, Odawidaho didn’t want to add some local scally colour to a nondescript council house but as it generally paid more than my paper round, I didn’t stop to ask.
17 December 2015
Dirk Hofman
Receives regular plaudits and onions from the corporations and captains of music industry for pulling in the pork for them. The only artiste to have a number one hit as a soloist,duo,trio,quartet and quintet.. has sung and played with just about everyone. At first I thought o no, ono and bono but no eno maccaberation but apparently he sings in brian’s gospel choir of a Tuesday evening.. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/apr/28/brian-eno-brighton-festival
20 December 2015
Dr desperate
Also several multiples: ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ in 1984, ‘Ferry Aid’ in 1987 and ‘Ferry Cross The Mersey’ in 1989.
(Unfortunately ‘We All Stand Together’ with the Frog Chorus only reached No.3 in 1984.)
20 December 2015
Dirk Hofman
Thanks for the multitudes Dr D, I had forgotten that he has done a lot of work for charities (obviously not as much as St Matthew of Kelly) and probably ate a lot of Linda’s sausages..
9 January 2016
Dr desperate
Which reminds me of my favourite Letter Sent to Viz:
“WHAT a complete hypocrite Paul McCartney is. He won’t eat sausages, but he’s quite prepared to have ivory on his piano keyboard, oh Lord. Does he really expect us to believe that if they made pianos out of sausages, he’d suddenly start eating elephants again? Frankly, I think not.”
10 January 2016
dr desperate
In London robbed the house of the ex-member of legendary group The Beatles Paul McCartney.
Where is Beatles band? Please give any news to Samuel K. Amphong of address similar to above. Yours as in rock!
Samuel K Amphong, Thailand.
http://micetimes.asia/in-london-robbed-the-home-of-paul-mccartney/
14 December 2018
dr desperate
(One wonders if they came in through the bathroom window.)
14 December 2018
Jim
Responsible for feeding me meat while loading a PA from his entirely vegetarian catered world tour onto a plane in Manchester. Bonded area so the only grub was bacon or sausage butties. Yum.
31 May 2020
EXXO
Did you get a ticket for tonight Sue?
24 June 2022
Hendrix-tattoo
Just watched his Glastonbury gig on the bbc I-player and all I can say is wow and God bless you Macca…
27 June 2022
Paul f
On seeing Springsteen in 2013 I suddenly felt embarrassed at my own lack of energy and vigour (at the age of 44) compared to the 63-year old Bruce. I’m now in slightly better shape at 53 than I was then, but bloody hell, Macca’s 80 and putting on a hell of a show (at least as good as when I saw him 14 years ago). So glad I got to see both of them while I still could.
28 June 2022