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Martha
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How original. Another boring rant about McCartney's Christmas tune. Well I like it and always have. F off, haters. How's that for Christmas cheer. :)

Gosh, I'm a hipster? Well that's just … neat.

Disliking Adele's new album is not allowed, I guess.

In no way, shape, or form is this album an "A-." It's shockingly bland. This is an artist with the power and talent to do anything musically at this point in her career. So what does she do? She releases an album that takes no risks musically or lyrically and simply rehashes the same themes from the last album. I've

There was a George bio just last year, not to mention a boatload of various Beatles books. No novels, tho, that I know of.

Mostly I feel that way about books/movies about John Lennon. Enough already. But I guess I don't need any more books/movies about Paul, George, or Ringo, either.

Hey, that's my list. ;)

Problematic, yes, but at least it's an honest line. It suggests this is a guy who is used to being waited on by his wife, which might hint at one reason why she left him. Rude awakening.

He didn't have it in Ram or McCartney 2 and those are both brilliant records. He didn't have it in Band on the Run, either, and it's a classic.

And My Brave Face. And This One. Great songs.

Agreed. When I see the usual anti-McCartney types say "he hasn't produced anything good in …" yada, yada, I immediately think of Chaos & Creation (and his Fireman album, Electric Arguments). I can't figure out why those 2 albums get forgotten in the rush to diss him.

Personally I was hoping that Paul's new reissues would be for Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway. I like Weird Paul — the Paul of Ram, McCartney & McCartney 2, the Fireman. And I think Wild Life is the next McCartney album that is due for a reappraisal (it's yet another Paul album that was trashed upon release and is

This headline is entirely misleading about what's actually said in the article.

Well Yesterday isn't a "schmaltzy" song so I don't know why you would dislike it.

I think you could make a good case that it was the great critical and commercial success of Yesterday that played a key role in damaging the Lennon-McCartney partnership. Lennon apparently never stopped being jealous and resentful about the song — even as he was publicly demeaning it. I read an article a year or two

Actually there's a theory I've read that Yesterday is really a song about the death of Paul's mother in 1956. The line "Why she had to go, I don't know, she wouldn't say," is a reference to the fact that teenage Paul and his brother weren't told she had breast cancer. And the line "I said something wrong" is

Yes, lots of land (to keep people and the media far away) but relatively small homes.

Well doing one song on TV is not his thing I guess at 73. I've seen him twice and he was terrific both times. His voice just needs to warm up.
P.S. The bullet comment is lame.

Neat photo of Paul.

Hence George's lifelong resentment of Paul. I think it was always more about the money more than anything else.