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| From | mkropp@comcast.net |
| Subject | Re: McCartney Set List (spoiler alert) |
| Date | Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:46:23 +0000 |
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Say it isn't so, equating Paul with Mike Love?? ;-)
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>
> << Typical. 26 out of 38 songs.
>
> Honestly, does he really think so little of his own solo career? If
>
> so, why has he been DOING this for the last 35 years? >>
>
>
> Quite similarly,
> Barry Miles' (fully-McCartney-authorized) "Many Years From Now" biography,
> which purports to be the definitive be-all tell-all Maccabook,
> spends its first full 582 ( !! ) pages recounting basically the Sixties,
> while the man's extensive thirty-year post-Beatle life and career
> is reduced to a mere 21-page "afterword."
>
> Even those as mathematically challenged as I can see
> that ratio is kinda, um, out of whack.
>
>
> Still, in the immortal words of R.D. Davies,
> you gotta Give The People What They Want,
> and what the majority still want is..... BeatlesBeatles and then some more
> Beatles.
>
> So in a way, one could say Paul has now resigned himself to playing the Human
> Jukebox of our Golden Youths on stage (can one say "Mike Love"?), but then
> again, he always was the Beatle most concerned with his audience, and especially
> their perception of his work.
>
> Plus didn't he once say is favorite TV show was "The Wonder Years" ??
>
>
> Irregardless,
> More Power to Paul, I say! He's now well on his way to becoming the Bob Hope
> of Rock and Roll,
> and honestly now, You know that can't be all that bad,
>
> Gary "confesses to having never seen Macca live since 75, however" Pig
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