The Biggest Fear of Paul McCartney

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OCT

29

2016

You Gave Me The Answer – Alexey in Russia Asks...

We couldn’t wait to ask Paul the question for this month’s ‘You Gave Me The Answer’. We genuinely had no idea what he might say and were very intrigued to find out! Let's launch straight in…

Alexey in Russia asks: “What was the biggest - or one of the biggest  - fears in your life and how did you overcome it?”

We spoke with Paul ahead of his Desert Trip performances to find out: 
 
“Thank you for your question, Alexey. Biggest fears? When I was a kid it was just getting beaten up by a local gang. You know, that was a purely physical fear. Where I lived it was a hard estate and there were guys who if you saw them you would just go to the other side of the street. Because you knew they would just say, 'Hey you, who you lookin’ at?' And there was no right answer! 'You!' And they’re coming at you! 'Not you!' And they’re coming at you! Performing, it was always the idea that the audience didn’t like you and you had to prove yourself. I think that’s why a lot of people get stage fright and get nervous. You think, 'Oh my god, I’m gonna be terrible, they hate me, and it’s all terrible.' And so I think that was one of the earliest fears. I remember nearly giving it all up when we were doing a concert in Wembley - which was a Poll-Winners concert - in the really early days of The Beatles. And I remember feeling physically sick with a knot in my stomach thinking, 'I should give this up, this is just too painful, what am I doing?' I got over it. And as you can see I didn’t give it up! So that’s two different kinds of fears."
 

PMc.com: "Do you still get stage fright now?"
 
Paul: "Not too bad. What I do is I always say to my promoter when a tour is coming up: 'Put one show on sale and see how it goes.' And he’ll ring me back and say, 'It’s sold out! Twenty minutes!' So I’ve got to assume that they like me. So it gives you a confidence and I think I can probably relax, they probably like me. And it means you can enjoy the show more."

So there you have it, Paul had the same fears as us when we were little! Having never played Wembley as one of The Beatles, we’re not quite as sure we can relate to his performance fear though! What are your fears? Let us know in the comments below...

BEATLES DOC IN OSCAR RACE

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Oscar race heats up with 145 documentary titles
By Darah Hansen
October 28, 2016



Brian McGinn and Rod Blackhurt’s Amanda Knox, Ava DuVernay’s 13th, Werner Herzog’s Into the Inferno, Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro and Ron Howard’s The Beatles: Eight Days a Week are among the projects submitted in the Documentary Feature category for the upcoming Academy Awards.

In all 145 titles have been put forward for consideration by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science in the Oscar race.  Click here to see the full list of titles.

A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December, with final nominations announced Jan. 24, 2017.

Documentaries submitted in the feature category also may qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture, provided they meet the requirements for those categories.

The Oscars ceremony is scheduled to be held Feb. 26, 2017 in L.A.

Earlier this week, the Academy released a list of the top-10 Oscar contenders in the field of Documentary Short Subject. Of those named, five projects will earn nominations and vie for the Oscar hardware.

‘The Beatles: Eight Days a Week’ Filmmakers on Discovering Sigourney Weaver in Old Footage

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‘The Beatles: Eight Days a Week’ Filmmakers on Discovering Sigourney Weaver in Old Footage
Umberto Gonzalez
October 28, 2016

TheWrap Screening Series: A very young “Alien” actress appears in the documentary, which chronicles The Beatles early touring years



Ron Howard’s “The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years” is based on the early part of the Fab Four’s career (1962-1966), when they first captured the world’s attention.

And along with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, it also features a now-familiar face — Sigourney Weaver.

At TheWrap’s Screening Series Thursday night, moderator Steve Pond asked the filmmakers how they spotted the “Alien” actress — who was then just a young Beatles fan — in the crowd at a Hollywood Bowl concert in 1964 or ’65.



The film’s editor Paul Crowder explained — and the story is even more bizarre than you’d imagine.

“We were going through the footage and there is a big party and Groucho Marx gets out of the car and they’re interviewing him and ask him if he’s coming to see the Beatles — Marx is like ‘nah, I’m here to drink,'” Crowder said. “So the cameraman pans around and there were two girls sitting in the car, and I’m like ‘God, that looks like Sigourney Weaver over there.

“Then cut to another news source and its all these girls behind a barrier [at the concert] … and there she is! It IS Sigourney Weaver. It was pretty amazing!” he marveled.

“Did she know that footage existed?” Pond asked.

“She had a done Jimmy Fallon’s show and someone pointed it out to her about a year before, but that’s not where we found it. Now she knows it exists,” Crowder said.



“The Beatles: Eight Days A Week” delves into the band’s inner workings — how they made decisions, created their music and built their collective career together — all the while, highlighting the Beatles’ unique musical gifts and remarkable, complementary personalities.

A White Horse Pictures and Imagine Entertainment production, the film focuses on the time period from the early Beatles’ journey in the days of the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England, to their last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966.

The documentary also features the band’s American television debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show” and Lennon’s controversial remark that the Beatles “are more popular than Jesus.”

“By the end, it became quite complicated. But at the beginning, things were really simple,” McCartney said.

Executive producer Nicholas Ferrall explained that the documentary originated with a 2012 call from Jeff Jones, the president of Apple Corps (the company that founded by The Beatles).

“They had started a research project in 2006 from a company called One Voice One World who had collected a ton of home videos from the 1964 tour and it just been kicking around for five to seven years at Apple,” he said. “They didn’t know what to do with it and decided maybe there is a story here.

“That’s what started it — and four years later we’re here,” Ferrall said. He then teamed up with producer Nigel Sinclair, who had just finished a George Harrison film with Martin Scorsese.




While some older viewers will have grown up with the Beatles — there is generation who didn’t — and writer Mark Munroe reveled in showing both of them a new side of the iconic musicians.

“I think every generation, every person, kind of discovers the Beatles themselves anew,” he said. “One of the beautiful things about the Beatles music is that when you discover it –whether its 1964 or 1984 or 2004 — it feels like you just got let in on a secret and as it evolves, you evolve.

“In that way, I do think that we are trying to consciously both please people who know the story inside out — who know more that we can ever put in 90 minutes — and also hopefully enthrall a young fanbase who is discovering them right now,” he said.

Watch “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week” trailer below.

LISTEN : Paul McCartney Debuts New Song 'In the Blink of An Eye'

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Paul McCartney Debuts New Song 'In the Blink of An Eye'
by Steve Marinucci
10/28/2016


Paul McCartney performs onstage during Desert Trip at The Empire Polo Club on Oct. 8, 2016 in Indio, Calif.
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A new Paul McCartney song “In the Blink of An Eye,” part of the forthcoming Ethel & Ernest movie, made its first appearance early Friday (Oct. 28) morning. The track appears across iTunes' international stores (but not in the U.S. at time of reporting) in the advance pre-order listing for the soundtrack album.

Ethel & Ernest, an animated film, is taken from the graphic novel by Raymond Briggs (The Snowman) about the lives of two Londoners. The characters were based on his parents. The film stars the voices of Jim Broadbent and Brenda Blethyn in the title roles and Harry Collett and Luke Treadaway as the author in his younger and later days.



From a 60-second preview, the sound of “In the Blink of An Eye” is reminiscent of "(I Want To) Come Home," the song McCartney wrote for Everybody's Fine, the 2009 film starring Robert DeNiro. That song was nominated for several awards -- a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Song by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the DFCS Award for Best Original Song by the Denver Film Critics Society and the World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Song for a Film, according to IMDB.com – but didn't win any of them.



For now, the full album can only be ordered from iTunes in the U.K. and via the music store's international channels (including Australia) and at Amazon.co.uk. The album's advance track listings features a number of songs by Carl Davis, who collaborated with McCartney on “Liverpool Oratorio.”

Watch the Ethel & Ernest trailer below.












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Amplifier used by The Beatles given new lease of life thanks to Rochdale music mogul

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Amplifier used by The Beatles given new lease of life thanks to Rochdale music mogul
BY NICK STATHAM
26 OCT 2016

The amp was used by rock band Kelly's Heroes at Studio-Studio, in Whitworth



A vintage amplifier used on classic Beatles albums Sergeant Pepper and Revolver has been given a new lease of life at a Whitworth recording studio.

Chris Hewitt, the man behind the Deeply Vale music festivals, who ran a music shop in Rochdale during the 70s and 80s, got his hands on the amp while working on a Joy Division exhibition with the band’s bassist Peter Hook.

But it was only when it was sent for repair, after Hooky blew it up, that its history as a Beatles studio amp was discovered.

Chris said: “He borrowed it and blew it up.

“The repair man could only see it under a certain light, but it had scratched on it ‘Beatles studio amp’.

“He had it under a spotlight looking at it and it was scratched on under all the grime and dirt.”

After undertaking research on the amp, including looking through old photographs and carrying out a check of its history, Chris was able to confirm it was the one used by George Harrison on some of the Fab Four’s most celebrated work.


The Beatles recording Revolver

Chris has his guitars repaired by Michael Eastwood, guitarist in the band Kelly’s Heroes

And when the band came to record their new EP For the Years to Come at Studio-Studio, in Spodden Mill, Chris agreed to let them use the amp on the record.

The three-piece group, also featuring Louis Green and Eoin Kelly, have used it on four new songs, including Beneath These Eyes, as well as version of The Beatles’ I Saw Her Standing There.


Chris Hewitt with the vintage amp that was once owned and used by The Beatles.

Michael, 26, says using a piece of rock n roll history on the EP was a particular thrill for one member of the band.

He said: “Eoin has been a Beatles fan since he was very, very young, he’s absolutely mad on the Beatles, so I knew he would like it.

“We’ve all become Beatles fans as a result of exposure due to Eoin.

“It was very loud.

“I don’t know what wattage it was but to try to get it down to a recording level was interesting!

“You could hear it in predominantly over everything else.

“But it was great, it certainly looks the part and sounds great and we had lots of different guitars to use through it.”

For more on Kelly’s Heroes see 
kellysheroes.bandcamp.com/releases.

In Beatles '66, Steve Turner Explores a Revolutionary Year in the Band's Life

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In Beatles '66, Steve Turner Explores a Revolutionary Year in the Band's Life
By Robert Ham
October 27, 2016 



The glut of information available with just a few keystrokes has narrowed many writers’ focus while chronicling musicians’ careers. Better to dive into one album or period of time than to just rehash the same Wikipedia bullet points.

That’s where we find author Steve Turner. The British music journalist has already taken the wide view, writing an exhaustive look at every one of the songs that The Beatles recorded (The Complete Beatles Songs: The Stories Behind Every Song Written By The Fab Four, published last year). So for his next trick, Beatles ‘66: The Revolutionary Year, Turner zooms in on what, by anyone’s reckoning, was the 12-month stretch that changed everything for the group.

It was in 1966 that The Beatles recorded Revolver, their most far-reaching and experimental album to date, and started the sessions for their unquestioned masterpiece Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was also the year that band played their last live concert dates, George Harrison made his life-changing journey to India, and John Lennon met Yoko Ono at her art show in London.



Beatles ‘66 is almost like a coming-of-age story for John, Paul, George, and Ringo. All four had their perceptions of the world challenged, with an accompanying reconfiguration of their individual and collective priorities. Yes, some of that did stem from their use of LSD. But as Turner tells it, 1966 was when the true weight of their celebrity began to feel more burdensome than ever.

The section of the book that covers their world tour makes this quite clear. By all accounts, the four were miserable when they were on the road. It was a nonstop barrage of press conferences, travel, and glad-handing local authorities. When they were onstage, The Beatles could barely hear themselves play over the screaming of their fans. And offstage, they couldn’t go anywhere for fear of being mauled by those same kids.

There was a disturbing flipside to these dates as well. In Japan, they faced protests for playing at the Budokan, a famed sumo wrestling arena, and for tempting young people with their devil’s music. They faced an angry mob in Manila after refusing to make an official appearance with Imelda Marcos. The situation was even more harrowing in America. That same year, Lennon’s famous quote about The Beatles being “more popular than Jesus” was published. Stoked by a Christian radio station, furious citizens burned the group’s albums and memorabilia, and the KKK showed up at various concert dates.

Other writers have covered these events, to be sure, but Turner tackles the year from all angles, incorporating a wealth of source material and new quotes from people involved to shed some fresh light on these incidents. His most revealing work is in emphasizing the musical exploration that John, Paul, and George were engaged in at the time. Paul McCartney, especially, used his wealth and access as a skeleton key to explore avant-garde classical music, reggae, and free jazz, as well to attend some major psychedelic happenings, like the Roundhouse performances by The Soft Machine and Pink Floyd. And, of course, Harrison explored Indian music. Already fascinated by the sitar, having played it on “Norwegian Wood,” Harrison went even further, studying with the already-legendary Ravi Shankar and practicing daily. We have that to thank for “Within You Without You,” “For No One,” and “Blue Jay Way.” All of the band members were trying to make up for their youthful indifference to other art forms besides rock and R&B, and that impacted some of The Beatles’ most lasting recordings.


John Lennon (center), flanked by George Harrison and Ringo Starr, apologizes for his remark about The Beatles being more popular than Jesus at a Chicago news conference on Aug. 11, 1966. "I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this." (Photo: AP)

None of this will come as any great surprise to the Beatlemaniacs of the world. For them, Beatles ‘66 serves more as a refresher course. Yet even they will appreciate the detail that Turner brings to his work, incorporating cultural events of the time and examining how they were reflected within The Beatles’ camp. This book is the work of an expert—and expertly written at that—proving a worthy addition to the hundreds of volumes available about this still-beloved group.


The Beatles (from left: Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon), photographed June 17, 1966, at BBC Television Studios in London before the start of their final world tour. (Photo: Central Press, Getty Images)




Product Details
Hardcover: 464 pages
Publisher: Ecco (October 25, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0062475487
ISBN-13: 978-0062475480
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.4 x 9 inches

Sir Paul McCartney and his daughters recreate family portrait

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Still daddy's girls: Macca and his daughters Stella and Mary recreate family portrait
° Sir Paul was pictured between his girls before a Desert Trip festival show
°  It is reminiscent of picture taken while on a Carribean holiday in 1974
° Stella has posted an Instagram picture referencing the snap
° The pair are his daughters from his marriage to the late Linda
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 26 October 2016

It’s been a long time since he could pick them up and sit them down on his lap.

But Sir Paul McCartney’s daughters are clearly still daddy’s girls.

The former Beatle, 74, was sandwiched between Stella and Mary McCartney for a special family portrait before his recent Desert Trip festival performance.

Fashion designer Stella, 45, posted the picture on Instagram with the caption: ‘Dad do the do in the desert!!! x Stella’.

The picture looks like a recreation of a loving family picture of Sir Paul with Stella and Mary taken while on holiday in the Caribbean in 1974.

Photographer Mary, 47, and Stella are Sir Paul’s daughters from his marriage to late wife Linda who passed away from cancer, aged 56, in 1998.

The couple also had a son James, 39, and Sir Paul adopted Linda’s daughter Heather, 53, from her first marriage.

He has since had another daughter, Beatrice, 12, from his marriage to Heather Mills.


Fashion designer Stella, 45, posted the picture on Instagram with the caption: ‘Dad do the do in the desert!!! x Stella’

Sir Paul joined The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Who, Neil Young and Roger Waters for the Desert Trip festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio Valley, California earlier this month.

The line-up, dubbed by The Who’s Roger Daltrey as ‘the greatest remains of an era’, are understood to have netted around £5.5million each for their performances.


The picture looks like a recreation of a loving family picture of Sir Paul with Stella and Mary taken while on holiday in the Caribbean in 1974

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PAUL McCARTNEY IN DESERT TRIP (October 15 2016)

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Musicians Rusty Anderson and Paul McCartney perform during Desert Trip at the Empire Polo Field on October 15, 2016 in Indio, California.
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Musician Paul McCartney performs during Desert Trip at the Empire Polo Field on October 15, 2016 in Indio, California.
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(Image has been converted to black and white.) Musician Paul McCartney performs during Desert Trip at the Empire Polo Field on October 15, 2016 in Indio, California.
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Musician Paul McCartney performs during Desert Trip at the Empire Polo Field on October 15, 2016 in Indio, California.
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Paul McCartney responds to Phil Collins over ‘feud’

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Paul McCartney responds to Phil Collins over ‘feud’
Andrew Trendell
Oct 25, 2016

Collins still doesn't seem too pleased with Macca and his 'bad attitude'


Phil Collins doesn't like Paul McCartney
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Phil Collins‘ feud with Sir Paul McCartney has taken another twist, with the former Beatle attempting to make peace with the ex-Genesis man – but with Collins taking another dig at his ‘bad attitude’

Last week, Collins announced his live return with the ‘Not Dead Yet’ tour of Europe and the UK – before revealing a long-lasting grudge with Sir Paul.

Speaking about a meeting with McCartney in which he asked him to sign some vinyl before he alleges Sir Paul spoke down to him, Collins said: “I thought, ‘You fuck, you fuck.’ Never forgot it.

“He has this thing when he’s talking to you, where he makes you feel [like], ‘I know this must be hard for you because I’m a Beatle. I’m Paul McCartney and it must be very hard for you to actually be holding a conversation with me.’”

Now, in an interview with Billboard, Collins says that McCartney has since contacted him about his comments…

“He’s been in touch about it because he was upset,” said Collins. “I certainly didn’t get any flowers from him; I got more of a ‘Let’s just get on with our lives.’ And I’m sorry he’s upset that I kinda said something nasty about him — well, it wasn’t really nasty. If people don’t tell people that sometimes their attitude could be a bit better then you’re not gonna get any better, y’know?”






Collins also revealed that he wouldn’t be playing drums at the upcoming shows due to extensive injuries, and that he’s not entirely against the idea of a Genesis reunion.

Phil Collins’ upcoming tour dates are below.

Phil Collins will play the following shows:

London, Royal Albert Hall (June 4, 5, 7, 8, 9)
Cologne, Lanxess Arena (11, 12)
Paris, Accors Hotel Arena (18, 19)




Phil, Pete and Paul