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Post by artemis on Feb 18, 2012 16:07:41 GMT -5
It proves once again how retarded they are. It has nothing to do with PAUL's replacement whatsoever. Just a bunch of idiots Id love to euthanize. If they are the future, definitely we're even more doomed. |
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Post by tonyclifton on Feb 19, 2012 6:57:47 GMT -5
Well, maybe the "magic" is fading... but I did find it rather funny.
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Post by artemis on Feb 23, 2012 16:27:44 GMT -5
From an interview with DIANA KRALL on her collaboration with FAUL:
"On this album, Paul McCartney's voice is almost unrecognizable ...
It is different, it's true. On this record, it has something vulnerable, feminine, broken. It looks like something out of a vinyl post-1940s. Paul singing into a microphone that was used by Nat King Cole. I played and I had chills listening to this melancholy, this fragility. And then, on some tracks, like "My Valentine", he wrote for the record, his voice became blues, powerful like a crooner. He told me he was not sure whether to improvise: this is not true. He returned these songs in all directions."
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Post by lucy on Feb 24, 2012 7:54:16 GMT -5
Unrecognizable....gee whiz, an 80 year old fake fart of a Faul pretending to be a 70 year old Paul......his voice is pitiful....even more so in old age.
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Post by The Mask on Feb 24, 2012 10:55:39 GMT -5
Agreed. Faul's voice hasn't been good since the 70's.
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Post by artemis on Feb 24, 2012 16:40:27 GMT -5
Real I say, but "real" means smth different to us here.
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Post by lucy on Feb 26, 2012 14:58:59 GMT -5
Yes, "real" takes on several meanings, that is a picture of the "real" or original celeb in question. Real as in not photo shopped....
I was showing clips from the VHS version of "HELP" to a friend to show how there were scenes that a fake Paul was used and there was some extra material at the end of the tape. The particular footage of when they met Princess Margaret...I froze on each face and they were all imposters for that particular event.
I can understand the use of "doubles" when going to airports, into taxis/limos...and not being chased by the fans. But to use fakes when meeting important people...or wasn't meeting Princess Margaret as important they just used fakes?
Even stranger when imposters were used in old footage of "press" meetings and the imposters were used to give answers to the media....
I guess the handlers were so bold to use them at any time....not just decoys to divert attention from the real Beatles being shipped from one place to the other. But let's use the term "real Beatles" as the ones we were most familiar with....at least that's what we thought were the "real" Beatles.
Knowing what we know, it's really bold of them to use the imposters for actual speaking engagements as well as public appearances....
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Post by lucy on Feb 26, 2012 15:05:45 GMT -5
Something that I've noticed in some latter day pics of "Faul/Bill". It's more apparent in the sagging and quite advanced aging of a face that had been surgically altered in the past. Another man about that age, who had never had any sort of cosmetic procedure an aged face sags, wrinkles, etc.... but Bill's face seems to have an advanced falling apart. I have to ask when is the point of no return for aging celebs who have had too many facelifts and too much botox? Can we ask Joan Rivers or Dolly Parton??? Hmmm When is the point of no return for advanced cosmetic anti aging? When does it stop working?  Not that this really needs an answer....just had to be asked. |
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Post by artemis on Mar 4, 2012 5:51:19 GMT -5
A "kissing on the bottom" article, gah!
"Here comes the Son: Paul McCartney's daughters have embraced the limelight now his 34-year-old son steps out of the shadow
For a virtual unknown, being granted the star spot on America’s hugely popular David Letterman Show to launch his debut single was a terrific coup. But though the young singer’s demeanour was a little stiff and shy, his talent shone out.
The powerful voice, the huge vocal range, the accomplished guitar work all commanded attention, as did something familiar about the round, boyish face and mournful, hooded eyes.
At the age of 34, Paul McCartney’s only son had finally, and a little reluctantly, stepped on to the public stage to claim his place as heir apparent to Sir Paul.
But if the eyes and the talent are unmistakable, that is where the resemblance ends. For while Sir Paul has spent a lifetime charming everyone he meets, his son has been withdrawn to the point of being a virtual recluse.
Until now. Suddenly McCartney Junior is everywhere — in the past month alone performing at the Sundance Film Festival, the Viper Room in Los Angeles, Rockwood Music Hall in New York and Asbury Park in New Jersey.
On each occasion, crowds were queuing round the block for tickets to watch a singer-songwriter with a non-existent track record and public profile (such are the colossal benefits of the McCartney name).
Though the music is highly accomplished, James’s delivery is deadpan, emphasising that while he may have high hopes for his debut single, Angel, he is clearly not your average aspiring rock star. The doleful gaze and legendary name may be unmistakable, but the reality is that James has spent his entire life running away from fame.
His older sisters have become fixtures in London society — Mary, 42, as a respected photographer and 40-year-old Stella as a leading fashion designer. His half-sister Heather, 49, is a successful potter.
But James, known as ‘the quiet one’ of the McCartney children, has remained in the shadows.
Painfully shy, for years he struggled to carve out a niche for himself, working as a sculptor and waiting tables at a small restaurant in Brighton.
No longer. To the astonishment of those who have known him since childhood, James has suddenly stepped into the spotlight.
After leaving Letterman’s New York studio, he flew straight to Los Angeles for the unveiling of Sir Paul’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. From there, he jetted home to London, where he posed for photographers outside sister Stella’s gala London Fashion Week dinner.
Quite a departure for a young man who once declined to tell people his surname.
Next up is a tour of London, Liverpool and Dublin, where he is assured of packed houses.
‘This would have been unthinkable a couple of years ago,’ a long-standing friend of the McCartneys told me this week.
‘James has always been a unique kid. He’s what I’ve always called a “watcher”. He’s a lovely guy without a nasty bone in his body, but he prefers to be on the sidelines taking everything in. He’s always hated being the centre of attention.
‘But at the same time, he absolutely loves music. All he really wants is for people to hear his songs, and the only way to do that is to go out there and play.
‘So you have this conflict between the two sides of his personality. I never thought he would pluck up the courage to do this. It’s really quite thrilling that he has — and a lot of the credit has to go to Nancy.’
Nancy SHEVELL, to be precise. Sir Paul’s third wife, whom he married in October after a four-year courtship. She is described by his friends as the polar opposite of Heather Mills, his previous wife, a relationship that ended in a famously bitter and acrimonious divorce.
It is an open secret that James couldn’t stand his first stepmother. When the forceful Heather moved into the family farmhouse in East Sussex, he moved out, renting a room in a shared house in nearby Brighton.
Since the arrival of the supportive Nancy, however, he has slowly gained confidence, to the point where he is finally embarking on the career he dreamed of for so long.
‘Nancy is everything Heather wasn’t,’ says the family friend. ‘She is just like James’s mum, Linda. She’s quiet, thoughtful and kind in a gentle way.
‘Heather tried really hard to make the children like her, but she’s way too bombastic and noisy for them. James positively despised her and he never made a secret of that. He was always withdrawn, but having Heather around just made things worse. Nancy has taken a totally different approach. She’s been so encouraging and she has really brought James out of himself.
‘James was best man when Paul and Nancy got married, and less than a month later he did a mini-tour of the UK — that tells you everything you need to know.’
James’s entire life has been profoundly influenced by the matriarchal presences in it.
His first two-and-a-half years were spent on the road with Paul and his mother, Linda, as they toured with their group Wings.
The baby of the family, he arrived at the tail end of his parents’ bohemian hippie existence, spending the bulk of his childhood on the family’s farm in Peasmarsh, East Sussex.
A Thirties farmhouse with no gas supply, it was the centre of an unexpectedly basic life for a rock star’s family. Summers were spent piling into a Land Rover to drive up to Paul’s holiday home by the Mull of Kintyre.
It was there, when he was six years old, that one of the definitive moments of his childhood unfolded. A ransom plot to snatch James and his mother was uncovered. After the kidnappers were captured and jailed, Paul insisted on ramping up his family’s security.
The McCartneys tried to ensure their children had as ‘normal’ a childhood as possible by sending them to the local comprehensive.
‘But how “normal” is it to have Paul and Linda McCartney as your parents?’ asks the family friend.
‘Their intentions were good, but they babied James and he’s always been an unusual character.’
Always close, the bond between father and son intensified following Linda’s death from breast cancer in 1998. They even slept in the same room for comfort in the weeks after her death.
Amid the tears, there were long, emotional jamming sessions, with James demonstrating beyond any doubt that he had become an accomplished guitarist. Quietly, behind the scenes, he embarked on his own musical path.
James played guitar on two of his father’s records — Flaming Pie and Driving Rain — and had recorded a track, The Light Comes From Within, with Linda a month before her death.
But then came the setback of Paul’s ill-fated marriage to Heather Mills. James moved to Brighton, claiming to study architecture, though it is widely thought he was really a music student and used the cover story to avoid comparisons with his father. It is a tribute to how low a profile he maintained that no one seems quite sure of the truth.
Then came his stint as a waiter, followed by a short-lived custom-made bed business, and eventually he decided to go travelling.
All the while he was quietly making music. His unlikely inspiration was Kurt Cobain, the tragic heroin-addicted lead singer of Nirvana who committed suicide. As James’s sister Stella said when he was still in his late 20s: ‘He’s at the stage where he’s standing back and saying: “Will this create a monster?” ’
It was only after his father split with Heather Mills in 2006 that James found the courage to follow his dream.
He moved out of his student digs and into a £1 million flat near his father’s North London house. After accompanying his father’s band on tour, in 2008 he started working on his own music, assisted by Paul and record producer David Kahne.
Getting to the point where James was ready to perform in public took even longer. Encouraged by Nancy Shevell, he played a handful of shows anonymously, with a backing band, under the name Light.
His shows, while musically impeccable and demonstrating James’s accomplishment on the guitar and piano, draw mixed reviews because of his lack of showmanship.
As one New York reviewer said of his Rockwood show this month, James ‘rarely smiled and, at times, looked like he was fighting an impulse to flee’. And, say friends, that’s probably true.
‘Everything James does is compared to his father’s achievements, which is monumentally unfair. But he knows this and he’s relaxed enough to make jokes about it. It informs his music.’
Indeed, throughout his performances and on his debut record, one cover version has cropped up time and again: the Neil Young classic Old Man.
Delivered in James’s pure tenor, the vocals take on a hypnotic tone as he sings, with unmistakable feeling: ‘Old man look at my life, I’m a lot like you.’
As a message to his father, it is open and heartfelt. Given the massive shadow in which he stands, many would raise a wry smile at the sentiment.
And, whisper it quietly, but this may just be the year when the talented McCartney Junior steps out of that shadow at last."
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Post by lucy on Mar 4, 2012 13:12:26 GMT -5
standing in the shadow of an imposter Mc Cartney.....how pathetic is that???
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Post by artemis on Mar 9, 2012 11:36:48 GMT -5
;D What a dork and a liar!
"SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY FINDING IT HARDER TO BE FAMOUS
They happily posed for photos but Sir Paul, 69, admits: “It’s never been as hard as it is nowadays to be famous.”
The former Beatle said in an interview that sometimes his fans can be a bit much when he wants a quiet moment, though he understands people are eager to meet him and take photos.
“I’m always polite to the people who speak to me. I’ve known from an early age that for the public I am an exciting figure – and I have had time to get used to it. But even for me nowadays it sometimes gets too much.”
Given The Beatles have been a global brand since the Sixties Sir Paul is resigned to the fact that he’ll never live the quiet life.
“Sometimes I want to have a peaceful evening with my wife in a restaurant without every few seconds having to pose for a mobile phone photograph. And increasingly people just don’t seem to understand that. Today everybody’s got a telephone with a built-in camera.”
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Post by lucy on Mar 10, 2012 14:16:48 GMT -5
Well, that's what you get when you want to be a Beatle Sir Faul....it's not all glitter and fame....there's the other side that comes with fame, and since you took the identity of Paul Mc Cartney, you have to live with the "fame" and dealing with annoying "fans" those despots who spend their money to keep you in facelifts and wives.....
So after 40 + years pretending to be someone he's NOT, he finds it "harder" to be famous....
Gee, if you stayed the person you once were, whatever that may have been, the lounge singer from Canada, or was it a military man of Canada? Or was it a woman named Pearl Witherington. You wouldn't have had this problem. But since you've been "Paul Mc Cartney", fame is "hard" for ya???
Sorry Billy boy, we don't feel sorry for ya....that's what you get for being someone you're NOT! Welcome to the Twilight Zone Billy, this is what you get in return for the identity of a world famous rock star.....
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Post by artemis on Apr 7, 2012 8:15:31 GMT -5
"HEATHER
The oldest child of the wide-ranging McCartney clan, Heather is Sir Paul’s adopted daughter from her mother Linda Eastman’s first troubled marriage to American geologist Melville See. Heather — not to be confused with Macca’s second wife Heather Mills, from whom he acrimoniously divorced in 2008 — spent her early years growing up in Tucson, Arizona.
Following the collapse of her parents’ marriage in 1965, Linda brought her daughter to Britain and started dating McCartney.
After marrying Linda in 1969, Paul took action to legally adopt Heather as his own daughter.
Schooled by private tutors while following her parents around the world with McCartney’s band Wings, Heather was eventually enrolled in secondary school at Thomas Peacocke Comprehensive in Rye, East Sussex, staying close to the family home.
In her 20s, she was admitted to a Home Counties clinic suffering from depression. Later she travelled to Mexico and spent several months living among the native Huichol and Tarahumara tribes. On her return home, she took up pottery and was acclaimed by Wedgwood as ‘one of Britain’s most exciting new talents’.
Two years after losing her mother to breast cancer in April 1998, her natural father, who was said never to have got over his divorce from Linda, killed himself. Heather, who is single, lives in a cottage on McCartney’s Sussex estate."www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2126369/Beatles-sons-talk-forming-new-Fab-Four-band-siblings-fared.htmlI believe she entered depression because she realized her brother was replaced.
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Post by lucy on Apr 8, 2012 13:38:09 GMT -5
This is a victim of being in the middle of the replacement business.
But spending time in Mexico with "tribes" isn't going to help her. Taking up pottery is not the answer....
What a trainwreck.
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