Happy Birthday Sir Paul ? ??

One of the biggest rows ever with my dad was over watching a concert at A massive stadium in America.
It was on a guide night, and he strongly believed if you made a commitment you stuck to it.
In those days of no videos it was watch it as it was transmitted or miss it forever.
I did win, I don’t know how, my dad wasn’t one for backing down, perhaps he thought I’d have died of a broken heart.

I'm not sure it matters that he can't ( or at least couldn't) read music. He's struggled along quite nicely without it. He's never claimed to be Mozart. Him and his band brought a lot of joy to people all around the world, me being one of them

Happy Birthday Sir Paul.
I was totally obsessed with everything about you, still think you are amazing.
I recently bought ‘the Lyrics’ tonight could be a good night to delve into them.

My favourite was Paul and my best friend favoured George. I remember I was about 15 yr old and it was one of their first appearances on Saturday night TV. I had just had an impacted wisdom tooth removed at the hosital on the Friday and was still really hurting but Mum & Dad went out and left us in peace to watch the show - black and white tv and I remember vividly the two of us sitting on the "studio couch" (remember them?) screaming like mad and being in absolutely in agony but it was wonderful!!!

Not a fan. He ‘wrote’ a piece called The Liverpool Oratorio - actually
Carl Davis wrote it - which I had to sing in once. He came to a rehearsal or two. He can’t even read music, so he can’t compose anything above a simple tune. Some of the tunes are quite nice, but he isn’t a real musician. He didn’t want to learn. I think he was a bit embarrassed when he met the Liverpool Philharmonic musicians, but heigh
-ho, he’s the one with the money, so in his eyes his ignorance doesn’t matter.

I always call the airport Simon Rattle Airport, as he is Liverpool’s greatest musical son.

Should be Every Little Thing (I think!).

Probably!

When I'm Walking Beside Her doesn't ring a bell. Have you renamed it? ?

I agree Chestnut Hey Jude is repetitive but it reminds me so much of certain times. Lots of their not so famous ones are favourites if mine. Such as PS I Love You, I've Just Seen a Face, When I'm Walking Beside Her. Too many to mention really.

Their music was very insightful for such young men. I remember sulking because I was not allowed to go to the Cavern.
Eleanor Rigby is one of my favourites.

I'm afraid Hey Jude I've heard a million times and after so many years is has become too repetitive. My favourite track is Tomorrow Never Knows. It has so many incredible, creative sounds which I never tire of hearing. No matter how many times I hear it I still listen in awe. Sorry, Paul, it's not one of yours.
Tomorrow Never Knows

Paul was my favourite, with George a close second.

I remember hitchhiking from Leeds to see „ Wings“ performing in Liverpool . The 1st concert I’d ever been to .
Ahh beautiful memories

I can vividly remember all the photos of Paul celebrating his 21st birthday, was it really 59 years ago? I saw them when they were the support act for Chris Montez and Tommy Roe. Happy birthday Paul.

My favourite is Hey Jude closely followed by Happy Just To Dance With You purely because it's George singing and the bit of him singing it in A Hard Day's Night is lovely to watch.
I was never keen in Anna (sorry Laura but we all have our favourites). I prefer the songs they wrote themselves. Although in the early days they did some great covers.

Happy birthday Sir Paul.
Always loved George the best.
Don’t agree with all this honouring of celebrities thought, knighthoods and street naming, not to mention the airport.
John Lennon Airport fgs. Liverpool has produced far more worthy people, William Roscoe, William Rathbone, Eleanor Rathbone, Hannah Lightbury, Kate Sheppard, John Alexander Brodie, Sir Henry Tate, William Gladstone.
So many wonderful philanthropists, suffragettes, abolitionists.
Yet the airport pays tribute to a musician, albeit talented, who promoted the use of cannabis, made films of himself on the toilet, treated his first wife badly.
Sorry, it’s a pet beef of mine.
Still do love the music though, favourite song is Anna.

I remember the howls of anguish at school when we realised Jane Asher was Paul’s girlfriend but she was the height of cool - along with Francoise Hardy so we forgave her.

It was Linda who we really didn’t like.

I'm the same with Pattie Boyd *Danni"

Oh I really loved Paul and detested Jane Asher for being his girlfriend. There is no forgiveness in my heart all these years later and I still can't stand her! Years ago when they were performing on a tv programme coming from Teddington Studios my pal and I went over there -I lived really nearby- to see if we could see them. We stood looking through the glass doors and amazingly enough three of the Beatles walked across the foyer right in front of us. Sadly I can never remember which three it was!!
I wish Paul a Very Happy Birthday

Maw

I don't like name changes, whether streets or pubs. People know that place historically and changing the name loses some of its character. Young people don't appreciate that, they don't understand the history of a place.

Kate1949

I'm sitting behind him in this pic.

I recognised the knees!

Much as I loved them and it's an honour for Paul, I love heading for Matthew Street when we visit Liverpool.

Where have all the years gone ?
John was my favourite Beatle followed by Paul.
Liverpool has announced today that Matthew Street will be renamed Paul McCartney Street in his honour to be honest it just doesn't have the same feeling to me after all the times I spent in The Cavern in my younger days watching The Beatles.

I remember being really shocked in 1964 to see them doing such ordinary things in my Beatle book. These were musical gods, how could they be making cups of tea and doing the ironing? I imagined them living in magical palaces and waited on by fairies.