Happy Birthday Sir Paul ? ??

JaneJudge

I watched something on bbc2 last night and I found it quite touching how much he was in love with Linda

He was still vulnerable and grieving when he met that scheming Heather Mills (don't get me started).

Sad that John died so young too. You never know, they might have played together again. Paul, George and Ringo got together, talked about the old days and played some music (in the 1990s I think). Then Paul and Ringo both played together at George's memorial concert which was on Sky Arts (and I have it on DVD). What a great concert that was. George's son Dani played too and because he looks so much like George it was almost like having three Beatles on the stage at the same time!

Sad that Linda died so young and of the same disease that killed his mum.
All the money in the world doesn't help when illness strikes.

I watched something on bbc2 last night and I found it quite touching how much he was in love with Linda

The Beatles and all the other groups that followed certainly lightened up my life too. I was very unhappy at home and at school and on my own with it all.

So the excitement was welcome and made life wonderful, something of my own. Happy Birthday to Paul, the Beatles made many people happy.

Initially I liked Ringo, then George, then Paul. Never took to John. I had their autographs from when they were in Bristol. I saw them but couldn't hear them because of the screaming.

When they split up I was all for George, still love him now. I went on to follow the Merseybeats [Tony Crane] and they got to recognise us from the venues we went to. Met them a few times. The 60's were great.

paddyann54

Chestnut that Sunday night is etched in my mind.Our dog had followed us to church at 9am and hadn't been seen the rest of the day.We had searched for her with no luck.My mother thought staying up to see the Beatles would cheer us up.
We never saw them,the dog appeared at the back door just as they came on stage and they were forgotten in our excitement that we had our wee dog back .

I cant remember when we did see them but at least I now know the date that we didn't ,I was 9 and a half .

I just discovered the Beatles played at the London Palladium again on Sunday 12th Jan 1964 and this was also televised. Their public profile was huge by then.

Thank you Danni. A bit dramatic but that's how it feels.

Oh Kate that is so sad and I am really glad that the Beatles 'saved you' ....

All these wonderful memories. My childhood was horrendous. The Beatles came along and I 'had something,'. I always say they saved me.

My daughter played a Beatles medley in their school band back in the 1990s and I loved it! The band was very good, played at the Royal Albert Hall and won every school band competition they entered.

My favourite was George but DH and I love their music, the CD of all their number ones is a favourite of ours. A highlight for us was seeing the Cirque Du Soleil show set to Beatles music in Las Vegas, we have the CD to remind us.

There's been a good programme about Paul on BBC2 this evening which has just finished.

Here he is

Paul and the other lads music brought so much enjoyment and happiness still does to me and my DH.
Happy Birthday Paul, just can’t believe he’s 80.

Kate1949

I've just seen that on the news RubyGran. It's temporary. As is Mecca Bingo in Knotty Ash being renamed Macca Bingo.

Thanks for the news about Macca Bingo Kate, love it!
Fond memories of occasionally going there with my mum and sisters, particularly the time in the early 80s when one of them won the princely sum of £1000 and shared it with us. That much money went a long way in those days.

Chestnut that Sunday night is etched in my mind.Our dog had followed us to church at 9am and hadn't been seen the rest of the day.We had searched for her with no luck.My mother thought staying up to see the Beatles would cheer us up.
We never saw them,the dog appeared at the back door just as they came on stage and they were forgotten in our excitement that we had our wee dog back .

I cant remember when we did see them but at least I now know the date that we didn't ,I was 9 and a half .

If my memory serves me well Chestnut and it doesn't always these days, a girl at school was mad about John Leyton (remember him?). She went to see him at Birmingham Town Hall and came to school the next day telling us about a group that were on the bill who had girls screaming at them called The Beatles. We looked them up and that was that

I've just seen that on the news RubyGran. It's temporary. As is Mecca Bingo in Knotty Ash being renamed Macca Bingo.

Some will be relieved to hear that according to the Liverpool Echo, McCartney Street will revert to being called Mathew Street in a week's time.

I'm from Liverpool and when I was a Beatles-mad 13-year-old Paul's phone number was still the phone directory, so I would frequently ring his home in the forlorn hope that he would pick up the phone. Sadly, this never happened.

Grayling I can't remember how I first knew about the Beatles, but the first TV appearance I remember was Sunday Night at the London Palladium on 13th Oct 1963 which was when Beatlemania was officially born. Oh the excitement at school the next day!! We were 13 years old and were absolutely crazy about them.
Beatlemania begins

We were such a lucky generation to have come of age in the 1960s.

In 1960 I was still at school but beginning to hear about the British pop scene. In 1962 I remember saying to a friend "Have you heard this new pop group? They'l never get anywhere with a silly name like The Beatles". How wrong was I?

The Beatles were the epitome of "swinging Britain". Between the Beatles and James Bond, the UK was THE place to be.

By the time I had my first child in 1970, men had landed on the moon.

That was the decade, that was.

oh but he was fan bloody tastic at it

JaneJudge

My Mum always said she felt sorry for Ringo Star as he was never mentioned and yet he'd also narrated Thomas the bloody tank engine

And I'll never forgive him for that.

My Mum always said she felt sorry for Ringo Star as he was never mentioned and yet he'd also narrated Thomas the bloody tank engine

To be fair, Paul McCartney has always acknowledged that he’s not a classically trained musician. His collaboration with Carl Davies is well documented and he’s not the only composer of pop music who can’t read music.

My late father in law was a talented pianist who couldn’t read a note. He played everything by ear or from memory. My mother was a music teacher, classically trained but couldn’t play anything by ear so which one was the real musician?

I certainly wouldn’t call anyone who has the talent to compose beautiful songs ignorant, no matter how they write them.