#mccartney 3 2 1

[moonywalker]

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“ The word ringoism is a word the Beatles purely made up themselves. Ringo would make slight malapropisms, though according to McCartney, his were different, very wonderful and lyrical.”

A HARD DAY’S NIGHT

Ringo: “We went to do a job, and we’d worked all day and we happened to work all night. I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said, ‘It’s been a hard day… and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, ‘…night!’ So we came to ‘ a hard day’s night.’”

TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS

Ringo: “I don’t know. I was just talking, having an interview. Just like I am now!”

(John and Paul begin lifting rocks of his hair, pretending to cut it)

Ringo: “I was talking away and I looked ‘round, and there was about 400 people just smiling. So, you know - what can you say?”

John: “What can you say?”

Ringo: “Tomorrow never knows.”

#ringo starr #ringoism #the beatles #mccartney 3 2 1

[fortheturnstiles]

can we talk about this little outfit PLEASE. PLEAS E

#1. i need the wings logo shirt so fucking bad #2. i really want to know why his pants are cut like that because he clearly did it himself #is there a flood coming that we should know about? #the dotted socks are cute :) #3. mullet is mulleting here i love it so so much #paul mccartney #wings

[mydaroga]

However, when I was a kid, living on the outskirts of Liverpool, I didn't know [National Service would be abolished] so I had to be prepared. In my mind I would imagine myself with a bayonet, because that was the symbol of it all, and imagine myself running someone through, and I thought, Jesus Christ! That is not going to be easy. Fuck me! What's the look on his face going to be like if I do it? Having quite a vivid imagination, I'd follow all that shit through. So when I went out into the woods, I thought I'd better get some practice in. So I thought, Frogs. That'll do, because all my mates killed frogs anyway. They used to blow them up sticking a straw up their ass. That was the way to kill a frog. I didn't fancy that, I thought that was a little bit pervy. I thought a straightforward killing with a bash, hold the legs and just smash 'em on me head. You feel that you've got to learn to kill, like a farmer's boy who grows up and learns to kill that goose and wring that chicken's neck. But I didn't have the farm, so there was no other way to learn.

I felt very conscious that I was going to shit out completely when this National Service arrived. I was going to be one of the guys who said, 'Sorry, sir, I'm a pacifist, I can't kill,’ and I'd have to go to jail. I was in a dilemma in my mind. So I used to kill these frogs. There was a spot in the woods where there was some barbed wire and I used to stick 'em on the barbs of the wire. I had quite a little gallery. I used to call 'em Johnny Rebs, these were the rebels from the Civil War. I had six or seven of them, and I remember taking my brother down there once. He was completely horrified.

Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now

Yes, it's the infamous frog killer Paul McCartney story but that's a bit more context here I think is essential. Other versions include the National Service anxiety but not,I think, this pronounced. He got into his head that he was going to get in trouble, possibly with the law, if he couldn't 'be a man' about it.

#1. only Paul would think blowing up a frog's arse was pervy #2. honestly heartbreaking thinking of him imagining all this and THIS being his solution #3. and then there's the utterly casual way he tells it like of course that's what happened why would that be weird? #i think what always strikes me about him is the way i simultaneously think his actions and feelings make total sense #but the WAY he talks about them is just enough off to make me go 'wait what?' #I'm not as shocked by a teen boy murdering frogs as i am by hearing his rationale if that makes sense #Paul McCartney #many years from now #Kris reads MYFN #kris talks a lot

[sounwise]

Letter from Paul McCartney and Jane Asher [sent to Robert Fraser shortly after he was sentenced to several months in prison at Wormwood Scrubbs on June 29, 1967] Dear Robert, What a drag…you know what I mean. Brother Nick [Nicholas Fraser] rang and asked about the bread. All will be well, I’ll be back in London on Sunday, and on Monday I’ll sort it out. Everybody was amazed by the whole scene, as you’ve guessed, and rally is the word. Thursday [June 29, 1967] was one of those days…bank raid shooting, Jayne Mansfield dead…etc…and I tore a ligament in sympathy, so I am hobbling around the Wirral. Jane sends her love, love, and is baking a file cake. I send mine. The handcuff pictures in the papers are incredible, and ‘aroused public sympathy’. Mind you, a tennis player from the Upton Tennis Club (where balls are known as spheres) was overheard saying that he would have given the blighters ten years if he’d been the judge…What???… See you soon…nothing to say really. Sincerely best wishes Paul McCartney Jane Asher THE OFFICIAL ELVIS PRESLEY FAN CLUB OF GREAT BRITAIN

[—from Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser, Harriet Vyner]

#this letter is just So interesting for so many reasons #1) mention of nicholas fraser + money suggests that either paul was planning to help pay robert's bail #(which robert seems to have been refused despite having a pending appeal same as jagger + richards) #or else was helping to settle some of the gallery's outstanding debts when it went into receivership upon robert going to prison #2) suggestive of jane's level of involvement in paul's social life #would not be surprised if she found robert likeable despite the drugs given how good he was at segregating aspects of his life #3) what i can only presume is a private joke at the very end. i want to Know!! #oh how i wish there were archives of their correspondence like there are for 18th century historical figures i would read them So Avidly #your most humble obedient servant #paul mccartney #robert fraser #jane asher #paul and robert fraser #paul and jane asher #1967 #groovy bob: the life and times of robert fraser #harriet vyner

[sgt-celestial]

since finishing it this morning i have a) worn my shawl around the house when i got chilly b) used it as a full-body blanky when i took a nap earlier c) wore it on an outing and it was windy and chilly and it kept me snuggly and warm outside :3 and d) used it as a lap blanky (current state). honestly i think this is the best crochet thing ive ever made

#other than mayyybe my short sleeve cardigan that was a good one #ranking my big crochet projects 1. this shawl 2. rainbow cardigan 3. paul mccartney granny square waistcoat 4. green + black sweater vest #5. red/ourple/orange sweater vest (nice but doesnt fit me very well) #im excluding the crochet accessories that ive made but i LOVEEE how this turned out so it gets top spot regardless i think #emi's meandering jotts

[aphrogeneias]

just saw a tiktok that said "behind every girl with high standards there's a grandpa who never told her no" and now i'm gonna need a whole day to recover

#the responsibles for my high standards: #1) grandpa (rip) #2) my mom's expensive taste #3) paul mccartney's love songs #luiza.txt

[charlottesharlottes]

#the beatles #paul mccartney #george harrison #1) i love paul in those sunglasses #2) george and paul smushed together on the tour bus <3

[if-i-say-to-you-tomorrow]

#hi if youre an mcr fan who for some reason follows me here and has no stake in this: vote 1. ES 2. New 3. Mc III #so option 3 #because that's the correct answer #paul mccartney #polls

[doctorcurdlejr]

mutual 1: i hope every man in the hardcore scene dies

mutual 2: they didn't kill john lennon soon enough. would not have been the case if i was around back then, I can tell you that much.

mutual 3: [gif set of George Harrison and Paul McCartney signing Beatles dissolution papers] George and Paul look so cute here <3 #my silly guys

mutual 4: guys it's so over we're never getting mcr5...gerard i'm lost at sea without you... actually i don't even care like it's whatever... (lying)

mutual 5: if there was a god i'd be able to get bruce springsteen pregnant #sometimes it's like someone took a knife baby edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my skull #personal

mutual 6: the production on taylor's music for the last few years....i need jack antonoff's head on my desk by noon

mutual 7: [image of Bob Dylan stoned out of his mind] he kinda ate here

mutual 8: you wouldn't even know real punk music if it fucking slammed into you like a semi you stupid cunt [KathleenHannaScreaming.jpg]

mutual 9: NEW SABRINA CARPENTER #GIRL

mutual 10: i wish my life was like Crash (1996) dir. David Cronenberg

#a day in the life

[moonywalker]

I choose such notes that love one other.

W O L F G A N G A M A D E U S M O Z A R T

#wolfgang amadeus mozart #mozart #mccartney 3 2 1

[digitaldiscipline]

PERTINENT to tumblr's interests

HOLY SHIT.

Repost from @planetrockradio

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Dolly Parton has revealed the STAGGERING track-list for her forthcoming rock album, the appropriately titled 'Rockstar'. Clocking in at a whopping 30 songs, the record features a who's-who of rock royalty collaborators, as well as 4 different but unmistakably Dolly-style album covers.

1. "Rockstar" (special guest Richie Sambora)

2. "World on Fire"

3. "Every Breath You Take" (feat. Sting)

4. "Open Arms" (feat. Steve Perry)

5. "Magic Man" (feat. Ann Wilson with special guest Howard Leese)

6. "Long As I Can See the Light" (feat. John Fogerty)

7. "Either Or" (feat. Kid Rock)

8. "I Want You Back" (feat. Steven Tyler with special guest Warren Haynes)

9. "What Has Rock and Roll Ever Done for You" (feat. Stevie Nicks with special guest Waddy Wachtel)

10. "Purple Rain"

11. "Baby, I Love Your Way" (feat. Peter Frampton)

12. "I Hate Myself for Loving You" (feat. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts)

13. "Night Moves" (feat. Chris Stapleton)

14. "Wrecking Ball" (feat. Miley Cyrus)

15. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (feat. P!nk & Brandi Carlile)

16. "Keep on Loving You" (feat. Kevin Cronin)

17. "Heart of Glass" (feat. Debbie Harry)

18. "Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me" (feat. Elton John)

19. "Tried to Rock and Roll Me" (feat. Melissa Etheridge)

20. "Stairway to Heaven" (feat. Lizzo & Sasha Flute)

21. "We Are the Champions"

22. "Bygones" (feat. Rob Halford with special guests Nikki Sixx & John 5)

23. "My Blue Tears" (feat. Simon Le Bon)

24. "What's Up?" (feat. Linda Perry)

25. "You’re No Good" (feat. Emmylou Harris & Sheryl Crow)

26. "Heartbreaker" (feat. Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo)

27. "Bittersweet" (feat. Michael McDonald)

28. "I Dreamed About Elvis" (feat. Ronnie McDowell with special guest The Jordanaires)

29. "Let It Be" (feat. Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr with special guests Peter Frampton & Mick Fleetwood)

30. "Free Bird" (feat. Ronnie Van Zant with special guests Gary Rossington, Artimus Pyle and The Artimus Pyle Band)

Holy, and I repeat this, shit.

[javelinbk]

The Beatles recreate Paul McCartney’s ‘collapse’, as reported in newspapers, including the Daily Mail. Plymouth, 13th November 1963 - part 3 (part 1, part 2, part 4, part 5) (x)

#what a miraculous recovery #not that he likes the attention or anything #or that the others like slapping him in the face #it was sixty years ago today #november 1963 was just the best month #november 1963 #paul mccartney #john lennon #george harrison #ringo starr #john and paul #the beatles #javelin's gifs

[mydaroga]

We didn't particularly like the girl adoration, although it was marvellous if you wanted a date. The main thing for us, first of all, was just doing our craft. We were genuinely trying to be artists; we'd actually comment on it, 'Hey, there's a guy in the front row who's really clocking all your chords!' If we played a good bit, a new technique or an innovative riff, we saw that they noticed; the guys were watching our guitars and our hands, not our legs and willies. That was what we liked.

Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now

#1. this is also not the last time he or Miles will insist they were ARTISTS #2. he really will just say things won't he #3. it's my experience that the boys are more likely to look at your willies than the girls Paul #the girls are looking at your eyes (they might be thinking about your willy just saying) #4. also maybe protesting too much? #Paul McCartney #many years from now #Kris reads MYFN #kris talks a lot

[sounwise]

When Off the Ground was completed [Paul] decided he wanted dance mixes of a couple of the songs for release as 12-inch vinyl singles, hoping to reach a younger audience this way. To undertake the work he hired Martin Glover, founder member of the band Killing Joke, who, despite being 31 years old, went by the name Youth. Youth quickly established a rapport with McCartney, the two musicians sharing a similar hippyish mindset and manner of speaking. [...] [Youth:] “[So I] went down there [to Hog Hill Mill] and I started sampling … I said, ‘What would be great if you could just add a couple of other things to the loops I’ve taken off the multi-tracks and just take it a bit further,’ and he was happy to do that. I got him jamming, got him on his guitar, and all these other [instruments]. He’s got such a great collection.” One of the instruments Paul played on this very modern record was Bill Black’s double bass [...]. Youth took the tapes to his home studio where he assembled alternate versions of what he expected to be one final track. Then Paul came over with the family to listen. “He and Linda and some of the kids would come down and just sit in on the sessions until three or four, and got a real buzz out of some of the alternative mixes I was doing for the ambient ones and really, really loved it, and then he came back and he said, ‘I want to put all these mixes out’ [laughs]. I said, ‘They’re actually for editing into one mix.’ ‘No, no.’ He’s often like this [laughs]. So the first album was really all the different mixes from that one session.” By the ‘first album’ Youth means the collaborative CD strawberries oceans ships forest. ‘It’s basically a magical reference in the English folk tradition,’ Youth says of the curious unpunctuated title, declining to elucidate. Paul decided to put this enigmatic recording out under a pseudonym, [...] the Fireman, in honour of the fact that his father had fire-watched in Liverpool during the Blitz. ‘This was supposed to be an antidote to him doing commercial releases or songs with record company pressure,’ comments Youth. ‘It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to imagine how much of a box being Paul McCartney could be, and the idea of wanting to do things outside of that box, with no previous association, anonymously, can be very attractive.’ […] ‘It is a dance record, but it’s also ambient, and it’s a little esoteric [with elements of] electronica,’ explains Youth. ‘But it’s also none of those things, cos it’s stuff he’s all played, and it’s all originally recorded and that makes it different.’

[—from Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney, Howard Sounes]

#1) 'despite being 31' lol #2) love how much they seem to have genuinely enjoyed working together very blessed #3) strawberries oceans ships forest is A+ excellent would loop again early '90s dance mixes are always the bomb and this is no exception #ALSO. there is a recurring sampled riff on there that just sounds so SO similar to the one in le1f's 'wut' #(e.g. see 'pure trance' from about 1:33) #which is just a LITTLE BIT funny in light of the whole 'thrift shop' thing i am Just Saying dfghgk #martin glover #paul mccartney #the fireman #fab: an intimate life of paul mccartney #howard sounes #1993 #p.s. if i never read another dumbshit musical opinion from howard sounes it will be TOO SOON

[reasonsforhope]

"The amount of electricity generated by the UK’s gas and coal power plants fell by 20% last year, with consumption of fossil fuels at its lowest level since 1957.

Not since Harold Macmillan was the UK prime minister and the Beatles’ John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time has the UK used less coal and gas.

The UK’s gas power plants last year generated 31% of the UK’s electricity, or 98 terawatt hours (TWh), according to a report by the industry journal Carbon Brief, while the UK’s last remaining coal plant produced enough electricity to meet just 1% of the UK’s power demand or 4TWh.

Fossil fuels were squeezed out of the electricity system by a surge in renewable energy generation combined with higher electricity imports from France and Norway and a long-term trend of falling demand.

Higher power imports last year were driven by an increase in nuclear power from France and hydropower from Norway in 2023. This marked a reversal from 2022 when a string of nuclear outages in France helped make the UK a net exporter of electricity for the first time.

Carbon Brief found that gas and coal power plants made up just over a third of the UK’s electricity supplies in 2023, while renewable energy provided the single largest source of power to the grid at a record 42%.

It was the third year this decade that renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, hydro and biomass power, outperformed fossil fuels [in the UK], according to the analysis. Renewables and Britain’s nuclear reactors, which generated 13% of electricity supplies last year, helped low-carbon electricity make up 55% of the UK’s electricity in 2023.

[Note: "Third year this decade" refers to the UK specifically, not global; there are several countries that already run on 100% renewable energy, and more above 90% renewable. Also, though, there have only been four years this decade so far! So three out of four is pretty good!]

Dan McGrail, the chief executive of RenewableUK, said the data shows “the central role that wind, solar and other clean power sources are consistently playing in Britain’s energy transition”.

“We’re working closely with the government to accelerate the pace at which we build new projects and new supply chains in the face of intense global competition, as everyone is trying to replicate our success,” McGrail said.

Electricity from fossil fuels was two-thirds lower in 2023 compared with its peak in 2008, according to Carbon Brief. It found that coal has dropped by 97% and gas by 43% in the last 15 years.

Coal power is expected to fall further in 2024 after the planned shutdown of Britain’s last remaining coal plant in September. The Ratcliffe on Soar coal plant, owned by the German utility Uniper, is scheduled to shut before next winter after generating power for over 55 years.

Renewable energy has increased sixfold since 2008 as the UK has constructed more wind and solar farms, and the large Drax coal plant has converted some of its generating units to burn biomass pellets.

Electricity demand has tumbled by 22% since its peak in 2005, according to the data, as part of a long-term trend driven by more energy efficient homes and appliances as well as a decline in the UK’s manufacturing sector.

Demand for electricity is expected to double as the UK aims to cut emissions to net zero by 2050 because the plan relies heavily on replacing fossil fuel transport and heating with electric alternatives.

In recent weeks [aka at the end of 2023], offshore wind developers have given the green light to another four large windfarms in UK waters, including the world’s largest offshore windfarm at Hornsea 3, which will be built off the North Yorkshire coast by Denmark’s Ørsted."

-via The Guardian, January 2, 2024

#uk #united kingdom #england #scotland #wales #northern ireland #electricity #renewables #renewable energy #climate change #sustainability #hope posting #green energy #fossil fuels #oil #coal #solar power #wind power #environment #climate action #global warming #air pollution #climate crisis #good news #hope

[partlyironic]

on track one of the beatles' debut album paul mccartney counted them all in with a loud "1, 2, 3, 4!" and now on their last song he counts them in, more quietly, one last time, fading before we hear past 2.

#for the two remaining members. #the beatles #paul mccartney #john lennon #george harrison #ringo starr #im sure this has been pointed out by someone who isnt me already #now and then #now and then beatles #helen speaks