Why does he always turn up to spoil events it is the same old stuff over and over again, now he is next up to close the olympics.
Why did he have to turn up on the bike forum
He's there, for the simple reason that Ringo is busy doing Thomas.
😆 @ chunky
Because he's a massively talented icon who wrote songs that have defined and inspired couple of generations, regardless of whether you like him or not. 🙂
Got to have at least one Scouser, otherwise their whining will be insufferable.
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Rather him than Elton fluckin John.At least McCartney has a decent past.
Elton John sold the gap between his teeth. He raised forty quid for charity...and you are knocking him? Shame on you Dez.
Oh yes Elton :(!!!
im more annoyed about the fact Cheryl Cole was on stage behind the queen - why?
im more annoyed about the fact Cheryl Cole was on stage behind the queen - why?
Harry's just tweeted it was because she had her finger up her Majesty's bum.
Someone should shove something in that gap between his teeth. Then I'd never have to hear that crappy pub singer voice again.
At least Cheryl Cole's got a nice face.
i was glad to see mcartney on the piano tbh, was a nice change to see him fingering something with more than one leg.
i was glad to see mcartney on the piano tbh, was a nice change to see him fingering something with more than one leg.
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small mercies. Could have been one of his wives.
i was glad to see mcartney on the piano tbh, was a nice change to see him fingering something with more than one leg.
After the divorce, he swore it was the last time he'd go down on one knee.
(I'll get my own coat, thanks)
That's the cherry that sits right on top of this LOLcake CFH....
lol @ cfh.
Can't stand McCartney and his pokey little mouth smugly churning out old karaoke songs. Liked Stevie Wonder and Kylie though. Cheryl looked lost and drowned out on stage with Boring Barlow, no idea why she was there...eye candy maybe?
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[wipes away tears]
Jolly well done 😀
I couldn't stomach a single moment of that dreary musical non-event
Harry's just tweeted it was because she had her finger up her Majesty's bum.
sc-xc - cheers for that, got hot bovril drink comin out my nose now
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't [i]watching[/i] it. Went to the pub with my brothers, expecting to avoid it and it was on a massive screen.
"I'M SHTILL SHTANDING" What a friggin row.
Martymac, thanks very much. That's had me in
Years for a while.
He has to do do extra gigs as his new wife spends twice as much on shoes
A friend has just spent the last 3 months tooling round the Americas with macca. Apparently he certainly knows how to maximise his income stream. Oh, and the new wife is much better than the last one.
What I don't really understand is will.I.am - is he representing the former colonies?
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he's a massively talented icon who wrote songs that have defined and inspired couple of generations
As part of the Beatles he did more than that, much more than that. The Beatles also influenced fashion, art, the film industry, and comedy. They [i]massively[/i] increased Britain's standing in the world, making anything produced in Britain have special cool/trendy/hip appeal. They were of huge economic benefit to Britain, helping many British companies increase their sales and profits. They were the launching pad for the careers of other British bands across the world, they attracted talent to Britain, made London "swinging" and put Liverpool on the global map. They were the most popular band the world has ever seen. They made people proud to be British.
The Beatles achievements can't be overstated imo. Although not a huge fan myself - the Stones were better imo.
Just read this in a post about Prince Phillip gaffs:
[i]"I wish he'd turn the microphone off!" The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John's performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.[/i]
That's not a gaff.
Can't stand McCartney and his pokey little mouth smugly churning out old karaoke songs.
You know he wrote them?
What a rancid little thread this is.
Mr Woppit - Member
What a rancid little thread this is
slagging off Macca may well be a bit dull.. but do you think the Maj really enjoyed the show..?
It was a trite and very dreary performance of some trite and very dreary music from a trite and very dreary genre..
You'd think that a woman who wears a brooch hewn from the largest diamond ever discovered on this planet might have access to some of the best music ever discovered.. so why the haggard old pop..?
❗What a rancid little thread this is.
I couldn't bear the thought of him singing... I hated the bit when he was standing in the background with his mouth like a...
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cats arse.
slagging off Macca may well be a bit dull.. but do you think the Maj really enjoyed the show..?
That's a touching concern for Her Majesty's enjoyment of the occasion yunki - it doesn't quite match the sentiments which you've suggested in your recent posts.
Are you starting to feel sympathetic towards your sovereign queen ?
She has an uncanny ability to win hearts, doesn't she bless her ?
Was it all for her then?
Without a care for the million plebs in the street?
and put Liverpool on the global map
Not sure about that, wasnt Liverpool a massively important global city during the late 19th and early 20th century.
Werent the Beatles really just the last big thing to come out of it before it went into decline ?
My wife was wondering of Sir Elton's pub singing voice was a product of his botox?
I walked into the room while it was on and was thinking Vic Reeves pub singer...
It was a trite and very dreary performance of some trite and very dreary music from a trite and very dreary genre..You'd think that a woman who wears a brooch hewn from the largest diamond ever discovered on this planet might have access to some of the best music ever discovered.. so why the haggard old pop..?
Perhapse she quite enjoyed it?
But this being STW it should definatley have been a late 80's hardcore punk lineup.
Personaly I'd liked to have sene Skrillex play god save the queen from the roof in a Robert Plant style!
Yes Liverpool was important long before the Beatles. It became renowned throughout the world as the home of the Beatles. It undoubtedly benefited from its association with the Beatles, as did the other bands associated to the mersey sound/beat.
... wasnt Liverpool a massively important global city during the late 19th and early 20th century.Werent the Beatles really just the last big thing to come out of it before it went into decline ?
Ah, so the Beatles were responsible for ruining Liverpool and triggering the decline of a once great city ...
It undoubtedly benefited from its association with the Beatles, as did the other bands associated to the mersey sound/beat
Surely it was the otherway round to a large extent. The Beatles gained from coming from such an important place as Liverpool and gave them some extra kudos in the beginning. They left Liverpool and became bigger and bigger but Liverpool even with the extra tourism/interest from the Beatles/mersey sound/beat has continued to slowly decline.
surely, it could have been an event that everyone could benefit from, plebs and royalty alike..?
In days of yore the cream of the world's talent would have been summoned to create a spectacle of dazzling intrigue and err, majesty.. something to blow our minds and make us look at the world in a fresh light..
what we got was Barlow versus Eurodisney in a cringeworthy hackneyed cheese-a-thon
I thought it was Roy Hodgesons fault
Liverpool was an important city when Britain's trade was mostly in a westerly direction and mostly based on the slave triangle.
However Liverpool cut its own throat by stealing cargo, striking and overcharging the increasingly important cotton manufacturers of Manchester who lost patience, pooled their resources and built a big canal avoiding Liverpool port and bringing ocean freighters straight into Salford docks. Scousers have been whining about the unfairness of life ever since.
How Liverpool was once voted European Capital of Culture is anybody's guess. I'd have thought London, Paris or Barcelona would get that accolade.
He's a musical Battle of Britain fly past, something from a time long ago historically of relevance but that's about it nowadays. I would also rather listen to an Avro Lancaster than his dreary crap
[i]The Beatles gained from coming from such an important place as Liverpool and gave them some extra kudos in the beginning.[/i]
EH? I mean, I obviously wasn't there at the beginning, but that is just bonkers.
I was seventeen living in Bradford when the Beatles charted with 'Love me do', quickly followed by From Me to You, She Loves You & I Want to Hold Your Hand etc etc.
You had to be around in the early sixties to appreciate that most of the records of the day weren't exactly pop songs. The Beatles were like a breath of fresh air in those days and everyone bought their records & constantly chatted about them.
Having said that, in 1963 the Stones appeared with their 'Come on' and 'I wanna be your man' which garnered another fan base
Surely it was the otherway round to a large extent.
There was absolutely no advantage coming from Liverpool (although there was, massively, after the Beatles had made it the world renown home of popular music/mersey sound/beat) As the capital city, London was the centre of music, fashion, art, etc, in Britain.
I don't know why people underestimate the effect and influence of the Beatles so much.
How Liverpool was once voted European Capital of Culture is anybody's guess. I'd have thought London, Paris or Barcelona would get that accolade.
Paris has already been a European Capital of Culture.
Also, since 2004, "the beneficial socio-economic development and impact for the chosen city are now also considered in determining the chosen cities."
"A city is not chosen as a European Capital of Culture solely for what it is, but mainly for what it plans to do for a year that has to be exceptional."
That might explain the Liverpool v London point.
[url= http://ec.europa.eu/culture/our-programmes-and-actions/capitals/choosing-a-capital_en.htm ]More info[/url]
Perhaps you should write to the Commission and demand to see their methodology for choosing a city in the UK other than London to receive any sort of cultural recognition, and then tell them why their reasoning was flawed?
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Were the Beatles from Liverpool? You'd never know it really. You'd think the city council would make more of a song and dance about it really
.How Liverpool was once voted European Capital of Culture is anybody's guess. I'd have thought London, Paris or Barcelona would get that accolade
ideas of culture have progressed to include that which falls outside of the classical canon.
good job too.
[i]I don't know why people underestimate the effect and influence of the Beatles so much.[/i]
Probably because they judge things by their (lack of) musical taste.
McCartney CANNOT SING - End of...Surely he knows this himself ..ort is he tone deaf?
D28boy + 1
I think that is the most important point. Whatever he might have done in the past he just can't sing as well as he used to .... the same could be said for some of the other "stars" as well. So use some younger talent who can still hit the notes they wrote..
Yeah, that's what it's all about. Maybe he should get the winner of "The Voice" to sing for him? I'm sure he/she (whoever it was) could hit all the right notes eh? 🙄
The best Beatles song ever! 😉
There was much more to 60s music than Beatles. You had to be an avid fan or very tollerant not to be annoyed Sir Paul's never-ending playout to Hey Jude.
So use some younger talent who can still hit the notes they wrote..
Like Cheryl?
[very bad Macca joke]
Paul McCartney comes home one day and says kids I've got some bad news and some good news, the bad news is your mother, Linda, is dead...
The good news is we are having steak for tea...........
[/very bad Macca joke]
IGMC
Anyhow in answer to the OP's question:
[i]There was much more to 60s music than Beatles[/i]
you ain't called Edukator for nothing eh?
So use some younger talent
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I think it was a jolly good thing, that Cliff Richard was there to really rock the stage.
Everything I type on STW is blindingly obvious, to me at least and sometimes to others.
He's there, for the simple reason that Ringo is busy doing Thomas.
Ringo has given up the Thomas thing, apparantly it's Pierce Brosnan now.......
i was glad to see mcartney on the piano tbh, was a nice change to see him fingering something with more than one leg.
I work in an open-plan office. Can I please have some warning the next time someone posts something as funny as that?
I nearly spat my cheese and tomato sarnie out all over my desk, and the physical exhaustion caused by not being able to laugh myself has left me shattered.
Every once in a while something arrives out of the blue unexpectly and creases me - posh women saying 'b***ocks' or an unexpected trump.
Childish really, but sometimes that's the only way to be.....
Can't stand McCartney, by far and away the worst Beatle, just about everything he's done post Beatles has been shite, save maybe for the Frog Chorus....
Strikes me that McCartney made the Beatles marketable, but any genuine edge and brilliance was down to Lennon. Maybe there was some kind of synergy between the two that helped, but without Lennon they would probably have been Freddie and the Dreamers. Or as Alan Partidge put it, "Who are Wings? They're only the band the Beatles could have been."
Strikes me that McCartney made the Beatles marketable, but any genuine edge and brilliance was down to Lennon. Maybe there was some kind of synergy between the two that helped, but without Lennon they would probably have been Freddie and the Dreamers. Or as Alan Partidge put it, "Who are Wings? They're only the band the Beatles could have been."
I know I shouldn't bite - but this opinion is incorrect. Whatever you think about McCartney now in his 60s (or is it 70s?) he brought just as much "edge' and innovation to the Beatles as Lennon did.
He wrote Helter Skelter, Eleanor Rigby, Paperback Writer, For No One, Get Back, Good Day Sunshine, Got to Get You Into My Life, Sgt Pepper, You Never Give me Your Money, played the solo on Taxman etc etc etc etc.
He wrote Helter Skelter, Eleanor Rigby, Paperback Writer, For No One, Get Back, Good Day Sunshine, Got to Get You Into My Life, Sgt Pepper, You Never Give me Your Money, played the solo on Taxman etc etc etc etc.
Don't forget The Frog Song
I know I shouldn't bite - but this opinion is incorrect
There's nothing to bite about - I wasn't goading Paul McCartney fans. I was offering an opinion, which to be fair is no more "incorrect" than yours. I don't dispute McCartney's ability, but I genuinely believe that it was Lennon's maverick genius that lifted them above a lot of their contemporaries.
Spurred on by the comment up there about Elton being like vic reeves pub singer, I just looked up his jubilee performance on youtube.
As soon as he opened his mouth I properly lolled 😆
That dinnerlady look 😆
I'm off to look for Macca now..
Don't forget The Frog Song
Lennon wrote some crap too, as well as some excellent stuff. They both wrote some pretty varied stuff - they experimented and offered a whole variety of stuff which appealed (and sometimes didn't appeal) to different people.
And experimenting and trying different things is no bad thing, even if it doesn't always work. Sticking to a known formula which gives sure guaranteed results is not what made the Beatles the most famous band in the world, innovation is wot done it.
The reason everyone remembers the The Frog Song is because it worked - it was the right song for the right job - both for the cartoon film and for the christmas charts. The reason people tend not to remember Lennon's crap songs is because they tended not to work.
As I said previously, I was never the Beatles greatest one fan, but that doesn't detract from the fact that they were the most influential band the world has ever seen. And since the Beatle Era represents a period during the Queen's reign when there was a particularly feel-good factor, and people were immensely proud of the world's focus on Britain, I think it was rather fitting that Paul McCartney was invited to preform at a concert to mark 60 years of her reign. Even though his not-very-good voice is now even worse.
It amuses me greatly when people talk about celebrities of yesteryear as though they were actually musicians. 🙂
They were a media friendly pop band playing the pipes in just the right way to make a lot of good little consumers trot along to the cash registers. Nothing more, nothing less.
That said... McCartney was far from the worst performer of the whole sorry debacle.
I can only 🙄
I think it's sad to see something that should have been put out of our misery ages ago continually given exposure and pushed to the front of our minds whether we like it or not. I do find some elements actually a bit offensive and an attack on my intelligence. There's a comes a time when something should just be left alone to die with a bit of dignity and self respect.
As for Macca, I can take him or leave him.
i actually think that macca, and elton john should retire gracefully, its better to be remembered for being great than for being . .well a bit sad really.
im not being ageist, but there comes a time when you just cant hit the notes that you did when you were younger.
as a complete contrast, i was surprised by tom jones who isnt that much younger than the other two, he's still got 'it'.
not a TJ fan tbh, prefer iron maiden.
sorry about my earlier joke causing any problems at work.
lol.