Paul Latest hit – the man from the Star!
Daily Star
January 21, 1982
This is the photo Paul Massey took of Paul without his permission that started the whole thing. |
This is Paul McCartney, as you’ve never seen him
before---fighting mad! The picture was taken yesterday seconds before the pop
superstar bopped Daily Star photographer Paul Massey and put him on the
floor. Later McCartney apologized to Massey like the nice guy he
really is.
“I’m sorry I blew my top, mate!” That was Paul McCartney’s message to Daily
Star photographer Paul Massey after their Desert Island dust-up yesterday.
A few minutes earlier, our man had been lying flat on his
back after a close encounter with camera-shy McCartney outside a London
recording studio.
The clash came when the ex-Beatle arrived to tape a radio
interview with Roy Plomley for Desert Island Discs. He spotted 18 year old Massey talking to a doorman at the
Oxford Street studio and suddenly cannoned his fist and body at our shocked
photographer.
Massey staggered back 16 feet and ended up staring at the
ceiling. Then McCartney hoisted him on
by his lapel and dropped him again. The
incident was all over in a flash and the Wings star was almost as quick to
apologize.
He invited Massey to his room and told him, “I’m sorry about
what happened. When I saw you standing
there I knew there was only one way to stop you taking pictures. “
Immediately afterwards, I thought ‘Poor kid. He hasn’t been doing it long.’ That’s why I asked you here to say
sorry. I don’t mind having my pictures
taken as long as people as first.”
Massey, who said he was ‘shaken and shocked’ by the
encounter, was asked to leave his camera behind during the peace-making
interview.
But later McCartney kept a promise to take time off for a
photo session.
McCartney with Paul Massey after the apology to show the world that he is still one of the good guys. |
Said Massey, “When we first met I didn’t get a chance to ask
him about pictures. But afterwards he
was very pleasant and now I won’t hear a bad word said about him.
And McCartney, a seasoned campaigner in dealing with the
press admitted our man was only doing his job.
“But it’s OK now and he’s OK, OK?”
camera shy McCartney - lol! he hits the guy and people call George 'grumpy'
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