So happy together

 

Smiling Brian

 

How Ringo ended up wearing a Sgt. Pepper suit on stage

 

A pat on the head from Ringo 

I am sure many of you have seen the video of Ringo singing "With a Little Help From My Friends" while wearing a pink Sgt. Pepper jacket.  Many people are asking -- "where did he get that?"   Well -- I found the Ringo fan who owns the jacket that Ringo is wearing and have her story straight from her on how Ringo came to wear it for this now iconic moment. 

From crawlerr on X:

BEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE! I brought a pen for Ringo to sign my coat (even though I'm sure he doesn't do autographs anymore) And nearing the end of the show, I ran up to the barricade/rope-thing and waved my pen in the air for his attention. This kind lady behind me told me I HAD to get closer to the stage, so she pushed me under the rope, and Ringo prompted me to come closer to the stage, so I jumped up and down waving my pen more, and he leaned down and said, "I'll do ya somethin betta! Hand me your coat." SO I DID

I started crying SO hard, and all I could muster to say was "RINGO I LOVE YOU!" AND HE REPLIED, "I love you, babe!" SO, NATURALLY, I SOBBED EVEN MORE. That's when he told me to stay where I was as he performed A Little Help From My Friends

After that, he noticed me absolutely bawling my eyes out, so he patted my head and told me everything's alright. SO YEAH, I CRIED EVEN MORE. I stayed after the show til they kicked me out, but SECURITY GAVE ME HIS DRUM STICKS! I'M BLESSED.

Ringo's drumsticks!

Thank you crawlerr for sharing your amazing story!  What a great "Meet the Beatles...For Real" encounter!  

Busy times

May 27, 2026

Paul has really been hitting the ground running to promote The Boys of Dungeon Lane.  The Tik Tok live he did last week was interesting.  He was in a building in London where the carpet, curtains and uhh..wall paper all have the same design.  Is this MPL?   And shockingly he is NOT WEARING SOCKS!  
 

McCartney and Wings: A Soaring Sound of Celebration (Chicago 1976)

 

McCartney and Wings:  A Soaring Sound of Celebration

By Lynn Van Matre

Chicago Tribune

June 2, 1976

    Paul McCartney and Wings touched down in Chicago Monday night at the stadium, coming on in a swirl of fog, a flash of light, and a burst from a bubble machine, and leaving two hours later, tasting triumph. 

    The group's three-day tour here ends Wednesday night. The reception accorded to McCartney, who hasn't played Chicago since his Beatles days a decade ago, was nothing less than expected, of course. But the concert was far better than I anticipated. A bang-up celebration of rock and roll that included several old Beatles songs and some fairly striking and well-done special effects.

     For McCartney, now 33, the road from the Beatles to his current flight with Wings has been, as the song goes, a long and winding one. When the Beatles broke up, he was already at work on his first solo album, "McCartney", a Paul and Linda fair released in 1970, with Mr. McCartney handling all the songs and instruments and Mrs. McCartney chiming in on background vocals. 

    It was soon followed by the best-selling "Ram" album, then came "Wildlife" with Denny Laine on guitars and Denny Seiwell on drums, in addition to the McCartneys. And in 1973, Wings toured Britain for the first time. Later, the band produced several more albums, "Band on the Run", "Venus and Mars", and the latest Wings release, " At the Speed of Sound ". By this time, the Wings lineup had evolved into the current crew: Paul on his famous left-handed bass, lead vocals, and keyboards, Linda McCartney on keyboards, Joe English on drums, and Laine and Jimmy McCulloch on guitars, with a four-man horn section added for the United States tour. 

    So much for the academics. Monday night at the stadium, all that musical history came to life with McCartney's set, including songs from nearly every album and a few tunes from years back. The crowd anticipated a bit of the Beatles and went wild. "Well", McCartney said, "I don't think this is from that far back", but the band swung into "Lady Madonna" and for the first time during the evening, the audience started stamping and clapping along. Clowning a bit at the keyboard, McCartney waited for the applause to die down, then started in on "The Long and Winding Road", a beautiful old Beatles number, while the crowd breathed a collective sigh. Memories, you know.

     But the Beatles are gone, and for my money, McCartney has emerged as the best of the bunch. While many of his pleasant-enough recorded songs have been criticized for their unfortunate tendency to go in one ear and out the other, his live performance of them is something else. Again on stage, the tunes took on a real rock-and-roll edge, and his showmanship was competent and compelling enough. If he has a tendency to mug and camp it up a bit, posing at the piano, well, it goes over big. And what did you expect? 

    Besides the rock and roll, the set also featured a nifty change of pace in the way of an acoustic interlude with McCulloch, Laine, and Paul playing acoustic guitars and Linda chiming in on a couple of songs, including "Drink to Me", "Blue Bird", and an old Paul Simon tune, "Richard Cory". Then the band disappeared, except for Paul, who sang "Blackbird" from those long ago days, and "Let's see if you remember this one," he mused. By that time, though, the crowd had already recognized the opening chords of "Yesterday."

     The acoustic break followed Wings' big visual thriller of the evening, a rendition of "Live and Let Die", accompanied by a burst of flame from fire pots on stage, laser beams, and strobe lights -- gimmicky, yes, but smashing in effect. The song was introduced by Linda, whom McCartney referred to as "my friend and Mrs."  Up until then, she stayed pretty much in the background. 

    Linda, of course, has come in for a good deal of flak from the critics for her less-than-virtuoso playing and being generally all around unnecessary in the scheme of things. Monday night, she fit in well enough, although she still seems ill at ease when she's not behind the keyboards. When Paul traded his bass once again for keyboards, and Linda stood down front at the mic for "My Love", she looked uncomfortable, like a woman in search of something to do with her hands.

     The capacity crowd, of course, had no such problem. As the concert drew to an end, closing with "Band on the Run", an accompanying grainy film of that particular album cover, a bunch of people, including Wings, looking as though they were in the midst of a jailbreak, the audience turned deafening, matches were struck, sparklers were hauled out, Bicks flicked, and then finally McCartney and the band came back for more, choosing to end at last with "Hi, hi, hi", and the unrecorded song "Soily." It had been a long, long set, overly so, perhaps by some standards, but then McCartney has been a long time coming.

Hounded by the press

 

June 1, 1971

With Lisa Robinson at the Grammy Awards

 

Cold Feet

Photo by Leslie Parker 

 On August 5th, 1972, this picture of John Lennon and Yoko Ono holding our Amy was taken at the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco. I asked Mr. Lennon if we could snap the pic; his cameraman said, NO!, but Yoko said, “We have time.” Cold and windy that day, Yoko held Amy’s feet to keep them warm!

Interesting article about their day-long visit to SF on Google: “John Lennon in SF for the day, 1972.”
BTW: the LAST pic in our yellow Kodak disposable camera!!
By Leslie Parker

Chicken Tendies

Paul has been everywhere lately but I think my favorite interview thus far has been the one at the Chicken Shop.  
 

Ringo back on the road with peace and love

 

Any of you have tickets to see Ringo and the All Starr Band during this next round of concerts?