The crazy concert

 Here is another photo from the crazy San Francisco 1965 evening concert.   I am not sure why the photographer chose to circle Paul and John but it is a great shot!  

Viva Paul!

 June 15, 2001 

Don't Worry Kyoko

 

How to ask a Beatle fan out on a date....

 

Just have a Beatles record with you and ask her if she wants to listen to it.   She might not be paying any attention to you because she is listening to the Beatles --- but you'd have yourself a date with her! 

Beatles No Longer in Touch with Fans Critic Charges (1966)

 Beatles No Longer In Touch with Fans Critic Charges 

Associated Press

June 14, 1966

    A British pop music critic accused The Beatles today of losing touch with their fans. "They have, to put it bluntly, goofed," wrote Mike Nevard in The Sun. 

    He said, "If their new record, 'Paperback Writer', had been recorded by another group, it would have gone into the junk heap. Since Christmas, the Beatles have made practically no personal appearances," he wrote, "and British audiences will be lucky to see them before next Christmas."

     Next week, the Beatles go to Germany and Japan. In August, they return to the United States. "In the early days, the Beatles communicated," said the critic. "Their music was exciting and often emotional to get such effects. Musicians need to play together regularly in the hurly-burly of live shows."

     Said Beatle Paul McCartney  "'Paperback Writer' is not our best single, but we're satisfied with it. We are experimenting all the time with our sound. We cannot stay in the same rut."

     It was the first time in 30 months that a Beatles record failed to reach the top of the record charts on its day of issue. Frank Sinatra held first place with his song "Strangers in the Night". The Beatles song was in second place.

Paul at the Roundhouse

 

June 11, 2026 --  A Conversation with Paul McCartney at the Roundhouse in London 

in defense of McCartney (1976 San Francisco)

 

In Defense of McCartney

By David Cheit

The Independent

June 18, 1976

    A Beatles reunion is a special fantasy. If it ever happens, its mere existence will transcend any of the more concrete details of a performance. The songs won't have to be good just so they could be. Period.

     Until the dream comes true, we have to settle for what we can get. Wings is no match for the Beatles, but when you can get Paul McCartney on stage, and he sings " Yesterday " for you, it doesn't matter much who he's playing with. 

    That incredible thirst for a taste, a drop, anything to bring back the Beatles experience was in shouting, arm-waving, foot-stomping evidence last weekend when Paul McCartney brought his band of the '70s to the Cow Palace. The inadequacies have been adequately covered in local reviews. Yes, Paul's voice was unable to make the highest notes. Yes, the sound system was inappropriate, almost to the point of distraction, and yes, the new group is a far cry from the old group, but under the circumstances, everybody went home satisfied.

     If a reunion is in the cards, this certainly was an encouraging preview. It showed that Paul is ready to return to the Beatles' music. He has said he couldn't face it for so long that he could only recently consider performing it again. It also showed his capability as a performer. True, the strenuous tour has taken its toll on his vocal cords, but the acoustic numbers, "Blackbird" and "Yesterday", were nothing short of entrancing. 

    The Wings tunes can't possibly be held in the same reverent light as the Beatles classics, simply because they're not Beatles songs, but they still stood up very well and were received with enthusiasm, with one or two dull exceptions. 

    Other criticisms of the tour have been aimed at Linda McCartney, whose vocal and instrumental contributions to the Wings are, to be sure, undistinguished, but that kind of pickiness doesn't do justice to the way McCartney has managed to preserve his image through the years, while John, George, and Ringo all went through various phases of what's sometimes perceived as weirdness.

     Linda is part of that image. She has helped make Paul something of an all-American Beatle. The spirit and unpretentiousness of the '60s remain, but now Paul is in his 30s. He's a dedicated family man. He's married to a pretty American girl. It's an appealing image, and none of the other Beatles has it.

     Paul hasn't changed much since the days when the Beatles represented a vaguely sinister presence with their funny long hair and odd slang vocabulary. It's everyone else who has changed.

Get Back

 

Paul in a tux

June 14, 2001

Now here is something you don't see too often:  Paul McCartney wearing a tuxedo!   I think he cleans up pretty nice and I think Heather's gown is beautiful.  
 

Hospital Closure is a Scandal Raps McCartney (1991)

Paul and Linda are among the protestors marching to keep Rye Hospital open in October 1990

 

Hospital Closer is a Scandal Raps McCartney

No Writer Listed

Daily Post

June 11, 1991

     Pop star Paul McCartney angrily lashed out yesterday at the government after the Department of Health announced the closure of his local hospital. 

    Health Minister Stephen Dorrell told local MPs in a letter he had decided to uphold the decision by Hastings Health Authority to close 15-bed Rye Memorial Hospital in East Sussex, but Mr. McCartney, in a statement to the Press Association, slammed the decision as a scandal and asked, "Who the hell do they think they are?"

     He claimed, "This government is fast fostering a feeling of impotence among its people. We no longer have a hand in any decision. Perhaps then this decision will bring about the necessity for a change of government. 

    "Now it makes me think so much for Major and the claim the NHS is in safe hands with the Tories. How are we going to take seriously a man like Major when events like this closure are happening the length and breadth of our country?"

     Last October, McCartney and his wife, Linda, led hundreds of banner-waving protesters to a rally at the hospital, two miles from the Pop Stars' home in Peasemarsh. He also offered to pay four nurses to staff the hospital's casualty unit. Yesterday, he said it was scandalous that the government could go against the wishes of the local people.

    " A local boy died from an asthma attack that could have easily been prevented if the casualty department here had been open. Do we have to suffer more deaths to prove to them the need for a local hospital?" 

     Muriel Mayer, secretary of the hospital's steering committee, which led the protests against closure yesterday, vowed to fight on.

     The Department of Health later said Rye was an "old hospital building providing outmoded and inefficient forms of care." A statement added Hastings Health Authority "has facilities in a number of small sites and needs to rationalize those services to cover service priorities within the district, patient care will not be affected."