Paul heading to Manchester

 

Not how to play the violin boys

 

Like all of you, I'm sure ---I love the friendship between John and Paul.   

Just Seventeen

Photo by Mike McCartney 

 November 1962 

I read the news today

Photos taken by Mike McCartney

 October 21, 1962 

Paul at Forthlin

 

20 Forthlin Road

 

Posing sexy on a trash can

 

Leaving Home

Share a cuppa with George

Paul's homecoming

June 9, 2018 was an exciting day for Beatles fans in Liverpool.   Paul McCartney along with James Corden arrived in town much to the surprise of everyone!    Paul was seen down at the dock at the Beatles statues,  the Penny Lane area, his childhood home on Forthlin and ended up playing a surprise gig at the Phil (where I hope he used the fancy men's loo).

I am hoping to gather several stories of fans that were able to have a close encounter of a Paul kind yesterday, so expect to see and hear more about this soon.

But I thought I would start with these great photos of Paul at Forthlin take by a friend of this blog, Mark Ashworth (who has a great Liverpool focused Beatles blog called Places I remember) 

Pretty surreal to see Paul at a place that is now a tourist attraction, but to him was where he called home. 

Just a reminder that you never know where you might see Paul McCartney! 

The return home

In the early 2000's a newspaper published this photo of Paul outside of his childhood home on Forthlin Road.  

Liverpool Lad

I posted this photo, which is currently up on ebay on the Meet the Beatles for Real facebook page.  But I also wanted to post it here on the real blog.   This photo is from the Freda Kelly collection and is Paul at his Forthlin Road home.  The auction says it was taken in 1961, but I think it is from 1963.  Freda had written all of the Beatles Liverpool addresses on the back of the photo and then scratched them out before giving this photo away to a fan.   Neat item!