Happy Birthday Sir Paul ? ??

I can vividly remember all the photos of Paul celebrating his 21st birthday, was it really 59 years ago? I saw them when they were the support act for Chris Montez and Tommy Roe. Happy birthday Paul.

I remember hitchhiking from Leeds to see „ Wings“ performing in Liverpool . The 1st concert I’d ever been to .
Ahh beautiful memories

Paul was my favourite, with George a close second.

I'm afraid Hey Jude I've heard a million times and after so many years is has become too repetitive. My favourite track is Tomorrow Never Knows. It has so many incredible, creative sounds which I never tire of hearing. No matter how many times I hear it I still listen in awe. Sorry, Paul, it's not one of yours.
Tomorrow Never Knows

Their music was very insightful for such young men. I remember sulking because I was not allowed to go to the Cavern.
Eleanor Rigby is one of my favourites.

I agree Chestnut Hey Jude is repetitive but it reminds me so much of certain times. Lots of their not so famous ones are favourites if mine. Such as PS I Love You, I've Just Seen a Face, When I'm Walking Beside Her. Too many to mention really.

When I'm Walking Beside Her doesn't ring a bell. Have you renamed it? ?

Probably!

Should be Every Little Thing (I think!).

Not a fan. He ‘wrote’ a piece called The Liverpool Oratorio - actually
Carl Davis wrote it - which I had to sing in once. He came to a rehearsal or two. He can’t even read music, so he can’t compose anything above a simple tune. Some of the tunes are quite nice, but he isn’t a real musician. He didn’t want to learn. I think he was a bit embarrassed when he met the Liverpool Philharmonic musicians, but heigh
-ho, he’s the one with the money, so in his eyes his ignorance doesn’t matter.

I always call the airport Simon Rattle Airport, as he is Liverpool’s greatest musical son.

My favourite was Paul and my best friend favoured George. I remember I was about 15 yr old and it was one of their first appearances on Saturday night TV. I had just had an impacted wisdom tooth removed at the hosital on the Friday and was still really hurting but Mum & Dad went out and left us in peace to watch the show - black and white tv and I remember vividly the two of us sitting on the "studio couch" (remember them?) screaming like mad and being in absolutely in agony but it was wonderful!!!

Happy Birthday Sir Paul.
I was totally obsessed with everything about you, still think you are amazing.
I recently bought ‘the Lyrics’ tonight could be a good night to delve into them.

I'm not sure it matters that he can't ( or at least couldn't) read music. He's struggled along quite nicely without it. He's never claimed to be Mozart. Him and his band brought a lot of joy to people all around the world, me being one of them

One of the biggest rows ever with my dad was over watching a concert at A massive stadium in America.
It was on a guide night, and he strongly believed if you made a commitment you stuck to it.
In those days of no videos it was watch it as it was transmitted or miss it forever.
I did win, I don’t know how, my dad wasn’t one for backing down, perhaps he thought I’d have died of a broken heart.

To be fair, Paul McCartney has always acknowledged that he’s not a classically trained musician. His collaboration with Carl Davies is well documented and he’s not the only composer of pop music who can’t read music.

My late father in law was a talented pianist who couldn’t read a note. He played everything by ear or from memory. My mother was a music teacher, classically trained but couldn’t play anything by ear so which one was the real musician?

I certainly wouldn’t call anyone who has the talent to compose beautiful songs ignorant, no matter how they write them.

My Mum always said she felt sorry for Ringo Star as he was never mentioned and yet he'd also narrated Thomas the bloody tank engine

JaneJudge

My Mum always said she felt sorry for Ringo Star as he was never mentioned and yet he'd also narrated Thomas the bloody tank engine

And I'll never forgive him for that.

oh but he was fan bloody tastic at it

We were such a lucky generation to have come of age in the 1960s.

In 1960 I was still at school but beginning to hear about the British pop scene. In 1962 I remember saying to a friend "Have you heard this new pop group? They'l never get anywhere with a silly name like The Beatles". How wrong was I?

The Beatles were the epitome of "swinging Britain". Between the Beatles and James Bond, the UK was THE place to be.

By the time I had my first child in 1970, men had landed on the moon.

That was the decade, that was.

Grayling I can't remember how I first knew about the Beatles, but the first TV appearance I remember was Sunday Night at the London Palladium on 13th Oct 1963 which was when Beatlemania was officially born. Oh the excitement at school the next day!! We were 13 years old and were absolutely crazy about them.
Beatlemania begins

Some will be relieved to hear that according to the Liverpool Echo, McCartney Street will revert to being called Mathew Street in a week's time.

I'm from Liverpool and when I was a Beatles-mad 13-year-old Paul's phone number was still the phone directory, so I would frequently ring his home in the forlorn hope that he would pick up the phone. Sadly, this never happened.

I've just seen that on the news RubyGran. It's temporary. As is Mecca Bingo in Knotty Ash being renamed Macca Bingo.

If my memory serves me well Chestnut and it doesn't always these days, a girl at school was mad about John Leyton (remember him?). She went to see him at Birmingham Town Hall and came to school the next day telling us about a group that were on the bill who had girls screaming at them called The Beatles. We looked them up and that was that

Chestnut that Sunday night is etched in my mind.Our dog had followed us to church at 9am and hadn't been seen the rest of the day.We had searched for her with no luck.My mother thought staying up to see the Beatles would cheer us up.
We never saw them,the dog appeared at the back door just as they came on stage and they were forgotten in our excitement that we had our wee dog back .

I cant remember when we did see them but at least I now know the date that we didn't ,I was 9 and a half .

Kate1949

I've just seen that on the news RubyGran. It's temporary. As is Mecca Bingo in Knotty Ash being renamed Macca Bingo.

Thanks for the news about Macca Bingo Kate, love it!
Fond memories of occasionally going there with my mum and sisters, particularly the time in the early 80s when one of them won the princely sum of £1000 and shared it with us. That much money went a long way in those days.