Meeting a Beatle

leesh · Post by **leesh** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:39 pm

Mike McCartney just came out with a book on Live 8 called "Cool Pix"...only limited to 1,000 copies. He took pictures of all of the celebs hobnobbing backstage in Hyde Park.

It looks as if he's doing a full run on photography nowadays....after a stint in The Scaffold, an artist, and some other career paths. He certainly has a great shot that appeared on the cover of Paul's "Chaos & Creation in the Backyard". He also has a couple of other books of photography that can be found on Amazon.

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 8:42 am

Closest I got was 15 ft. from Paul backstage at the Tonight show when he was promoting Give my Regards, to Broad Street. He was just mobbed by people and didn't feel like it was appropriate to push my way through.

However, I worked with Paul's step sister Ruth and his step mom Angie on a few jobs years ago and they related some cool stories.

yfoiler · Post by **yfoiler** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:30 pm

I'm getting in a little late on this one, but I met George Harrison when I attend his recording session for the single of Bangladesh back in 1971. Needless to say, that was pretty cool.

Marty

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:12 am

Closest I've gotten was two Sundays ago, playing Balinese music at the Boulder Asian Festival...a woman in the crowd came up to tell us how much she enjoyed our set: Paul's step-sister, visiting from LA (I believe her name's Ruth, but my memory for names isn't what it used to be...)

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:12 am

This site is run by Paul's stepsister Ruth,

http://www.mccartneymultimedia.com/

lennonon · Post by **lennonon** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 6:32 pm

I've mentioned this on other posts, but I had the amazing luck of hanging out with Dhani Harrison while in college and got to meet his Dad on several occasions, including a stayover at the awe inspiring Friar Park. I glimpsed treasures most dream of and if I'd had more self confidence at the time, I'd be able to say I played on the original Duo-Jet. Nonetheless, there it was. Along with what I'm pretty sure was his J-160. Or John's.

Needless to say GH was a wonderful, soft spoken, very very funny gentleman, always called me by my first name and never missed a chance to make fun of me or the other guys on the crew team. Had a play around with Dhani and two other guys in the garden with guitars provided by "dad". Some very old. Not the Gibson though...

lennonon · Post by **lennonon** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 6:37 pm

Hey Kent - I thought PM completely disavowed Ruth and his step-mum, along with the child he fathered during the Star Club days (paternity tests proved it was him, from what I recall).

I'm not sure why, beyond his vague paranoia that the whole world is out to exploit the name McCartney.

studiotwosession · Post by **studiotwosession** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 4:19 am

Michael, that's a great story about hangin' at George's.

Unless some unseen sum of money traded hands, the story of Paul's love child is untrue, despite the fact that the child in question looks a heck of a lot like him, from what I recall.

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:06 pm

Michael, wow.... did GH ever make note of your last name?

beatlefreak · Post by **beatlefreak** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:11 am

The closest I've ever gotten was meeting Louise Harrison (George's sister) a couple of times.

lennonon · Post by **lennonon** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 3:14 pm

Yes, Kent - I can still hear his voice in that sarcastic, lugubrious way saying, "Mr. Lennon, it's been a while"...

After that though he always just called me Mike, the rest of the time.

We had wonderful dinners and he gave us all some really fine wine. Later he started singing pre WWI tunes and playing the Uke, but (I will hate myself forever more) I had fallen asleep on the couch and have virtually no memory of this.

It was a remarkable time in my life. Looking back it doesn't seem at all real.

lennonon · Post by **lennonon** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 3:16 pm

I thought Pauly failed a paternity test with that German woman. It was in some Roy Carr and Tony tyler's "The Beatles: An illustated record", which, while rife with inaccuracies, I took to be the bible at one point in my tender years.

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:14 pm

I was reading part of Cynthia Lennon's 'A Twist of Lennon' last night. Even that one has a lot of inaccuracies. That book is frustrating in that it is mostly about her. This is understandable since its an autobiography, but there are so many inside details of the Beatles she could have provided but didn't.

lennonon · Post by **lennonon** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:08 pm

Yeah, it often seems she gets her memories from various Beatles books,,,,

Although I did find it incredibly sad that she ended her current book on John by saying, if given the chance to go through it again, she would have turned and walked away.

JL wasn't so good to her....it would seem.

glass_onion · Post by **glass_onion** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:22 pm

well she did go through alot of stuff