I couldn't agree more on this point. After all this time, I still have a strong impression that Sir Paul had a schoolboy attachment, with its accompanying schoolboy attitude, to the exclusive Club of Four that was the Boys in their heyday. It was a part of Paul's late childhood that he carried well into adulthood. Like many childhood habits, it was tough to quit.Backpages66 wrote:I call Bulsh (BS) on Sir Paul. He would have reformed in a minute,and was the only Beatle that really missed playing live after they stopped touring in 1966. George Harrison had the famous quotes post Beatle breakup where he stated that he would never be in a band again with Paul McCartney, & when asked about a Beatle reunion Harrison quipped "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie". It would have been John or mainly George that would have said no to a reunion. With half of the group shuffled off this mortal coil Macca gets the last word i'm afraid.
There was a period in the mid '70s when everything was going so well for Paul (and not so well for the others) that his attachment to the idea of a Beatles reformation may have waned temporarily.....Backpages66 wrote:I call Bulsh (BS) on Sir Paul. He would have reformed in a minute,and was the only Beatle that really missed playing live after they stopped touring in 1966. George Harrison had the famous quotes post Beatle breakup where he stated that he would never be in a band again with Paul McCartney, & when asked about a Beatle reunion Harrison quipped "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie". It would have been John or mainly George that would have said no to a reunion. With half of the group shuffled off this mortal coil Macca gets the last word i'm afraid.
His CD with jazz orchestra, "Warm and Tender", from about 1993, is one fine piece of work as well.kenposurf wrote:+1 for Charlie Watts..a very cool cd box is the "From One Charlie To Another" (Watts to Charlie Parker)..tight small jazz combo Charlie put together came with a book of childlike sketches and story that Charlie wrote and drew..early copies were autographed
(emphasis in the above quote was mine)JakeK wrote:They were kings while they were around, and they disbanded gracefully. I've always liked how "The End" on "Abbey Road" really showed it was the end.
Lawsuits, slogging each other in the press, arguments...
Jake -- Abbey Road was a polished apple in a fruitbowl where the real Apple was rotting to the core.servant wrote:(emphasis in the above quote was mine)JakeK wrote: and they disbanded gracefully. I've always liked how "The End" on "Abbey Road" really showed it was the end.
Maybe you're too young to remember!
John Lennon said in the 1970 Rolling Stone interview, http://www.amazon.com/Lennon-Remembers- ... r=1-1#noop that the Let it Be film showed them "warts and all." You might want to listen to some of those bootleg Get Back albums from that era, that have the dialogue and in-fighting recorded that was going on, (most of the ugliness did not make it to the released film).... but everything from the Nagra tapes is detailed word for word, day by day, in the following EXCELLENT book:
