Category Archives: Macca

the stickers on records

Posted on January 3, 2011 | Leave a comment

Wild Life. Wings. 1971.

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1971 grammy win

Posted on December 6, 2010 | 4 comments

Through the magic of youtube I present Paul and Linda McCartney accepting from John Wayne the 1971 Grammy Award for the Best Original Score for a Motion Picture for Let It Be. Paul and Linda had just finished work on the Ram LP and it might be worth pointing out that he’s wearing the same shirt that he wore when the below photo was taken. Therefore it’s the same shirt that he wore in the photo that was featured on the sleeve of various international versions of the Another Day and Eat at Home 45s that have long been a fixation here.

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on your sleeve

Posted on December 1, 2010 | 2 comments

Front and back of the French press of the Eat at Home 45. Paul and Linda McCartney. 1971.

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cute band alert

Posted on August 20, 2010 | Leave a comment

Wings. 1974.

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the stickers on records

Posted on August 4, 2010 | Leave a comment

Price adjustment on a Japanese copy of A Hard Day’s Night.

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cute couple alert

Posted on July 29, 2010 | Leave a comment

Mick Jagger and Linda Eastman. Circa 1967.

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paul on ram

Posted on June 10, 2010 | 4 comments

Bottom image credit.

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signed pepper

Posted on May 8, 2010 | Leave a comment

Just a heads up to the high rollers out there that there’s a signed copy of Pepper up on ebay dot com right now. Bidding is at $31,110 so far with more than two days left in the auction. The reserve is not yet met so things still have a chance to get interesting or absurd. The record is accompanied by these groovy photos of the fabs supposedly signing the thing. Watch this space: I’ll update when the auction goes off.

Update: the price didn’t budge since this was posted and the auction ended without the reserve being met. An anticlimax, I guess.

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dig the critics

Posted on May 4, 2010 | 4 comments

September 1971.

March 1972.

Playboy magazine wasn’t too impressed with McCartney’s early post-fabs offerings.

And they liked Wild Life more than Ram. On what planet does that go on?

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cover art

Posted on April 10, 2010 | Leave a comment

Years after the event: Forty years ago today it was announced that Paul was quitting The Beatles.

How did the other three react?
Lennon to reporter: “You can say I said jokingly, he didn’t quit, he was fired.”
Harrison via friend: “George doesn’t want to talk about it. He wants to be left alone.”
Ringo: “This is all news to me.”

Fans and Apple Scruffs outside 3 Savile Row, London on April 10, 1969.

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