Sir Paul turns 84 today! (June 18th)
Do You Think Paul Has Been Singing "When I'm 84" this week?
Many of you have seen the cool PBS documentary on John Lennon's record collection called "John Lennon's Jukebox." This video can be seen below but skip to 14+ minutes in, because for some reason there are 14 minutes of ads at the start.
You may have seen this a long, long ago (1990s?) … I know I had it on Beta or VHS somewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgABKFLOKj8
WELL, last night a similar production was heard on a good friend's radio show, Gayle Miller's "Combos Akimbo" show, broadcast every Saturday night at 8 PM Central time on WFMU.
This was a 1982 broadcast featuring Paul McCartney's eight songs if placed on a deserted island that he would want with him. It was "the thing" to ask in 1982. Even I got asked and the results were put in the Lincoln paper here as a radio DJ.
Anyway, Paul's eight songs include a song his FATHER wrote and it's cool to hear the history of HIS songs he picked in his memory. Recorded for BBC Radio 4 in January, 1982, it was only broadcast in the US the Week of April 25, 1982. The show was on record and this starts at the point below in last night's radio show (32 minutes into the two hour show celebrating Paul's 84th birthday this week).
If you click below URL, it will take you right to the 1982 record of the original program as broadcast that week. It's great fun to hear, as is the whole show. Gayle does a great show weekly.
wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=165301&archive=289743&starttime=0%3A32%3A57
Clark Besch
I can't believe that it's already been twenty years since Paul McCartney turned 64. Remembering all the hub-bub about him hitting that milestone at the time, I swear it only feels like three or four years ago. Time certainly does seem to be moving faster these days.
When The Beatles first hit America in 1964, Paul was only 22 years old. I was 11 at the time, making him TWICE as old as me.
Yet somehow over the years, I've caught up to him ... as he turns 84 today, I'll turn 73 in a couple of months ... now we're just eleven years apart! (Somehow, it just doesn't seem fair!!!)
He wrote his first song at the age of 14 ... so that means he's been honing that craft for 70 YEARS now!!! And the INCREDIBLE catalog of music he has provided us over the past 64 years ... The Beatles and beyond ... is second to none. (His most recent album, "The Boys Of Dungeon Lane," debuted in The Top Five on Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart.) No other artist has so consistently been able to come up with music that in some way continues to affect the majority of us. He truly is one of a kind.
Happy Birthday, Sir Paul! (kk)
