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On this day, Paul McCartney reached 80. Celebrities and friends payed tribute on social networks, and various magazines and newspapers covered the news, some making it their front page or publishing special editions.
Thanks for all the lovely greetings and warm wishes for my birthday – Paul
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From That’ll Be The Day being The Quarrymen’s first demo song, to the Beatles very name, their musical style, the beautiful renditions they made of many of Buddy’s songs and in later years the wonderful Buddy Holly Weeks that Sir Paul planned and hosted on either side of the Atlantic, no one has celebrated my late husband more.
Buddy’s songs were so beautiful that I feel they would always have stood the test of time, but they still needed new artists to keep them alive and vibrant, and Paul did just that, with the Beatles, as a soloist, and introducing them to the next generation, who were curious to learn about their hero’s own inspiration.
As Paul celebrates his 80th birthday, I feel inclined to celebrate his remarkable feats through over 60 years in music. Forever a world renowned artist, it is still quite amazing that as an octogenarian he now prepares to headline the Glastonbury Festival in 6 days time, and through it all he has remained very publicly a Buddy Holly fan to his core.
Happy Birthday 80th Paul, and thank you for the music, and your enduring love for Buddy.
Maria Elena Holly”
1961 I first held a bass guitar in my hands. Stuart Sutcliff’s President Bass in the Top Ten Club in Hamburg. At that time Paul was still the pianist of the Beatles band. He waved to me to come up on stage. But I was to shy and sat in front of the stage. We played the Fats Domino Song “I’m in Love Again” with the Beatles. 46 years later Paul and I were sitting in his Hog Hill Mill studio pulled out of a box of nostalgic songs for my very first own album. Paul sat at the piano in his white shirt, vest, and jeans, as though he had just come straight from the Liverpool Cavern Club. I sat beside him, a bit nervous with a President bass model in my hands, from the same Hoefner series as Stuart’s instrument back then.
Instead of 2 hours as originally planned we were at it for 3,4,5 hours. Paul, as always, the absolute professional, could not be stopped on this Monday in May. He was in high spirits and infected us all. He played all overdubs: Paul on drums, Paul on acoustic guitar, Paul on the E-guitar (….That’s an Epiphone, one of my favourites. We played it on “Taxman” and “Paperback Writer”…) Paul with a toy harmonica out of a gum machine, Paul on the Hammond organ. We were floating through sounds and memories and lost all sense of time and place.
Before he left home he picked roses for Christina, me and himself from a bush in front of the studio. „ This is a McCartney Rose“, he said. „ Did you invent it“. „Yes, I was up all night“, he answered and laughed mischievously.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL AND WELCOME TO THE ROCKING 80TH-CLUB !
This is a verse of a song that I wrote about us which I feel explains that whoever thinks they know some things about personal relationships between friends, they only really know if they look below the waterline.
True or false
Right or wrong
A beating heart
still going strong
The memories
are all we have
Sometimes we cry
and then we laugh
Down below the waterline
out of sight of prying eyes
we see the world is doing fine
without the need of disguise.
On the surface it may seem
like a twisted mixed up dream
and words can’t say the things we truly mean-
So, look below the waterline.
Enjoy, DL x
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Last updated on November 22, 2022
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