Paul in space

I got sent this story by a few fans asking me if it's true...

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s4i46943

I can assure you all it's not. Look at the title of the publication for crying out loud!

LIVE

Apparently Paul will be performing live at the Grammy Awards.


Cool.

Paul's Soap Opera

I have this GOOGLE NEWS thing set up where it e-mails me headlines daily with anything that has keywords like "beatles" "john lennon" "paul mccartney" etc...

Apparently Heather Mills dating habits are still a big deal. She recently made some statements about her love life and I got the same story in about 20 different headlines. I knew some people would care but wow.

And now that Paul's live in girlfriend (remember Beatrice gave her permission to move in!) Nancy's divorce (I didn't even know she was married) is final, EVERYONE and their uncle is speculating about Paul proposing or wedding plans.

I predict that until any official change is made, we'll be seeing proposal and engagement rumors ENDLESSLY for a while now. Which kind of annoys me because I hate it when we get headlines out of "speculation" and unnamed "inside sources".

In other news, I am thinking about going to Beatlesfest (the NY one) this year. It would be my first. Any advice? Anyone going?

It does worry me that no guests have been announced yet. The guests would probably sway me one way or the other.

Jürgen Vollmer

I read Pauline Sutcliffe's memoir on Stuart in one day. Was alot more interesting and engaging than the one she did with Alan Clayton ("Backbeat") was.

On a side note, what is it with these Beatle people retelling their story in a second books years later? Pete Best, Cynthia Lennon, Julia Baird, May Pang and now Pauline. That is just off the top of my head, I am sure there are more.

I don't agree with all the theories and ideas presented in this book, but it was still a very nice read. She brought up Jürgen Vollmer and mentioned that she thought he had some resentment towards Astrid. This could be wrong and could just be her inference, but she thinks that Astrid gets some of Jurgen's credit for creating the Beatles look.

Looking back, Jurgen does lose alot of places in history and most of the Bealtes look (which Jurgen helped with...he did cut John and Paul's hair) came from him. In the movie "Backbeat" (which I am currently rewatching) he is absent altogether, even though he was there when Astrid met Stu.

Food for thought.

For those keeping score

I've been out of town and still settling back into things but I did catch SOME of the Howard Stern/Paul McCartney interview.

For those keeping score Paul has currently "quit pot" again.

Yeah we've heard this one more than we've heard about Let It Be DVD being released.

Back again

I am back from yet another trip. I seem to be traveling more than the Beatles in 1964 lately! You can find out more about that on my facebook, myspace or various other social networking stuff.

Lots of Beatle things to catch up on I wasn't hooked into the Beatles online world during those few days.

Was happy to find four new Beatle books in my mailbox. Not sure which one to read first. I am currently reading three at this one time, I'm like that.

Tampa Bloggers Meetup tonight at MOSI and I came representing BERTONE BEATLE BONANZA with my brothers as guest. Great fun and met some other bloggers.

I need to get some other stuff done, but figured this deserved an update as I've been gone.

Movies

I've rejoined some Beatles message boards I haven't been a part of or posted on in years. I'm doing it because I'd like to get more in touch with the Beatles community. The Pete Best message board has always been one of my favorites. A nice close knit group of devoted fans who really go above and beyond in promotion for The Pete Best Band.

That and I'm addicted to the forums arcade. I waste so much time on there.

One fan on the Shabby Road message board just sent me the mp3 of my May Pang interview from early 2005. WOW! Relistening to it brought back so many memories! I'll be posting it as a retro episode soon.

I've been watching some Beatles movies on the internet. Like bad biopics. Tonight's viewing pleasure was the 1979 tv movie "Birth Of The Beatles". Oh dear. I stopped counting mistakes. It was horrible. Hilarious though. So many errors my gosh.

The sad thing is Pete Best and Dick Clark worked on it so they should've known better, but perhaps there influence couldn't even save this.

The story about Paul and Pete lighting a condom on fire in the Hamburg club and it being put out? Yeah in the movie it's a full blown inferno.

Rumors

Rumors are flying that Michael Jackson is leaving the Beatles song rights to Paul McCartney in his will.

I'll believe it when I see proof. Just internet buzz. Next you'll tell me Paul is dead.

New Show Posted

First show of the year has been posted! My guest host this week to fill in for absent Eric is none other than Beatles Examiner writer and Abbeyrd webmaster Steve Marinucci. We discuss the Beatles news highlights of last year, the wonders of Ringo's "Caveman" movie and more.

Download and enjoy!

I'll be traveling again for a bit due to family issues, but I should be churning some more shows out this month with different guest hosts. A fan has also unearthed my May Pang interview which I haven't heard in years. It is the most requested rerun and I lost my master tapes years ago. I'll try and post it again soon.

Back From Vacation

Vacation is now over and it was grand but busy. I actually did so much going back and fourth that I needed a break from vacation!

I got some cool Beatles stuff for Christmas. I am too exhausted to make a full list but my family did good this year. One item of particular note was the Beatles Monopoly game. Those of you who read this know I posted about it months ago stating "I must have this". When I saw it, I looked at my Stepmom and asked if she knew from the blog. She didn't. I suppose she just knew from being my Stepmom or something.

Eric is actually on an epic Beatles hunt in Europe this month so we won't be seeing him until February. Lets hope he comes back with some stories.

We'll be doing our first show back in a few days. In place of Eric we will have another guest host. Some of you Beatle Bloggers may recognize him as he's been doing this Beatles Blogging for a long time now. You'll see when the show comes on..

Reread some Beatle books and saw the Beatles cartoons as I now have my DVDs of them. Wow. I will discuss those more in depth later.

Hope you all had a good vacation. Now lets get back to work!