"Who is Paul McCartney?"

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They said people were acting like they were bigger than Jesus Christ.
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True. And it was John Lennon who said it.

My FIL, Mr. PHD, is so fun to play Trivial Pursuit with. He knows all the science questions…and that’s it!
Me, with my G.E.D. beat him at the game. Boy was he ticked!
 
I thought it was funny that at the Super Bowl, Paul McCartney was considered a “safe” choice for halftime entertainment. I wasn’t around in the '60s but weren’t people all worried about the Beatles and their wicked ways? Kind of ironic!
 
I wonder if the same person knows who Elvis is. On satellite radio there is an Elvis station, but no Beatles station. Life is unfair. 😃
 
My Kids didn’t even know what a “45” is, till I explained it:D Heck, when they saw a my collection they wanted to know “how” that ever fit in a CD player:ehh:
 
I wasn’t around in the '60s but weren’t people all worried about the Beatles and their wicked ways?
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LOL! Yes! My folks were scandalized by the Beatles. Especially the “long hair”. Elvis was bad enough but at least his “greasy” hair was short. In those days, boys wore only dress shirts and nice slacks to school and kept their hair very short. And that was public school.
The Beatles were considered rebellious.
Thank goodness my folks aren’t living to see what’s going on now.
 
quicki, which I won’t even make into a poll:

do you remember what you were doing and how you reacted when the Beatles broke up?
 
Remember Go-Go boots??? On picture day in my Catholic School some of the girls wore them, I was only in 5th grade,(none of my classmates but the 7th and 8th grades) but remember the Nun getting on the loud speaker saying…“Mini skirts (long by todays standards) and Go-Go boots are never permitted. Every young lady who wore this attire will not have her picture taken and will have to come to the make-up day” (these were head and shoulder pictures) oh have times changed, ever see some of these girl’s uniform skirts going to Catholic School everyday?:hmmm:
 
do you remember what you were doing and how you reacted when the Beatles broke up?
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Yes. I was 22, watching my little black and white TV in the living room when it came on the news. I was shocked! At 22 I still thought “everything” was forever or at least should be.
Silly me.
 
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katybird:
Five years ago, a college graduate asked me “Who’s Jimmy Carter?”
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Only the greatest President this country has ever had!
 
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puzzleannie:
quicki, which I won’t even make into a poll:

do you remember what you were doing and how you reacted when the Beatles broke up?
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I was very upset to find out that they would no longer be made in Germany, but in a factory in Mexico.
 
Oh Lord! 45’s - I still have “Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny, Yellow Polka Dot Bikini”, “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport”, “Walk Like a Man”, “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh” all on convenient 45 rpm. Yes no need for Ronco. I have all of these and more carefully stored in amazing 1960 era 45 rpm boxes…and absolutely no way to play them.😃
 
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ICXCNIKA:
Only the greatest President this country has ever had!
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What? are you nuts! Ronald Reagan has been the best since Abe Lincoln!
 
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paterpetri:
Lillian Gish: Silent movie actress famous for such films as Orphans of the Storm.

Buster Keaton movies: The General, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Cops

Harold Lloyd: Safety Last

Rudy Vallee songs: “Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries,” “The Whiffenpoof Song,” “The University of Maine”

Birth of a Nation: Seen it. A few times.

Greed: Haven’t seen it, but I can tell you it’s an Erik VonStroheim film.

By the way, I’m 34; so age is no excuse!
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Interesting you should mention both Lillian Gish (what a fox!) and Birth of a Nation. After DW Griffith directed Birth of a Nation he was accused of racisim. His response was the movie “Broken Blossoms” starring Lillian Gish. It is a heartbreaking story. And I’m 42 (I was one day old the day Robert Frost Died).
 
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Fidelis:
I was in a record store the other day and I overheard two young girls (about 15 or so, I would guess) who were at the “new releases” rack.
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What’s a ‘record’??? :rolleyes:
 
I saw Birth of a Nation with original musical score and special effects wthen they restored the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans back in the 70s and renovated the mighty organ whose console rose from the orchestra pit. This film could not be shown now but in the context of the era in which it was produced and given the fact that the theatre organ was equipped to produce all the sound effects, etc. for me, from a strictly historical point of view, it was englightening. The Saenger followed up the movie with a live concert of period music from the New Leviathan Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra which showed “Porn” from the period. What was considered “Porn” in the era of 1910- 1927 … We see far more on TV today.
 
I saw Sir Paul in a magazine the other day…he sure is looking his age
~ Kathy ~
 
A friend of mine claimed she had never heard of The Beatles, The Who, ELP, or a lot of other groups like that.

She also considers bands that were formed in the year 2000 to be
“older”. She asked me if I’d heard of a band and I said, “are they new?” and she said “yeah they’re kind of old”. So here I was, thinking they were from at least the 80’s, and wondering why I’d never heard of them. And then she said “they got together around 2000”…

Well I guess you could say they are older, but I don’t think she understood what I meant. The Beatles, for example, are old. But she’s never heard of them… <.<
 
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