"Who is Paul McCartney?"

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I am 18 and am clueless about a lot of pop culutre especially with musicians… I have no idea who Paul McCartney is
 
Oh…don’t I remember the Beatles. I was young then and just the thought that I used to love 'I wanta hold your haaaannnnd, I wanta hold your haaaanddd! :eek: :rolleyes:
 
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aurora77:
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!
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Yeah. They had long hair - it acutally touched their collars…
 
Scott Waddell:
My favorite Simpsons moment is when Homer asks in all seriousness, “Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?”

Which reminds me of another one when he is trying on glasses and the shopkeeper says the frames he has on are the Yoko Ono model and Homer say, “Oh please, she ruined the Plastic Ono Band.”

🙂

Scott
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Here’s another good one.

**Deprogrammer: **Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, your son has clearly been brainwashed by the evil and charismatic Mr. Burns.
**Marge: **Are you sure you can get him back for us?
**Deprogrammer: **Absolutely. I’m the one who successfully deprogrammed Jane Fonda, you know.
**Marge: **What about Peter Fonda?
**Deprogrammer: **Oh, that was a heartbreaker. But I did get Paul McCartney out of Wings.
**Homer: **You idiot! He was the most talented one.

www.snpp.com/episodes/1F16.html
 
Shoshana, he needs to be over on the Trog thread with the Australians. And, BTW, the Dogon tribe of SW Africa are known sorcerers and rather astute astronomers. (Hey, not showing off. Gotta use all that anthropological knowledge for something!)
 
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Shoshana:
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You remind me of my boy, except his hair was half way down his back. Until his father told him to cut it for his interview with the Hydro Company. Was good advice…as he works there in management! 😃
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I’m going to be a rock star so… 😃

You can’t see my beard in that pic. I hope someday to look like ZZ Top.

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years back my dad and I had the nickname ZZ Top, Long hair and beards. I was thinking more Moses and Elijah!
 
Kay Cee:
Okay, let’s be fair. People are usually familiar with the culture of their own generation, not of previous ones. How many of you know just offhand who Lillian Gish was? Or can name any movie Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd was in? Or know what songs Rudy Vallee recorded? Have you seen Birth of a Nation or Greed?
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Okay, I see about 20 people posted since I asked my questions, and two knew the answers.

So . . . how many of you really did not know the answers until you were told?

I think my point that most people are usually unfamiliar with the culture of previous generations stands.
 
Anyone old enough to remember a song that came about the time the Beatles released “I wanna hold your hand”. It was called “Needles And Pins” by I believe a group called the “Searchers”?
Brings back memories of being a 14 year old punk smoking cigarretts and playing the pinball machines in the local drug store! Those were the days when smoking pot was only something beatniks did in New York and such places. My good old days.
 
Kay Cee, I think a lot of it may have to do with how your family handles history. (And that may be the entire problem). I am a child of the 50s but I was raised with a most profound sense of family history. Let me give you but one example. My grandmother played music on the piano in the parlor. I always thought of it as “Granny’s music”. It was not until I went into the Navy and, while staioned in Chicago in the early 70s, that Nonesuch Records issued albums by Joshua Rifkin and the New England Conservatory playing Scott Joplin and other composers of the Ragtime period that I realized that the music I had heard my grandmother play on the piano was ragtime. I was stationed in Chicago and yet I was in possesion of albums which screamed out to me “hey, I from New Oreleans”. And this was not jazz…oh no, it was definitely not jazz…And then I discovered Lous Morreau Gottschalk who wrote way back in the 1850s and in his music I discovered the roots of the music of New Orleans - ragtime, jazz, etc. So, not only am I familiar with the music of my parent’s generation, I am familiar with the music of my grandparents, great grand parents and to be honest with you far beyond before that.

I appreciate where you are coming from. But we have a tremendous burden upon us to instruct subsequet generations. To which my kids say " Oh no, Daddy is lecturing again." But, I believe with all my heart…we have an obligation to pass on (preferably by story) our family’s history. And just as well as I can see and hear my grandmother playing ragtime so then I could (and still contemplate a book entitled. “Granny Played Ragtime: An Analysis of the Irish American Experience in New Orleans”.
 
Kay Cee:
I think my point that most people are usually unfamiliar with the culture of previous generations stands.
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Quite true, but I think that for most of us Boomers, the Beatles had such a profound affect on the culture at large, it very much transcended merely the musical or entertainment world. The Beatles were practically the secular icons of the 60’s; that decade’s most visible personalities. There are** no ** modern-day equivalents. Even as ubiquitous as someone like, say, Britney Spears is, she doesn’t epitomize our age like the Beatles did theirs. I think it is safe to say they were as much a part of world history than just a momentary cultural phenomena.
 
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brotherhrolf:
Shoshana, he needs to be over on the Trog thread with the Australians. And, BTW, the Dogon tribe of SW Africa are known sorcerers and rather astute astronomers. (Hey, not showing off. Gotta use all that anthropological knowledge for something!)
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:eek: I put the occult on Catholic Forums…!! :crying:
 
Why are we always surprised to discover that time goes by?

You want to know why, it’s because our souls aren’t built for time, they’re built for eternity; they’re just stuck here for the time being.
 
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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. One of them picked up McCartney’s new CD and asked (in all seriousness as far as I could tell) “Who’s Paul McCartney?” I was stunned (and feeling very old!)

I know she was very young and all, but is this possible?? Is there anyone on this forum who doesn’t know, or has heard the same thing?

(For those who do know, please lets not give the answer too soon so more can respond)
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Two things…
  1. I once saw Sir Paul in an interview when asked what his kids thought about him. He told a story of when they were still young, he was horse back riding and they were waiting for him at the fence. When he came riding up, one of they yelled “Hey Dad, you’re Paul McCartney!!” His then wife Linda had to explain to him that they didnt know who he was until he got closer, then when they saw him :rotfl: it was only then that they associated his looks with all the publicity pics…quite an amusing story, I think!!
  2. The topic of your thread reminds me of a song by Steely Dan called “Hey 19”…it’s not about Paul, but it echoes your sentiment. Dig it up and listen to the words!! 🙂
 
I used to work at a local college and a student I knew had not heard of, Bob Dylan, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. She had never heard of John Wayne, or Humphrey Bogart. I loaned her some CDs and videos. She loved them.
James
 
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