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Paul McCartney: Nod Your Head On YouTube

Gerard McGarry — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:27:41 +0000

Paul McCartney has started a new Youtube craze by posting a video of himself and some of his celebrity friends (including Kate Moss) nodding their heads to a new track on his album called…..funnily enough…….Nod Your Head.

You can watch the video below.

Let’s Talk About Paul McCartney

Gerard McGarry — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:06:19 +0000

I don’t know what it is about Fossil McCartney, but I can’t stand the man. National treasure my arse. Didn’t like The Beatles, didn’t like Wings, didn’t like his solo stuff, didn’t like The Plastic Ono Band. OK, The Plastic Ono Band wasn’t his, but I thought I’d even things out for the outraged purists among you.

Look at this latest release, Dance Tonight (video below). You get a bizarre postman rambling about peacocks, delivering a mandolin to a presumably post-divorce McCartney living alone in his house. Worse still, as he starts playing playing the thing, a ghost jumps out of the packaging. I’m not kidding, but for a split second I thought he was being crass enough to evoke Linda’s ghost for the video. Seriously.

Unfortunately, Dance Tonight doesn’t make me want to dance. Quite the opposite. This folk-rock atrocity could have been released by McCartney at any point in the last 30 years, the video concept is outdated by at least that much. It’s a frickin’ train wreck. Enough to make me want to boycott Starbucks if I could afford to drink there.

Can we, as a nation, take out an injunction against this man? If he continues to make this kind of music, he’ll set the entire industry back decades. And not in a good way.

He should even be banned from those damned obligatory appearances at big charity concerts where they dust him off for the big “Hey Jude” finish and we get to watch modern, credible (and not-so-credible) artists pretend to like the most schmaltzy overplayed song in the history of pop.

Just had to get that off my chest folks. I’m feeling better now…

[tags]Paul McCartney, Acoustic, 2007[/tags]

Decision To Sell Through Starbucks Might Cost Paul Macartney Chart Position

Gerard McGarry — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:06:38 +0000

I was reading over on NME that Macartney’s latest album may not chart well in the top 40 because of his decision to sell Memory Almost Full through Starbucks.

The reason? Although Starbucks have some 533 stores throughout the UK, they’re not registered with the Official Chart Company. Naturally, there’s a good chance that sales through Starbucks might not count towards his chart position.

Ha ha ha!

The saggy faced Beatles ‘legend’ may be denied the chance to inflict yet another awful solo attempt upon an unsuspecting public. Frankly, I’d be much happier if he retired permanently and only came out at the end of every bloody charity gig ever to sing Hey Jude for the millionth time.

Macartney’s been trading on past glories for decades now, and he’s rapidly becoming more infamous for his personal escapades than his music. I just wish he’d go away.

Can you tell that I was never a Beatles fan….?