June 20, 2012
Paul McCartney: 40 career highlights on his birthday
From The Christian Science Monitor:
Beatle Paul is 70 this week. Will we still feed him? Not sure about that, but we sure as heck still need him. And what better time to celebrate "the cute one" with our own Magical McCartney Tour: His Top 40 career highlights. Tag along with us on this guided tour (in no particular order) through the McCartney treasure trove.
1. 'Twenty Flight Rock' (single, 1957, by Eddie Cochran)
A song Paul didn't write nevertheless qualifies as one of his shining moments. When he first met partner-to-be John Lennon at a Liverpool church fete, 15 year-old McCartney whipped out his guitar and played a flawless rendition of Eddie Cochran's "Twenty Flight Rock." John was mightily impressed. "I dug him.... he's as good as me!," Lennon is reported to have said. Paul was invited to join John's group the Quarrymen the very next day.
Oh well, I've got a girl with a record machine
When it comes to rockin' she's the queen
We love to dance on a Saturday night
All alone, I can hold her tight
But she lives in a twentiest floor up town
The elevator's broken down
So I walked one, two flight, three flight, four
Five, six, seven flight, eight flight more
Up on the twelfth I started to drag
Fifteenth floor I'm ready to sag
Get to the top, I'm too tired to rock
More here.
Posted by Azra Raza at 06:08 AM | Permalink
Comments
A much more interesting and significant story could have been posted by the editors here if they wanted to call attention to a fabulous race car driver from England and his top designer mechanical engineer from Manchester University: The John Cobb Story by S.C.H. Davis describes these fabulous competitors who contributed so much to sports, engineering and civilization.
John Rhodes Cobb was the first man to travel over 400 mph on land and 200 mph on water.
Reid Railton, the fabulous mechanical engineer produced by Manchester University, designed his remarkable car, the first to be based on wind tunnel testing. It had two Merlin reciprocating air craft engines based on 1920's technology producing about 2,500 hp. This car never had an accident and broke world record after world record before and after WWII with John Cobb at the wheel.
In 1947 at the Bonneville Salt Flats at Utah, he set the world land speed record of nearly 400 mph which stood for about 18 years. John Cobb met his maker in 1952 at Loch Ness Scotland in his attempt to set a world water record in his jet boat Crusader. He exceeded 200 mph one way but upon turning for the reverse run, the boat blew up.
Neither of these giants were Knighted by the prejudiced folks who run England, but they both deserved it much more than the disgusting subject of this worthless article posted by the editors.
Posted by: WJAbbe | Jun 20, 2012 6:48:39 PM
No Helter Skelter? Brilliant tune which ended the sixties so vibrantly.
Happy birthday to the cute one.
Posted by: Ivor | Jun 20, 2012 8:23:45 PM
I don't think he is disgusting. He's been good to animals!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=96IlCehRnaU&NR=1
Posted by: Louise Gordon | Jun 20, 2012 11:27:07 PM
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