It's official... Paul McCartney is a...
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Sir Paul reveals Beatles drug use.
1. Paul, this is not news. Do you have a record out or something? I read your comparisons of cocaine to the novocaine you got given at the dentist as a kid years ago.
2. I find it rather sad you feel the need to be so bloody blase about the heroin thing. And the coke thing. And the marijuana thing. You know people these things killed. Some of them were your colleagues and friends. Perhaps you're suffering from some sort of memory problem because my darling, you sound like an apologist twat. In short, you sound like Lou Reed and it's not funny.
3. It's also relatively well-known that you've smoked dope for about 35 years and stopped (as far as I know) because Heather doesn't like it. This is the only nice thing I have to say towards her. Surely your mediocre, sap-filled output for the last few decades is the best anti-grass argument we've heard in a long while.
4. Stop trying to be cool. You're not cool like John was cool. You're not cool like Morrison or Jagger were cool. You're not, you're not, you're not, so PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY IN THE WORLD WE LIVE IN STOP TRYING TO ACT LIKE IT! You might think that 'revealing' your drug past will make you seem like less of a twat. You're wrong. We know you took drugs- you said so in 1967 and you did it on television. We know the Beatles songs after a certain point were immensely coloured by the drug use of the four Beatles. WE KNOW! I personally like those songs in spite of the drug stuff.
5. Not all of us find a past history of drug use that cool. Some of us like you and your old mates in spite of, not because, of it. Saying that 'you didn't fancy going down that [heroin] road' is incredibly insulting to the people who have died and who are suffering from this nasty, horrific addiction. I'm not usually one of the politically-correct brigade but honestly, did you not think about what you were saying? Do you know how FUCKING LUCKY you are to be able to say that? Ask Eric Clapton or Keef, cos they're about the only two alive to be able to tell you. Mind you, the day after your former best pal was gunned down in the street you said it was 'a drag'. Perhaps you're just blase about things that matter.
6. STOP TRYING TO BE COOL! PLEASE! Paul, honestly, I love and adore you and I will love and adore you until the end of time. I love and adore you because you're Paul McCartney, so please stop trying to be someone else.
PS. MOJO Radio really rocks, man!
Sir Paul reveals Beatles drug use.
1. Paul, this is not news. Do you have a record out or something? I read your comparisons of cocaine to the novocaine you got given at the dentist as a kid years ago.
2. I find it rather sad you feel the need to be so bloody blase about the heroin thing. And the coke thing. And the marijuana thing. You know people these things killed. Some of them were your colleagues and friends. Perhaps you're suffering from some sort of memory problem because my darling, you sound like an apologist twat. In short, you sound like Lou Reed and it's not funny.
3. It's also relatively well-known that you've smoked dope for about 35 years and stopped (as far as I know) because Heather doesn't like it. This is the only nice thing I have to say towards her. Surely your mediocre, sap-filled output for the last few decades is the best anti-grass argument we've heard in a long while.
4. Stop trying to be cool. You're not cool like John was cool. You're not cool like Morrison or Jagger were cool. You're not, you're not, you're not, so PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY IN THE WORLD WE LIVE IN STOP TRYING TO ACT LIKE IT! You might think that 'revealing' your drug past will make you seem like less of a twat. You're wrong. We know you took drugs- you said so in 1967 and you did it on television. We know the Beatles songs after a certain point were immensely coloured by the drug use of the four Beatles. WE KNOW! I personally like those songs in spite of the drug stuff.
5. Not all of us find a past history of drug use that cool. Some of us like you and your old mates in spite of, not because, of it. Saying that 'you didn't fancy going down that [heroin] road' is incredibly insulting to the people who have died and who are suffering from this nasty, horrific addiction. I'm not usually one of the politically-correct brigade but honestly, did you not think about what you were saying? Do you know how FUCKING LUCKY you are to be able to say that? Ask Eric Clapton or Keef, cos they're about the only two alive to be able to tell you. Mind you, the day after your former best pal was gunned down in the street you said it was 'a drag'. Perhaps you're just blase about things that matter.
6. STOP TRYING TO BE COOL! PLEASE! Paul, honestly, I love and adore you and I will love and adore you until the end of time. I love and adore you because you're Paul McCartney, so please stop trying to be someone else.
PS. MOJO Radio really rocks, man!
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Date: 2004-06-02 15:11 (UTC)I think Paul was was cool in his own way, and far more than just 'the cute one'. It's labels like that that pissed George off so much.
I think the newsworthy element was the admission of using heroin, but it's not exactly news anyway. See, problem is, like Lou Reed, Paul doesn't seem to much like the legends he's been saddled with and so is trying to rewrite them.
What Paul needs to understand is that he could just sit in a room being Paul McCartney and be far cooler than most people on the planet. it's when he TRIES to be cool that it doesn't work. Cool doesn't work like that.
But I don't blame him for being annoyed about johnandyoko. The moment John fell in love with her was the moment that he moved away from everything else in his life. It didn't really break up the Beatles, but it changed his life entirely.
There's a difference between being blase about fame and being blase about drug use and death. Our dear sweet, tightfisted Paul needs to remember that. Mind you, he's the one that thinks calling the Beatles 'just a great little band' actually sounds modest, so I think he's just totally cracked after forty years in his position.
Linda was a great photographic artist. Yoko was cracked but made you think. Should've both stayed that way.
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Date: 2004-06-02 15:26 (UTC)Fame will sometimes cause people to crack. There are a million television episodes on how somebody achieves a brief moment of stardom, and when it's gone, they seem insane. Granted, Paul still is a star...he's PAUL, after all. But you're absolutely right on his attitudes towards death and drug use. I could understand his attitudes towards death if he were an avowed stoic (which encouraged the reaction of "they haven't been taken away, so much as returned to their rightful place"), but we do know better.
After all, he did write that lyric: "For when you know that it's a fool who plays it cool/by making his world a little colder" in Hey Jude?
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Date: 2004-06-02 15:37 (UTC)The problem is, the fame Paul has ISN'T fleeting or tame. The man became INCREDIBLY famous in 1963! Almost everyone on the planet knew who he was by the end of 1964 and it hasn't really let up since then. The Beatles themselves said in the Anthology (I have a feeling it might've been George that said it, but it could've just as easily been Paul or Ringo) that they found it easier to cope than Elvis did because there were four of them going through it. Except that since 1970, he's been on his own for it, no matter how close or not he stayed to the others. For thirty years, he's had to deal with it on his own and for all that time everyone's been telling him that he's a genius but he's not a cool one. Since 1980 he's had to deal with the fact that John's death forever removed any possibility of Lennon getting really discredited and him getting some of the cred. Now I love John and I'll love him to the end of all things, but his death screwed up McCartney's life on several levels. He's going to spend the rest of eternity chasing the martyred Mr Lennon. What I wish he'd realise is that he doesn't NEED to! I like to think that most Beatle fans are like me and don't like comparing the four individuals to the detriment of the others. I don't need to make John cool in my eyes by making Paul look like a twat. Of course, Paul's doing a good enough job of that by himself.
And it's "For WELL you know that it's a fool" ;)
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Date: 2004-06-02 15:49 (UTC)But you're absolutely right about Paul. He was screwed over by John's untimely demise psychologically. But as I've said before, I love them equally, as I would my children. It's really hard to chose a favorite among them.
Paul just needs to stop fighting himself, as it's a fight he can never win until he gives up. Fame hasn't killed him, knock on wood, but it certainly hasn't done much for his personal health, either.