Maccas next album should be titled Summers Eve.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/10372859/Paul-McCartney...

Stones don't quit, a la Beatles ! 

The Stones will stop their Vegas act, and their ridiculous high ticket prices, once Keith goes to heaven, or Charlie. Sadly, but it's true.

From then on, we will all be greeted with SuperHeavy Vol. 3 (Dave Stewart's Picks), or with Ronnie Wood doing a plugged tour with Rod Stewart, or something like that.

And Bill Wyman will continue to live a happy life after he turns one hundred years old. Good for him. Behind Charlie he's my favorite Stone.

Somewhere in Boca our old friend JB just celebrated his Birthday.
I miss him!!!!!

Joey, why is jb in the Holiday mood?

Adam Clayton was on Ireland's 98FM about an hour ago, primarily to talk about World Mental Health Day and his continuing work on the Walk In My Shoes mental health campaign, but the conversation with hosts Dermot and Dave eventually turned to U2's music and album plans.

And unlike Bono's recent comments on U.S. TV, Adam shared some actual information:

"We are still at it. We hope to have it finished very, very soon. And it will be out, oh ... sometime early next year. But it's a very exciting bunch of songs right at the moment. But it's just about to be finished, so it's hard to know which way they'll go.

"I think it's a bit of a return to U2 of old, but with the maturity, if you like, of the U2 of the last 10 years. It's a combination of those two things and it's a really interesting hybrid."

Later, after some talk about Rattle And Hum's 25th anniversary, he adds more:

"We're in the studio. We're trying to get these 12 songs absolutely right and get them finished by the end of November, and then we can kind of enjoy Christmas."

Joey ?

' joey  ................. does stonesian brother jb read Rolling Stone magazine ?  '





Why , YES    ....... Some Guy  :


" October 24, 2013 -- Rolling Stone

Paul McCartney Can't Slow Down: Inside Rolling Stone's New Cover Story
Beatle opens up about writing with John (still!), reconciling with Yoko and his latest LP in candid new interview

Paul McCartney has never dwelled in yesterday, even if he remembers it quite well. At 71, he's just released his 24th post-Beatles album, New, and is generating music at a pace that puts artists a quarter of his age to shame. And in a remarkably candid cover story by Rolling Stone contributing editor Jonah Weiner (on newsstands Friday) McCartney discusses the drive keeps him creating fresh music - as well as the memories of his Beatles bandmates that continue to shape his life today.

Perhaps most shockingly, McCartney reveals that although he's always teaming up with fresh talent - New features production by Adele collaborator Paul Epworth, Amy Winehouse producer Mark Ronson, Giles Martin (son of legendary Beatles producer George) and frequent Kings of Leon partner Ethan Johns - he also consulted with another source, someone who knows his music intimately: John Lennon.

"If I'm at a point where I go, 'I'm not sure about this,' I'll throw it across the room to John," McCartney tells RS. "He'll say, 'You can't go there, man.' And I'll say, 'You're quite right. How about this?' 'Yeah, that's better.' We'll have a conversation. I don't want to lose that."

McCartney also reveals that his long-bitter relationship with Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has turned a corner. Describing Ono as a "badass," he says he's moved on. "I thought, 'If John loved her, there's got to be something. He's not stupid,'" McCartney says. "It's like, what are you going to do? Are you going to hold a grudge you never really had?" In fact, another voice from the past - that of George Harrison - had encouraged him to forgive and forget. "George would say to me, 'You don't want stuff like that hanging around in your life.'"

But despite his spirit of reconciliation, McCartney maintains there's one person he will never forgive: John Lennon's murderer, MDC . "I think I could pretty much forgive anyone else," he explains. "But I don't see why I'd want to forgive him. This is a guy who did something so crazy and terminal. Why should I bless him with forgiveness?"

Though he's willing to reflect on the past, McCartney remains firmly focused on the future. Part of his motivation to continue recording and playing marathon live shows comes from a fear of becoming complacent. "I've always got the critic in my mind," he tells Rolling Stone. "He keeps me on my toes - 'Don't get too blasé about it.' I don't want to become too smug, to think I'm great."

Look for the issue on stands and in the iTunes App Store this Friday, October 25th. "

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" October 27, 2013 -- Parade Magazine

Yoko Ono 'Very Thankful' Paul McCartney Doesn't Blame Her for Beatles' Split

Forty-three years after The Beatles officially disbanded, Yoko Ono says she is "very, very thankful" Paul McCartney does not blame her for the band's breakup.

Many Beatles fans have accused Ono, who married John Lennon in 1969, of driving a wedge between Lennon and his bandmates and ultimately causing the band to fall apart the following year.

Ono, 80, and McCartney, 71, have feuded publicly in the decades following the band's split, disputing songwriting credits in the Beatles' catalogue and exchanging personal barbs. Ono once called McCartney a "Salieri to Lennon's Mozart," and McCartney once described Ono as "not the brightest of buttons."

Finally, last year, McCartney seemed ready to bury the hatchet.

"[Ono] certainly didn't break the group up, the group was breaking up," he told legendary journalist David Frost. He even said that without Ono, John Lennon may never have written some of his most iconic songs, such as "Imagine."

"I don't think he wouldn't have done that without Yoko, so I don't think you can blame her for anything," he said. "When Yoko came along, part of her attraction was her avant garde side, her view of things, so she showed him another way to be, which was very attractive to him. So it was time for John to leave; he was definitely going to leave [one way or another]."

Now, in a recent interview with the U.K.'s Times, Ono revealed her reaction to McCartney's apparent peace offering.

"I mean, I was shocked," she said. "I thought, 'Now are you saying it? Now, after 40 years?' But it was very good. In the atmosphere that the world created for us, it was not easy for him to say something like that."

She also took a philosophical view of the hostility she has faced from many fans over the years over her association with John Lennon and the Beatles.

"I'm starting to understand something interesting," she told the Times. "If all those people hadn't bashed me, what would I be doing now? What I am now was made by all those terrible incidents. I thought it was terrible all those years, but when I think about it now, I realized it was a blessing."

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U2's new song, "Ordinary Love," will be available as a 10-inch vinyl release on November 29th. That's according to the Record Store Day website, which lists it among a long list of "special releases" that'll be available on Black Friday, usually the busiest shopping day of the year. On their Facebook page, the folks at RSD also say it'll be available at "indie record shops around the world."

The RSD website link above says that there's a song called "Breath" on side B of the vinyl. That could be a misprint and should say "Breathe," or it could be the correct name for the alternate version of "Breathe" that U2 originally wrote with Nelson Mandela in mind and was included in a documentary about South Africa earlier this year. Or it could be something else altogether.

In any case, mark your calendars for November 29 and find your nearest indie record store if this is something you want for your U2 collection.

As for the song itself, "Ordinary Love" is part of the soundtrack for the upcoming film Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom. It's also rumored to premiere tomorrow (October 30) on YouTube and U2.com, but there's still no confirmation of that.

http://youtu.be/6y02MY6hseU

" November 5, 2013 -- Newsday

Jimi Hendrix's 'American Masters' documentary: Too polite

THE DOCUMENTARY "Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin' " on "American Masters"
WHEN | WHERE Tuesday night (tonight) at 9 on WNET/13 (New York)

WHAT IT'S ABOUT Jimi Hendrix was born Nov. 27, 1942, died Sept. 18, 1970, and over those 27 years somehow managed to become the most celebrated electric blues and rock guitarist in the world, remaining so to this day. With a little help from his friends, including Paul McCartney, Chas Chandler (ex-bassist for The Animals who launched him in the United Kingdom and died in 1996), Billy Cox, bassist and ex-Army buddy Mitch Mitchell, his drummer on the Jimi Hendrix Experience and many others -- this documentary lays out how. The best quote comes from McCartney, who speaks of getting "very emotional" just recalling a Hendrix performance, and thinking, "I was there!"

My say Long, long overdue, Hendrix finally gets his gorgeous "American Masters" portrait, but watching this (and learning of his aversion to praise) you may also wonder whether he'd cringe through every frame. The unspoken rule of "Masters" is to pile on the love -- so much so that the rough edges of any subject are smoothed away into oblivion. Even the circumstances of Hendrix's death here are sanitized. (He took a couple of sleeping pills and didn't know how strong they were. Uh huh.) Friends and colleagues speak of an essentially sweet guy who (in the argot of the day) dug the ladies, and just wanted to play his guitar all day. No doubt this is all true, but you suspect that's not the whole story either -- or even part of it. People are too complex, and logic tells you that Hendrix -- as giant a figure in the history of rock as ever there was -- must have been doubly so. Mostly you want a rollicking, wild ride of a portrait that matched the man, the music and, yes, the anti-war movement for which he essentially wrote the soundtrack. Think something messy and slightly anarchic, like the Maysles brothers' "Gimme Shelter," D.A. Pennebaker's "Don't Look Back," Martin Scorsese's "No Direction Home" or just about anything out there on the Sex Pistols and The Ramones. Great rock docs reflect the greatness and power of the subject. But even the spectacular assemblage of friends and footage here can't quite push this film into that special place.

BOTTOM LINE Incredible footage, Paul McCartney and crisply told. But way too polite.

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Paul McCartney was in a modest West End club in 1967 when Jimi Hendrix played a fiery rendition of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," three days after the Beatles themselves unveiled the tune.

"I get very emotional just remembering it," says a flattered McCartney in "Jimi Hendrix -- Hear My Train A Comin'."

Presented as part of the Hendrix Estate's year-long commemoration of what would have been the guitarist's 70th birthday, "Train" debuts this week as both an installment of PBS's "American Masters" series and in expanded DVD/Blu-Ray versions.

Generous with performance clips -- including previously unreleased footage from the 1968 Miami Pop Festival, two years before his death -- "Train" is a joy, musically.

Directed by Bob Smeaton ("Festival Express") with the support of the estate -- a mixed blessing for rock historians, if not viewers -- the film is a tidy summing-up, with clips of classic performances from Monterrey to Woodstock and the Isle of Wight.


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November 5, 2013 -- Wakefield Express (UK)

Chris Evans and Sir Paul McCartney call for 'Help!' in their search for Wakefield Beatles' fans

Five girls who wrote to the Fab Four 50 years ago are being tracked down by Sir Paul McCartney.

Back in 1963 on a BBC radio show 'Pop Goes the Beatles', the Mop Tops read out fans' letters over the airwaves.

One of the messages came from Beatles' fans Jill, Janet, Mary, Brenda and Lynn - all from Wakefield.

And now all five are wanted to star in a Beatles reunion live on television this Friday.

BBC Radio 2 and The One Show presenter, Chris Evans teamed up with Sir Paul, live on air Monday (Nov 4) morning to launch The Beatles at the Beeb search.

Sir Paul requested a little help from the public on the show this morning. He said: "If you recognise any of the names mentioned, we need, need, need to hear from you."

The fans names were initially read out on June 25, 1963 as part of the Beatles' radio show, which was broadcast every Sunday lunchtime.

They are now invited to 'Come Together' to a Beatles reunion, live on BBC 1's The One Show, this Friday (19:00 GMT)

The search is part of the run-up to Monday's release of the brand new album 'On Air: Live at the BBC, Vol. 2', featuring live performances delivered by the Fab Four on BBC radio in the 1960s.

If you are one of the five women who wrote to The Beatles, or know who they are email [email protected] with Beatles in the title of the email.

To listen to #beatlesatthebeeb launch, visit www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01kv3xd


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