Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.

The minute I Paul got engaged to Heather Mills I thought Oh, oh, wrong choice, bub. I was never a fan of Lovely Linda (especially when it comes to her "singing" though I've grown to respect her abilities vis a vis vegetarianism--very good stuff produced by her company in England and great cookbooks) but she sure seemed to be Paul's soulmate and you've got to admire a rock'n'roll marriage that lasted 30 years.

Now this second marriage is totally on the rocks and who's surprised? 'Not that I give it a whole lot of thought, but when I see the photos of Haggard Heather and hear about the stuff she's doing to get attention I actually start to feel sorry for her.

She's outnumbered and way over her head, and I suspect that we're watching a train wreck right before our eyes, which isn't going to be a pretty sight.

John Lennon was always my favourite Beatle (despite "Imagine": puleeze. At least he wrote it after the Beatles.), and I never bought the "Paul McCartney is the nice Beatle" line.

I don't think that Paul McCartney is very nice, and I think we're about to see him getting a lot less nice as this human collision continues.

Oh yeah, and what's love got to do with it?

I always suspected that the Paul McCartney/Heather Mills show was about power and sex, which is probably why his kids were so enraged that Paul married her.

Oh yeah, and what's love got to do with it?

I always suspected that the Paul McCartney/Heather Mills show was about money, power and sex, which is probably why his kids were so enraged that Paul married her.

Heather really doesn't have a leg to stand on.

For those of you now suffering traumatic esophagitis from having to read through those lyrics to get to Kate's inimitable punch line, here's a fire extinguisher: Mr. Tom Waits, performing Step Right Up - tinyurl.com/hhedm (YouTube, 1980). The lyrics are at: tinyurl.com/hrkkf

I think we've had enough "news" about nutty celebrities... really, there's nothing special about them, though they often seem to have worse mental disorders than the average nobody.

Hope the MSM can take a hint. Celebrities aren't important. Important stuff is important, and if the MSM won't report that, then the bloggers will do it. Or new news organizations will sprout up online, perhaps even on the tube, to provide imporatant info.

Thanks Vitruvius, I don't even need to click on the youtube thing, just being reminded of it made me feel better.
Plus, I'm hummin' it in my head...

It's whores like Heather that make people bring out the lawyers BEFORE getting married. I think that it should be blatanly obvious to all that she was in this from the start to get her grubs on Paul's moolah.

What she needs is a good shunning.

Oh, and incidentally...I think the Beatles suck.
And additionally..I can't believe I sunk to replying to a post on celebrities.

To be fair, the Beatles did produce one good song, "Taxman", on the "Revolver" album. There's an rather interesting claymation video (via YouTube) with the original audio at tinyurl.com/puf49 - the lyrics are at tinyurl.com/qh5r8

What a bitch.

Hey, c'mon guys. What do you mean you never liked the Beatles, and they've only got one good song?

Could it be that you're too young to have been around when they "burst" on the scene? Latterly, I love a lot of '50s and '60s ('40s and '30s) stuff BE, but when they came out with "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "Please Please Me," and "Twist and Shout" they were amazing, something else, LIVELY, different than all the other stuff CHUM played. They were fun too. I was hooked, and saw them live (and heard them, too, as I had a seat in the second row on the floor) when they played Maple Leaf Gardens in 1964).

It'd be pretty hard to deny that they changed r'n'r forever.

As for Kathy Shaidle's observation (LOL), at the very least, Heather's got only one leg to stand on.

In their short married life together, Paul was more than generous to Heather. Why, last Christmas, he bought her a brand new artificial leg costing £50,000. And that wasn’t even her main present – it was just a stocking filler.

(Shamefully stolen from Mary Jackson
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_category.cfm?cat_id=9)

Give Paul some credit.
Even as an old man - he's a Man.
When his woman turned she-bitch he led her out his door and locked it behind her.

Lennon?

Handed his balls over to Yoko and she still plays with them.

He should have taken her name, John Ono, after he de-nutted himself.
If he had, I'd today have some respect for the Lennon name.

I mourned the loss of John Lennon long before he encountered Mark David Chapman outside the Dakota.
John Lennon died before he was shot.

Sure, Paul suffers the indignity of having been kicked in the nuts by a one-legged woman.
But the swelling will abate.
And Paul damned sure will not be writing
Imagine there's no nut-butter
No genitalia too

Of course Taxman was a George tune...

Paul was never the nice Beatle he was the "Cute Beatle".
Damn! Paul launched his first lawsuit to break up the Beatles in 1966.
Folks it was never John who never wanted to the Beatles to reunite it was George.
Paul treated George like shit.
When George was on his deathbed Paul sought fotgiveness from George.
Paul got what he deserved.
One more thing it was John who sought out Yoko not vice versa.
Ringo is playing drums for "The Killer Jerry Lee Lewis" om tour.
Like the Beatles or not they changed the world.
Oh yes I saw the Stones and they SUCK!!!!!!!!

Sorry my typing is horrid.

When I was working in the Baby Shop in Harrods, in the early '70s, I served Mick Jagger and Bianca who were imminently expecting Jade.

Though I never really liked the Stones (my daughters are slowly changing my mind), MJ was very polite (I'm not sure why I thought he wouldn't be). He paid with his Harrods card which said:

Michael P. Jagger
Cheyne Walk

(I think the P. stands for Philip.)

I just wish I'd liked the Rolling Stones. It would have been a much more thrilling encounter if I had...

There all Liberal voting mush-heads anyway.

I used to cover my ears and hum loudly to blot out the early beatles songs on the radio they were so squishy.

I was elated when they announced no more tours.

I eventually bought one beatle album. after they split. the abbey road one where macfartney is in bare feet. he shoulda got tetanus.

the last straw was the quip he made getting in a taxi when lennon was gunned down, to the effect 'that's a pity eh' like some kind of godam tea commercial. the contempt oozed off the tv screen.

incidentally they shot the wrong beatle.

this divorce looks REAL good on him. shes gonna make a couple 100,000,000 bucks. not bad for the 'hooker lottery'.

I walked out of the only Stones concert I went to.

in the old cne stadium which is now gone; the voodoo lounge tour.

when they started with the upside down crosses thing (a voodoo symbol) I figured 'nuff of this'.

I gave the half used ticket to a panhandler and told him to sell it.

since that time, CDs have become ubiquitous and a collosal library of music is now available.

most of mine are classical, I tell people I waited until the clarity of digital was available in order to listen to the best music undistracted with the crackle and hiss of vinyl. that never made much difference with 'mop top pop' stuff.

did you know there are great similarities between the careers of Jimi Hendrix and Amadeus Mozart?

I so don't care.

Gee new kid... err I mean 'been around the block, are we the only folks here that remember the Beatles the first time around? I never did go for that "Paul is dead" stuff but enjoyed their albums rather than the top 40 fluff. Always seemed to end up in somebody's basement rec room with the lights turned down hanging out with an album or two in the background. Actually found a copy of the Stone's Their Satanic Majesties Request on the web. Brought back a flood of memories.

Back to Paul, I never was a fan other than the music. I guess I'm not an Entertainment Tonight fan although he was the cause of my first old guy reality check. Sitting in a city bus in Winterpeg and heard two teens behind me talking music. One kid says: "Say did you know Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?" Ouch!

But I DID love the Beatles in the 60s! (Thanks for the memories, batb and tc.)

I have found that envy and hatred usually work better than "love, sweet love" as motivation, and it sounds as though the Heatha is finding that out too.

John wrote "All you need is love" -- he couldn't live it out either. Gotta seek a higher power.

I am still working my way through every known piece of music that JS Bach every wrote, 120-odd CDs. Unsurprisingly, I don't have a single Beetles CD (or tape, or LP or 45).

Dire Straits, Supertramp, or Pink Floyd, on the other hand...

What Kate? No post on Israel's failure to honour the cease fire, I'm disappointed. Not even a feeble attempt at an excuse for their actions? I imagine one will be forthcoming as soon as you can spin one.

imagine a brotherhood of man

you may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one

Oy vey ist mir - another moonbat!

The Truth Will Come (sic) - Most of us have really good troll filters, so do us a favour, lay out your argument and present your evidence, not neglecting evidence to the contrary.

"A lie can go halfway around the world before the truth even gets its boots on."

Thanks, Henry.

Heather Mills is a voracious Vegan. Did you know that "vegan" is an old North American (Indian) Aboriginal Word? It mean't "Shitty Hunter"

For the folks that weren't there (the 60's), the importance of the Beatles is they reintroduced rock and roll to north America, which had largely forgotten the genre and was awash in a musical sea of "Bobbies", (Bobby Vee, Vinton, Rydell, Curtola), and girlie groups.

The old rockers were either dead or their careers were, and the Beach Boys were the biggest act of the early 60's. Presley had become a Vegas act, or an embarassment in bad movies. But R'n R was essentially forgotten by the mainstream radio stations.

The Beatles hit America in 1963, like a ton of very welcome bricks, and they reintroduced young people, me included, to the joys of rock and roll.

All they ever were, was Entertainers, and good ones, and they, and we, never gave a thought to politics or "causes", we just enjoyed life and the music, that's all. We were kids.

To analogise, the Beatles were to modern teenagers' music, for that was their audience, what Howard Hughes was to aviation. They didn't invent it, they just took
it in a new and exciting direction.( No, I've never seen "The Aviator").

Entertainers always look silly and uninformed when they step into the political arena, or promote the "cause du jour". There are few exceptions. Bono, anyone?

The Beatles? Forget the latter day crap, and remember them as one of the greatest musical groups of their generation. Nothing else is relevant.

This man sold over 30 million albums. He never put out a single. Told the stones to shove it, my words, not his, and believed that if you gave the audience a good show the first night, they would be back the second. He died in 1995.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmESka2OAvI&mode=related&search=rory%20gallagher

The Beatles were pretty good writers, but alas, mediocre performers at their best.

the first album I bought after the beatle goofiness FINALLY died down ('white' album included) was the first led zeppelin album. the one with the hindenberg in flames.

oy oy oy oy oy. now THAT was worth waiting for.

the frenetic guitar playing of Jimmy Page and the searing vocals by Robert Plant.

still gets air play.

not so the early beatles because IT was irritating CRAP that grated on my ears because of the simplisticness and bubble gum composition.

led zeppelin introduced the concept of a rock symphony.

I've always wondered what kind of people would post the bilge found on this site -- and wondered what it said about this country.

Now it's all clear what sort of folks you find here: the very rare kind who hate the Beatles.

I can now rest easier knowing that the posters here are defintely, clearly, a collection of individuals sharing severe genetic abnormalities -- and not indicative of some popular movement leading my country to hell in a handbasket.

So if I don't like the beatles that means I have a genetic abnormality? And what makes it your country? It's as much mine as yours and because I don't share your viewpoint or taste in music that makes me a freak? Pound sand.

Obladi Oblada.

I love the Beatles but I sympathize with "one of the other greg's" who has obviously had enough of people telling me what I should and shouldn't like or value to be "genetically normal" or "Canadian". Kate's quote on upper left of the front page sums it up nicely.

Isn't it strange, that his former lady spent so much time defending the rights of animals, and is so adamant about squishing a bug.

I guess the warm a cuddly creatures get a free pass.....but if you have many legs and a keratin carapace you're fair game. Oh yeah....and it never hurts if your victim is rich. (and deluded)

ummm....I'm sure Heather is "Doing it out of principle" and money has nothing to do with it. Sort of like that dopey GUESS chick who married that old coot who later died and left her a few hundred million. But then again....anyone who's seen the pictures of the old fella can probably see that Ms. "Gold-Digger" earned every damned penny of it if she put out for him.

Isn't it strange, that his former lady spent so much time defending the rights of animals, and is so adamant about squishing a bug.

I guess the warm a cuddly creatures get a free pass.....but if you have many legs and a keratin carapace you're fair game. Oh yeah....and it never hurts if your victim is rich. (and deluded)

ummm....I'm sure Heather is "Doing it out of principle" and money has nothing to do with it. Sort of like that dopey GUESS chick who married that old coot who later died and left her a few hundred million. But then again....anyone who's seen the pictures of the old fella can probably see that Ms. "Gold-Digger" earned every damned penny of it is she put out for him.

Anyone remember The Rutles?

"Love Life
Love Life
Love Life
Love Life
Make up your mind
In your own time
To live is to live
To love is sublime
Where there's a will there's a way
Love is the meaning of life
Life is the meaning of love

(refrain)

People give thanks
People rejoice
Given a chance
Given a choice
Where there's a will there's a way
Love is the meaning of life
Life is the meaning of love

(refrain)

Where there's a will there's a way
Love is the meaning of life
Life is the meaning of love

Love life
Love life
Love life
Love life
(Everybody)
Love life
(All together now)
Love life

Love is the meaning of life
Life is the meaning of love
(repeats)
(Hold my hand, yeah yeah)"

frank has found genetic abnormalities amongst us beatle squishers.

on t'other hand I continue to be an avid listener of parts of Mr Hendrix's catalog. 'machine gun' is the most blistering anti-war tune ever composed for popular audience and having spent time in the airborne he KNEW what he was talking about.

'all we are saying is give pieces a chance all we are saying is ..... INCOMING !!!!!'

Prefer the Rollings Stones, myself. And I wonder if we are all being a bit too hard on Mrs. McCartney.

She is the mother of his youngest child, and should not be treated like common trash or a common criminal. No one held a gun to his head to force him to marry her. By no means should she get half of his fortune, but he should be generous. I guess we'll see what she settles for; and that is where her true character may come out...

Undoubtedly this matters to the parties concerned but I can't see that it has any significance beyond that. Why discuss it here?

Thank-you m4-10. You will also note that nowhere did I say that I hated the beatles. I was a young boy when they first hit the North American shores and I enjoyed them as much as most of my generation. I just don't believe that a persons musical taste is any indication of their worth as a citizen. I will refrain from commenting on the divorce as it is none of my business. I'm sure the lawyers will make out quite well.

brian jones was the founder of the rolling stones, not mr jagger as is commonly thought.

his fondness for drugs including amphetamines cost him his job after years of mick gradually and then suddenly displacing him as leader of the group.

jones was an exceptionally gifted musician, give him a new instrument and he could play it by the end of the day.

Hey one of the other greg's,

Of COURSE you're right that someone's taste in music bears little or no relationship to their worth as a citizen.

My poste was pretty much intended as tongue-in-cheek -- but I mean... COME ON! I CAN'T BELIEVE how many people here hate the Beatles. It amazes me.

I always refrain from posting when I see some far-right rant I disagree with, or when people blast Quebecers, francophones, Ontarians, gays, welfare recipients, East Coasters, civil servants, the media, the judiciary, unions, or pretty much anyone else who isn't a charter member of Civitas. I simply read, shrug my shoulders, and hope their opinion never becomes the defining force behind public policy in this country.

But when you make fun of the Beatles -- well, DAMMIT, that's going just a little too friggin' far!

I don't like the tone of these comments, or of Kate's post. Heather Mills is a lovely, strong, independent woman with a strong sense of self-worth, a woman who sets a positive example to women all around the world whose labour continues to be undervalued compared to men. You guys just don't get it. She provided him with comfort for over a year; why should she not be compensated? Why? There's not a single good reason.

I shouldn't have to tell you this, but I do: No one commenting here knows what she has gone through to make the marriage work, or the sacrifices she's made to make his life better. All of you who apparently feel qualified to sit in judgement would do well to remember that Paul McCartney hasn't been doing it all alone this last year or two.

The much larger point, which you all (typically) miss, is this: if Sir Paul gets away without paying her what she deserves, what sort of message does that send to men who think they can have a woman's support and kindness and then get away scot-free? And if she ends up getting his offered $50 million -- one-thirtieth, people, of his estimated worth -- what sort of message does that send to women who are continuing to fight to be equals to men in business and in life? Are men worth thirty times more than women? Why would anyone support that notion? Is that justice, by any definition of the word?

Even in 2006 women continue to be undervalued by people whose attitudes are still in the dark ages. Those of you who feel a need to attack a strong-minded independent woman should take a serious look in the mirror at yourselves. Right? Okay? See what I mean?