HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIR PAUL

It's Paul McCartney's 77th birthday

Many happy returns guvnor, yesterday on the One Show talking about his new film 'Yesterday', Danny Boyle described Paul as the Mozart of modern music . . . . . . . works for me!




From the Writer's Almanac:

It's the birthday of Paul McCartney, born in Liverpool, England, in 1942. His father, Jim, was a cotton salesman who occasionally led "Jim Mac's Jazz Band" on the trumpet and piano. He was 15 years old when he went to a church festival, and he saw an older boy, something of a troublemaker, who was singing on stage with his skiffle band. The boy kept getting the words wrong and making up new lyrics as he went along. This was John Lennon, and Paul got a chance to impress him after the show with his mastery of "Twenty Flight Rock." He later recalled: "I also knocked around on the backstage piano and that would have been 'A Whole Lot of Shakin'' by Jerry Lee. That's when I remember John leaning over, contributing a deft right hand in the upper octaves and surprising me with his beery breath. It's not that I was shocked, it's just that I remember this particular detail." Lennon later invited McCartney to join his band, the Quarrymen, and one of music's great partnerships was born.