Read Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney Online
Authors: Howard Sounes
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‘Startime’
Starvecrow Lane
see also
Peasmarsh
Stash, Prince
Staten Island University Hospital
‘Stella May Day’
Stephanie, Royston Ellis’s girlfriend
Stewart, Eric
Stewart, Gloria
Stewart, Malcolm
Stigwood, Robert
Stipanos, Alda Lupo
Stockhausen
Stonehenge
Stop and Smell the Roses
Stormsville
strawberries oceans ships forest
‘Strawberry Fields Forever’
Strawberry South Studios
Stuart, Hamish
Studio Three, Abbey Road
Studio Two, Abbey Road
Sue-John (Scruff)
Sullivan, Ed
Sun
, the
Sunbury Road (No. 10)
Sunday Night at the London Palladium
Sunday People
, the
Sunday Times
Sunset Boulevard (Bungalow Number Five)
Super Bowl
Super Bowl XXXV, New Orleans
Surrealistic Pillow
(Jefferson Airplane)
Sutcliffe, Millie
Sutcliffe, Pauline
Sutcliffe, Stuart
Suttner, Wolfgang ‘Wolfy’
Swan record label
Swinging Sound ’63
Sydney Morning Herald
Tagore, Rabindranath
tailoring shop, King’s Road
‘Take it Away’
Tangy Farm
Tannert, Christoph
Tanque Verde guest ranch
Tapestry
(Carole King)
Tavener, John
Tavener, Roger
Taylor, Alistair
Taylor, Derek
Taylor, James
Te Kanawa, Dame Kiri
‘Teddy Boy’
Teddy Boys
Teignmouth, Devon
‘Temporary Secretary’
Ten Card Brag, Paul playing
Tennessee
Terrill, Chris
Texas
Thames Reach
Thank U Very Much
‘Thank U Very Much’
Thank Your Lucky Stars
(TV show)
Thanksgiving Day
‘That Was Me’
‘That Would be Something’
‘That’ll Be the Day’
‘That’s All Right (Mama)’
Theatre of the Absurd
Theobald, Peter
‘There’s No Business Like Showbusiness’
‘Things We Said Today’
Thingumybob
(TV series)
‘Thingumybob’
‘Thinking of Linking’
Thomas Peacock School
Thomas, Chris
‘Those Were the Days’
Three Coins club, Manchester
‘Three Cool Cats’
The Three Musketeers
Thriller
(Michael Jackson)
Thrillington
Thunderclap Newman
‘Ticket to Ride’
‘Till There Was You’
Time
magazine
Time Out of Mind
(Bob Dylan)
The Times They Are A-Changin’
(Bob Dylan)
The Times
Tinsel (Shetland pony)
Tittenhurst Park
Toby (Cadwell’s dog)
Tokyo
Tommy
(musical)
‘Tomorrow Never Knows’
‘Tomorrow’
‘Too Many People’
Top Ten club
Top of the Pops
Toronto
Tower Ballroom, the
Town & Country
magazine
Townshend, Pete
Traffic
Transcendental Meditation (TM)
Traveling Wilburys
trick or treat, introduced to St John’s Wood
Trident studio
Trinder, Tommy
Tripping the Light Fantastic
Triumph (City investment firm)
‘Trying to Get to You’
Tucson
Tug of War
Tumbleweed, Billy
Tunick, Jonathan
Turnberry Isle Resort and Club (Miami)
Turner, Shelley
Turner, Tina
‘Tutti-Frutti’
TV Cartoons (TVC)
‘Twenty-Flight Rock’
Twickenham
Twiggy (Lawson)
‘Twist and Shout’
The Two Little Fairies
‘The Two of Us’
U2
Ubu Roi
(Alfred Jarry)
‘The Ugly Duckling’
ukulele
Ullman, Tracey
‘Unchained Melody’
‘Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey’
Undertakers, the
Unfinished Music Number 1: Two Virgins
Unfinished Paintings and Objects
(art show)
United Artists
university concerts, impromptu
Unplugged
Up Against It
(Joe Orton script)
Upton Green (No. 25)
‘Used to Be Bad’
van Dijk, Walter
Vancouver
Vanity Fair
(Thackeray)
Vartan, Sylvie
Vaughan, David
Vaughan, Ivan (‘Ivy’)
Vaughan, Janet
Vee Jay record label
vegetarianism
veggie burgers
veggie sausages
veggie steak
venereal disease, contracted in Hamburg
Ventre, Ann
Venus and Mars
‘Venus and Mars’
Vermouth, Apollo C
VH-1 television company
Vicious, Sid
Vigars, Mark
Village Voice
Vincent, Gene
Visa sponsorship deal
Viva! (vegetarian group)
Vo!ce
Vollmer, Jürgen
Voormann, Klaus
‘W’, songs shaped as
Wagner, Richard
‘Wah Wah’
Waiting for the Beatles
(Carol Bedford)
Waldheim, Kurt
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Walker Art Gallery
‘Walking in the Park with Eloise’
Wall, Max
Waller, Gordon
Walters, Barbara
Walton Hospital
Walton Road
Wanderlust
‘Wanderlust’
Warhol, Andy
Warren-Knott, Donald
Washington Coliseum
Washington DC
Water
(1984)
Waterfall
see also
Peasmarsh
‘Waterfall’
Watermelon Bay
Watts, Charlie
Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders
‘The Wayward Wind’
‘We All Stand Together’
‘We Can Work it Out’
‘We Got Married’
Webb, Peter
Weinstein, Harvey
Weiss, Nat
Welch, Bruce
Weller, Paul
Wembley Arena
Wembley Stadium
Wenner, Jann
West 54th Street
West Malling, Kent
Western Avenue (No. 72)
Westport Beach
The Whale
(John Tavener)
‘What’s That You’re Doing?’
Wheal, Kevin
‘When I’m Sixty-Four’
‘When We Was Fab’
‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’
Whistle Down the Wind
(movie)
White Album
‘The White Coated Man’
White, Andy
White, Michael John
White, Willard
Whitman, Slim
Whittaker, Maria
Whitten, Chris
Who, the
Who’s Next
(the Who)
‘Why Don’t We Do it in the Road?’
Wickens, ‘Wix’, Paul
Widdecombe Fair
Wigmore Hall
Wild Life
‘Wild Life’
Wild Prairie
Wilde, Marty
Wilk, Beverly
Williams, Allan
Williams, Angie
see
McCartney, Angie
Williams, Vaughan
Willis, Bobby
Willis, Alasdhair
Willis, Miller (grandson)
Wilson, Brian
Wilson, Harold
Wilson, Louis
Wilson, Marjorie
Wilson, Tony
Wimpole Street (No. 57)
Wingfield, Pete
Wings
abortive tour of Japan
Band on the Run
forming of
recording of
London Town
Wings Fun Club
Wings Over America tour
Wings Over Europe tour
Wings at the Speed of Sound
Wings Greatest
Wings Over America
Wingspan
Winn, Godfrey
Winn, Paul
Winter, Professor Gundolf
The Winter’s Tale
Winters, Mike and Bernie
Wirral the Squirrel
Wirral, the
‘With a Little Help from My Friends’
‘With a Little Luck’
With the Beatles
Withnail and
I (1986)
Wogan
show, the
Wohlers, Bettina
Wohlers (later Hübers), Erika
‘Woman’
Wonder, Stevie
‘Wonderful Christmastime’
Wonfor, Geoff
Woodbine, Lord
Woodlands Farm
Wooler, Bob
Woolton Village fête
‘Working Class Hero’
Working Classical
‘The World is Waiting for the Sunrise’
‘The World Tonight’
Worthy Farm
Wyatt, Woodrow
Wyman, Bill
Yardbirds, the
Ye Cracke
Yellow Submarine
(film)
‘Yellow Submarine’
‘Yer Blues’
Yesterday and Today
‘Yesterday’
Yogi (sniffer dog)
‘You Are My Sunshine’
‘You Never Give Me Your Money’
‘You Tell Me’
‘You Want Her Too’
‘You Won’t See Me’
‘You’ll be Mine’
‘You’re Sixteen’
‘You’ve Gone’
‘You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away’
‘Young Boy’
Young Rascals, the
Young, Ross
‘Your Feet’s Too Big’
‘Your Loving Flame’
‘Your Mother Should Know’
Youth (Martin Glover)
see also
Fireman albums
Zappa, Frank
Zapple
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One of the largest ships in the world.
Unless indicated, sterling/dollar exchange values are as of the time of writing.
It is sometimes said that Harrison was born on 24 February 1943, but his birth and his death certificate clearly state his birthday as the 25th.
When James approached retirement in 2006, and his pension fund wasn’t as healthy as he’d hoped, he asked Paul to authenticate the Rex as the guitar he’d learned on, and with that endorsement he sold the instrument at auction for an astonishing £333,000 ($509,490).
Julia later had other children by other men.
Ruth Lallemann wasn’t.
The second part of this couplet is credited to John Lennon.
UK chart positions are based on the
Record Retailer
chart, used in turn for the
Guinness Book of British Hit Singles
. ‘Please Please Me’ went to number one in other UK charts in 1963, but the Beatles do not claim it as a number one, as is evident by its omission from the Beatles’
1
album.
The final show was a ticket-only event.
John soon moved out to take a flat with his wife and son in nearby Kensington.
In the early years of his career the guitarist went by the name Richard, later reverting to his given name of Richards, which I have used throughout.
Jailed in 2001 for perjury.
In the sense that homosexuality itself was still illegal in the UK.
Nonetheless,
Live at the Hollywood Bowl
was finally issued in 1977.
Because the British albums were released - with the notable exception of
Let it Be
- as the Beatles intended, this book deals with the band’s LPs under the British titles.
Harold Wilson, a Labour MP representing a Liverpool constituency, had become Prime Minister in October 1964, promising to reforge Britain in ‘the white heat [of] the scientific revolution’.
The current Madison Square Garden, built in 1968, holds 20,000.
Sweating ‘cobs’ (cobwebs) being a phrase that seems to derive from the patterns of sweat that streak the faces of pit workers, and one Paul would use in his excellent 2007 song ‘That Was Me’.
At the time refugees were facing starvation in the former British colony of Nigeria, which was engaged in a civil war with breakaway Biafra. Lennon evidently felt Britain should do more to help. ‘Cold Turkey’ was his current single.
Approached in connection with this book, Jane, now in her 60s, replied politely but firmly that she wouldn’t diverge from her ‘blanket rule’ not to discuss Paul.
Then worth approximately £1,893 (or $2,896).
Overthrown in 1986, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos fled to the USA where they were indicted for racketeering. Mrs Marcos was later acquitted and allowed to return to the Philippines where she was found guilty of corruption. Her husband died in 1989.
Correctly: ‘This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle …’
Richard II
, Act II, Scene I.
Possibly an administrative cock-up. When he moved apartment some years later, Bernstein says he discovered a box of sold tickets which his assistant had failed to mail out.
‘Penny Lane’ did make number one in the USA.
Jones was sentenced to nine months in jail, soon released on bail in light of his fragile mental state, while Prince Stash was discharged.
Starr had bought a house near John Lennon on the St George’s Hill Estate.
The Beatles did play to a pre-recorded rhythm track, to cut down on the chance of a live mistake.
And indeed that’s all she got - her scene was cut.
Paul was not the walrus, contrary to what Lennon sings in ‘Glass Onion’.
Though Paul did exactly this later.
Martin once told NEMS employee Geoffrey Ellis: ‘Sometimes when a reporter asks me for a quote on what the Beatles are really like, I’m tempted to answer: “they’re the same stupid, arrogant bastards they always were”.’
Not, alas, a witty policeman’s reference to the Maharishi, but to Hanna-Barbera’s cartoon bear. A companion dog was named Boo Boo.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) lists the
White Album
officially as the band’s best-selling US album with 19 million sales, but the RIAA counts each disc as a sale, meaning this double album has actually sold 9.5 million units in the USA.
Abbey Road
and
Sgt. Pepper
have both sold more.
There was still a normal Christmas record for Beatles fans.
Paraphrasing Luke 9:58.
In the British and US markets, 1962-70.
In 2003 Spector was charged with murdering his girlfriend, Lana Clarkson. He was convicted in 2009.
Queen’s Counsel, a senior barrister.
Translates as ‘What’s happening in the little town?’ - the ‘wee toon’ being Campbeltown.
Eight tracks were listed on the original LP, plus two instrumental interludes listed as additional tracks when the album was re-released on CD.
Tony Clark, one of the engineers.
‘Happy Xmas (War is Over)’ never charted in the US. It reached number 4 in the UK in 1972.
At least it didn’t happen to Seiwell. Laine was put on such a deal later, as we shall see.
When McCartney told his father he’d recorded a song he wrote, Dad replied that he’d never written any music. ‘When I sang “Walking in the Park with Eloise” to him,’ said Paul, ‘he said, “Oh, that one. Oh I made it up, but I didn’t write it.”’
Never used.
In April 1976, Paul changed his company’s name to MPL Communications.
Denny and Jo Jo married in November 1978.
Ringo divorced Maureen Starkey in 1975, and took up with the American actress Barbara Bach, who later became his second wife.
If Paul were to be knighted, which he eventually was, Linda would properly be addressed as Lady McCartney.
While making music on such a day might seem strange, it is worth remembering that George Harrison did exactly the same, working on a new album in his home studio at Friar Park.
Closed in 1984, to make way for the Broadgate office development.
Jo Jo Laine claimed Linda used cocaine on tour with Wings in the 1970s, and later in his career Paul admitted to having experimented with cocaine and heroin before his marriage.
As Paul travelled between his office and Elstree, it is interesting to think he may well have passed his future wife, Heather Mills, then a 16-year-old waitress in a Soho wine bar.
Webb believes Paul may have talked to Lester about the film, but the director declined to get involved.
Eric Clapton was eventually inducted three times: as a member of the Yardbirds, Cream and as a solo artist.
Martin turned 68 in 1994.
Paul’s knighthood was one of the first given to a pop star, predated only by Sir Cliff Richard (1995). These rock ’n’ roll KBEs proved so popular with the public that HM’s Government started handing them out almost like toffees. Elton John was knighted in 1998, then came Sir Mick Jagger (2003), even Sir Tom Jones (2005), but never Sir George Harrison or Sir Ringo Starr, which further set Paul apart from the boys.
The film-maker was knighted in 1995, elevated to the peerage as Lord Puttnam in 1997.
The friend disputed Heather’s published account of these events in
Out on a Limb
, and took legal action against Heather for identifying her in the book and falsifying events. She won compensation.
Surely fun fur. Paul and Heather were both fiercely anti-fur.
Knighted in 2000.
The Queen’s Coronation was held in 1953, but she actually became Queen the previous year when her father George VI died, making 2002 the Golden Jubilee.
There are three main residences on the Sussex estate, plus other houses that stand empty or are used by staff, in addition to nearby properties at Hog Hill, Rye and Hove; with other homes in London, Merseyside, Scotland, New York City, Long Island, Arizona and Los Angeles.
Ley lines, tarot, astrology and transcendental meditation have all held his interest.
As the official inquiry into her death found, Princess Diana was killed in a car accident at the hands of a speeding chauffeur who had exceeded the legal drink-drive limit.