Paul McCartney’s thoughts from 1983 on Phillip Norman’s ‘Shout!’, marketed as the supposed ‘True Story of The Beatles’:
“My problem is to me, I come over as this very together guy, always got his finger on top of everything: the man with no problems. School – a doddle, got all the exams. This is the sort of image of me. Actually, I had murder getting through exams, like I was saying about being on tour during my GCEs. I was like the kid who was getting the cane. Just like John was, but he [Phillip Norman] makes me the very shrewd, always-going-to-succeed guy, and John is the kind of cute, working-class hero. In actual fact though, John was just as shrewd and ambitious as I was. What does me in is he adds to this image I’ve got; I resent that, because I know I’m not that, and I know I’ve never been that.
Like in the book, I almost kill Stu Sutcliffe. The way it comes over is that I used to really put Stu down, whereas in actual fact, I had a little bit of a thing against Stu, but that was for one reason – he couldn’t play bass. I had a purely musical thing about it ‘What are we going to do about a bass player who can’t play bass?’ And the other great legend is Pete Best – ‘Why did they get rid of this poor lad?’ Because George Martin told us – ‘Your drummer can’t drum. Get rid.’ What are we gonna do, try and pretend he’s wonderful drummer? We knew he wasn’t as good as what we wanted in the group, so we got another drummer that we wanted. He was called Ringo. It had got to the stage that Pete was holding us back.
You can’t help it, if there’s somebody in the group who doesn’t click. Like Stu. Stu was a great guy, a lovely guy, and I didn’t understand him, it’s true. There’s a lot of people in my life I haven’t understood; I’m not the world’s most psychic person. I make a lot of mistakes, and I misread people, I’ve read a lot of stuff about Stu since that I didn’t know about; I was taking him all wrongly. But it certainly wasn’t just me who was getting at him, everyone had their little goes. But I suddenly come out as the ‘go-getter’ and the ambitious one in the group. And John’s portrayed as the kind of nice guy who always falls into situations. And he has George standing there with his plectrum always waiting for a solo. Now that does George an injustice there’s a lot more to George – than just this idiot waiting for a solo.”
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#MovieMonday “Don’t go away…” Buster Keaton appears with the lovely Anita Page once more in “Sidewalks of New York,” where he plays a wealthy philanthropist who attempts to tame the street youth & falls for the big sister of one of the rowdy boys.
spider-man trilogy (2002-2007) dir. sam raimi / mouthful of forevers, clementine von radics / get him back, fiona apple / cut, catherine lacey / spider-man novelization, peter david / kirsten dunst and james franco on the set of spider-man (2002) / i remain in darkness, annie ernaux (edited) / hypocrates, marina and the diamonds / it lingers for your whole life, katie maria
London, UK - Freddie Mercury with Steve Norman from Spandau Ballet (left) and singer & MTV host Paul King at Fashion Aid benefit concert for Ethiopian famine relief, at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 5th November 1985
'Fashion Aid' Charity Fund Raising Event at the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK, November 1985 - Freddie Mercury with Arlene Phillips, coreographer and Theatre Director who worked with Freddie during the shooting of the 'I Was Born To Love You' promotional video, 1985
🔸"Freddie was absolutely amazing.
He was wild, exciting and thrilling to work with, as well as brave and fearless."
- Arlene Phillips
👉 Freddie also introduced Arlene to her partner, August Ion, a carpenter on the same video shoot
Dominic Guard as Huw Morgan, Sue Jones-Davies as Angharad Morgan, Mike Gwilym as Owen Morgan, Siân Phillips as Beth Morgan, Stanley Baker as Gwilym Morgan, Keith Drinkel as lanto Morgan, Nerys Hughes as Bronwen Morgan and Norman comer as Ifor Morgan in "How Green Was My Valley"
we obviously won’t, nor do i want it because it’d be completely redundant but i fully stand by the fact that freddie stroma would play a cracking live-action version of insomniac!peter parker.