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Currently listening to Berio's Sequenza V live from the Royal Albert Hall, channeling mid-60s arty Paul with weird attitude and false moustache.

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The Red Shoes, 1948

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The BBC didn't put Paul's set in it's 40th anniversary Live Aid highlights showcasing original sets... but it's here in Part 2 of the full Concert footage, available for eleven months! 🥳

(First Paul sighting approx. 2:24:50)

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I'm seeing some of the prices - official, not touts - being charged to see Paul in the U.S. later this year and it's just greed. 😮

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Brian Clarke, 1953-2025

Brian Clarke: Paintings was the exhibition that marked the reopening of Robert Fraser Gallery in 1983. Interest was so great that Cork Street had to be closed on the invitation-only opening night, with a crowd of 2,000 guests, which included film stars, fashion designers and pop musicians, spilling out into the street.

The exhibition presented Clarke’s large neo-Constructivist paintings.

Fraser and Clarke were close friends until Fraser's passing.

From the HENI Instagram:

HENI is deeply saddened to share that Sir Brian Clarke, widely regarded to be the most important artist working in stained glass today, has died aged 71. Across his fifty-year career, @brian.clarke_ consistently revolutionised and pushed the boundaries of stained glass. He was commissioned to design stained glass for buildings across the world by leading architects and he made great efforts to revitalise interest and respect for stained glass as a medium of equal importance to other art forms. He received his first commission for a stained glass window at the age of 17. His most celebrated projects include the Neue Synagogue in Darmstadt (1988), The Victoria Quarter, Leeds (1988-90), and Lake Sagami Country Club, Japan (1988-89). Earlier this year, ‘Concordia’, his major commission for @bahrainairport, was unveiled to great acclaim. His work in stained glass, painting and sculpture was shown widely internationally, and his work can also be found in the permanent collection of the @vamuseum, @corningmuseum and @tate. He was awarded a Knighthood in January 2024, becoming the first stained glass artist to be honoured for a medium that has significantly shaped the course of British art. A visionary artist and cherished friend, he will be missed.

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Wings Over Europe Paul!

Paper doll of Paul McCartney in a tab-on version of his stage clothes from the 1972 Wings Over Europe tour.

Paul's necklace game was strong in summer 1972.

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Fred Astaire in Easter Parade Paul McCartney on tour, 1976

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Absolutely LOVE Brian Wilson's cover of 'Wanderlust'. It's gorgeous. Light out. 💗

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Robert Fraser | 7 June 1967 © Fred Mott

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OK the search is over: the song of the summer is The Cimarons' 1982 reggae cover of Paul McCartney's 'With a Little Luck'.

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God Bless The Kinks by Rob Jovanovic

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Dusty Springfield photographed by Dezo Hoffmann, 1964.

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🎺 for the ask game ❤️❤️

Thank you for the ask! ✨

🎺 What song do you want to wake up to?

I'd certainly like to wake up to 'Great Day' from McCartney's Flaming Pie ❤️‍🔥 or the dreamily nostalgic 'Langham Place' by Eric Coates... I definitely want to wake up to this great cover by Lea Desandre & Thomas Dunford of Françoise Hardy's hit 'Le temps de l'amour'. And I don't think there could be a more positive and consoling song to wake up to than 'All You Need is Love'. 🫶

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🫂 for the ask game, please!

Thank you for sending the ask! :)

🫂 What book would you give to a friend who is feeling low?

There are different ways to approach this: do they need a book that will pick them up and distract them, maybe even a funny book, or do they want a book that will comfort them as they are now?

For a distraction I would give Kitchen Essays by Agnes Jekyll. It's a cookbook from 1922 and the writer was very witty. It's from a world that's vanished but it's still funny now - in each chapter she imagines all sorts of mealtime problems to overcome and you can lose yourself in these crises for a while. (Such as, what to eat after going to see a play!) She completely convinced me that if I'm bringing food to a sickroom I should have a collection of trays in different colours to offer variety! (There are lots of picturesque but perhaps impractical ideas like this.) The recipes are worth trying - I will recommend the 'Children's Cake' full of cherries and pistachios.

For a comforting book I would give a poetry anthology because that's what would comfort me. A recent(ish) Palgrave's Golden Treasury or more likely a modern anthology like Best-Loved Poems (Ed. Neil Philip). Penguin's Poems for Life (Ed. Laura Barber) is also consoling and also still in print.

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Fred Astaire in Easter Parade Paul McCartney on tour, 1976