This magazine is from 1965. What did Paul know?
Paul McCartney invented bands in the media
Let’s not get too carried away
MCCARTNEY INVENTED THE MEDIA
PUAL CREATED THE UNIVERSE
Pual
Paul invented the idea of having inventions
Paul invented the internet
I actually held back
Wasn't rock n roll only 10 years old at this point?
I mean, The Stones have lasted only 62 years.
But since 80s they have became a legacy band
When does a band become a legacy band? Is there like a "rule" or is it more of a vibes thing?
(Reading this it comes off a little snarky and idk how to word it better, but I promise that's not the intent lol)
When they stop being part of the current cultural zeitgeist and stop having frequent hits (I'm talking about super popular bands here)
I mean, I think you can be out of the current cultural zeitgeist and still not be a legacy band. Take Beach Boys Loves You, it's an album released past the bands prime and fairly out the mainstream, but it's taken off to have a life of its own with lots of influence in early synthpop. I wouldn't consider them a "legacy band" at this point. Because they were still pushing the envelope in new ways, even if it weren't successful at the time.
However, everything after that point 100% is a legacy band. They started releasing albums, calling back to their early days, and banking in on that nostalgia.
I think it really comes down to when the band starts to cash in on nostalgia rather than pushing the envelope.
By that standard, Paul is legacy too. His last top 40 US single was “My Brave Face,” which was also the last top 40 single by any Beatle as a solo act to date.
EDIT: info corrected.
He is. It's not a derogatory label necessarily but they're not touring on any new material
He plays multiple songs from his 2018 and 2013 albums, just oddly not from his 2020 one.
Well yeah, dude’s 81
“My Brave Face” was Billboatd #25 in 1989. “Spies Like Us”was his last Top Ten, not counting “FourFive Seconds.”
They still had hits into the late 90s.
I am talking about critical acclaim even Hackney diamonds was hyped during its release but was it an album at the level of other stones classic .... no
But have they? ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᵗʰᵉʸ?
And you're aware they are the exception and not the rule, right?
There’s tons of legacy bands out there. Every time I see an advertisement for my local casino, it’s 38 Special, Cheap Trick, etc. I’d even go as far to say bands like Metallica and RHCP are now joining that legacy status. I’ve seen Iron Maiden twice in the past 10 years mainly for the legacy and respect for what they’ve done in the past 50 years (almost, 48 to be exact).
Just because there are many doesn't mean my statement is wrong.
Yes there are many legacy bands. I never said there wasnt
For every legacy band there are many many more that had success but not lasting success.
I swear y'all are trying to gaslight me because I said last success over decades is the exception and not the rule.
Do you really believe the norm is to be a legacy band that lasts decades and decades? There's no way you can honestly answer yes.
Exactly. Tastes change(d) quickly even back then. Heeeeee, should have known better. . .
With a girl like you
That I would love everything that you do...
Who is this and what have they done with George?
Geege
Geege Hnnggson
That’s what happens when they make you pose with a dumb smile all day and you’re fed up with that.
I feel like this often happens with George, he can sometimes just look very different in photos haha
The version on the Beatles Christmas album cover is even more uncanny. Even John looks weird here!
Ironic isn’t it. All the Beatles replaced by (near-)lookalikes except Paul.
The alternate universe where Paul lived and the others didn't.
He looks like British spock
That's what I was wondering
Could say the same about John. 😂
Lol he looks like an actor, I can’t quite remember or name exactly which one but there’s someone he’s kind of uncanny for here.
I know! Worst picture ever.
When you're in the Beatles but you also feel like bein' a little silly Billy
And same with John!
Screw Billy shears we need a new conspiracy about George
George is Paul
It looks like they just blended John and Ringo’s face together.
The middle two are fake surely?
Gingo Starrison?
That's actually the reason the Beatles broke up in 1970. Paul didn't want to be considered a liar, so to keep his word he ended the Beatles. True story.
Paul was playing the long game
The long and winding game
That leads to your blame.
Billy shears only had 5 years left on his contract with the gov. /j
All he wanted to do was Boogaloo.
My uncle, who owns Apple, told me that Paul sat on Paul's amp, which is why the Beatles broke up, actually.
Titbits
You said bits, huh huh, huh
Hu hu hu
Surprised I had to scroll so far for this.
Hahaha I was looking for this comment!
Five years
My brain hurts a lot!
Five years
That's all we've got!
What a surprise!
the isolated vocal of this track, floating around on youtube, is incredible
SMILing and WAVing and looking so fine
Don't think you knew you were in this song
Earth is really dying
beatlemaniacs probably cried so much their faces were wet
Then they knew he was not lying.
What are the odds he saw this paper and remembered it a few years later ?
He might have even written it down back in 1965 while thinking to himself, "I should use that in a song".
First song I think I ever heard that just haunted me. I listened to it over and over.
It must have been exhausting to be a Beatle during Beatlemania. I don’t know if anyone could do that for a decade.
He has just received his terminal diagnosis
he’s a smart lad
George’s face looks ridiculous in this, lol
And John's cheeks.
He looks like a blend of Ringo and John
This is what John said around the same time * When the interviewer asked Lennon, “How long are you going to last?”, he said: “Well, you can’t say, you know. You can be big-headed and say, ‘Yeah, we’re going to last ten years.’ But as soon as you’ve said that you think, ‘We’re lucky if we last three months*
And George said four years in 'A Hard Day's Night', so none of them thought it would go on for long. I think Ringo was happy when the check arrived each month.
They wouldn't have been the Beatles without Ringo.
Very true, but in 1963 he was still the new boy. It wasn't until 1964, with the US trips and the movie, that he really came into his own.
Ringo was a professional before he ever joined the Beatles.
Yes- he was playing at Butlin's when he was recruited. It's a bit like a snooker player who hustled for money at a local club going on to win the World Championship.
Not at all. Ringo was a profession drummer who was well known in Liverpool as member of Rory Storm and the hurricanes. And he would fill in when Pete couldn't make it. He hung out with the Beatles well before he officially joined.
Comparing him to a hustler is pretty insulting.
I think you have an overly romantic view of what the Liverpool scene was then. The bands then played for peanuts, often with substandard equipment, at local halls. I don't know if you are familiar with Butlin's in those days (I am) but it was as far from Las Vegas as it's possible to be and still be in the entertainment industry. Ringo of course knew The Beatles (most of the bands knew each other) and they rated him as a drummer, or they wouldn't have asked him to join them. But part of the magic of The Beatles is that they came out of that scene to be the top band of all time and the extra magic of Ringo was that they asked him to join them, It was literally a rags-to-riches story. It's not insulting to Ringo to compare him to a world snooker champion and his background was similarly humble. It's something to be celebrated.
That’s the same picture that was on my concert ticket.
A. This is most likely tabloid nonsense, and Paul said nothing of the sort.
B. This is, by far, the absolute worst photo of George ever taken. John doesn't look too great, either, but George looks like someone else... and not a good-looking someone else, either.
They predicted their own demise
I think Paul was referring to their relativity in pop music, and their expanding individual directions
Paul always struck me as one of those people who was gifted with a second chance to live his life, and get it all right this time.
I knew that housing chief was taking bribes.
Bro had just discovered the 7 levels, his third eye was open
Was George not available for the picture? That’s 100% just John and Ringos face blended together using some old 60s AI lol.
Actually, that interview was with 1970 Paul who had travelled to 1965 in a Time Machine. It tore the space-time continuum.
Now we know the true meaning of Hello Goodbye.
He knew about the bribery and whispered it
So that’s why he left!
He knew he would be outed as Billy Shears by then.
When you’re that young, five years is forever. Jagger said in an early 60s interview that the stones would last maybe one or two years.
Tit-Bits!? Where was this magazine published?
Tit-Bits from all the interesting Books and Newspapers of the World, more commonly known as Tit-Bits, was a British weekly magazine founded by George Newnes, a founding figure in popular journalism, on 22 October 1881.
Paul McCartney inspired the David Bowie song “Five Years”?
Fat lot he knows. He died the next year!
Now who in the world decided to name it that…
Paul are you from the future?
Yeah and I out live two of you
Without the text of the article there is no context.
The reporter asked him, "how long do we have before the calendar reads 1970?"
Tit-Bits. My favorite magazine!
He knew he was half way through the decade
unless he just meant 5 years left of the 60's lol
“Tit Bits”? It really was a simpler time wasn’t it?
I like how The Beatles were more important than bribery cases in the 60s man
Little did he know, he only had one year left before the car accident 😔
Tracks with what he's said about the breakup, that regardless of any more personal drama he just thought the band had never been meant to last much longer and everyone was happy to let it be a relatively short-lived thing
He didn't know anything he was dead
That’s not my sub!
Excuse me what bits?
Do you have the rest of the magazine? What did he say?
He knew…
TIT-BITS?!
He knew that most bands don’t last in the media for more than 10 years.