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Blueranger
Sad to see all the jealousy about The Beatles in here. Just because The Beatles were the spokesmen of their generation and made the worlds most memorable music, doesn't mean The Rolling Stones aren't a cool band and on their own terms and of the worlds most influential bands period.
Get over it people. The four men from Liverpool, did everything and all others, including The Stones, followed. So What.
The Rolling Stones are a cool R'n'R band. Enjoy it!
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Max'sKansasCity
Da Stones always... duh.... errr... Da Stones!
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folke
Bruce Springsteen borrowing a guitar from a street musician and performing three songs in Copenhagen 1988 is the coolest.
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hbwriter
Stones - it announced the '75 tour
i liked this movie .can you get it on dvd like in best buy or something ?Quote
stonehearted
Neither. Macca beats them both by a mile in a scene filmed for his 1984 movie Give My Regards To Broad Street, where he is filmed actually busking [Yesterday] in front of a London train station--and no one recognizes him!
Here's the story behind that scene and what Paul thought about not being recognized in public, with a guitar and singing perhaps his most famous tune no less.
Paul McCartney Busking In London In 1984 & No One Seems To Notice
In 1984 Paul McCartney filmed "Give My Regards To Broad Street," and while the movie ended up being a flop -- the plot revolved around McCartney losing his tapes and trying to get them back by midnight -- it did feature one very memorable scene.
In the film, McCartney busks -- donning ruffled hair and disheveled clothes -- in front of the Leicester Square Station in London. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) for McCartney, no one recognized him as the former Beatle.
“Y’know, they just made me up and dropped me off," McCartney told the New York Daily News in 1984. "I told ‘em we’d never get away with it, but they kept putting dirt on and rufflin’ up me hair -- I was looking better and better -- and I figured, why not."
"So I was standin’ there plunkin’ chords, doing this silly version of the song, and no one noticed it was me," he continued. "No one wants to look a busker in the eye of course, ‘cus then they’d get his life story. So they’d toss coins and I’d be going, ‘Yesterday, all my troubles -- thank you, sir -- seemed so far away.'"
Despite the obvious snubs, McCartney's pride wasn't wounded. In fact, he enjoyed his busking experience, as he recalled an encounter he had with a group of punks who just wanted to dance.
"This fabulous drunk Scotsman, who didn’t know me from Jesus, came up, threw his arm around me and gave me all his coins," he told the Daily News. "I started doing these little dances and some punks came by, studs and leather, and they were dancing, too. Not because this guy’s a Beatle, but because this was something happening."
And in case you're wondering what he did with the money, he donated it to a local mission. However, that didn't stop the media from saying otherwise.
"After we did it I made sure the money was donated to the Seaman’s Mission, because otherwise I knew someone would say ‘And I’ll bet he kept the money too, the old skinflint! So the next day on the telly this woman said ‘And Paul McCartney busked at the rail station last night and he kept the money too.’ I guess it’s a better story that way.”
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/21/paul-mccartney-busking-london-1984-give-my-regards-to-broad-street_n_1615119.html
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Glam Descendant
>The four men from Liverpool, did everything and all others, including The Stones, followed.
HA wrong, the Beatless copied Jefferson Airplane (are there really 2 current threads about this or is this Luxardo liqueur that awesome? no matter, Pooneil rules)