Today is Paul McCartney's birthday.

Then and now.

Paul McCartney with The Beatles.

I'm seeing him in concert this weekend in San Diego, and next month at Dodger Stadium. Paul puts on a hell of a show- 3 hours. Obviously his voice isn't what it was, but the band picks up the slack.

His most recent album, Egypt Station, topped the Billboard charts for the first time in 36 years and debuted at #1 making him a force still to be reckoned with.

Paul will burn them in hell for promoting drug music.

He strongly resembles Angela Lansbury, especially in his dotage.

Well, to be fair those sales included a free CD with each ticket and he only plays stadiums. I've got 8, lol. Still impressive that he can sell out ballparks at 77.

I've always said he could be the poster boy for National Old Farts Day.

Yes, r1, people are bound to look different in 2019 than they did in 1963.

He's the most talented musician in the Beatles. Best voice and songwriting.

Ringo's my favorite though. He's so cute!

I was at his Texas show last Friday night. He played for 3 hours and could have played for another 3 with all of the stuff he left out.

Roger Ebert would've also been 77 today.

Pffft rock and or roll music. Never on my show

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Daily Mirror, Daily Mirror, on the wall

Who was the cutest Beatle, Peter or Paul?

Meh.

My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done; such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs.

♪ She loves you, yeah yeah yeah

She loves you, yeah yeah yeah ♫

"Yeah yeah yeah"?! You call that music? "Hi-de-hi-de-ho," now *that's* music!

As Lennon referred to it, "granny music". Uncle Albert, Ob-La-Di Ob-la-Da, When I'm 64, Honey Pie, Michelle Ma Belle, Your Mother Should Know, the bilge goes on and on.

R19 Lennon called his own music that?

His best performance EVAH - never tire of listening to this. "I'll never MAKE it alone....!!"

I think he hardly needs your introduction and I think you should refer to him as Sir Paul.

And let us not forget such masterpieces as "Ebony and Ivory" and "Silly Love Songs".

R22, "Sir Paul" isn't necessary unless one is British.

I bumped into him in a greengrocers on Western Road in Hove, East Sussex in the late 90s early 2000s. It was the time he was seeing Heather Mills, she lived a few streets away.

I said hello, he said hi back, and we carried on buying our veg. He seemed a nice bloke.

R21, John said he thought he would have sung that song better than Paul did.

[quote]I said hello, he said hi back, and we carried on buying our veg.

Boy, can you tell a story!

Worst dye job.

I always though of Ringo as being the "cute" Beatle.

Paul? Meh.

^^^Marge Simpson

It’s a shame we never heard Paul and John cover each other’s Beatles songs.

I want to know how his brown eyes turned green.

R31 whose brown eyes?

When I was a tween I owned an I Love Paul button.

When the ex-Beatles launched their solo careers, Paul was kind of a disappointment at first, with the blah "Another Day". John was doing his horrible Ono-influenced anthems (Instant Karma, Power To The People, Give Peace A Chance, etc). Nobody expected much of Ringo, but he was fairly successful with "It Don't Come Easy" and "Back Off, Boogaloo". The surprise was George being the first to hit the top of the charts with "My Sweet Lord" and the "All Things Must Pass" album.

Ringo also had success with the singles "Photograph" & "You're Sixteen"

One other surprise about George was that "My Sweet Lord" had a passing resemblance to The Chiffons' "He's So Fine"

I was thinking about the right-after-the-breakup success of the four, but you're right ...Ringo did have a really successful period with those back-to-back number one songs. Of course, later everybody paled next to Paul who had nine number one songs post-Beatle.

He was and is a genius. So shut the fuck up, my dears.

George could have been the star in any other group, but he wasn't. Ringo's voice is pitiful.

My aunt had a plaque in her kitchen with this saying.

Here’s Macca and the missus with Sam L Jackson. Am I seeing what I think I’m seeing?

Love him. Weird as I was definitely a George fan over the others. But Paul has a mellow dorky persona (which could be a front, I know) that warms me to him. Also I love his singing voice. Not as much now, but it's grandfatherly in its own way.

Paul and John, the heart and soul of The Beatles.

R43 KISS!

My favorite Paul song.

R40 what do you see?

Sir Paul is responsible for the worst Christmas song ever.

Oprah: a raging, gaping Va-jay jay

OP, why do you say that shit like you think we don't know it?

What you might not know is that Beatle Paul got his nose thinned in the early 1970s ( see R1 link). He wanted to be a movie star :(

R48 for R46

I’m still waiting for Paul to marry me.

My least favorite Beatle but still pretty awesome.

He was very cute in his day. I did not think he was as incredibly talented a composer as John or George were, though he was quite good nonetheless. He has a lovely and very distinctive voice.

77 years young!!

Odd what he did to his nose. So much better before, and it hasn’t aged well. Was he trying for John’s hooked nose?

We are glad Paul got massively ripped-off by that elderly peg-legged hustler fish!

He's in my 2019 death pool.

R56 who is 'we'? And to what are you referring?

R56, actually he didn't. The judge awarded her LESS than what Paul was offering. So the joke was on peg leg.

I think he learned his lesson and went back to marrying another American. :-)

With a career and money of her own.

Time flies. I saw Paul at Ringo’s 70th birthday at Radio City. They were so young!

I thought Paul was more than 2 years younger than Ringo. Ringo just seemed like an older guy, even when young.

R59 at least that one isn't photoshopped.

Is this real? Is it from Ringo's book of postcards?

All these 60s icons are getting old as hell. Grace Slick will turn 80 this year. Fucking EIGHTY.

Those '60s icons were old as hell to me as a teen in the '90s!

Actually, it’s NOT Paul’s B-day today. It’s Brian Wilson’s!

on July 25, 2019 I intercepted a conversation online between somebody claiming to be Paul McCartney and my ex-girlfriend (ex since then!) . we live in a crazy world and she could’ve been catfished. in that discussion, he claims that he will soon leave his current wife to be with my ex-girlfriend. Little he knows, she’s a narcissist abuser, a manipulator and a pathological liar! it would be déjà vu for him! I have filed a report with the authorities because of things he has said about me ( without knowing me at all ) in that discussion but there was no threats so they can’t do anything until anything happens . I have duplicated that discussion on multiple sites on the cloud and if I find out that it’s really him in the next couple of months, the truth will be exposed. if really it is him that my ex has been talking to for a while, he is a real asshole. I will wait and see!