"Portrait of a Leg End" -- still on track!! :-)
John Whelan
a Leg End" is in progress, i.e. some work is being put into
the album at the moment. :-)
From "Cleveland.com"
TRUE TITLE OF STORY:
Sir Paul's discourse on life, death, music, marriage and...a
princely affair?
04/26/02
John Soeder
Plain Dealer Pop Music Critic
George reportedly left behind a more or less finished album. Had the
two of you worked together on anything in recent years? Or is there
any chance for some sort of posthumous collaboration, a la what you,
George and Ringo did with John's "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love"
for the "Anthology" project?
I don't know about that. I do know he (George) had a lot of good
material. I heard some of the songs. I do know at some point
something will be coming out. I understand there is a little bit of
work going on about it. But I don't know if people want it known
yet. So I'm not gonna go blabbing....And if someone asked me to do
something on it, I'd be honored.
Word has it a stripped-down version of "Let It Be" is in the works,
minus Phil Spector's orchestrations and other embellishments. Why
not let the album be?
I always liked the bare version, before it got overproduced. Or I
think it was called "Reproduced for disc by..." So before it was
reproduced by Phil. I don't blame him, by the way. He was asked to
do it, and it was a good gig. The other three were into it, so he
was right to do it. But I wasn't very into it at the time. We were
having a bit of a feud.
I always personally preferred the bare version. I thought it was
very brave, just the band right there - what you see is what you
get. And I like that with a band. I don't like things overproduced.
Then I was talking to the guy who directed the film, Michael Lindsay-
Hogg. He said a lot of people had been asking him when "Let It Be"
was gonna come out on DVD. In talking to one of our guys back at
Apple I said to him, "What about putting those two things together?"
Get the film remastered and everything, so it's all nice and clean
and the sound's great, and then the soundtrack would be the
bare "Let It Be" sessions. I think that's what's gonna happen.
Have you read Pauline Sutcliffe's new book about Stuart (Sutcliffe,
the Beatles' original bassist and Pauline's brother)?
Um, I've seen some bits of it.
She recounts a 1961 fight in Hamburg - John Lennon kicked Stu in the
head, and you carried Stu home, according to the book - and she
alleges the beating ultimately was a factor in Stuart's death. (He
died of a brain hemorrhage in 1962.) Do you buy that?
No. I don't. I definitely don't. It's easy when somebody who didn't
know people makes these kinds of allegations. It becomes more
difficult when it's a relative. But I know Pauline wasn't around,
that's for sure. She certainly wasn't present. I don't know who has
given her that information, for her to think that. Pretty
sensational allegation.
On a more positive note, when are you and Ms. Mills going to the tie
the knot?
Sometime this summer. So this is a big year for me.
You're a couple of months shy of your 60th birthday (June 18) and
four years away from singing "When I'm 64" from, shall we say, a
very authentic perspective. At this point in your life, are you
where you hoped you would be?
That's kind of a difficult question. The tragedies that happen in
life, tragedies of people passing away - with Linda, John and
George, particularly - I certainly wouldn't have hoped for that. But
those tragedies aside, I feel at a better place than I thought I
might be at this age.
You sort of look at 60, and I know kids will go, "That's really old,
man." Of course, I don't really think it is. From my perspective, I
feel very good. I'm on this tour. It's a really cool tour. It's not
taking anything out of me. I feel very energetic. The audience is
great. The band is great.
So I feel at a pretty good point in time. I am now starting to put
the story around that someone has been falsifying my birth
certificate.
For the record, then, how old are you really?
Oh, I think - well, I dunno. I think it's about 43.
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it Matter@teledanmark.mail.dk H.C. Andersen
Whelan) wrote:
>There is a hint from Paul about George's "Portrait of
>a Leg End" is in progress, i.e. some work is being put into
>the album at the moment. :-)
>
>From "Cleveland.com"
>
>
>TRUE TITLE OF STORY:
>
>Sir Paul's discourse on life, death, music, marriage and...a
>princely affair?
>
>04/26/02
>
>John Soeder
>Plain Dealer Pop Music Critic
>
>George reportedly left behind a more or less finished album. Had the
>two of you worked together on anything in recent years? Or is there
>any chance for some sort of posthumous collaboration, a la what you,
>George and Ringo did with John's "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love"
>for the "Anthology" project?
>
>I don't know about that. I do know he (George) had a lot of good
>material. I heard some of the songs. I do know at some point
>something will be coming out. I understand there is a little bit of
>work going on about it. But I don't know if people want it known
>yet. So I'm not gonna go blabbing....And if someone asked me to do
>something on it, I'd be honored.
Rising Son
Valentine
Pisces Fish
Weren't there other song titles mentioned??