Word: mccartneyes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Covering rock music during its acid-hard past used to be something of an athletic contest for correspondents, who had to dodge all manner of bodyguards and groupies to talk to the stars. This week's cover subject, Paul McCartney, the Beatle who came back as a Wing, is not short of fans or muscle-a burly ex-football player guards his door. But Correspondent James Willwerth found that his main obstacle on this assignment was, of all things for a rock hero, McCartney's keen devotion to family life. "Paul was far more interested in being with...
Nobody fainted, and nobody threw jelly beans the way they did in the old days of Beatlemania. Still, when ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, 33, Wife Linda and his band Wings tuned up at Fort Worth, the opening stop of a seven-week tour of the States, the reception was raucous rock 'n' roll. For his first U.S. performance in a decade, McCartney offered a few golden oldies from his songwriting days with John Lennon, and more than two-dozen works that he has recorded with Wings since the Beatles disbanded six years ago. It was McCartney, as much...
...Sunday at 4 and 8 pm, and every one of you who screamed your head off when Ed Sullivan introduced you to those precocious Liverpudlians back in '63 had better be there if you know what's good for you. Bob Marley is just the same as Paul McCartney, only he's from Funky Kingston, which is just South of Liverpool, and he's been high all of his life, on ganja, that is, which is this substance which people from South of Liverpool worship by smoking it a lot. Reggae, which is the stuff BobMarley and his Wailers play...
Created 15 years ago in the west Kingston ghettos by amateur musicians, reggae is characterized by a scratchy, staccato guitar, incessant drumming and full-volume bass. Its rhythm is distinctive because, unlike rock, it emphasizes the first beat instead of the second. Harry Nilsson, Paul Simon, Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton have recorded songs with a reggae beat...
...Buttle, the word is "smart." He is particularly skilled at covering running backs who slip downfield on pass pat terns. Two other linebacking prospects are Clarence Sanders, Cincinnati, 6 ft. 4 in., 225 lbs.; and Ron McCartney, Tennessee...