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Paul McCartney memoir due out in November

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I wanna read the part that explains his experience in Japan.

He has imprisoned and later deported in 1980 for marijuana possession.

Thats the first thing I thought of. Sad thing is that absolutely nothing has changed in Japan in terms of how they treat marijuana possession. In fact, if it happened 'yesterday', PM would be looking at a far greater punishment.

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cracaphatToday  11:30 am JST

It'll be his chance to assert than he was the one bigger than Jesus not John Lennon.

Lennon did not say that he was bigger than Jesus, he said "........We're more popular than Jesus.........."

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I wanna read the part that explains his experience in Japan.

He has imprisoned and later deported in 1980 for marijuana possession.

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The Beatles split up because they just weren't a band anymore. John and George just weren't really Beatles anymore. John had joined a new group called John-and-Yoko, while George had been on his own trajectory and had been aloof from the group since Peppers. Get Back was an attempt to go back to basics and possibly start touring again, but it also exposed some irreconcilable rifts.

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I wanna read the part that explains his experience in Japan.

He has imprisoned and later deported in 1980 for marijuana possession.

He has talked quite a bit about this. I remember him saying the other prisoners were especially friendly to him. And this: "He shared another memory from his last day in the prison, explaining the prisoners had to share a communal bath. “By the end, I was like, ‘Come on! In for a penny. I’m going in with the boys,'” he said. “So we all went in there and it was fun, y’know, being in the tub with all these Japanese guys.”"

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I wonder how much he'll talk about Heather.

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An amazing man.

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bokudaToday  10:14 am JST

I wanna read the part that explains his experience in Japan.

He has imprisoned and later deported in 1980 for marijuana possession.

> AscissorToday  11:00 am JST

I wonder how much he'll talk about Heather.

He said that this 'memoir' will be explained thru his songs. He and producer Youth formed the experimental group the Fireman and the first track on ttheir 2008 CD 'Electric Arguments' is 'Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight'. That might be a reference to Heather.

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this could make a good guide for future serious musicians on how to write lyrics. Since Paul can't read or write notation, readers would be on their own on that. Still, this sounds like a wonderful guide for musicians in the years to come, from a master. Thanks, Sir Paul.

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Beat (1950's) Mersey beat (Liverpool music, late 1950's early 1960's) Beatles=Beat-les. Not goofy on Merseyside.

Indeed. Not goofy anywhere, zichi. The Mersey beat flowed far and wide.

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AscissorFeb. 26  01:14 pm JST

The Beatles split up because they just weren't a band anymore. John and George just weren't really Beatles anymore. John had joined a new group called John-and-Yoko, while George had been on his own trajectory and had been aloof from the group since Peppers.

All the Beatles were diverging into differing musical explorations and as a George solo album states, 'All Things Must Pass'. He made a movie soundtrack with electronics and India musicians and a solo record with just himself on a Moog synthesizer. Ringo acted in a film, then put out a Broadway covers album and a country record. John (and Yoko) did 3 'experimental' records and a live one and Paul did a soundtrack. John also starred in a movie.

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So, let's all "Ferry 'cross the Mersey," shall we? Memorabilia. Nothing more, nothing less. If you're going to pay $100 for that memoir, that's your decision. I'd rather give it to starving children in Africa.

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The name Beatles was goofy. Gokiburi would have been much more fun! :-)

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