The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
The ex-Beatle's new album is a strange and wonderful concoction. Neil McCormick went to Abbey Road studios to talk to its creator
WhyFame (Free subscription) | yesterday
Longtime vegetarian Sir Paul Mccartney is urging a boycott of the behemoth fast food chain McDonalds after a branch in Liverpool, England displayed a photo of him with his former Beatle bandmates. The Beatles hail from Liverpool, where all the original bandmates first met in the late 1950s. Instead of being flattered that he was being honored, or... [ More on WhyFame.com ]
Hecklerspray (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Having seen off the threat of Islamic terrorism with his recent Israel concert, Paul McCartney is now going after the real menace - the Fillet-O-Fish. Paul McCartney has chosen to summon up all the energy in his wrinkly little body to call on his fans to boycott McDonald's. Not because of the deforestation caused by the fast food industry's mass farming practises, though, or McDonald's aggressive child-centric...
Hollywood Grind (Free subscription) | yesterday
Paul McCartney, who has been a vegetarian for 30 years, was extremely upset after he learned staff at a McDonald’s put up his pictures to attract customers. Paul’s portrait appears alongside bandmate John Lennon and fellow vegans Ringo Starr and the late George Harrison at a Liverpool branch. Sir Paul’s spokesman Geoff Baker said: “What sort of [...]
Telegraph Blogs : Guest (Free subscription) | yesterday
My interview with Paul McCartney runs in today's Telegraph but it is not the whole story. It was, in fact, one of the strangest encounters I have had in a very long career, and evidence of the impact a Beatle can still have even on hardened rock hacks.
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Desperately Seeking Paul McCartney is a curious little mockimentary by film maker and reality TV maven Marc Cushman. Ruth back in 1967 was a teenage reporter for NBC and one of her earliest interviews was with the then very young Paul McCartney. During the interview Paul playfully asks Ruth to marry him. This movie fast [...]
Pulse2 (Free subscription) | yesterday
The EMI Group is a music company that is owned by Terra Firma Capital Partners. Terra purchased EMI for £3.2 billion around August 2007. EMI recently signed with MySpace Music to have their music distributed through the social network. EMI used to represent Paul McCartney, Radiohead, and The Rolling Stones, but all of those [...]
The PETA Files (Free subscription) | yesterday
eeoc / CC Aw, McDonald's—it's having a pretty rough week! First, a McDonald's in Liverpool decided to "acknowledge the outstanding contribution the Beatles made to both local and global culture" by using photographs of the band to decorate its walls. Our beloved Sir Paul McCartney, like me (great minds and all …), thought McDonald's might really just have wanted to use the Beatles to sell hamburgers,...
The Jawa Report (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Omar Bakri the hate preacher who threatened Paul McCartney with suicide bombers, and who's daughter, Yasmin Fostok, is a pole-dancing stripper, has married a 26 year old. His new wife is younger than his stripper daughter. Bakri stated that he...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
It was the rare John Lennon-related showdown not motivated by sublimated anger toward Paul McCartney.
PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The individual who dreamed up using avid vegetarian Sir Paul McCartney's image to decorate a McDonald's in Liverpool needs to be fired. Macca has been a veggie for 30 years and he and late wife Linda McCartney were actively involved in vegetarianism and animals rights. Macca currently heads the Vegetarian Society of Great Britain and works [...]
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Paul McCartney fans can pick up the first track of his new album Electric Arguments for free. Nothing Too Much, Just Out Of Sight is out on November 24 and will be available to download from website NME.com
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
LONDON, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Paul McCartney is calling on his fans to boycott McDonald's after one of its restaurants in Liverpool put up pictures of the Beatles without his permission. The longtime vegetarian and animal rights activist was said to be livid after discovering Beatles photos were used to decorate his hometown McDonald's, The Daily Telegraph said. What sort of morons do McDonald's think Beatles'...
iCelebZ.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
It might be McCartney v. McDonald's in court as the former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney called for a boycott of the hamburger chain for using the Beatles' image at a Liverpool outlet.
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Filed under: Around the World Spinner.com : No one would mistake a recent in-store performance at Amoeba Records in Hollywood for the time Paul McCartney played there last year. For that visit, the sprawling music retailer was jam-packed, every inch between the CD bins taken up by worshipful... Read more
