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"Beatles reunion for the London Olympics?"
Posted by Red Umpire on 12 July 2011 - 1:50pm.
That's what The Guardian is suggesting.
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McCartney and Starr?
Oh be still my racing heart.
Can somebody change that ludicrous title?
If they are The Beatles then I've already seen them (benefit show in NY).
Mumbles...
*some joke about Olympic Ringos*
Will someone please write a beginning and end for this joke? Thanks.
Mumbles...
... You've Relay Got A Hold On Me. Needs a beginning and a middle.
Mumbles...
*Maxwell's SILVER hammer*
*GOLDEN Slumbers*
*RUN For Your Life*
*Get Back* (false starts)
And in third place
is Eleanor Bron(ze).
She was in Help! you know.
She and Paul supposedly had a bit of a fling.
Not guilty
That's not my title Dai: it's how the Guardian was trailling it on their home page. Which is why I posted it. It is ludicrous isn't it?
Paul McCartney hints at Olympics performance with Ringo
Did they change it?
(edit) ah, yes I see it now.
Facts anyone?
Except he doesn't actually hint at anything. He says there's a rumor and he hasn't been asked to perform. And he never mentioned performing with Ringo. The Sun did. Now there's some reliable information.
Er...
Surely the most pertinent facts are that George Harrison and John Lennon are dead, making the notion of a "Beatles reunion" rather fanciful? That was the point of my post. Sorry for not making my irony clear and all that. (*smiley face*)
Um...
Two former Beatles teaming up again sounds like a reunion of Beatles to me. Perhaps the Guardian felt people would realise that they were talking about the Two-tles, not the original Fab Four.
Reading a little further on in the article, the idea of uniting the two surviving Beatles with the Lennon and Harrison offspring is interesting. I've often wondered what sort of music a line-up of Sean and/or Julian, Dhani, Zak and James would produce. All talented in their own right.
Interesting?
More like the sort of thing reality tv would dream up IMHO. As for being talented I doubt they would be known without their surnames.
We'll never know...
...whether or not they would be known without their surnames, but Zak Starkey has proven himself with The Who and Oasis, Sean and Julian Lennon have both made a mark, and James McCartney and Dhani Harrison show promise. Plenty of evidence available on good ol' YouTube.
They can't help being born to famous parents. And, to their and their parents' credit, none have turned out to be the kind of media brats they could have been.
Just thought it might be interesting from an artistic point of view to see what would happen, if they were put in a room together. Though their parentage means it's unlikely ever to happen.
To be frank, your "reality tv" jibe and suggestion that they lack talent are pretty wide of the mark. IMHO.
Not at all..
not meant to suggest they lack talent at all. Neither do millions of other young people who never get recording contracts.
The reality tv remark was aimed at the rather creepy idea of a pick and mix beatles.
Mind you it worked once for Zep.
Double post
Yes, but is...
...Pete Best involved?
The Danny Baker mystery remains unsolved
But now we know that mark4696 is Sir Steve Redgrave.
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/olympic-opening-ceremony
(My money would have been on backwards7 - rowing = going backwards. No? Oh, please yourselves).
Viz Macca & Ringo, I suspect my own suggestion of a Spice Girls reunion is considerably more likely...
The Olympics
The media keeps desperately trying to make me become interested in them.
I'm just not, it doesn't matter which country it's in.
When it comes to you, Kid...
...they have an Olympian task.
Actually, I'm with you: just not that interested. I'm sure I'll watch some of it on telly, though.
Indeed they will - I won't even do that!
Same with Wimbledon, The World Cup etc.
Phew!
Glad it's not just me.