...but...

Kenny Lynch (actor, comedian and singer)
James Coburn (actor)
Clement Freud (columnist, gourmet, raconteur, Member of Parliament, Just a Minute panellist and grandson of Sigmund)
Christopher Lee (actor)
John Conteh (Liverpool boxer who later became World Light-Heavyweight champion)

is better at dyeing it than Heather. It was kind of auburn in her era.

Surely

black?

Until the new Band on the Run reissue comes out. You might want to wait for that.

please release Rock Show on DVD. You know you want to.

for Band On The Run & Wings in general. I can remember going to visit relatives in Virginia in the mid 70's when I was 13 and the only two cassettes they had that I listened to were BOTR and the Carpenters Greatest Hits.

Another relative in New Jersey promised that he would take me to see Black Sabbath or Kiss, in the end we didn't make it but he bought me Venus & Mars as a consolation. I played that album to death.

Have had a lengthy discussion on this topic with my hairdresser; it made a change from "Have you been on holiday this year?" or "Something for the weekend?".
She says men's hair is different to women's when it comes to adding colour. There are only two main routes (or should that be "roots") if you want to hide grey. Your hair either ends up looking black (à la Johnny Cash) or reddish (à la Macca). You can't hide it, in the same way you can't hide a rug. It always looks ridiculous.

..that explains a lot - I only tried it once and it was a disaster. Most of it ended up in the grouting in the shower, where it remains to this day as a terrible reminder.

what year Band On The Run came out (It was either '73 or '74 in my mind) so checked on wiki before I wrote a piece about his performance on Later.

Not only was it released in '73 but it was released in the UK on my birthday. Given it's long standing significance in my life in music I was understandably gobsmacked but can appreciate that it really isn't of any significance beyond my own personal love of the album.

As David Wright also says, it reminds me of Christmas. I can remember walking into the record shop in Taunton with my dad when he bought it (it may have been Woolworths) before the shops shut and the whole street was full of the Christmas lights and decorations. If I recall he also bought Focus At The Rainbow at the same time.

...but the follow-up Venus & Mars holds a special place in my heart.

Almost exactly 34 years ago (21 October 1976) I took a pretty young lass to see the final date of the Wings Venus & Mars/Wings Over The World Tour at the Empire Pool Wembley (now the Wembley Arena).

We'd only met the week before and the Macca show was our very first proper date.

In December we will celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary.

All together now.... Awwwww!

although a bit of a hagiography*, is well worth seeing.

* hardly surprising really, given the interviewer!

about the rehabilitation of solo McCartney. Granted, he may well have written 30 great songs since the HJHs, but it's been 40 years. You have to trawl a lot of dross to find them, but contrast that with pre-1970 and the hit rate's a lot higher. I think in this case the accepted view - that Lennon kept McCartney's syrupy tendencies in check - is right.

I'm not suggesting that his hair's not all his own work, though.

the two guitarists had dodgy barnets too I thought. the one on the right had that odd bleached Mr Whippy look, and the one on the left had been at the black Johnny Cash dye. But I enjoyed the performances I must say, speaking as as someone with great respect for PMc but not a huge interest in his music.

...to fish out my battered vinyl copy. Used to listen to that album a lot in 1974-5, but moved on from it to other things after that. Musically, I find it realy involving, but most of the lyrics are shockingly bad.

I enjoyed watching Later this week. It was a bit of an oldies show, but I even enjoyed Neil Diamond and also Elvis Costello's stripped down performance. I also thought that the Black Keys were pretty good.

He let his hair go nicely salt and pepper in the 80s and it looked fine. Why he then decided to dye it I don't know - it looks awful.

Men with dyed hair always look like the leaders of a doomsday cult. When I first noticed Paul was touching up his hair I thought, "He looks like John Burgess!" Burgess is actually an Australian game show who now looks like he's planning a rendevous with the Hale-Bop comet.