Yesterday

Yesterday is a good subject to think about. So much happened in the past and we get some perspective on things as we move on.

partly cloudy too. low 70's F

 

 

Yesterday...

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Saturday 9: Yesterday (1965)

Unfamiliar with this week's song?      Hear it here.

Chosen because June 18 is Paul McCartney's 80th birthday. 

1) Paul McCartney sings that yesterday all his troubles seemed so far away. Can you recall a time when your life seemed carefree?

Yes. My last few years in high school and my first year in university in Ohio were carefree, easy and lovely.    I would go back in a heartbeat.  I want the people in my life then back too.  

2) He has always insisted the melody to "Yesterday" came to him in a dream. Did you dream last night?

Yes   It was a stupid dream with a combination of Sponge Bog and a nasty crab thing that was killing tiny model sized real cows.  

3) The lyrics were inspired, in part, by the death of Paul's mother when he was 14. Thirteen years later, he named his daughter Mary after her.      Are you named after anyone?     If you're a parent, did you name your children in honor of anyone?

I am named for my paternal great grandmother.  Her gravestone has my name on it!  My aunt took a photo of it when she visited Scotland. It was very weird to see my name like that.

My son's first name is my father's name and his middle name is his dad's first name, William David.   Both my Dad and my sons dad are now gone.

My son's twin sister had my name as her middle name.. Bonnie Ann.   My next daughter is named for a song by Andy Williams and the middle name means "song of joy" in old French... Holly Noelle.  Holly is the old English form of the word holy, so her name literally means Holy Song of Joy.    The youngest boy is named by his dad with his favorite names, Jason Erik.    

4) Over the years, Paul has performed on bass, acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards and drums, but not the first instrument he owned: the trumpet. A present from his dad for his 14th birthday, he exchanged the trumpet for a guitar because, "you can't sing while playing the trumpet." Have you more recently a) exchanged a gift, b) donated a gift you didn't want to charity or c) re-gifted?

Never done any of those things.    I dislike giving gifts though as I never feel they are liked at all.  Holiday gift giving is stressful for me because of that. I just hate it.

5) Paul grew up seeing how much his dad enjoyed placing a bet and then listening to the horse race from his favorite armchair in the living room, so he took his salary from making the film A Hard Day's Night and surprised his father with a racehorse. After father and son proudly watched Drake's Drum win at Liverpool's Aintree Racecourse, the horse retired to Paul's farm in Scotland.   If money were no object, what gift would you give a loved one?

Homes, cars and horses.

Goofing off

6) Paul is considered one of the world's wealthiest entertainers, worth an estimated $1.2 billion. This month, as he approaches his 80th birthday, he is winding up a 16-city North American tour, during which he performs 30+ songs in a 2 hour, 40 minute show. If you had all the money you needed, would you continue to work? Or would you kick back and relax?

It would depend on what I did for work.  If I loved it I would go on.   If it were for the money, I'd quit and just goof off.  

7) Paul first joined the Beatles when he was recruited into the band by John Lennon. They met as teenagers when Paul showed up at a church picnic where John's band was performing. Paul recalls pedaling over on his bike to hear them, his guitar flung over this back. When did you most recently ride a bike? 

In Piscataway NJ on a dirt road out by Rutgers campus.

 

Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

8) Paul met his first wife, Linda, at a London club and then again four days later when she was a photographer at a press party for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band. Think about one of your romances.   Where did you meet?

We both went to Ohio University.

9) TV journalist Barbara Walters played matchmaker for Paul and his current wife, Nancy. During the summer of 2007, when Paul was vacationing in The Hamptons, Barbara repeatedly and intentionally invited them to the same parties and picnics. Have you had any success in a matchmaking scenario -- as either the matchmaker or one of the dates?

I don't recall anything though something is hanging out in the back of my mind and I just can't recall.