Отправлено: 28.10.05 18:11. Заголовок: Вести с PAULей

В данной теме предлагаю размещать новости о Поле ну, и, собссно, их же и обсуждать [img src=/gif/sm/sm10.gif]

 Отправлено: 30.10.05 14:20. Заголовок: Re:

Ой, че я нашла , зайдите по этой ссылке на сайт и нажмите play( возможно будет долго загружаться, я предупреждаю). И вы увидите репортаж с концерта Пола в St. Paul 27 октября , в нем американские фаны очень смешно поют песни Пола .
Репортаж

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Маша!!! Спасибо!!!

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BeatloManьka

 Отправлено: 31.10.05 11:05. Заголовок: Re:

30 oct.
Playing with Paul 'amazing,' 'an honor'
Jamming onstage with Paul McCartney. It truly is a musician's dream gig. And for Rusty Anderson and Brian Ray, it happens night after night, one packed arena after another. The two California natives are part of McCartney's four-member band, and they'll be in town jamming with the 63-year-old at his sold-out concert tonight at Qwest Center Omaha.

Играть с Полом - "просто поразительно", "это честь".
Играть на сцене с Полом МакКартни. Это действительно мечта любого музаканта. А для Расти Андерсона и Брайана Рэя, это происходит изо дня в день, один стадион сменяет другой. Два уроженца штата Калифорнии являются частью команды МакКартни, они будут сегодня вечером (30 окт.) вместе с 63-летним музыкантом играть на концерте в Qwest Center Omaha.

 Отправлено: 31.10.05 11:41. Заголовок: Re:

Нашла видео репортажа о концерте в Omaha . В нем рассказывается как перекупщики спекулируют билетами на концерт Пола. Заходите по ссылке, нажимаете другую ссылку - Ticket Scalpers (там еще значок видеокамеры нарисован), ждете пока загрузится и смотрите
ссылка

 Отправлено: 31.10.05 13:07. Заголовок: Re:

Ну, а вот статья, дублирующая тот репортаж, который вы ( надеюсь ) посмотрели
Ticket Scalpers
Scalpers test fans' limits

A living rock-and-roll legend took the stage in Omaha Sunday evening -- a ticket difficult for many Omaha people to get their hands on.

Sir Paul McCartney drew a plethora of fans who paid big money to see the former Beatle perform.

McCartney's concert is the first of several big shows coming to Omaha, including U-2 and the Rolling Stones.

With all the big concerts, the issue of ticket scalping continues to strike a sour note with many fans.

When the doors of the Qwest Center opened, fans came pouring in. But not Brad and Sharon Golden.

Unable to get tickets the day they went on sale, they were out negotiating with one of several ticket scalpers and brokers outside the arena.

With the face value at $134 per pair, concertgoers had some bargaining to do.

"He already told us $200 for a pair of tickets," said Brad Golden. "He's come down $30."

By law, scalpers should only ask for face value if they're within half a mile of the venue.

At 4:30 Sunday afternoon, several people were selling Paul McCartney tickets for around $150 a piece.

"It's not fair," said Michelle Cook. "It's not fair. They're trying to make a profit and we just want the tickets."

Brad and Sharon aren't fans of the system either.

"I think they need to devise a better system so that it's fair for everyone," said Brad.

But like many fans, he knows there's little they can do to beat the system.

Rather than go without, they eventually made a deal -- two tickets for $150, which was $15 above face value.

"That's not bad, I guess," Brad said. "I can live with that."

The Rolling Stones concert is scheduled for January 29 and is expected to bring the highest ticket prices in Omaha yet.

The highest price posted on E-Bay Sunday evening was a four-ticket package in the 19th row for $1,800.

Police in the area Sunday evening said they were there for security and with so many people scalping, it's difficult to know who's selling them legally and who isn't.
P.S. Чуть попозже переведу самые интересные моменты

 Отправлено: 31.10.05 16:30. Заголовок: Re:

"Перекупщики испытывают кошельки фанов"
В воскресенье вечером в Омахе прошел концерт живой легенды рок-н-рола,достать билеты на который для большинства жителей Омахи обернулось большой трудностью.
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Концерт МакКартини - первое большое шоу, которое проходит в Омахе, за ним последуют концерты U-2 и the Rolling Stones.
Осадок от спекулирования с билетами продолжает приводить в уныние большое количество фонов.
Когда двери в Qwest Center открылись, фаны, буквально, ввалились внутрь. Все кроме Брэда и Шерон Голден. Не в состоянии достать билеты в этот день, они решили поговорить с перекупщиками, ходившими возле стадиона. За номинальную цену - 134$ за пару билетов им пришлость поторговаться.
" С начала он нам сказал 200$ за пару билетов", - говорит Брэд Голден. " Потом сбросил 30 баксов"
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А днем в вокресенье несколько людей уже продавали билеты по 150$ за билет.
"Это не так уж плохо," говорит Майкл Кук. "Они пытаются сделать деньги на этом, а мы просто хотим купить билеты."
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"Я думаю они должны разработать систему получше, потому что эта никого не устраивает"( ), говорит Брэд.
Но и как и остальные фаны они знают, что практически ничего не могут поделать против системы.
В конечном счете перекупщики поимели прибыль (два билета за 150$), которая превысила номинальную цену на 15 $
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Самая высокая цена, зарегестрированная в воскресенье вечером на E-bay за четыре места в 19-ом ряду составила 1800$

 Отправлено: 01.11.05 13:00. Заголовок: Re:

Tuesday, November 1, 2005

Paul McCartney to sign books at Third Place Books

Paul McCartney will sign his new children's book at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park Friday, but all tickets to the event must be secured at noon Tuesday with purchase of the $19.99 book at the store.

The former Beatle will pre-sign books and then hand them to customers; priority in the signing line will be determined by the first-come tickets distributed in priority order today (lineup begins at 8 a.m.); Third Place Books will be closed from 12:30 to 3 p.m. Friday in order to accommodate the McCartney signing, which is scheduled to run, strictly, from 2:30 p.m. until 3 p.m.

No photos will be allowed, nor other memorabilia. It's estimated only about 300 people will be able to receive signed books from McCartney.

Third Place Books is at 17171 Bothell Way N.E. Additional information: 206-366-3333.

Вкратце.
Пол МакКартни будет подписывать экземпляры своей книги на Third Place Books

Пол МакКартни будет подписывать экземпляры своей новой детской книги в Lake Forest Park в пятницу. Нельзя будет ни фотографировать, ни снимать. Примерно около 300 людей получат подписанные Полом книги. ( ну в общем, вы поняли )

 Отправлено: 01.11.05 19:02. Заголовок: Re:

О-о-очень интересное свеженькое интервью с Полом , обязательно его переведу полностью
McCartney amazed at the way fans love him

Paul's always been fab to us
He's a "lucky boy." He's not an "egotistical fame freak."
Those were a couple of comments that came out in an exclusive phone interview with Paul McCartney the other evening, shortly before he was to hit the stage in Des Moines, Iowa.
I last interviewed McCartney, whose tour comes to KeyArena Thursday, in 1976 at the Kingdome, just before a concert by his band Wings. He was in a chipper mood then, which may have had something to do with the intense aroma of pot in the dressing room [the drummer was toking as I entered]. After a friendly, revealing interview, McCartney asked if I wanted an autograph. Attempting to maintain my journalistic objectivity, I said no.
"Of course you do!" he replied, grabbing my notebook and pen and writing his name. He then drew a little sketch of me, with a round face and curly hair.
I reminded McCartney of that long-ago meeting. We talked about that, his new album, his new children's book, and the emotional reception audiences are giving him on tour: "Bring a hankie," he said.
Here are edited highlights.

Q: We last spoke in 1976 at the Wings' concert in the Kingdome, a significant date in Seattle rock history.
A: Wow! That was really cool, yeah. I still have the award for that [for biggest Kingdome audience].

Q: "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard" has been your best-reviewed album in a long time. How do you feel about the reaction to it?
A: Well, I like it, obviously. You know it's approbation of your peers, never a bad thing. Obviously it's better than if they don't like it. We worked hard on it and Nigel [Godrich, the producer] and I thought we'd done something good. But releasing your baby to the universe is always a sort of slightly nerve-racking moment, so it was really good. The people listened to it and liked it....
The feedback, particularly from the public, has been great. On the tour now we're feeling a lot of heat on the new numbers, which is the great thing about being on tour — it builds. And you get more and more conscious each night that they're really, really behind the new numbers.

Q: So we get a sampling of new songs in the show?
A: Yeah. We don't do too many, 'cause we've got a lot of other stuff to deliver as well. We do a nice little cross section.

Q: I understand you fell into a hole in the stage in St. Petersburg [Fla.]. Are you all right?
A: I did and I am. It was more embarrassing, I think, than anything. Got this piano that mysteriously arrives out of the middle of the stage. And because it's a new production and stuff and I'm not used to that, I just straightforward forgot the hole was there, and I was chattin' away to the audience and, um, suddenly there was a hole and I was in it.
I was pretty lucky, actually, that I didn't crack my head on the piano. I was a lucky boy and just sort of landed quite well, even though it was a little bit of a fall. Added a bit of drama to the tour.

Q: Did you go right into "Fixing A Hole"?
A: I should have done, exactly. I went into "Fine Line" — "There is a fine line between recklessness and courage" [the opening lines of the song]. That works, too.

Q: Waiting for your call, I was reading "High in the Clouds" [his new children's book].
A: It's a fun book, isn't it? It's a nice book. I like the idea that even if you're a parent reading it to your kids — I think the kids have to be 7 or over to appreciate it — it should be a good read for the parents as well.

Q: People are going to be clucking over the title, just as they did for the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."
A: Yeah, well, let 'em cluck.

Q: I got a laugh when I came across the character Papa Ratsy, a photographer.
A: That is one of my better jokes. We had the character Ratsy always. He was in the story. I suddenly made the connection in a meeting. "Yeah! That's great!" So unfortunately, it got in.

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Q: You have reached an exalted status in pop culture. ... It doesn't ever seem to pressure you.
A: Thanks for saying that. I think if you do find a good use for it, then it does take the pressure off. It does actually then make you realize you are doing something meaningful that is working on a few levels. You're entertaining people. Nice, and they like you because of that. But then you're getting into the world political scene in quite a sort of nonpreachy way, just by showing up on a day like Live8 [a concert to raise awareness of poverty]. And you learn certain facts. Instead of being a politician, banging on his agenda, you're able to just put it over a bit more accessibly to ordinary people.
I learned stuff on the Live8 day. I was genuinely moved and surprised to have learned these facts. ... I was being interviewed by the BBC and I mentioned the fact that 50,000 people die each day in Africa. That's pretty shocking. And the interviewer was really cool. He just turned 'round to the crowd [at the London Live8 concert], which was about 200,000. He said, "There you go, there's four days worth." And it was like "Whoa!" That kind of thing means that you're not just there to be an egotistical fame freak, you're actually doing something with it. And it's cool.
There were people like Paul Robeson [the left-leaning, politically active African-American singer, actor, writer and scholar in the 1930s and '40s]. He got done in by McCarthy. Charlie Chaplin had his problems, too [drummed out of America because of supposed leftist leanings].
So there have always been people like that, but nowadays it's a much more prevalent phenomenon, which is a great thing.

Q: You mentioned one of the great artists of all time — Charlie Chaplin. Your song from the new album "Too Much Rain," I understand, was inspired by "Smile."
A: Not many people know Chaplin wrote "Smile." It's one of those things, like, do you know who wrote this? In a quiz, they'll come up with Cole Porter, Irving Berlin. That was Chaplin! The man's a genius. The idea of a comedian writing of smiling through your sorrows is a very moving, powerful idea. And when I was coming to write this song, I was conscious of my wife [activist/model Heather Mills] mainly having had quite a lot of tragic moments. She had a rather tough upbringing and had an accident in which she lost her leg. And we both love the song "Smile," because of what it says, and I was just inspired by that: In one life, too much rain. And hoping to achieve the same kind of effect — when someone is down and out, and does not know where to go, if that song, or "Smile," comes on the radio, it's uplifting.

Q: There is a certain kind of romanticism on the new album, and it seems you're in a special place in your life right now. I feel that the concert is going to reflect that.
A: Well, yeah, I think it does. American audiences are amazing for me. They always were for the Beatles, they always were for Wings. There is a special thing. We always used to say if Elvis ever came to Britain, he was God. And the fact that he was Elvis, and he was American, is a pretty good combination. And I always think, the Beatles, and they're British, goes down pretty well over here. It's a pretty cool combination. We are getting such great warmth and feedback from the audience, it is something to behold. I know it's quite emotional, I must say. Bring your hankie.
I remember going to concerts and paying all my hard-earned money out on what was then an equally expensive ticket — 'cause concerts are expensive these days, and we always pitch ourselves not at the top and not at the bottom, we try to come in somewhere in the middle — but what I hope is that every single member of the audience goes away and says it was worth every cent. I must say we are getting that. It's a great buzz, and I will be doing it in about a half-hour's time.

Patrick MacDonald: 206-464-2312, pmacdonald@seattletimes.com

 Отправлено: 02.11.05 12:56. Заголовок: Re:

Оставлю место

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для статьи

 Отправлено: 02.11.05 13:02. Заголовок: Re:

McCartney performs both the gritty and greats

By Mark Brown, Rocky Mountain News
November 2, 2005

When you reach the level of icon, people will applaud you for merely showing up. They'll go wild just because you're in their presence.

There are plenty of artists who are happy to just take that, serve up the same old show and be back at the hotel before the crowd even makes it to their cars.

( 1ноября прошел концерт Пола в Денвере, ниже я выложила фотки с этого концерта)
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Когда ты становишься для людей иконой для поклонения люди апплодируют тебе, только за то, что ты появился. Они сходят с ума только от твоего присутствия.
Есть много таких звезд, которые счастливы принять это, играют одно и то же старое шоу, и возвращаются в отель, даже до того как толпа разойдется по своим машинам.
(Да-а-а-а, , явно видно, что этот репортер не долюбливает Пола)

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