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January 31, 2005

Macca and his band arrived in Jacksonville Sunday to rehearse for the Super Bowl. The first rehearsal will be on Wednesday.

Some 2,000 volunteers in their 20's have been chosen to yell, scream and cheer in front of the stage for Paul's performance.

January 29, 2005

Sightings

Here's more about Paul and Heather's vacation (the first week in January) at Parrot Cay in the Turks & Caicos islands.

While sunning themselves at the pool, Paul picked up baby Bea to serenade her and was joined in song by Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones who was also vacationing on the island.

January 27, 2005 -- Contact Music

McCartney Misses Late Mother

Sir Paul McCartney's daughter Stella wishes her mother Linda was still alive - because the photographer would be so proud of her daughter's fashion career.

Pregnant designer Stella misses chatting over the telephone with her late mum, who died of cancer in 1998, and believes the fervent animal campaigner would be thrilled with her conscientious approach to fashion.

Stella says, "She would have loved some of the things I've done recently.

"She would have loved all my veggie shoes and she would have dug the ADIDAS thing. She'd have loved the perfume. It's a bummer.

"At the weekend I really wanted to call her, talk c**p down the phone. I didn't have anything to say, just sort of babble."

Despite being close friends with Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow, Stella considers her mother the "classiest woman" she has known.

She adds, "She wasn't like Jackie O - you don't think of her like that - but just the way she handled herself and the decisions she made and the way she interacted with people was so fluid and natural and classy.

"It wasn't about her. It was about everyone else."

January 26, 2005 - TOUR NEWS!

McCartney Nailing Down North American Tour

PAUL'S US TOUR TICKETS MAY GO ONSALE AT THE END OF FEBRUARY!!

Sir Paul McCartney will take advantage of media focus surrounding his halftime performance at Super Bowl XXXIX on Feb. 6 to announce his upcoming tour of North America, sources tell Billboard.com. The Beatles legend will play 38 North American cities beginning Sept. 16 in Miami and running until the end of November.

Tickets are expected to go on sale the last week in February. McCartney last visited North American in 2002 as part of a world tour that grossed more than $126 million and drew nearly one million fans.

McCartney is working on a new album for Capitol but no timetable has been set for its release. As previously reported, the artist has collaborated with producer Nigel Godrich (Beck, Radiohead) and multi-instrumentalist Jason Falkner on the set, which will be his first studio album since 2001's "Driving Rain."

The touring landscape will be relatively crowded with superstars this fall, as U2 will be on the second U.S. leg of its Vertigo tour, and the Rolling Stones also are believed to have an outing in the works.

January 26, 2005 -- LIPA Press Release

The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) has announced plans to hold U.S. auditions in Austin on April 9, 2005. The highly regarded performing arts college rarely holds auditions in the United States, so this event will provide an opportunity for students from throughout the U.S. to audition for the prestigious school without the expense of traveling to Liverpool.

The auditions will be held on Saturday, April 9th, at 501 Post/501 Audio located at 501 North IH 35 in Austin, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. LIPA was co-founded by Paul McCartney and Mark Featherstone-Witty. Featherstone-Witty will be in Austin for the auditions.

"LIPA provides a tremendous learning experience for many young people who want to enter the music business and other performing arts," said McCartney. "We are so pleased to offer auditions in the U.S., and are especially pleased to have them in Austin, a city where music is such an important part of the culture."

LIPA opened in 1996 with nearly 190 students. Now, there are 650 students from 35 countries worldwide. (Roughly 40 come from the United States.) Students study a range of diploma and degree programs in audio engineering, technical theater, theater design, popular music, arts management, acting and dance. Music is the largest program, where students can study styles ranging from rock to rhythm & blues, production and performance.

Popular Austin performer Django Walker is a graduate of LIPA. The British band "The Zutons," scheduled to play at the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin in March, are also graduates of LIPA.

For information about audition requirements, visit http://www.lipa.ac.uk or email LIPA's International Administrator, Cath Cullen, at c.cullen@lipa.ac.uk

Background on LIPA Beatles producer George Martin first introduced Paul McCartney and Mark Featherstone-Witty. At the time, McCartney was looking for a way to help his hometown of Liverpool and had discovered that the 1825 building where he had attended school (then the Liverpool Institute for Boys) was in a state of decay.

In the meantime, Featherstone-Witty had been excited about the 1980 film, Fame, because it inspired him to think about what training would have best prepared him for his acting career and others in the performing arts. The film gave him the idea that performing artists, while focusing on one performing skill, needed to learn the other two as well. Eventually, he honed his ideas into a blueprint for a new type of training and by 1985, he had nearly 50 artists, directors, choreographers and entrepreneurs backing him. He formed a charity called the Schools for Performing Arts Trust (SPA Trust). It was around this time that he was introduced to McCartney. As luck would have it, at about the same time, the City of Liverpool was looking into initiatives which could build on the city's reputation as a music city. Over time, plans crystallized into what later became LIPA.
January 26, 2005

McCartney 2005 Tour Rumors

So far the unconfirmed cities and venues are New York (Madison Square Garden), St. Paul/Minneapolis, Chicago (United Center), Los Angeles (Staples Center), Des Moines (opening the Wells Fargo Arena), Miami (American Airlines Arena), Denver (Pepsi Center -date in November), Las Vegas (MGM Grand -date in November), Atlanta, Cincinnati, Boston.
January 26, 2005 -- New YorkPost

Sightings

Paul McCartney, wife Heather and daughter Bea sunning at the pool at Parrot Cay in the Turks & Caicos islands with Keith Richards and his two dogs.

January 26, 2005 -- Telegraph

Stella gets her groove back

She's the billionaire's daughter who went to a comprehensive school, the militant vegetarian who wears leather boots; no wonder the fashion designer Stella McCartney has spent most of her life on the defensive. Has her success - and impending motherhood - finally allowed her to relax? Almost, finds Sabine Durrant.

Stella McCartney, a vegetarian, has it written into her contract at Gucci, the parent company of her fashion label, that she won't work with leather or fur.

She is vocal in her condemnation of the coats of her friends Madonna, say, or Gwyneth. ('I'm always, like, "What the f***k are you doing with that?"') She has banned the hunt from crossing her Worcestershire estate, and worked with the organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on a film about the brutality of animal slaughter. It's even been reported she won't sit on a leather chair.

'Nothing dead,' she once said, 'ever walks through my door.'

We've arranged to meet on neutral ground a café near her London house but none the less I've taken care not to upset her: tweed shoes, a canvas bag. At the last minute I remember my belt and dash to the loo to remove it. When she arrives the first thing I notice is her cowboy boots, the colour of pale calf, slightly battered. They look so much like leather it's uncanny.

'Yeah, I know,' she says, and tucks them out of sight. They must be the ones she sells the veggie shoes that have been such a hit in her shops. I bend to admire them again, to touch them, but she's tucked her feet so far under her stool I can't reach them. It's only then it dawns that something dead may, actually, have walked out of her door.

'Oh, these are leather,' I say. 'No, wait, these are vintage,' she replies.

Around Stella McCartney some puzzling contradictions tend to cluster. Paul and Linda spent all those years in Sussex bringing up her and her siblings as normal kids: local comprehensive, country lanes, shared bedrooms. And yet it happened anyway: she finished her degree at Central St Martins in 1995 a ready-made McCartney model of pop chick/fashion/vintage/cool.

You'd think she'd do anything to prove she's more than her name, but she doesn't seem able to leave it alone. She called the perfume she launched in 2003 Stella because, 'It's the name that my Mum and Dad gave to me so it is very special,' which could be a sweet form of name-dropping.

She cares enough about the environment to create a wildlife haven on her 271-acre estate, to ask guests at her wedding (she married Alasdhair Willis, the former publisher of Wallpaper magazine, in 2003) to donate trees instead of gifts. And yet she works in an industry where it is considered normal to bike round a press pack comprising four cardboard folders containing between them 95 pieces of thick paper.

And, while she speaks in the streetwise half-mockney, half-transatlantic tones adopted by some young actresses and models lots of 'kind of like's, and statements with question marks at the end, a sprinkling of swear-words to show she doesn't care she is sufficiently removed from the realities of the street to be able to ask without a flicker of irony, 'Do you have a country house?'

There are those who'd like to believe her light on talent a convenient brand for others to hang their coats on who jump happily on the losses her label made in its first and second years (£2.7/$5.2 million and £4.5/$8.6 million respectively), and who see the flourishing of the Chloé brand since she left in 2001 (sales have reportedly risen by 40 per cent) as proof that the fourfold increases in sales under her tenure were due, all the time, to her friend, colleague and successor as head designer, Phoebe Philo.

But there are others passionate in their support for her fashion editors, all those people who keep giving her big jobs who blame market forces for her recent rockiness, who point at how her own style has softened and evolved since her (badly reviewed) first solo collection, and how a label needs time to develop, who would sell their right arm to get their left hand on a pair of her jeans. An e-mail from the fashion department at this magazine arrives headed 'We love Stella! We love Stella!'

After all the talk, all those sheets of paper, there's a little bit of the Wizard of Oz about this ordinary young woman in her beat-up cowboy boots in this small café in Notting Hill. The three of us her publicist, Stéphane, a snake-hipped Frenchman, is here too sit on stools at a bar by the window, which means Stella McCartney spends the whole time facing a reflection of Stella McCartney.

She is five months pregnant and has a bad back, which may be why her posture is so erect, her feet neatly together, her hands for the most part clenched in her lap. She is 33 and looks gentler, less sulky and more wholesome than in pictures her reddish hair long and pulled back, no make-up on her cold-tinged face, the little extra plumpness adding softness to her features.

She's wearing a purple coat with straps and buttons, and seems too self-conscious about her bulge to take it off. 'I'm in total denial about buying stuff for being pregnant,' she says, wrapping it closely around her.

'I really do seem to have an issue with it. I go for anything big enough, anything that will fit me. This is, like, two seasons old.' 'Autumn/winter 03,' interjects Stéphane. McCartney: 'Exactly. I don't even know when it is.'

Stéphane: 'A year ago.'

'A year ago,' repeats McCartney.

Stéphane is here to check no questions are asked about McCartney's pregnancy or 'her family' (though both are subjects she keeps coming back to herself) and that we keep to Fashion, specifically the range of 'performance wear' she is launching for Adidas.

Stéphane is an insistent prompter. How does she choose what to put on when she's not pregnant?

'I go for the things everyone probably goes for. I don't go massively for what people think when they look at me. I go for comfort and ease and...'

Stéphane: 'Sexy as well, I think.' McCartney: 'Sexy. Yeah...'

What is she like as an employer (she has four designers working with her and, shops included, has 55 people on her payroll)? 'Oh God I don't know. The fact that I'm probably I'm a boss! It's a worry! I have no idea. I think'

Stéphane: 'A team player. I think that is something.'

How will the arrival of the baby in April change things?

'I don't really know. I'm sort of playing it by ear. I don't really know what one does, so I'm kinda like I don't really wanna know? I think people will come to me, to my house, probably.'

Stéphane (soothingly): 'That's what we're going to do. That's what we're going to do.'

It's not that McCartney is chippy or defensive. She's clearly trying to be nice ('Aw bless,' she says to me at one point). It's more that she seems so crippled by how she'll be perceived, how you might present her, that she can't relax enough to reflect on a question properly.

Asked whether the physical changes of pregnancy affect her attitude to the female form, she snaps, 'I haven't got saggy tits. Yet. For the record.'

She says 'obviously I' several times as if you know as much about her as she does. And a lot of her answers are tangled up in things that have been said about her in the past, or might be said about her in future. She 'hates', she says, the elitist element of what she does.

'I grew up buying clothes in high-street shops and, whether people like to think I'm talking a load of crap or not, I did.'

She may never have heard of Primart ('Primart? Where is Primart? You make me feel really uncool. Bloody hell'), but does she still wander into Topshop now and again?

'No. I haven't done for a really long time. I don't really go shopping any more. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I don't like getting recognised to be totally honest. I feel people would be going, "That's Stella McCartney. What the hell's she doing in Topshop?" Do you know what I mean?'

What about Trinny and Susannah does she ever watch them? McCartney's chin hardens: 'Never.'

Stéphane: 'What? What?'

McCartney: 'Those two girls that talk about everyone, what they wear.'

Stéphane nods: 'What's it called? What To Wear? What Not To Wear?'

McCartney: 'They weren't very nice about me once, so obviously I don't warm to them.'

Stéphane: 'I think they rang up to borrow some clothes from you.'

McCartney: 'Oh, maybe they're nice about me now.' She smiles slyly. 'In which case I love it. It's my favourite programme.'

When she relaxes a little she allows herself to be more interesting. I tell her that I've just been to her shop in Bruton Street 'Was that the first time? Naughty girl!' and that I'd tried on two items: a floaty eau-de-nil jersey top that I'd loved ('Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait for the sale. Perfect') and a ludicrous rust and orange silk bomber jacket that cost more than £1,000 ($1,930) and which I'd put on for a laugh but which felt quite nice on.

'Yeah, I think so. I think it's the amount of padding we put in it and the kind of padding. It was to get that feeling of being wrapped in something and really cosy and protected, but then keep some kind of femininity?'

Would she say that her clothes are as much for how they feel as how they look?

'Definitely. I've always done that. I've always felt that was important. In my degree show I did all these slip dresses with the satin on the inside and the crêpe side out and it was really for me There's something even more sexual, certainly as sexy, to a garment if you the wearer have secrets, and you the wearer are having an experience. I think it lends itself to how you carry yourself and your attitude.

'Obviously I've always loved antiques and vintage things. I went through a real spell of wearing vintage stockings, finding brand new packets of them in flea markets, and I've always loved that thing about stockings only you know that you've got stockings on. The guy doesn't know unless he gets lucky and it's just so sexy.

'There's something really important in that. I think fashion is about psychological, you know, responses to things and that's part of the job.' She pauses, and then with sudden dryness: 'Thank God. You tried on two things that fitted well. It's rare to hear that in my industry.'

She has reached a stage in her life, she goes on to say, 'when I know I have to be true to myself. I think probably part of my upbringing has made me so I can't function on things that are purely financially based. For me, you know, I really have to have a belief behind it.

'I base all of my decisions on whether it's going to be an interesting project and whether it's going to have validity and when I can talk about it and not actually talk a load of crap.'

Enter Adidas. They approached her about designing for their 'old-school' division, 'and I thought, "How much can I do with three stripes running down a nylon sweatpant?" That's not the biggest challenge for me.'

Instead, she suggested she work on their 'high-performance' side, using new technical materials.

'I think they're surprised at how hands-on I've been. I'm very verbal. They learnt about bringing detail back to sportswear. I question every single thing.'

Stéphane interrupts: 'And the colour palette as well. You made a big influence on that.'

McCartney glances at him and continues.

'Women are not educated in what they have to wear technically to enhance what they're doing. Sneakers are always crap, they're baby pink or baby blue, they're like My Little Pony. They're offensive. I don't see the reason for that.

'I'm like, "Why? Give me a reason for that?" Why is it that I always want the guy's sneaker but they don't do my size? Why is it when they do the guy's sneaker for women, they do it a nasty colour? Like, why is that? Who is designing this stuff?'

She is rubbing her face as she talks, and when she takes her hand away there's a red mark. 'I could talk about it until the cows come home,' she says, then goes quiet.

Stéphane says, 'It takes a year and a half to develop a sole.'

Something changes shortly after this as if she has let some sort of feeling through her defences and McCartney starts talking about her mother, who died in 1998.

'She would have loved some of the things I've done recently,' she tells me. 'She would have loved all my veggie shoes and she would have dug the Adidas thing. She'd have loved the perfume. It's a bummer. At the weekend I really wanted to call her, talk crap down the phone. I didn't have anything to say, just sort of babble. She was the classiest woman I know. And class? You can't buy class, you know?

'She wasn't like Jackie O you don't think of her like that but just the way she handled herself and the decisions she made and the way she interacted with people was so fluid and natural and classy. It wasn't about her. It was about everyone else.'

I tell her that a journalist I know once almost fainted when he went to interview her father and that her mother had been sweet to him. She smiles.

'I would expect nothing less from my mother. People always have stories like that. "I met your parents once; your dad was in a bad mood and your mum came in and said, 'Do you want a cup of tea?'" It's really reaffirming to hear that.'

It seems to be all right now to talk about her family, to touch on her daily life. She spends the week in London, and the weekend in Worcestershire where she's having a garden made. ('Not cheap are they, gardens? Bloody hell. But part of the beauty of it is watching it grow. It's going to sound really naff on paper, that.')

At the moment she is 'being, like, this perfect role-model pregnant woman. I don't go out. I'm not drinking.'

She walks or cycles with her dog, a border collie called Red, in Hyde Park. She usually rides her horse Flo Jo as much as she can, but she's promised her husband 'a good egg' that she won't for the moment.

'My mum rode every single day, all of her life, but we're not as free as they were then. She was being a bit of a hippy living in Scotland when she had me. And if anything happened, I'd feel terrible. I'm not only responsible for myself and the baby. I've got Alasdhair to think about. I'll be back on my horse the moment I've squeezed it out. Can't wait.'

She met Willis at a meeting his company was pitching for (and won) the contract to design her logo. (He wears amber 'very masculine and sexy' which, along with her mother's love of roses, was one of the inspirations for her perfume.) She's got some 'really amazing friends', but none from school 'my school thing was wrapped around that learning experience of being a kid of someone. I was very wary and protective, jumpy, not very settled about it' or from St Martins (where Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell modelled at her degree show).

'No. It was all fashiony. Everyone loved fashion and it was a bit, like, eugh.'

People like to say relations are strained between her and Phoebe Philo, whom she met at St. Martins (and who has just had a baby). It would be a good opportunity to put the record straight, to congratulate Philo on being Designer of the Year perhaps, but she doesn't.

She's close to her siblings, she says her half-sister, Heather, her older sister, Mary, and younger brother, James. And, though 'I would not be so immodest as to say I'm the best auntie in the world', she is 'madly in love' with Mary's two children. She doesn't mention Paul's daughter from his second marriage to the model Heather Mills. Neither her half-sister Heather nor her brother James has children, so Mary's, she says, 'are the only kids so far'.

At the end of the interview she looks tired. It's late Friday afternoon, but she has more meetings before she can go home. That morning she was at a costume-hire place doing research for her next collection ('Autumn/winter 2005,' says Stéphane). Her sales are reportedly up 65 per cent, her last collection had good reviews, and Robert Polet, the new chief executive of the Gucci group, has given her and the group's other eponymous label, Alexander McQueen, until 2007 to break even.

'I'm working at so many different million things at the same time,' she says. 'It's hard.'

As we stand up she wriggles her shoulders to stretch out her back. When she looks at her feet again, your heart goes out. The famous daughter, the fashion designer, the ordinary woman who makes mistakes.

'The cowboy boots I should have worn,' she says, 'are the ones from the last winter show like, fake leather with canvas in the middle? And then it wouldn't have come up.'

January 26, 2005 -- Contact Music

The top ten British showbiz earners in 2004

Sir Elton John has beaten Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne to top a list naming the biggest British celebrity earner in 2004.

The 57-year-old singer knocked veteran rockers The Rolling Stones off the top spot by making a staggering $62 million (£33 million) last year.

In second place, The Osbournes earned $38 million (£20 million), while third placed Amerian Idol and The X Factor judge Simon Cowell made $34 million (£18 million).

The Stones fell from pole position to number 11, having made $19 million (£10 million) in the list drawn up by British magazine OK!.

The top ten British showbiz earners in 2004 are:

1. SIR ELTON JOHN - $62.7 million (£33 million)
2. THE OSBOURNES - $38 million (£20 million)
3. SIMON COWELL - $34.2 million (£18 million)
4. STING - $32.3 (£17 million)
5. ROD STEWART - $30.4 million (£16 million)
6. SIR PAUL McCARTNEY - $30.4 million (£16 million)
7. SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS - $28.5 million (£15 million
8. PHIL COLLINS - $28.5 million (£15 million)
9. CATHERINE ZETA-JONES - $26.6 million (£14 million)
10. JUDE LAW - $22.8 million (£12 million).

January 25, 2005 -- Contact Music

McCARTNEY TO GO ON SHOW

Pop legend Sir Paul McCartney's Manhattan apartment is now visible from New York's Museum of Modern Art after the center was given a multi-million dollar make-over.

The world famous museum has added a new floor-to-ceiling glass facade which, unintentionally, gives visitors a perfect view of the 54th Street home the former Beatle shares with wife Heather Mills.

One of McCartney's neighbors fumes, "I don't know if Paul McCartney has complained yet but a number of us have. But the next time he arrives to stay here, he'll discover he's living in a fish bowl now.

"I suspect once word of this leaks out, people will be paying their admission fees not to view museum exhibits but to see what's on show in his apartment.

"He'll find he's lost every single shred of privacy he enjoyed, which is probably why he bought a home here in the first place."

A spokesperson insists McCartney is not yet aware of the problem, but adds it will be investigated on the singer's behalf.

January 25, 2005 -- Daily Mail

Stella Uncowed

Arriving at a London cafe for her interview with Stella McCartney, the writer Sabine Durrant wears tweet shoes and discards her leather belt. She's mindful of the fashion designer's well-publicized hatred of leather - "nothing dead ever walks through my door," she once said.

Miss McCartney arrives wearing cowboy boots. Dawning on her that something dead may, actually, have walked out of Stella's door, Miss Durrant says pointing at the boots, "Oh, these are leather." To which the patron saint of cows replies, "No, wait, these are vintage." Newly dead cows, bad; old dead cows, OK.

January 24, 2005 -- Adopt-A-Minefield

The Adopt-A-Minefield/Heather Mills McCartney Celebrity Golf Challenge

The Berkshire Golf Club, near Ascot - Friday 6th May, 2005

Confirmed Golfing Celebrities include: Robert Powell, Bruce Forsyth, Mark Nicholas, Jimmy Hill, Steve Backley, Sue Thearle, Kriss Akabusi, Andy Gray, Ray Clemence, Kevin Whately, Richard Keys, Floella Benjamin and Alan Hansen

Strong commitments from: Rory Bremner, Jasper Carrott, Marcus Buckland, Tessa Sanderson, Bobby Robson and Matthew Pinsent

Auction Prizes already received from Brian Wilson, Paul Newman, Ringo Starr, Sir George Martin, Sir Bobby Charlton, Tony Bennett, Sir Steven Redgrave, Alan Titchmarsh, Nick Knight, Peter Blake, The current England Football Team and Phil Collins.

£2,000 ($3,860) will allow a team of three players to play a round of golf with a celebrity.

For more information about taking part please e-mail: golf@landmines.org.uk

Volunteers required to help run the day. If interested and available on Thursday 5th May or Friday 6th May please e-mail: golfvol@landmines.org.uk

January 24, 2005 -- Rocky Mountain News

RUMORS AND HEARSAY

As expected, watch for Paul McCartney to make his U.S. tour announcement when he's at the Super Bowl, including a Denver date the first week of November.

January 23, 2005 -- USA Today

NFL strives to ensure superclean Super Bowl

In one culturally defining moment - when Justin Timberlake brashly exposed Janet Jackson's right breast during last year's Super Bowl halftime show in Houston - the image of the Super Bowl went from that of five-star family fare to an X-rated joke.

"It was a complete breakdown of common sense and common decency," says Bob Costas, NBC sports anchor. "The NFL doesn't usually leave much to chance. Either they completely dropped the ball, or they're being disingenuous (about being taken by surprise)." (Related: No tape delay during halftime show)

Before Super Bowl XXXIX is broadcast on Fox on Feb. 6 from Jacksonville, the National Football League is out to do everything in its power to put the event back on the towering pedestal from which it fell. The league has taken full control of the halftime show. It is signing off on every song that will be sung, every outfit that will be worn and every dance step that will be gyrated. In the process, it's trying to bring back family viewing to the Super Bowl.

The NFL didn't get everything it wanted from Fox. There will not be a five- or 10-second delay of the halftime show broadcast, the NFL and Fox agreed Thursday. "It's their network," says Brian McCarthy, an NFL spokesman.

Fox executives have been against the delay from Day 1. "We don't believe it's necessary," says David Hill, CEO of Fox Sports Television Group. After all, Paul McCartney - no threat to do the unexpected - is the halftime entertainer, he says. "When there's no potential issue, why bother with a delay?"

The NFL has spent a year trying to sanitize every moment of this year's game. It replaced the risqué Jackson with McCartney, who rates a zero on the controversy meter. Even then, NFL officials have had long meetings with McCartney and staff in London to review every second of his 12-minute show.

NFL executives want nothing unplanned, particularly because they want to make sure this year's Super Bowl does nothing to tarnish the game next year in Detroit - expected to be the biggest of all.

After all, it'll be Super Bowl XL.

January 23, 2005 -- UK News

Paul promises clean show

Organizers of the US's biggest sporting event have promised a return to family-friendly fare and no repeat of last year's "wardrobe malfunction".

Host broadcaster CBS received an unprecedented 500,000 complaints after Justin Timberlake exposed Janet Jackson's right breast during half-time entertainment.

Sponsors vanished, CBS was fined $715,000, and the National Football League lost its reputation as a show the whole family could watch.

Now, the NFL has revealed how far it has gone out of its way to ensure good, clean fun.

Half-time entertainment at this year's 39th Super Bowl, on February 6 in Jacksonville, Florida, will be headlined by Paul McCartney, who has promised not to take off his clothes until after the show.

Other well-behaved performers include Alicia Keys, John Fogerty and country music singer Josh Gracin.

Fox hosts this year's game and the producer of last year's half-time show, MTV, has not been invited back.

The NFL had wanted to impose a 10-second delay on the broadcast but agreed to a live broadcast after Fox pointed out that Sir Paul and Keys were unlikely to do anything but sing.

Still, NFL executives went to Britain for extensive talks with Sir Paul and his staff about the precise detail of his show.

Every second of the show has been rehearsed and vetted by the jittery league. Fox has also banned any risque advertisements from its Super Bowl coverage.

As for the game itself, if anyone's still interested, final teams have not been decided. Playoffs continue this weekend.

January 21, 2005 -- PRNewswire

NFL Bridges Generations in Super Bowl XXXIX Pregame Show

The NFL will pair young icons and timeless legends from a variety of music genres and link fans of all ages in the "Bridging Generations" Super Bowl XXXIX pregame show on FOX Sunday, February 6 at ALLTEL Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, the NFL announced today. In addition, the NFL will honor current and former members of the military with a special salute and performance of the National Anthem. Details will be announced shortly.

The pregame show and Ameriquest Mortgage Super Bowl XXXIX Halftime Show starring PAUL McCARTNEY reflect the overall Super Bowl XXXIX theme of "Building Bridges," which represents both the Jacksonville landscape with its many bridges and the many ways the NFL unites communities and people of all ages around their passion for football and the Super Bowl.

Country star GRETCHEN WILSON, who earned the 2004 Billboard Music Awards for both female country artist and new country artist of the year and is nominated for four Grammys, will team with the legendary CHARLIE DANIELS BAND, which has thrilled audiences for more than 40 years.

BLACK EYED PEAS, who are nominated for four Grammys, including record of the year, will perform with EARTH, WIND AND FIRE, one of the world's most enduring and adored R&B groups.

Grammy-award winning ALICIA KEYS will perform "America the Beautiful," in a special tribute to the legendary RAY CHARLES, who grew up near Jacksonville and passed away in June 2004. She will be accompanied on Charles' signature song by 150 members from the St. Augustine-based Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, which Charles attended in his youth and where he developed his passion for music.

FOX also will bring viewers inside the NFL Tailgate Party where 2004 Grammy nominee and double platinum recording artist KELLY CLARKSON and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame great JOHN FOGERTY will be performing.

Watched by a record 144.4 million viewers in the U.S. last year, the Super Bowl is annually the nation's highest-rated TV program and the most-watched single-day sporting event.

Don Mischer Productions will produce the pregame show in addition to the Ameriquest Mortgage Super Bowl XXXIX Halftime Show. Kenny Ortega, who worked with Don Mischer Productions during the 1996 Summer and 2002 Winter Olympics, will serve as pregame show producer and field director.

January 19, 2005

The Roaches gift to Macca

RAI RADIO UNO, the number one radio station in Italy will celebrate The Roaches, the funniest and most lovable Italian Beatles tribute band with the release of their new single "When On The Radio." You can hear the song, written as a gift for Paul McCartney who performed two concerts in Rome back in 2003.

Hear The Roaches' song here.

January 19, 2005 -- PaulMcCartney.com

Paul McCartney's "Whole Life" available for download on iTunes

Paul McCartney's 46664 track "Whole Life" is now available to buy on iTunes in the US. It is one of only a handful of Paul tracks available to download and is not in the shops. The track was written and performed with Dave Stewart at Abbey Road studio in late 2003. The 4 track EP also includes Queen, Jimmy Cliff, Sting and even Nelson Mandela himself. The EP was released exclusively through iTunes in the UK and Europe two weeks ago.

The 46664 '1 Year On' EP offers 4 tracks specially written for Nelson Mandela's Global 46664 initiative.

The tracks feature unique one-off collaborations that see Paul McCartney and David A Stewart working together; Jimmy Cliff with Sting and Tony Rebel, and a new Queen track featuring Nelson Mandela himself reading from his own writings, track listed as follows:

1. Queen + Nelson Mandela - Invincible Hope
2. Whole Life - Paul McCartney/David A Stewart
3. People - Jimmy Cliff featuring Sting & Tony Rebel
4. Freedom's Coming - Da Universal Playaz

A donation in respect of each download sold will be given to the Nelson Mandela Foundation to assist the 46664 campaign in the ongoing fight against HIV/AIDS.

For more information and to download the 46664 '1 Year On' EP go to www.46664.com. If you already have iTunes just go to the Music Store to find the EP.

If you do not have iTunes (which is free) click here.

January 18, 2005 -- Periodico26

Paul McCartney's Promise to Revisit Cuban City Recalled by Locals

Five years following the visit by former-Beatle Paul McCartney to the city of Santiago de Cuba, there remains an expectation that he may return someday - as he promised during his first visit to this city.

On January 14, 2000, accompanied by his two children, he surprised everyone when he walked into the Pepe Sanchez Trova House located on the city's busy Heredia Street, where he enjoyed traditional Afro-Cuban music interpreted by the Conjunto Moneda Nacional.

While sitting on the front row enjoying the contagious melodies, McCartney attempted to join in and play some of the artful rifts.

At the downtown cultural institution, the former-Beatle also purchased various CD's, among them those of Grammy-winner Eliades Ochoa of Buena Vista Social Club fame.

McCartney enjoyed lunch at the El Morro Restaurant, where he preferred to eat, despite its distance from the city. When he left the restaurant he wrote on the visitors' book, "Very good, I'll be back."

The restaurants employees remember Paul's visit five years ago, at which time they served him scrambled eggs and vegetables, pineapple cocktail, locally-drafted "Mayabe" beer and chocolate ice cream.

Since then, the furniture, plates, and eating utensils used by the McCartney's are part of the restaurant's attraction, now famous for its popularity among visitors.

With its colonial-style furniture, the restaurant has a unique aura - located only meters away from the San Pedro de la Roca Castle, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It also is situated at the entrance of Santiago's bay, where commercial airplanes fly over the eatery's guests.

McCartney and his children went on to visit the nearby fortress and were impressed by its architectural jewels that date back to the 18th century.
January 17, 2005 -- The Mirror (UK)

1,000 NUMBER ONE SMASH HITS

Last night the King of Rock 'n' Roll was back on his throne as Elvis Presley's One Night became Britain's 1,000th No.1 single.

It is Elvis's 20th No.1 and secures his place as the best-selling solo artist of all time.

But Sir Paul McCartney can claim to have featured on more No.1s than any other artist - 23 in total. He's hit the top spot as a solo artist and as part of a duet, trio, quartet and quintet.

January 17, 2005 -- Liverpool Echo

Gala tickets selling fast

Tickets for the ECHO's gala concert in aid of the victims of the tsunami disaster went on sale today. The concert at the Philharmonic Hall has seen a host of stars agreeing to donate their time.

The Boxing Day tsunami devastated 11 countries, and the death toll continues to rise.

Indonesia increased the number of those killed by the tsunami by 5,000 today, pushing the overall figure to more than 162,000 people.

Tens of thousands of people are still homeless as authorities struggle to identify the dead and locate the missing.

Charities working in the worst- hit areas have stepped up campaigns to prevent malaria, measles, cholera, typhoid, dysentery and other diseases that are spreading throughout refugee camps in the disaster zone.

Tetanus was detected in 67 people in Indonesia's hard-hit Aceh province with the number expected to rise.

The ECHO gala on February 11 has already sold more than £5,000 ($9,650) of tickets in online sales and aims to raise more than £50,000 ($96,500).

Merseyside stars taking part include former Spice Girl Mel C, Gerry Marsden, Claire Sweeney and Alan Bleasdale.

ECHO editor Mark Dickinson said: "We hope that the city will get together to support such a worthy cause.

"The night promises to be a huge success with some top acts and will help rebuild the lives of many tsunami victims."

The night will also hosta grand prize auction to raise money.

Among the prizes will be Beatles memorabilia donated by Paul McCartney's brother Mike.

Liverpool business leaders are also coming forward to donate prizes and will be able to entertain clients by paying to have a box at the concert.

Merseysiders' generosity has been outstanding as fundraising events took place across the city this weekend.

Claire Sweeney described the tragedy as heartbreaking and has urged everyone to come forward to help.
January 17, 2005 -- Tracks Magazine

McCartney close encounter at the Oscars (2002)

An excerpt from the new book "The Big Show: High Times and Dirty Dealings Backstage at the Academy Awards."

The following year another rock icon played the Oscars--but this one showed up in person, drawing the stares from a pair of violinists in the Academy Awards orchestra.

"Oh my God," one of the women whispered when she saw a 59-year-old man with messy brown hair standing in the doorway of dressing room. "It's..." Before she could finish the sentence, the man looked over at her and grinned.

"Yes!" he said brightly. "It's Paul McCartney!"

Nominated for the title song of the Cameron Crowe movie "Vanilla Sky," McCartney arrived at the Kodak Theater the morning of the Oscar show and quickly got a tour of the premises from the stage manager, Debbie Williams, who told him that as a young girl she'd seen the Beatles' final concert at Candlestick Park in 1966.

"Could you see me?" he asked.
"No, not really," she confessed.
"Could you hear me?"
"Not very well."
McCartney grinned. "It was a double," he confided.
"What do you mean?"
"It was a double," he repeated solemnly. "The crowds were so far away and the girls were all screaming so loud that it didn't matter if it was us or not. We used doubles sometimes, and nobody ever noticed. It wasn't me at Candlestick."

Williams stared at him incredulously. "The biggest moment of my life," she moaned, "and you're telling me it wasn't you?"

McCartney laughed. "Gotcha," he said. "Just joking. It was me."

McCartney also told Williams that he wasn't going to take home the Oscar; it, he accurately predicted, would go to Randy Newman, a 16-time nominee who had yet to win.

January 16, 2005 -- TimesOnline

Paul and me and the hate campaign

The McCartneys, in a rare interview, tell Helen Chislett they've had enough of media sniping.

What is it with the name Heather Mills McCartney? A mere mention of the fact that I have met and interviewed her twice (the first time when she was plain Heather Mills) invokes an alarming reaction: "That terrible woman - only married him for the money, didn't she?" is the verdict among women. Male friends mutter about her influence on Paul.

I have interviewed some controversial figures in my time - including David Mellor, Christine Hamilton and Claus von Bulow - but none elicited as strong a reaction as Heather. So let me stick my head above the parapet and say I simply do not recognize the woman as she is so often described.

I first met the Mills sisters six years ago when I interviewed them for the Relative Values section of the Sunday Times Magazine. My memories of Heather were of a straight-talking, determined woman whose moral fibre ran through her.

Heather and Paul McCartney's usual response to media articles is to keep silent. But there are particular reasons why they would now like to put the record straight. First, there is their one-year-old daughter, Beatrice. Heather worries she will die prematurely like her own mother (who also had a leg severed in a car accident and who later died of complications) and that Beatrice's impressions of her will be tarnished by the press cuttings.

She and Paul are vigilant about protecting their daughter's privacy, "I don't want her growing up like a celebrity baby; it's hard enough being a McCartney child," says Heather. "All I will say is that she is the light of my life and I am really happy."

The other reason is the negative impact such press has on her charity work for Adopt-a-Minefield, of which the McCartneys are joint patrons and goodwill ambassadors. Heather is now considering stepping down from high-profile duties as a result. "You might hate me, you might want to tear me apart, but don't hurt the people I am trying to help. Find another way," she says.

Heather speaks from experience: a few years ago a paper threatened to go to press with accusations so libellous it eventually did not run the piece. But even the suggestion of publication was enough to scupper a deal with a manufacturer of prosthetic limbs who was to donate 3,000 of them to Adopt-a-Minefield. The company withdrew its support and gave its reason as Heather's bad press: "Because the factory pulled out, 3,000 kids did not get limbs for nine months. Can you imagine how terrible I felt about that?" she says.

Our interview came about as a result of an article in the Sunday Times Magazine that she found hurtful . After I read it, I contacted her sister Fiona to make clear how I felt about Heather, having met her before.

Ten days later, Paul was on the phone and Heather decided she wanted to be interviewed in person. She wanted people to know that while she tries to rise above the taunts, they hurt her to the core.

Finding a discreet venue was difficult, so we agreed she would come to my home - a half-hour drive from the McCartney farmhouse near Rye. She arrived in a modest country taxi, striding up the muddy path in red killer spiked Stella McCartney heels. As you would expect from a former model and self-confessed fitness freak, she looks good in the flesh - slim figure, glowing skin and wide smile. You would be hard pressed to notice her disability: the clue is that she looks even slimmer from the left because of her atrophied leg.

For the next two hours she talked about the extraordinary life she was catapulted into when she married Paul - and the devastating effect it is having on her charity work.

"I went from being someone who never had a negative article written about them to being absolutely persecuted," she recalls. "It was initially such a shock. Now I feel as though I am stuck in prison and then eventually they go after someone else and I am allowed out on probation. There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life. I was nowhere near as sensitive as I am now."

Paul has spent 40 years under the spotlight but it infuriates him when Heather is attacked, "Even though she has been through all the personal tragedies that she has come through in her life, this sort of thing seems to her more unfair than all of them put together. I might view an article as a clear bit of nonsense, but the worst thing is that people might then question whether to support our charity or not - that is the most insidious consequence.

"The thing is that Heather is for real and if someone is dissing her work to that degree, then she really takes it to heart," adds Paul. He is aware that marriage to him has been something of a poisoned chalice. "I don't allow myself to feel guilty," he says, "but it certainly occurs to me, not just for Linda and Heather but for my kids. But I can't allow that feeling - I have to brush it aside: this is who I am and who she is and there are certainly people a hell of a lot worse off than we are."

"You must remember Linda got it too. They used to say things like, 'Poor old Paul - all he wants is a nice meaty sausage and she won't give him one'. It was as if I was a carnivore on heat dying for a piece of meat."

In fact, he finds the idea that he has picked an unsuitable wife patronising: "I might be attracted to a good-looking girl, but no way am I going to get this involved unless there is really something there. I am not a fool. I know Heather as a mum and a wife and a friend and she is fantastic in all those departments. She is a really good person."

In return, Heather thinks the portrayal of her as a gold- digger degrades them both, "That is like saying my husband is only a pot of gold; that he is not sexy, can't sing, has no humor, is not loving or romantic," she says. "Who's getting insulted here? "We are talking about someone who has had one of the most successful marriages ever in showbiz history and has a fantastic family. You can't have that without being pretty special.

"When we met, I used to tell myself that if I got even 1% of the love he had for Linda, I would be blessed. And we totally have that love."

But enough is enough, and so this year Heather is planning to step out of the limelight: "I think I should stay completely behind the scenes of the charity; it is where I do most of my work anyway.

"I don't want to expose myself to being whipped and lashed any more. To feel such venom coming at you is so shocking it takes your breath away. My dream would be just to get on with my life and not be harassed or stressed. There are so many things I want to get on with, but my energy is sucked out of me the whole time dealing with situations that take me away from my child and the charity."

This would be bad news for Adopt-a-Minefield as Keith Kelly, its director, points out, "I have worked for other charities where patrons take the name of the charity as a means to self-publicity and you very rarely hear from them. That is the total opposite with Heather: she is more committed than anyone I have ever worked with.

"Adopt-a-Minefield is one of the few charities that pledges that 100% of the funds from the public go direct to clearing mines and helping survivors. We are only able to do that by using Heather and Paul's celebrity to raise money for administrative costs."

After meeting her again, it seems to me that Heather Mills McCartney suffers from strong woman syndrome. People focus on her flinty determination and forget her human side.

As Heather says, "I can handle anything thrown at me, but people really don't comprehend how much damage it does to the bigger picture. If I do something bad, then knock me down, I deserve everything I get. But don't attack me unfairly when all I want to do is the work I feel I have been put on this planet to do."

Adopt-a-Minefield: 020 7925 1500, www.landmines.org.uk

January 15, 2005 -- Daily Post

Stars line up for ECHO charity gig

A host of entertainers will take part in the Liverpool ECHO Tsunami Gala Concert.

Performers include Claire Sweeney, Gerry Marsden, Mike McCartney, Pete Wylie, Alan Bleasdale, Brian Nash, guitarist from Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

We are hoping to raise more than £50,000 ($96,500) to help those affected by the tsunami crisis.

The show, organized by the ECHO and musician Neville Skelly takes place at the city's Philharmonic Hall on Friday, February 11.

Skelly, 29, a big band leader and a swing and jazz vocalist, started his career performing on cruise ships.

He said, "I grew up in Huyton. I found music and I was fortunate enough to pursue it as a career. I always wanted to be in a position to put something back and now I can. I have travelled quite a lot and that has broadened my horizons."

But now you are more likely to see him performing at the Philharmonic himself and, over the past few years, he has helped organize gala fundraising nights for the ECHO's Sunrise appeal. His past fundraising work has made Mr Skelly a patron of the Barnados charity.

He said, "I knew from experience that it was possible logistically. I made some enquiries and got as many people on board as I could and collaborated with the ECHO.

"On your own you can only do so much but by pulling the community together we can achieve something really amazing." Among the acts performing will be some major Merseyside talents as well as other performers yet to be announced. I was overwhelmed by the response of the entertainers who wanted to contribute in any way that they could," he added.

For Skelly the people of the city are what will make the event such a success.

He said, "There is something inherent in Liverpudlians. It really is a community even in a busy city. We have suffered economically but we have such compassion and empathy for people across the world. This concert is about raising money in the best way we know how."

* Get YOUR ticket now. Tickets for the gala show cost between £15 ($29) and £30 ($58) and are available on-line at www.liverpoolphil.com from today.

Tickets will be available from the Philharmonic ticket office from Monday, January 17 at 0151-709 3789.

January 14, 2005 -- NME.com

TAKE GLASTONBURY HOME

The first official best of Glastonbury Festival DVD compilation which chronicles the last 10 years of the event's history will be released March 21 in the UK.

The tracklisting, which includes classic performances from Blur, Paul McCartney ("Hey Jude"), Radiohead, Franz Ferdinand and Coldplay, have been chosen by fans via a poll on the festival's official website.

Over 30,000 people cast their vote before the final material for "Glastonbury Anthems The Best of 1994 to 2004" was decided.

January 14, 2005 -- AP

New Season of American Idol

Celebrity judges will be part of the audition segments for the first time but will have less of a presence during the studio episodes. Room would be made for a big-name artist - Paul McCartney is No. 1 on the most-wanted list - whose music is part of the competition, a la the Barry Manilow bonanza last season.

January 13, 2005 -- Sky News

According to Sky News Paul and Heather have been in Los Angeles, where Heather celebrated her 37th birthday on Wednesday.

January 13, 2005

"Paul McCartney Love Songs" CD shelved indefinitely

According to a source who spoke with McCartney's company MPL, the "Love Songs" CD wasn't shelved because of Yoko but for other reasons. They said that Yoko was actually "cool about the project."
January 12, 2005 -- CNN

McCartney donates $1.9 million for tsunami victims

Paul McCartney and his wife Heather are donating £1 million ($1.9 million) to help victims of the tsunami, the ex-Beatle's publicists said Wednesday.

They are giving the money to the International Rescue Committee UK, an aid group that works with the New York-based IRC network, McCartney's press office said in a statement.

The charity was "overwhelmed by this generous gesture," according to the statement. The British government has pledged some £75 million ($140 million) in aid to affected countries, while the British public has donated about £100 million ($190 million) to charities helping with the aftermath of the tsunami.

January 12, 2005 -- Beatlefan

Sources close to Capitol Records report the Paul McCartney "Love Songs" compilation is definitely off the schedule with no plans to return. This marks the second year in a row that the album had been planned for the Valentine's Day season and was scrubbed.

January 12, 2005 -- Contact Music

Paul contributes to new anti-animal cruelty book

Sir Paul McCartney has contributed to a new anti-animal cruelty book by Ingrid Newkirk, president of campaign group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

The tome "Making Kind Choices" falls in line with the Beatles legend's own views regarding the humane treatment of animals and his staunch vegetarianism.

The star was so determined to lend his support to the book, he wrote the introductory foreword section for Newkirk.

McCartney writes of the turning point in his attitude towards food, "I was sitting with Linda eating a dinner of roast lamb and watching the sheep that lived in the field outside our window.

"Seeing the lambs running up and down the field with such joy made us question the wisdom of eating such beautiful creatures."

January 12, 2005

The UMe Digital Sampler, 8 songs from 8 artists for 99 cents, including "Hurt Myself" by Rusty Anderson, will be featured on the iTunes Music Store starting January 11, 2005.

"Hurt Myself" is one of the tracks on Rusty's solo CD "Undressing Underwater," also available on iTunes.

January 11, 2005 -- Daily Post

Rumpus over 'lost' Beatles ballad

A row is looming over a possible lost Beatles song.

A senior executive from EMI in London flew to America to listen to the track, called Mississippi River Born, after it was found in a batch of tapes recorded by John Lennon.

The blues ballad was one of a number of keepsakes sold by collector Christopher Lopez. He is convinced that the song contains Paul McCartney singing at a time after the band broke up.

Lopez bought the items from American film-maker Tony Cox, Yoko Ono's former husband.

He then put them up for auction and believes they were bought by Yoko or EMI through an intermediary for more than £200,000 ($386,000).

He said, "This was one of the items the record company executive flew out from London to hear and he authenticated everything but this song. They thought it was Eric Clapton or Stevie Winwood.

"I have spent hours and hours listening to it and I have come to the conclusion that the lead vocal is Paul McCartney. That would make it a never-before-heard Beatles song. It sounds like John and George Harrison are singing the chorus."

Lopez is claiming legal rights to the song because he only sold a different part of the recording. He thinks that Yoko Ono has the tape because her lawyer contacted him to buy it.

January 10, 2005 -- Scotlandmad.com

Possible take over bid by music legend!!!

It is being rumored today that former Beatle Paul McCartney is set to launch a bid to take control of Sunderland AFC (soccer team).

The scouser is married to Heather Mills, who is a life long Sunderland supporter and is originally from Washington.

The multi, multi-millionaire earns up to £40 million ($77 million) per annum and would solve Sunderland's financials needs should he take control of the club.

It's believed that Paul has vowed to re-establish Sunderland and make them an internationally recognized club.

January 10, 2005 -- NY Post

Wrong Beatle

Don't confuse Paul McCartney with John Lennon. McCartney and his wife, Heather Mills, were strolling on East 57th Street the other day in front of the Prada store, when a teenage boy came running up to McCartney exclaiming: "John Lennon! John Lennon!" Our spy laughed, "Heather took it badly. She snapped back, 'No, you fool, he's dead,' before they walked away." A rep for McCartney didn't return call.

January 7, 2005 -- Chester Chronicle (UK)

Macca makes it the sale of the century for shop staff

Multi- Millionaire Paul McCartney and his wife Heather picked up a few bargains when they came to Chester for the sales on New Year's Eve.

Macca, who was also with his 14-month-old daughter Beatrice, caused a stir as the family wandered through the city centre laden with shopping bags.

The Chronicle dispatched several reporters to try and grab a word with Sir Paul but missed him by seconds just as we did last time he came to Chester in April 2003. On that occasion it transpired the McCartneys had been eating chips on the cathedral green!

However, this time former Chronicle photographer Lee Thompson, 22, of Vicars Cross, did manage to grab a word with his hero outside the Forum shopping centre.

He said, "I asked him for a picture. I told him I was a mad fan. He said, 'I'm sorry but too many people have pestered me today for photographs. I want to have a gentle stroll with my wife.' He was very polite.

"There was no mistaking him at all. You didn't have to think twice. It couldn't have been anyone else. He had lots of shopping bags - about four on each arm," added Lee.

McCartney, who played bass on the remix of the "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Band Aid charity single, had given notice of his travels to the North West.

When he and Heather appeared on the Christmas Day special of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" he informed the world that he would be spending New Year in Liverpool.

His brother, Mike McCartney, who lives in Heswall, said of his appearance in Chester: "It's called the sales!"

He said Macca had jokingly claimed his wife had seen a sign for "Sale, Cheshire" and that's why they had descended.

"The whole of Britain heard where he was coming for New Year when he went on 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?' They always come for New Year. We always get together as a family.

"He and Heather had a particularly nice time when they went to Chester for the sales. They bought some extra presents for my wife and me, so I'm not complaining."

Mike said he might have let "one or two glasses of wine slip down his throat" on New Year's Eve but would not confirm if his brother had enjoyed a drink. As with anything personal, he gave the stock response, "You'll have to ask our kid about that!"

He added, "I would like to wish Chester Chronicle readers a very happy, successful and most of all, a healthy New Year, from the Cultural Ambassador of Wirral. Or as our dad used to say 'Apple in your ear!'"

Sandra Riley, manager of the Health Rack store, ran after her pop idol after spotting him walk past her store in The Forum where he bought cod liver oil tablets on his last visit.

She said, "I just said 'Sir Paul, could I possibly have your autograph?' He said 'I'm not doing autographs because it's a private shopping trip with my wife, but I wish you a happy New Year and he touched my arm. Heather was just in front of him and he had the baby in a baby carrier.'

"It's unbelievable. Other people were saying hello and he was saying hello to them. She looked very smart."

When Sir Paul last visited Chester in 2003 he was the middle of a world tour but suffering from a sore throat. He and Heather paid a visit to Dr + Herbs in the Forum where he was served Golden Throat Herbal Candy by Dr Xiaming Song who admitted he had no idea about the identity of his famous customer until after the event.

Sir Paul and his wife won £32,000 ($61,760) for Heather's Adopt-A-Minefield charity on "Millionaire" on Christmas Day. The group generates awareness and funds to clear land mines and help survivors of land-mine accidents.

January 7, 2005 -- Viva

Macca's New Year Special!

If you're wondering what to buy that special someone and they happen to be a huge fan of Paul McCartney then look no further we have the perfect gift for you!!

As part of our tenth anniversary celebrations, Our Price Plc has kindly donated to Viva! a CD gold disc of 'Venus and Mars' by Paul McCartney & Wings which has been personally signed by Paul for us to sell to the highest bidder to help raise funds for our campaigning work. Our Price: We love you, yeah, yeah, yeah!!!!

The gold disc is a unique 'one of one' piece and comes beautifully framed ready to take pride of place in your loved one's home. It comes complete with a signed Certificate of Authenticity and a Valuation Certificate.

To get the ball rolling, a reserve of £500 ($965) has been set but beyond that feel free to bid as much or as little as you want to and who knows you could be the proud owner of a stunning piece of Macca history!

There is a strict time limit on the bidding process and bids must be received by Monday January 10 2005 at the latest.

To place a bid, click here, write to the office at 8 York Court, Wilder Street, Bristol BS2 8QH or call us on 0117 944 1000 (9am-5pm, Mon-Fri). You will need to provide:

* your full contact details, including daytime number
* credit/debit card information OR a cheque payable
to Viva! Campaigns (please note that no payment will be taken from your card or your cheque cashed without contacting you first)
* the amount that you would like to bid

If you are successful you will be contacted on January 10 2005. The amount that has been bid will then be deducted from your credit/debit card or cheque cashed and the item sent immediately to you.

So roll up and place a bid and make a Macca fan you care about very happy!

Viva! Vegetarians International Voice for Animals
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T: 0117 944 1000 F: 0117 924 4646 E: info@viva.org.uk

January 5, 2005

Paul and Heather were spotted outside of a restaurant last night in Manhattan. PHOTOS

January 5, 2005 -- Paulmccartney.com

"Happy New Year all you webbies!"

"I'm very much looking forward to this year - we are planning all sorts of exciting adventures, the first of which will be the American Superbowl where we will not be having a wardrobe malfunction! We will keep you posted as things develop but I will be finishing up my new album which I am excited about and as I said, planning some new adventures and expeditions. All will be revealed when plans are complete. Meanwhile, have yourselves a great New Year and keep on rocking!"

Paul

January 4, 2005 -- First Coast News

Millions will be watching as the Super Bowl halftime show takes to the field. Paul McCartney is the big ticket. And you can be part of it.

The NFL is looking for five thousand volunteers to be part of the half time show. You have to be part of a group consisting of 20 more people.

The league is looking for dance teams, cheerleading squads, marching bands, sports teams and clubs.

But there is one catch: there must be a group leader.

The NFL is targeting teenagers for this once-in-a-lifetime appearance. You have to be between the ages of 16 and 25.

Those groups that have the best chance of being chosen are the ones that show the most excitement and enthusiasm.

Sign Up!

January 4, 2005 -- Belfast Telegraph

Diplomatic effort not to clip wings of McCartney's alternative anthem

After Paul McCartney's 1972 protest song "Give Ireland Back To The Irish" was banned by the BBC, Radio Luxembourg and ITV, the Irish embassy in London quietly helped to promote it, the papers reveal.

The song, which called for troops to withdraw from Northern Ireland, caused a storm of protest. It was written after Bloody Sunday and was recorded by McCartney's post-Beatles group, Wings.

The song asks what Britain is doing in the 'Land Across The Sea', and continues:

"Tell me how would you like it, if on your way to work, you were stopped by Irish soldiers?

"Would you lie down, do nothing, would you give in or go berserk?"

Apple, which released all the ex-Beatle's material, tried to buy advertising time on commercial TV to promote the record, but was refused because it contained "political controversy."

A memo from T. Feehan at the Irish embassy, dated February 17, 1972, recorded a visit from a Vincent Murphy, from Cork, who was promoting the song.

Feehan wrote, "I gave him a list of Irish societies we have in the office. Murphy will write to the various Irish societies and will also put an advertisement in the Irish Post and the Cork Weekly Examiner."

A hand-written note on the memo added, "The embassy will not be mentioned."

January 4, 2005 -- Daily Mail

Is Macca under Heather's thumb?

Once upon a time - say eight years ago - former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney was the polite, reticent, occasionally grumpy composer of some of the most famous songs of the past half-century, with a fortune of £713million ($1.3 billion) to prove it. How different things are today.

The 62-year-old McCartney, who used, famously, to retreat to his 160-acre farm in East Sussex with his late wife, Linda, to avoid publicity, is very much in the thick of celebrity - a world tour one moment, A-list parties the next and to crown it all an appearance on the celebrity Christmas edition of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

Once seen as aloof and distant, McCartney is now flashing his toothy, cheeky-chappie grin for the whole world to see. It can only be a matter of time before he accepts a role on Celebrity Big Brother or I'm A Celebrity .. . Get Me Out Of Here!

This Liverpool-born grandfather, who earns an estimated £650,000 ($1.2 million) a week, has also taken to dyeing his hair - rather obviously - and to wearing distinctly trendy clothes.

"It's an extraordinary transformation," says one old friend. "Paul seems to have gone from introvert to extrovert in a single bound."

And the reason for all this, say his friends, is the 36-year-old blonde woman who was seated by his side as they answered host Chris Tarrant's questions on the TV quiz - Lady Heather Mills McCartney, his second wife.

Not that everyone is exactly enamoured of the transformation. "Linda must be turning in her grave," one friend of the family told me this week. "It was exactly the kind of cheap publicity that she hated, and, back then, Paul seemed to hate it as well."

Transformation

Photographer Linda, who'd been married to the former Beatle for almost 30 years, died from breast cancer in 1998 at the age of 56. A year later, he'd started seeing Heather Mills and in June 2002, Sir Paul married the former lingerie model turned campaigner for the disabled who'd lost her lower leg in a traffic accident.

And the new Lady McCartney is determined that neither she nor her husband will hide their light under the proverbial bushel.

"It's what Heather wants," says one insider, "and what Heather wants, she gets. Paul is utterly under her spell."

It's no surprise, then, that when the couple were discussing the answer to Chris Tarrant's £16,000 ($30,000) question - which city is the birthplace of American civil rights campaigner Dr. Martin Luther King - it was Lady McCartney's opinion that carried the day.

Sir Paul had plumped for Charleston, but she insisted it was Atlanta. The composer of "Yesterday" acquiesced, his wife was proved right and the couple went on to win £32,000 ($61,000) for charity.

But it offers a revealing insight into who wears the trousers in what has become one of the world's most public marriages.

Lady McCartney has made no secret of the way in which she sees her new husband, telling Vanity Fair magazine just two years ago, "I feel like I'm a grown woman and he's my little boy."

Indeed, as she memorably remarked in a candid American TV interview at the same time: "I am very bossy, but men need to be bossed."

What Heather wants, she gets

Not that these opinions have endeared her to McCartney's millions of fans around the world, many of whom were utterly horrified to hear that she had also taken to giving her husband advice on how to make his songs sound better - and that he had taken it.

"He's become putty in her hands," one former friend told me, "it's quite appalling."

But Lady McCartney's ambition - and her appetite for publicity - knows few bounds. This, after all, is the woman who took over from America's renowned TV interviewer Larry King to prove to the world that she had a future as a show host.

The Attempt, which had been engineered by her doting husband, and during which she interviewed Hollywood legend Paul Newman, proved rather less than a triumph, and has not been repeated.

Persuading her husband to appear on television game shows, however, is by no means the only change that Lady McCartney has overseen in her husband's life since their marriage.

There has also been the departure of his long-standing friend and PR Geoff Baker, his decision to reverse the songwriting credit on certain Beatle songs, not to mention the fact that he has stopped wearing his late wife's wedding ring and that he's left the former family home, their farm in East Sussex.

Let us consider these changes one by one. First, his long-standing relationship with former show business journalist turned PR man Geoff Baker, 48, who had become one of his closest friends, but who left McCartney last autumn after more than 15 years at the star's side.

Although McCartney vehemently denied in public that Baker's departure had anything to do with his new wife, he failed to explain exactly why he had fallen out with him. Insiders are in no doubt that the real reason for his departure was that Baker stood for the past - he had toured with Paul and Linda for more than a decade - and was therefore doomed once the new Lady McCartney entered Paul's life.

Then there is the matter of Sir Paul's credit for The Beatle songs. Sources close to the former Beatle suggest that it was Lady McCartney who first urged her husband to reverse the usual 'Lennon and McCartney' credit for The Beatles songs - and replace it with 'McCartney and Lennon' - a move that was finally blocked by John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono.

It is also said that it was Lady McCartney who urged her husband to include the song "Yesterday" on his solo album of love songs due to be released on Valentine's Day.

A Beatles song, "Yesterday" was nevertheless written solely by McCartney even though it carries the usual Lennon and McCartney credit.

Once again, Yoko Ono stepped in. She banned the use - on the grounds that it was acknowledged as a Beatles song and not as McCartney's alone.

Lady McCartney is also reported to have insisted that her husband stop wearing the distinctive gold wedding ring - with its inlaid jade heart - given to him by Linda when they married, even though the star himself had intended to wear both, it and a new one from his new wife.

'Insisted he remove wedding ring'

What is not in doubt is that in the days before his marriage his late wife's ring disappeared from McCartney's wedding finger.

Not long after his second marriage, Sir Paul also began the process of leaving the secluded six-bedroom farmhouse in Peasmarsh, East Sussex, where he and Linda had raised their four children.

Sir Paul and the new Lady McCartney have since moved somewhere considerably more urban - and distinctly less private - a house on the seafront in Hove, near Brighton.

Then there is the matter of Sir Paul's hair and clothes. Shortly before his new marriage, The Beatle bassist had the flecks of grey removed from his hair by a colorist who was sneaked into his hotel, and the flecks have never returned.

His once black hair now shows a hint of russet, and he has maintained his 'younger' look ever since.

To go with his new image, McCartney has also taken to wearing what some observers have called 'groovy grandad' outfits.

"They're just further signs of the difference Heather's made to him,' says an old friend. 'He's trying to convince himself that he's young and sexy again. I'm sure that Linda would never have approved."

But regardless of all these changes, Sir Paul is intent on confirming to the world just how close he is to his younger wife, despite the 26-year gap in their ages - especially in the wake of the birth of their daughter, Beatrice Milly, in October 2003.

He has, for example, recently taken to toe-curling declarations of his love for Heather on American chat shows.

Would Linda have approved?

All this connubial bliss is in stark contrast to the days just before their marriage, however, when the couple were heard arguing heatedly in a Miami hotel room, shortly before her £15,000 ($29,000) Indian sapphire and diamond engagement disappeared through the hotel window.

The ring was later recovered by hotel staff and returned to the McCartneys - but not before the world had learned that this particular 'golden couple' did have their moments of less than complete unity.

That disunity certainly spread to the McCartney family. After all, in the days before his second wedding, McCartney's four children - stepdaughter Heather, 41, who is a ceramicist, daughters Mary, 34, a photographer and fashion designer Stella, 33, and son James, 27, a musician - all were claimed to have made it clear that they had grave reservations about their father's choice of a second wife.

All McCartney's children were reported to be worried by his relationship with Mills, not least because of her appetite for publicity, and her reputation in some quarters for being 'pushy'.

McCartney's daughter, Stella, reportedly tried to persuade her father to draw up a pre-nuptial agreement with Mills, suggesting that her share of his vast fortune should be limited to £20 million ($38 million) should they divorce. McCartney turned the suggestion down flat - so Lady McCartney insists publicly.

But the shadows in Heather's past, coupled with relentless speculation about her motives, refuse to disappear. She has, for example, never publicly refuted claims that she regularly accepted generous gifts from rich Arabs when she was younger.

This, in addition to her modelling, may have helped her find her way out of a povertystricken, abusive childhood which saw her leave home at 14.

Before she met McCartney, Heather had been married to Alfie Karmal, a sales manager for a computer company, who insisted, "She should have 'buyer beware' stamped on her forehead."

During their five-year relationship, which culminated in a 20-month marriage, Karmal maintained that his ex-wife "had difficulty with reality and telling the truth. She told so many fibs that if she said it was raining I would have checked. She seemed desperate for fame and fortune".

Lovestruck calf

Shortly before she and Karmal were to be married, she disappeared "with some bloke called George" for three months, but returned to him, and the lavish wedding in 1989 went ahead. Less than two years later, and after two ectopic pregnancies, she ran off with a ski-instructor.

Then came a relationship with City bond dealer Rafaelle Minicione, who was by her side when she was hit by a police motorcyclist answering an emergency call and lost her lower leg. She called off her marriage to Minicione in 1995, just 24 hours before the fitting of her £3,000 ($5,800) wedding dress.

She was to repeat the behaviour four years later when she pulled out of a planned wedding with television director Chris Terrill just 24 hours before the ceremony. One of the guests at her wedding to Terrill was to have been McCartney, whom she had met shortly beforehand at an awards ceremony.

More than one music industry insider has remarked since that "Heather had taken her opportunity and grabbed it with both hands".

For his part, Sir Paul seems more than happy to place himself in his wife's hands, however exotic her past may, or may not, have been, as his transformation shows only too clearly.

He's like a lovestruck calf, prepared to go anywhere and do anything at his wife's bidding. The only question that remains is whether this life change makes him truly happy. Millions of his fans are far from sure that it does.

For as one put it recently, "He's infatuated, but how long will that last?" We shall see.

January 4, 2005-- The Sun

Indiana Jones heartthrob Harrison Ford has been voted Hollywood's sexiest grandparent.

The 62-year-old dad of four and grandad of one was described as "healthy, hip and having fun" in a poll by Grand magazine. Twice divorced Ford is currently dating Ally McBeal TV star Calista Flockhart, 40.

Others in the list of top ten hottest grandparents are Paul McCartney, 62, Goldie Hawn, 59, Pierce Brosnan, 51, Mick Jagger, 61, singer Naomi Judd, 58, Priscilla Presley, 59, rocker Steven Tyler, 56, Tina Turner, 65, and Sally Field, 58.

January 3, 2005 -- Contact Music

McCARTNEY'S MUSICAL IGNORANCE

Sir Paul McCartney refuses to care about how his instrument works when he is song-writing - instead he concentrates on the tunes and lyrics. The former Beatles star was asked about his guitar by a fan in a shop recently, but he couldn't answer the question because he has never paid attention to its intricate details.

He says, "I went into an instrument store in New York and this guy said, 'I'm a bass player and I've always wanted to know what strings you use.'

"I swear I wasn't trying to be funny when I said, 'Long shiny ones.'"

January 3, 2005 -- The Daily Break

Wacky TV prediction for 2005

"Paul McCartney offends absolutely no one with his Super Bowl halftime show on Fox (Feb. 6 at 6pm ET). Mary Poppins would approve."

January 3, 2005 -- Whole Note

Hamish Stuart's Highland Soul

The McCartney sideman and guitarist for the Average White Band talks with Chris Hansen about influences, great rhythm playing, working with Paul, and his new solo album.

Since he first rocketed to fame in the 1970s as the falsetto voice and rhythm guitarist for Scotland's own Average White Band, Glasgow native Hamish Stuart has written for and performed with some of the biggest names in the music industry. Chakka Kahn, George Benson, Aretha Franklin and Paul McCartney are just a few of the artists who have relied upon Stuart's soulful vocal talent and musical versatility. Stuart's latest project, The Hamish Stuart Band, has once again earned him rave reviews from critics and R&B fans alike. Thirty years after he first appeared on the scene Hamish Stuart is still at the forefront of modern R&B. Hamish took some time recently to speak with WholeNote.com member Chris Hansen about his soul drenched career and the music that he loves.

CH: Like you did in the AWB, you played guitar, bass, and sang in The Paul McCartney Band. How did that gig come about and how did your role develop?

Hamish: Well, Paul was putting a band together and I got a call asking if I was interested in getting together. The first time we rehearsed I went over to Paul's studio and we had Nicky Hopkins on keyboards and Chris Whitten on drums. Not a bad little band. At that point Chris was definitely going to be the drummer. That was the only definite choice that Paul had made. And the four of us spent the afternoon playing around with an idea that involved both of us singing. That gave us a chance play together and also to see how our voices would work together. Things really just started like that. It was all very loose.

CH: The McCartney gig didn't allow you very much time to work on your own project did it?

Hamish: It was a terrific gig, but no it didn't. It was about six years give or take a month or two here and there. It was particularly busy during the last two years. We recorded the Off the Ground album, did the Unplugged show and then went straight into a world tour.

CH: I love the Unplugged record.

Hamish: MTV Unplugged was a really fun show. It's one of my favorites. It was weird though. We had rehearsed for about three weeks and everybody felt pretty comfortable, but on the day of the show things got really tense. I guess the fact that it was a TV show rattled us a bit. Things got better around about the middle of the show when we started jamming on "Be- Bop-A-Lula". They actually used that on the television as the opening because it was much more relaxed. From that point on things fell into place and it turned out to be an amazing night."

CH: You sing a great version of "Ain't No Sunshine" on that record.

Hamish: I love that one. That was something that we used to jam on in rehearsals. Paul would get on the drums and be like "ok you sing something" so that's what we did.

Visit Hamish on the web at www.compassrecords.com

January 2, 2005 -- Sky News

CONCERT FOR VICTIMS

A huge fund-raising concert is being planned to tap into a massive wave of compassion for the survivors of the devastating tsunami disaster.

Already dubbed "Live Aid II" it means the UK could again lead international fund raising efforts 20 years after the original Live Aid event.

Cardiff's 70,000 seat Millennium Stadium has already been earmarked as the venue for the proposed concert.

Backers have been working on the project for the last five days and have pencilled in January 22 for the landmark one-day event.

They say organizationally and logistically everything is already in place but the coming week is seen as a make or break period.

Paul Sergeant, the Millennium Stadium's general manager, said he would hope to raise at least £1 million for the disaster fund.

"We have already been in touch with a number of A list celebrities and of course they are the vital ingredient in this," he said. "I can't say at this point who they are but if two or three of them come on board we will have something to sell. If that happened I think the whole thing could snowball and the event could become huge very quickly. In reality we have probably got four or five days to see whether it is a goer or not. Time is very tight on this one."

He said the stadium grass, which is removable, is scheduled to be put back in on January 24, making January 22 the latest available date.

Stadium bosses have already met with Cardiff Council and the South Wales Police, both of which have given tacit backing to the event.

He added, "People have compared this with Live Aid. If we are anywhere near that successful it will be amazing but this concert is being put together at much shorter notice."

January 2, 2005 -- Mercury News

Notice how quiet New Year's Eve was, musically speaking, even though it fell on a weekend? Take that as one of many signs that the live-music business is changing. The old pat formulas -- like expecting fans to pay big bucks for a big show on the biggest night of the year -- are no longer so pat.

Expect promoters to lower prices this year and put together creative packages designed to give more bang for the buck. Also, expect them to take a clue from Disney and be more hospitable, maybe even allowing food and blankets into outdoor amphitheaters.

Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones are expected to get in their Winnebagos and head around the United States by the end of the year (both not expected here till after summer).

January 1, 2005 -- The Mirror

UNBRAKEABLE

What a difference a New Year makes... as Lydia Cross happily rides her first bike. Just 12 months ago, both Lydia's legs had to be amputated after she suffered near-fatal blood poisoning. But yesterday, the extraordinary three-year-old was off and pedalling on her treasured Christmas present.

Parents Jodie and Tony could barely believe it. Her mum, 34, said, "It is fantastic watching her go." She added, "The occasion was extra special for us because we were going to get her a bike last year before she became so sick. She hasn't quite got the hang of it yet - she keeps trying to stand up while she is pedalling - but she is very determined to learn."

And it should be child's play for Lydia, whose bravery captured the hearts of the nation last year.

Paul McCartney's wife Heather Mills even paid the £5,000 ($9,500) needed for Lydia's first prosthetic legs. And, as she proved yesterday, Lydia is determined to get back on her new feet. Army sergeant Tony, 35, said, "We are lucky to have this fantastic spirited girl."

After spending 12 days on a life-support machine, Lydia told nurses, "They took my poorly legs away and I'm getting new ones for Christmas." But Tony is furious about the medical blunders he claims cost his little girl her legs.

In December, 2003, Tony and Jodie were twice turned away from Chippenham Hospital in Wiltshire with Lydia - then aged two - and told she had an ear infection. It was only on their third visit that a nurse noticed Lydia was suffering from a form of meningitis and septicaemia. But the bacterial infection had spread so far doctors had to amputate both her legs below the knee.

Tony and Jodie, who have moved to Chivenor, Devon, are suing the NHS for clinical negligence, claiming a failure to spot the infection in time. Tony said, "We were utterly devastated. It turned our world upside down. At one point they told us she had less than a five per cent chance of survival. We had a beautiful child who was perfect. And then she was disabled. I don't know how to put it into words."

Hairdresser Jodie said, "This year we have been through a lot of ups and downs, a lot of hard times.One of the most heart-wrenching moments was when Lydia was in the bath with her younger sister Millie and she said to me 'Mummy, will my feet grow back?' But moments like watching her go to pre-school, and her being given a certificate for swimming have been absolutely fantastic. And watching her and her sister enjoy themselves this Christmas has been the best present so far."

But Lydia's condition puts a huge financial strain on her family. The growing tot needs a new pair of £5,000 legs every time a normal youngster needs new shoes - roughly every six months.

Her second pair will arrive in February and her parents have set up a trust fund. Donations to the Lydia Cross Trust Fund at NatWest Bank, sort code 60-02-03, account 95411534.

(Webmaster's NOTE: "Heather Mills has never bought my daughter a pair of legs. Or, helped us financially in any form." -- Jodie Cross)

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