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Paul McCartney conquers Montevideo for a second time: “I'm my favorite player!”
With a blend of nostalgia for the Beatles and the pleasure of enjoying his presence in Montevideo, Paul McCartney captivated for a second time the Uruguayan audience with a three hour show in which he confirmed that he is one of the greatest. Read full article
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Apr 21st, 2014 - 09:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0these british old farts (mccartney, mick jjagger, roger daltrey. etc) have already had their moment.
Apr 21st, 2014 - 12:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0it is a bit sad and pathetic to watch them on stage trying to look and act as if they were in their 20´s.
time to retire before they suffer a heart attack in the middle of a concert.
@2 paul
Apr 21st, 2014 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0B.B.King is in his late '80's now and still performs a 100 shows a year. He doesn't need the dough, nor do the ones you've listed above. They still perform because they love doing it, they're good at doing it and people still love seeing them do it.
And if your times up, better a stage than a nursing home, right?
3 heisenberg
Apr 21st, 2014 - 12:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the problem is when they do not accept they are in their 70's.
it is really pathetic to watch those guys with those haircuts, dyed hair and those clothes.
@2 “McCartney has been recognized as one of the highest-selling composers and performers of all time, with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles of his work with the Beatles and as a solo artist”.
Apr 21st, 2014 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“As of 2013, McCartney remains one of the world's top draws. He played to over 100,000 people total during two performances in Mexico City in May, the shows grossing nearly $6 million. In June 2012, McCartney closed Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee Concert held outside Buckingham Palace, performing a set that included ”Let It Be“ and ”Live and Let Die“. He closed the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London on 27 July, singing ”The End“ and ”Hey Jude“ and inviting the audience to join in on the coda. Having donated his time, he received £1 from the Olympic organisers”.
Got anything in dog-shit land to compare?
4. Charly Garcia Susanna Gimenez, Mirtha Legrand, shall I go on?
Apr 21st, 2014 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You have a lot of old has beens that are on TV every day Paul.
Every day.
@4
Apr 21st, 2014 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bet you weren't saying that when 'Bieber Fever' invaded you last year. Or were you?
@5
Clearly you haven't heard the Rockin' El Padre Cezar. The rock'n'roll priest. He rocks. Really.
2 paulcedron
Apr 21st, 2014 - 01:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Better to have been a has-been than a never-will-be.
Eat your heart out Paul there was a stadium full of Argielands supposed best mates in Montevideo that don't agree, and two stadiums full in Mexico City and all those other places in SA that you say Englishness is shunned, just look at the website and weep.Argieland has nothing even remotely comparable, except Yankee Dandy perhaps? Bahahahaha. Dumbkopf!
Apr 21st, 2014 - 02:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You can still pop over to Santiago, he is very welcome there. “English music is the best in the world” they said...
One of the first things I noticed when I arrived in Argentina many years ago was that popular music was in a time warp. Nothing after about 1995. They are obsessed with The Beatles.
Apr 21st, 2014 - 03:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Personally I think Macca lost his voice a long time ago and should have hung up his guitar but, as has been said here, he likes to play and has a ready and devoted audience especially in South America.
Some thing I really object to is the price these rich old rockers charge for tickets in developing countries. They don't need the money and fans will spend a month's salary on tickets.
6 yankeeboy.
Apr 21st, 2014 - 03:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0agree and they all stink, so?
now, to talk about great, wonderful old fart musicians, most are dead, but anyway, we can talk about the americans: frank zappa, mark sandman, david hidalgo, even frank black, etc.
the english still love lady elton john...they are a joke.
Name ONE Argentinian musician with the international reputation and stadium filling power of any single one of these “old farts” ???
Apr 21st, 2014 - 05:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You can't!
The trolls profess to hate Britain but they love our music. You couldn't make it up.
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Apr 21st, 2014 - 05:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0argentine pop musicians?
they all stink
now, we have martha argerich, daniel barenboim, etc in classical music, enrique molina, astor piazzolla, etc in tango and jazz, etc.
no doubts the americans are way better than the british regarding rock / modern / pop music.
they had jimi hendrix and mark sandman
you have elton john and susan boyle.
lol
America has six times the population of Britain, they should. Argentina has isolated itself and you have no idea about what is currently trending.
Apr 21st, 2014 - 06:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@3 ProfessorinEnglishHeisenberg
Apr 21st, 2014 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“B.B.King is in his late '80's now and still performs a 100 shows a year. He doesn't need the dough,”
Your sentence incorrectly uses a food stuff in place of a normal word for money. How very clumsy of you professor. Please give me another English lesson.
If Paul says we will win,
Apr 21st, 2014 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0then we will win,
if not, theirs always the next time...
And we can thank Argentina for, er ?
Apr 21st, 2014 - 07:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh, okay, the tango...
Don't forget corned beef, and, a constant stream of amusement!
Apr 21st, 2014 - 07:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Paul
Apr 21st, 2014 - 08:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your bitterness and massive inferiority complex has driven you write ever more ridiculous shit.
Millions of people have paid billions of dollars to watch these talented artists....
Other than suicide, I'm not sure anyone would pay for anything You might do.
@ 19 Monkeymagic
Apr 21st, 2014 - 09:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Other than suicide, I'm not sure anyone would pay for anything You might do.”
I would pay good money to warch that! The sooner the better. They could cart him off in his old wheelbarrow.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
did he sing Give Ireland back to the Irish?
Apr 21st, 2014 - 10:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 021
Apr 21st, 2014 - 11:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0aussie
surely the permanent twats of this site hate mccartney for that song, eh?
Well, BB King is not doing well health wise and will soon have to hang up His guitar. Sir Paul and Ringo have my complete support until the end.
Apr 22nd, 2014 - 03:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0As Dire Straights says: “I don't care if my liver is hanging by a thread
Don't care if my doctor says I ought to be dead
When my ugly big car won't climb this hill
I'll write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill”
There actually is some decent Argentinian music worth considering, but Brazil is far better across the spectrum.
Saying that, how can you not realize that the privilege of being at a concert with these giants is truly special.
Then again, I'd rather listen in my B&O (circa 1980) with my 1978 Bose speakers over a tumbler of single malt in the privacy of my humble abode here in Chicureo...
20 Chris
Apr 22nd, 2014 - 06:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0“I would pay good money to warch that! The sooner the better. ”
Chris,
I think that's ridiculous !!
Pay “good money”???
...only to fergit about this non-entity, Pabs-niño, 20 minutes later???
It's bad enough we waste time to talk about him LOL !!!
Pablo,
If you graduate, is there a job waiting for you?
Will you ever be able to afford your own futbol tickets ?
How's your future shaping up?
If you're lucky - CFK will jolly you along with “bread & Circuses”
@15 Mendocinovino
Apr 22nd, 2014 - 08:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks for calling me “Professor”. Regarding the rest of your post: come back when you've successfully completed Troll School and I will be happy to continue your higher education.
That concludes your lesson for today.
Amazing proffy. I bet those long winter nights just fly by with you eh? Your comebacks are the stuff of legend. Well, in your own small world that is.
Apr 22nd, 2014 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What was the lesson again? I see a “clumsy” statement, and not a lot else. No surprise there i guess. Nothing to back yourself up with...again.
Conversing with a self confessed Troll of your low caliber is rather demeaning to everyone that reads your drivel. You should stick with reading your Marvel comics. More your intellectual age I think.
@26
Apr 22nd, 2014 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry... I should have said 'Charm School'.
@11 Paul
Zappa, Hendrix, Sandman ( Morphine ), Hidalgo ( Los Lobos ), Frank Black ( Pixies ). All worthy contenders.
'50's/early'60's: Lonnie Donnegan, The Shadows, Tommy Steele.
Early 60's/late 60's: Beatles, Rolling Stones, Dave Clark 5, Gerry & the Pacemakers, The Kinks, The Who, Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Yardbirds, John Mayall, Cream, Blind Faith, Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull, Ten Years After, The Hollies, King Crimson, Yes, The Move, Nice. Led Zeppelin. Pink Floyd. Small Faces.Dusty Springfield, Lulu.
70's: The Faces, Rod Stewart, Free, Humble Pie, Mott the Hoople, David Bowie,Roxy Music, Queen, Marc Bolan/TRex, ELP, ELO, Supertramp, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, Siouxie & the Banshees, The Jam, Graham Parker, Nick Lowe, Dave Edmonds. The Raincoats, The Slits, Wire, Gang of Four.
etc...etc...etc...
And...Jimi Hendrix wouldn't have sounded like he did if he hadn't been listening to Eric Clapton, or if he hadn't gotten hold of those Marshall Amplifiers that Clapton and Pete Townshend were using. Frank Black, and The Pixies would never have even formed a band if it weren't for the British punk and new wave bands. And apart from Bakersfield country music and Mexican folk music, who do think inspired David Hidalgo? Cream. You can hear the Clapton influence when he plays a solo. Zappa, of course...a true original.
27 heisenberg
Apr 22nd, 2014 - 09:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0agree
it was just a bit of rant.
guess you missed van der graaf generator in that list?
@28
Apr 23rd, 2014 - 01:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well spotted.
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