Paul McCartney is interviewed by ITN News at Ten to draw attention to The United Nations Livestock's Long Shadow Report and how veganism can help to save the planet from catastrophe.

He's been veggie for 30 years but says that the fact that meat eating experts at The United Nations have now admitted cattle rearing is devastating the planet and more harmful to the planet than the effects of all cars and planes, many more ordinary people should sit up and listen.

Sir Paul credits Linda McCartney with turning the family vegetarian but apparently she said it was his decision, Sir Paul said Linda said "it was you that said it you know!"

Sir Paul sidestepped talking about his second wife's long term vegetarianism but she is now vegan and campaigning with UK vegetarian charity Viva!

He admit's despite all the clear evidence that a veggie lifestyle is better for the planet and better for health, people are unlikely to change overnight.

The repercussions if we don't change will be catastrophic for the planet, no habitable land , no water, no clean air - what sort of legacy is that to leave our children.

See the whole Paul McCartney interview on ITN News at 10

I know it was almost a month ago that Pete Doherty interviewed Paul McCartney from rehab.  We had posted a small news tidbit about it back when it happened.  We did not post a link to the audio of the interivew however. It’s funny how some things just slip through the cracks.

Man, it’s very strange to hear Paul swear, especially using the F-word.  Creepy.

The idea has been put to Sir Paul McCartney and out of everyone he could have picked to interview him, he’s chosen the Babyshambles singer and tabloid fixture Peter Doherty. Only trouble is, Pete is currently in rehab, but after some tactful negotiations, he is allowed out of his clinic for the afternoon. So it is, with only OMM otherwise present in the hotel suite, that the two sit down to talk one recent Thursday afternoon. But first, Pete wants to give Sir Paul a present …

(We’re not sure when they are going to take it down, so listen while you can.)

Source: Guardian UK

When: July 6, 1973

Where: Birmingham, England (Odeon - an old movie house)

What: (Read the following paragraphs and you’ll understand what).

In 1973, I saw myself disappearing. I was a grammar ghost, a sentence-writing cipher with barely a byline to hang my rent on. I knew what I wanted to do - write about music and the people who made it - but I didn’t know how to go about getting there. I decided to send out concert reviews. I couldn’t send an interview because I’d never done one. Buy a ticket, go see a band, and write about it. That I could do. Magazines responded; they rejected me. Rolling Stone. Circus. Guitar Player. Creem. Crawdaddy. The memento mori of a career that would never be. Death head form letters. There actually came a point when receiving personalized rejection notices made me feel like I was getting closer. After all, someone had to read the story in order to comment on how shitty it was. Did it matter that the work really was wonky? That I was sending live reports to publications that didn’t run that type of article? That I hand-wrote the stories because the letters a and y on my ancient Underwood manual didn’t work? The y wasn’t a problem. But you try and conjure words that don’t contain a certain letter - a vowel nonetheless - and all you can think of are words that do contain the vowel. Anonymity, shine your reflectionless light upon your stupidest son. I was fading like Levi’s.

In a recent interview to the French magazine VSD, the everlasting young sir Paul McCartney, answers jovially to the questions amid personal sentimental turmoil following his divorce with Heather. The “young” icon still amazes with his extraordinary shape and quick mindedness, and accepted to meet the journalist in his posh Londoners office.



To a question in relation to his song “the end of the end”, in which he described the way he wanted his funerals to be, he said “It sounds like request ain’t ? Actually, I wanted to talk about the matter that’s all. Generally speaking, we sing about dance or love, this time I wanted to see whether I could find a way to treat the theme of death through music , so I imagined my funerals, I’m not quite sure that my family would appreciate to fulfill all my wishes”.

Paul McCartney jokingly expressed the desire to be sniffed by Keith Richards and declared that he sniffed pepper when he replied to the journalist about the oddest thing he sniffed so far.

After 40 years , the one who bridged the gap between the last century and the new one, expressed his view about this generation and declared” Lot of younger say to me that our epoch was better, and reply it’s false, but I know what they mean , in my time things were exciting, and special there is no doubt about it, today things seem boring I would like to say” it’s up to you make things special again , because I don’t think things will never happen again”.

The rock veteran has no intention to retire at all, as long as the Alchemy is still here he will always sing because he loves what he’s doing above all, as to his mate John; he said that they reconciled just before his death, and he will always love him.

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