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5 Feet of Fury

Kathy Shaidle's blog. Est. 2000

Well, he did write “Band on the Run”

September 14, 2008 By admin

Paul McCartney threatened with suicide bombers for playing concert in Israel — and not for singing, “But in this ever changing world in which we live in…”

Of course, the Who are better than the Beatles:

(Don’t miss the last 5 seconds.)

Having a real drummer helps:

It takes a special kind of cool to make the “edgy, controversial” liberal Smothers Brothers look like wets:

Oh well. There goes the rest of my morning….

Speaking of suicide: I had the chance to tell Pete Townsend, in person, that his music kept me from killing myself as a teenager. I kept my mouth shut, thank God. How lame. But if you’re mad I’m still around, blame him.

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