18/02/1972: The Mike Douglas Show (Day 5).

PAUL and LINDA McCARTNEY attend the premiere of MIDNIGHT COWBOY at the London Pavilion. September 25th, 1969.

jane birkin as penelope in la piscine (1969) dir. jacques deray

𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬

𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝/𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐠 𝐢𝐟 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝

Sharon Tate in Twelve Plus One [1969]

Dominick, I really owe you an apology, you know? I really do. All this time, I’ve been blaming you for everything. You ruining my life and all that. Well, that’s over now. You know why I’ve never been able to leave home? I just suddenly figured it out. Very complicated. I was scared. And I’m not scared anymore. I’m terrified. Funny?

NATALIE WOOD as Angie Rossini in Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) dir. Robert Mulligan

PAUL MCCARTNEY photographed by Linda McCartney on his farm in Scotland, in 1971.

PAUL: The style [of ‘Simple As That’] is one of my favourites – reggae. I remember vividly the first occasion I really got interested in reggae. It was when I was painting my roof in Scotland. It was summer and we had a reggae record on – Tighten Up – one of the original albums with various artists on it, what they used to call a compilation album. It was really good, and it suited the atmosphere: a sunny Scotland day, up on the roof painting it green, reggae playing. It made me feel great. As a family, we used to go quite often to Jamaica on holiday. There was a hotel in Montego Bay that we liked, so we’d go and stay there and listen non-stop to the radio. Jamaica had a great radio station called RJR, and it played reggae all day long. In town, there was a little shop called Tony’s Record Shop on Fustic Road, and it was very funky. You’d leaf through the 45s and you’d see something that you liked the look of. Often it was just an acetate disc, a demo disc; they didn’t necessarily have proper labels from a company. So I would ask the assistants, ‘What’s this one like?’ ‘Oh yeah, man, that’s great.’ I remember one that I bought. The song was called ‘Lick I Pipe’, and I just thought, ‘That’s great. Whoever made that up, and whatever the hell it means, it’s good.’ Lick I pipe! So I’d get a little pile, and we’d take them home, and we discovered some fabulous little songs. […] When Bob Marley came along, he solidified the genre of reggae and brought it to the mainstream. I never met Marley, unfortunately. I came very close once or twice. One night he was playing at the Lyceum Theatre in London, and we got halfway there and just changed our minds. I was thinking I might get a bit noticed in the crowd. It’s stupid really, because it would have been worth it to see him live and then to meet him.

The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present.

Paul McCartney, portrait au miroir.

Taken in Obertauern, Austria during the filming of Help! Photos by Jean-Pierre Ducatez.

The Beatles on the set of A Hard Day's Night the Scala Theatre | 1964 © Max Scheler

Alain Delon ( Jane Birkin et Maurice Ronet ) La Piscine Dir: Jacques Deray