Post by cosmo on Feb 6, 2015 19:13:44 GMT -5
I don't think this book will be of much interest to anyone who didn't live in New Orleans in January/February of 1975, but I thought I'd give a little review of it anyway. 
It's a slim volume (88 pages) with a couple of people's accounts of hanging out outside of the SeaSaint Studios while Paul and Wings were recording Venus and Mars, with accompanying pictures, most taken with a Kodak Instamatic. In almost every picture, Paul is signing an autograph or posing with fans. There are a couple of Linda also, and one or two of them in their clown costumes at Mardi Gras.
I was lucky enough to go to SeaSaint only once (no car at the time, and an ill-timed transit strike), and the accounts are much as my experience that day was : Paul would show up around 3 every afternoon, driving himself in a white Olds convertible, chat amiably with fans, and record till around midnight, when he drove himself home to the Quarter hotel where he was staying.
I wish the author, John Taylor, had advertised for people to contribute to his book! Or maybe he did, and I just missed it. There are only a handful of reminiscences (although they are all fun to read!), and I was hoping for even more pictures. Dare I say that I was hoping to see myself immortalized in the same picture as Paul McCartney (I was) -- but really I was hoping to see my late sis-in-law who really was out there almost every day, but unfortunately not in any of the pics.
This is a great little book for New Orleanians to help us remember and celebrate a time when a Beatle graced our city for a month and you could look over while stopped waiting for a train to pass and see Paul and Linda McCartney in the car next to you (one of the episodes recounted in the book).
If only I were in it, too! .
It's a slim volume (88 pages) with a couple of people's accounts of hanging out outside of the SeaSaint Studios while Paul and Wings were recording Venus and Mars, with accompanying pictures, most taken with a Kodak Instamatic. In almost every picture, Paul is signing an autograph or posing with fans. There are a couple of Linda also, and one or two of them in their clown costumes at Mardi Gras.
I was lucky enough to go to SeaSaint only once (no car at the time, and an ill-timed transit strike), and the accounts are much as my experience that day was : Paul would show up around 3 every afternoon, driving himself in a white Olds convertible, chat amiably with fans, and record till around midnight, when he drove himself home to the Quarter hotel where he was staying.
I wish the author, John Taylor, had advertised for people to contribute to his book! Or maybe he did, and I just missed it. There are only a handful of reminiscences (although they are all fun to read!), and I was hoping for even more pictures. Dare I say that I was hoping to see myself immortalized in the same picture as Paul McCartney (I was) -- but really I was hoping to see my late sis-in-law who really was out there almost every day, but unfortunately not in any of the pics.
This is a great little book for New Orleanians to help us remember and celebrate a time when a Beatle graced our city for a month and you could look over while stopped waiting for a train to pass and see Paul and Linda McCartney in the car next to you (one of the episodes recounted in the book).
If only I were in it, too!
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