Quoted from Maccalvr

Yeah, I guess. It just amazes me that there are people that have never heard of him. I feel like that's next to impossible. Well, thank god there will always be someone out there to set them straight!! And these teenagers you know, did they grow up in caves?? Just kidding. It's just so strange to be that age and not know.

I'm 100% positive that every kid at my school knows who he is. We do songs by him, the music teacher plays his music at assemblies, we have a bulletin board this month taking his quote from Imagine. Our monthly theme this month was taken from that quote so each class had to do something with it. K-6 this is! I guess we're a very pro John school!! Even still it's not like anyone said who's this guy?

I wish my school was like that, that must be awesome!  

In my spanish class last year, my teacher had a picture of The Beatles on his wall, along with Bob Dylan

only like 5 students in the whole school wear Beatle shirts, including me

their are kids who havent heard a single Beatle song, there are people who havent heard of John Lennon at my school too...and these kids who listen to classick rock,and talk about The Who and the stones, call the beatles gay.......i hate my school,we need more beatles fans

yeah sandra is a lucky one.

my friend and i are the only huge fans of real rock and roll in my school. it's a shame that people are musically deaf. one time, i was listening to the beatles and this girl took my headphones and lsitened to it and she thought it was country

Yeah!!! this girl said Led Zeppelin is country when she heard me listening to them once...people at my school always call me gay cause I like The Beatles, I laugh at them with thier Good Charlotte and Simple Plan

I personally think Heather married Paul just for the money & the instant fame of marrying a former Beatle which she has now but she will be only a footnote in Beatles history when it comes to women unlike Linda & Yoko.  

Over the years people have written so much stuff about me.  Some of it is good and some true, but much of it is inaccurate and leads some people to form a distorted view of me and those I love.

Normally I ignore it, telling myself that I can’t answer every single point and that most people know better than to believe it, and prefer to make up their own minds based on what they know to be true.  Sometimes, however, these inaccurate articles affect my family and friends, and it is then that I’m tempted to put the record straight.

One person in particular, that some of the media can be wildly wrong about is my wife Heather, and it hurts me to see her wounded by these scurrilous reports, and not have anyone to put the record straight.  Because of this I thought that it would be a good idea to tell the people who care about us, and believe in what we do, the truth about some of these ridiculous stories, which are made up by people we have never ever met.

Recently articles have appeared which need correcting, so here are my thoughts on a few of the points mentioned in them.

Heather makes me dye my hair……… not true.  It is true that I colour my hair.  Wow, Shock Horror!  I’ve actually been doing this for many years now with varying degrees of success, but it’s my hair, and if you don’t like the result I’m afraid it’s just too bad, but it’s certainly nothing Heather suggested.  I was engaged in this devilish practice years before I met her.  I remember a strange blue dye dripping down my forehead on an Australian tour over ten years ago, but let’s face it, if I want to dye my hair pink, that’s up to me and no one else.  The suggestion that it was Heather’s doing simply isn’t true.

The split between my former publicist Geoff Baker and me has also been attributed to Heather.  The actual truth, which I had been trying to spare him the embarrasment of going public with, was that he had gradually been getting more and more unstable over the past few years.  The last straw came when a group of friends and I went late one night to see the magician David Blaine doing a stunt by the side of the River Thames.  I was keeping out of sight of a small crowd of photographers when to my horror I saw Geoff pointing me out to the paparazzi who then ran towards me in a feeding frenzy.  None of us could understand why he had done this, but it was just another example of his crazy behaviour.  After that I tried to let him down gently but it was my decision alone to let him go as I didn’t want that kind of instability around me.  It was nothing whatsoever to do with Heather.

The awkward subject of the Lennon McCartney credits on our songs was also put down to Heather’s influence over me but this actually originated at the time of the Beatles Anthology in 1997 when I, foolishly perhaps, asked for my name to come in front of John’s on the one song, Yesterday.  The request was turned down and even though I didn’t see why at the time, it’s something that I don’t have a problem with anymore.  But it was plainly before Heather’s time and she therefore couldn’t have had anything to do with it.

The media sometimes suggests a rift between my kids and Heather, but in fact we get on great and anyone who knows our family can see this for themselves.

Heather and I recently decided to appear on the quiz show Celebrity Millionaire.  It was something we had fun doing and incidentally we raised a substantial amount of money for our landmine charity Adopt a Minefield.  It’s an insult to my intelligence to imagine me being coerced into something like that.  In fact, were both fans of the programme and we had a good laugh taking part in it.

Heather is also, according to some of these mischevious writers, supposed to encourage me to ‘go to the opening of an envelope’.  Really ?  Compared to many people we hardly go to anything unless it’s connected with our charity work.  Again, anything we do attend is a joint decision.

Some of the stuff that is written is plain malevolence but some of it is so ridiculous that I have to admit it’s funny.  One rumour is that Heather has made me have plastic surgery.  Now the truth, honest guvner, is that I haven’t had any done, but in flicking through a magazine recently I came across someone who appeared to know better!  An LA plastic surgeon had a book out in which he claims I’ve had some work done!  OK, now I know it’s not true, but this guy knows better.  How ?  The proof, he reckons, is that…..wait for it……my ear lobes are too low!…..and, says he, you know how you can tell people have had plastic surgery?……They deny it!!!  At first I felt like entering into a long debate with him about it, but it’s so hilarious that I decided not to bother.

Although some of these articles can be funny, there are others that are plain malicious and you need to be strong not to be hurt by some of the cruel suggestions that flow from these people’s pens.

One of the most shocking recent statements was that “losing her leg was perhaps the best thing that ever happened to Heather as it fed her desire for self publicity”  Imagine losing a leg, and dealing with it as bravely as Heather has done and having to read that on top of it!

She was reported to always be clinging to me, the inference being that she was too possessive.  Never mind the fact that I love her holding my arm, the real truth is that often the surface of a floor or pavement can be dangerous for an amputee to walk on, and a little help from a friend can sometimes be appreciated.  These scurrilous writers can’t be bothered to search for the truth of situations like these.

There are so many other misapprehensions that are spread by certain sections of the media that it is impossible to answer them all.  I only hope that these words of mine help genuine people to get a clearer view of the realities of our lives, and encourage them to think for themselves, and not give credence to words by people who simply don’t care about the truth.

Thanks for listening.

All the Best,

Paul McCartney.

Damn, you beat me to it.  I was JUST about to post that!!

Whatever, dude, I still hate her...

If he didn't get plastic surgery, why on earth does his face looked so pulled back?? I think a lot of the Heather stuff comes from the same thing that inspired people to not like Linda. That and the fact that people did come to love Linda and now feel Heather is a poor replacement. But who knows. She does seem to grate on my nerves when I see her in interviews for some reason.

At Mairi and Sandra: Which would say its if the media, Paul has as a young man 10 women raped and killed. _ will it then hate.

did sombody say something ?

I don't really care for Heather at all, but i'm not into the ... bashing thingy. She does a lot for charities, but...yeah. The whole "mall situation" ("John Lennon, hey, John Lennon!", "He's DEAD you fool." etc.) -- I didn't like her little aftermath-rant. Sure, i'd be pissed...but it's like, she's just complaining that it's "too hard to be married to Paul, he's too famous," etc. ... yeesh. When she talks like that, it's like she's USING him and doesn't actually love him. And that's just nasty, if that's her aim.

Yeh. Anyway...Heather's annoying, she takes his cash. It's a bit like how Yoko sells and copyrights John and his images all over the place. (I don't hate Yoko, though. She's...interesting, really inspired John. I don't like that she's doing this Lennon!Marketing game, but eh.) I get it...to a degree. But why would you cash in on that...? Meh. Whatever. This isn't a Yoko thread; it's a Heather Mills-McCartney thread. ^^;; Ah, interesting.

=\ Yeah. I fall into the generation of kids who hardly seem to know the Beatles. They know of Paul ["Hey, isn't he that billionaire?"] and they've heard Ringo's name. But most of them don't recognize John for some reason. You think out of all of them [collectively stereotyping from stupid people at my school, sorry. =3], they'd know John. But they don't. There are ... two or three posters of John and Yoko's bed-in (way back from that Apple Computers "Think Different" thing.) and they DON'T KNOW WHO THAT IS. "Why are there two hippie dudes in bed?" "That's John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Um, Yoko Ono was a lady." "Who's John Lennon?" "*long pause* You...don't know who John Lennon is? You're sad. ^^;"  

...they all know the Who and the Stones [not knocking 'em, though] but they're like, "THE BEATLES SUCK". And um, OMGWTFBBQ-obviously, they don't.

And Paul doesn't look like he's had plastic surgery to me. o_O At all. And the hair dye...I wish he'd pick a different colour. XDDD;;

Hate and landmines are bad. 'member that.

I'll stop talking now. >_> <_< >_>

Yeah, you'd think John would be the most memorable Beatle ot jus tthe image that lasts the longest in your head.

I don't like Heather either.  It just seems like she is a bloodsucker because after Linda died we saw Paul have SUCH a hard time dealing with her death.  I mean they were together constantly for a large amount of his life, she had supported him through being a Beatle, an ex-Beatle, a solo artist, losing a best friend in John in various degrees (cat fighting and eventually death), and gave him children.  It was awful to see him on shows near tears, in tears or speaking gibberish (I think he was drunk on the one show I saw him on) because he was so HURT.  That is absolutely understandable.  And then this woman who has a basic resemblance to his beloved dead wife, who works for charities and fixing the world comes along and you just go, "Noooo!!!  Don't, Paul!"  And he does!  Is she opportunistic?  I think so.  I might say that about any woman he dates who I feel he really is using as a flesh and blood replacement to the woman he really wants.  When I hear Maybe I'm Amazed I always get teary eyed.  Before it was because you could feel the love he had for Linda come through in that song.  Now it's just because I think he may be serenading the warm body of Heather instead.  I just don't want one of my Beatles taken advantage of!  But, she makes him happy so I try not to bash her too much.  But filthy b**** does escape my mouth unexpectedly when her name is mentioned to me!

Is only amusing. Their first marriage only 2 years held. Paul however already nearly 3 years is married with it?

and she have a baby with him......

I find it pretty incomprehensible to form any kind of an opinion about her or their private life.  We don't have a clue about who they really are or what they're really like.  All we have is image and innuendo.