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3-18-2007 @2:17PM BadKIttyNo said... Wow, all you people deriding Starbucks sure are super-cool... I wish I could be half as hip and pompous as you guys. It's fun to dislike things that are popular, so let's all jump on the bandwagon! Everybody's doing it!
We can pretend Paul McCartney isn't one of the most talented songwriters in the history of popular music while we're at it! Yay!
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3-18-2007 @3:02PM steve said... 78 to 75 you are a DOUCHEBAG
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3-18-2007 @3:03PM Sunshine said... shut up. Paul is still amazing!
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3-18-2007 @3:19PM Barbara said... Starbucks coffee is just nasty-tasting. For the life of me I can't figure out the allure...
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3-18-2007 @5:40PM Susan Cole said... 40: Did not know all that. I was going by the newspaper and television reports at the time. Thanks for the update. I love Paul and wish him well.
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3-18-2007 @5:58PM Susan Cole said... To 64 and 69: As I told 40, I did not know what really transpired regarding the sale of the rights to the Lennon/McCartney songs. I believed what I heard and read, as I'm sure many people did. The actual facts of the transaction were not widely published. There were only the screaming headlines. I loved the Beatles and think Paul is a musical genius and a good guy. And my comment about his marrying Heather was snipey. Who hasn't made a decision they believed in, that ultimately didn't work out? I do wish Paul the best. He deserves it.
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3-18-2007 @7:42PM Jean said... Sounds like Starbucks Entertainment is off doing its own thing and didn't get the memo. What does this have to do with 'getting back to the core'...getting back to the tradition of the Starbucks experience? It's one thing to recommend good music to customers - a good coffe house does/did that. It's another to own the music and jam it down their throats. And, please. Paul McCartney? Let's see, Starbucks core business is/was...ummm...wait, I know this...coffee?
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3-19-2007 @12:48AM Meme said... BTW - Regarding my comment that hardly anyone actually cared about Paul's happiness..my post was written very early today and only being posted now..I'm sure many positive ones have come through since then..thanks to those who are positive in this negative hateful world anymore and again, best of luck and happiness in life to Paul in his new ventures.
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3-23-2007 @4:29PM Fretrix said... Oops! The numbering changed... (was a message deleted somehow?) My message #74 was meant for what is now #71, the blogger "steve", who apparently posted another unconscionably mean-spirited message toward Yoko in #68. OK, I know there is a lot of misinformation out there, concerning all of the Beatles, just like what blogger Susan Cole read re McCartney and the Beatles music catalog (btw, Susan, thank you for your replies to those of us who knew the truth), but I, for one, have for a long time been sick and tired of hearing all this derision aimed at Yoko. And mostly from people who apparently claim honor and respect for John Lennon, yet who belie that respect by seemingly considering him to have been incapable of choosing his own intimate life partner and soulmate. The apparently poor, weak and naive John Lennon was swooped down upon and taken over by this scheming "monster" Yoko. Bullshit!! John was a strong and savvy(mostly, maybe not that much in business), blatantly honest creative genius (else, how could he have initiated the Beatles, and created the amazing, perceptive, and groundbreaking body of work that he did), who found a compatible spirit in Yoko Ono when he first encountered her simple, honest and positive artworks. He was the one that pointedly pursued her, not vice versa, and she was even, by his own words, put off by him at first. They together tried to bring forth a message of simple sanity, love and peace in a world so often complicated and brought down by hypocrisy and greed. Kudos to Yoko for happening to have what it took to become the partner of one of the most unique creative geniuses in history. (Not to mention helping save his fortune from the pitfalls and conmen always attendant to that kind of fame and fortune.) They were one of the Couples of the Century.
"Everybody's got something to hide 'cept for me and my monkey" - JL '68. (off the White Album, for the uninitiated)
(Ok, ok, one concession, as a musician, I do find her off-pitch vocal recordings abit hard to swallow.)
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