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to think macca wasnt actually that bad.....

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ThatVikRinA22 · 28/07/2012 12:12

ive re watched on iplayer.

he wasnt actually that bad. he was actually ok. and the whole world would know "hey jude" and all they had to do was go "na na na nah".......

dh has told me off for being grumpy.
and he was in the Beatles i suppose......(macca not DH....)

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KatieisScarlettinSpandex · 28/07/2012 13:11

It's ageist to slag off a singer cos he's shite?

PerryCombover · 28/07/2012 13:11

Haha totally

geegee888 · 28/07/2012 13:15

Its strange how Madonna gets criticised for daring to be an older woman while still an excellent performer, but Paul McCartney who really can't hold a note any more and sounds like a bad karaoke performer, gets praised.

It was also against the theme of the Olympics and the opening ceremony, of the old handing over to the new, for him to close the ceremony. Just why are he and his daughter awarded these types of opportunity? Obviously some kind of establishment favouritism, but neither are actually very good. If they were assessed on their own merits, now, rather than on who they are, they wouldn't have a chance.

Nanny0gg · 28/07/2012 13:16

Um, Mayisout - I am plenty old enough to remember when the Beatles started. Loved them at the time, love their music still.
But now, today, Macca can't sing.

Totallymum · 28/07/2012 13:17

The Beatles were a brilliant talent in their day. Just like the horse and cart was a great way to travel in the past.

Mayisout · 28/07/2012 13:17

Am posting this again - just shows he is appreciated elsewhere

Was it this year or last that Macca was chosen to open the World Series in the US. The World Series is THE sports event of the year there and this was a great accolade.

Why has everyone got to be sooo whingey about him here.

Hey Jude was a great ending for a multi-national audience.

KatieisScarlettinSpandex · 28/07/2012 13:22

He was picked to close that amazing ceremony despite the fact he can't sing and ballsed it up in front of billions.

It was embarrasing.

Better to have left the world with the image of the Beatles when they were great, than commit that crime against music last night.

geegee888 · 28/07/2012 13:27

Do you think he still practices and trains his voice as much as most singers? Or does he just rest on his laurels?

The Beatles were not my era, but I do find their music repetitive and a bit whiny. I don't know a lot about music, but I think Paul McCarney never had much range in his voice and is now totally out of tune.

Rosduk · 28/07/2012 13:29

I just think they shouldn't have used him to close the jubilee and the Olympics. It just felt too similar since it was only a few months ago

limitedperiodonly · 28/07/2012 13:46

I went to see Frank Sinatra about 25 years ago.

He was about 70 and his voice was long past its best.

But it was Frank bloody Sinatra.

Original poster
ThatVikRinA22 · 28/07/2012 13:46

i agree with mayisout on this one. (and im not a mcartney fan particularly....)

ive rewatched it and he is on tune - he is! the start is a bit wobbly but it picks up and he is fine after a few notes - he was singing live, he did ok imo!

every one was singing along, everyone knows "hey jude" and i thought he did ok.

i agree it should not be about how aged or not he looks. he did ok. he is british, it was a celebration of the best of british history and he is a historically important musician.

when he dies there will be threads on here about how brilliant he was....because he is and was a musician of note.

i think it was right for him to end the ceremony.

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FreudianSlipper · 28/07/2012 13:56

he will always be the last on while he is alive or can still just about perform (like sinatra)

why because along with lennon he wrote some of the best pop music ever and was a member of the most influential band ever

of course he is past it but it is who he is and what he has contributed to music. no he was not as clever with his writing as lennon but he wrote and together they wrote lots of fantastic songs. yes gerge harrison wrote some fantastic songs (some of my favs) but he too wrote some pretty crap songs like piggies

Goldenbear · 28/07/2012 14:11

Oh God, this thread is not going to contain more calls for the spectacularly obvious 'Gold' to have been chosen is it? Or worse the simpering blandness of any performances by Sir Cliff and Gary (Barlow)?

Goldenbear · 28/07/2012 14:14

I live in a block of flats and I could here quite a few, na, na na na na na nas!

wheresthepopcorn · 28/07/2012 16:39

Wha? The guy's a legend. Love him! We all sang along (I need to get out more!)

insancerre · 28/07/2012 16:46

YANBU
He is a legend and why shouldn't he sing his own song?
Torch Team macca

Lottapianos · 28/07/2012 16:49

I agree with you Vicar about Adele- some of her songs are good but her voice is bloody painful on the stalker song. I find her totally charmless in interviews too, don't get all the 'top bird' stuff (forms an anti Adele club of 2 with Vicar)

Mrsjay · 28/07/2012 16:50

WHat has happened to his face Hmm he is turning into Gillian Mckeith google them you will see Grin

Thumbwitch · 28/07/2012 16:50

The reasons to sing Hey Jude were good - but they should have let someone who can still sing perform it.

PMcC is past it, vocally. Being "ok" just isn't good enough when there are plenty of other people who could have done a faaaar better job of singing it. It was painful to listen to and a bloody good job the crowd joined in to drown out PMcC!

Mrsjay · 28/07/2012 16:53

Maybe it would be better if he sang it with somebody else do a duet but i suspect that would be Gary Barlow Hmm

Mrsjay · 28/07/2012 16:53

Oh not adele she hasnt got any anthems like hey Jude would be warbeling and wailing

JamieandTheOlympicTorch · 28/07/2012 16:56

I also loved the Arctic Monkeys

CarlaBruni · 28/07/2012 16:59

I'll join Team Macca as well. Love the reasons why Hey Jude was chosen and so why shouldn't he sing his own song? Want to marry Danny Boyle even more now.

CatPower · 28/07/2012 16:59

Am I one of the few who really cannot stand "Hey Jude"? God, it's a dirge, it goes on and on and on and on...

...McCartney would turn up to the opening of an envelope if he'd be allowed to sing it.

I'd much rather have seen David Bowie closing the opening ceremony, or Queen if Freddie was still with us. Now -that- would have been a really spectacular ending.

ShipMate · 28/07/2012 17:00

Bringing him out is just such a cliche. There were references to Yellow Submarine and Sgt Pepper earlier in the ceremony, along with Arctic Monkeys doing Come Together, we really didn't need Macca to appear too.

Totally unimaginative and uncreative.