shyGirl
Nov 29, 2002, 02:55 PM
http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/story.asp?id=%7B5D3AC74C-F8E7-4A44-B1B5-753F195DF5DA%7D
You know about his songs, you know about his new wife. But did you know Paul McCartney is a nut for flowers?
Several of the ex-Beatle's personal foibles are spotlighted in the concert rider for McCartney's 2002 World Tour, excerpts of which were posted Tuesday on the Web site, The Smoking Gun. The posting coincides with McCartney's prime-time concert special tonight (8 on CBC, 10 on ABC).
McCartney won't travel in a stretch limousine with leather seats and will not stand for backstage furniture made of any animal skin or print (even if it's of the artificial variety), according to the contract provisions.
The rider also provides promoters with a detailed list of plant demands.
McCartney is said to be "fond of flowers" but promoters are advised to "stay away from weedy things" irritating to allergies. "Please provide some weeping eucalyptus."
The plant arrangements conclude with this underlined admonition: "No trees please! We want plants that are just as full on the bottom as the top such as palm, bamboo, peace lilies, etc. No tree trunks!"
The rider requires a pre-show sweep by some bomb-sniffing dogs and also, of course, contains the expected vegan salvo: "There will be no meat, or meat by-products allowed to be served in the dressing rooms, production offices, or areas within the 'backstage area.' "
McCartney's concert special, the two-hour film Back in the U.S., offers excerpts from his extensive North American nostalgia tour, a two-part trek covering 50 arenas that began last spring, was interrupted when he married Heather Mills in June, and resumed in September.
The show features performances of classics like Hey Jude, Yesterday and Let It Be, as well as a backstage look at the tour. A three-hour DVD and a two-CD set of the tour are being released Thursday.
Now 60, McCartney says he still regularly yearns to go out on the road.
"I don't know why," he said. "It's a cyclical thing. Maybe I just need the feedback, maybe I just need audiences to tell me that they know the songs and like them. These songs are my babies, and they still like my babies."
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"I get shy when they start to stare."
You know about his songs, you know about his new wife. But did you know Paul McCartney is a nut for flowers?
Several of the ex-Beatle's personal foibles are spotlighted in the concert rider for McCartney's 2002 World Tour, excerpts of which were posted Tuesday on the Web site, The Smoking Gun. The posting coincides with McCartney's prime-time concert special tonight (8 on CBC, 10 on ABC).
McCartney won't travel in a stretch limousine with leather seats and will not stand for backstage furniture made of any animal skin or print (even if it's of the artificial variety), according to the contract provisions.
The rider also provides promoters with a detailed list of plant demands.
McCartney is said to be "fond of flowers" but promoters are advised to "stay away from weedy things" irritating to allergies. "Please provide some weeping eucalyptus."
The plant arrangements conclude with this underlined admonition: "No trees please! We want plants that are just as full on the bottom as the top such as palm, bamboo, peace lilies, etc. No tree trunks!"
The rider requires a pre-show sweep by some bomb-sniffing dogs and also, of course, contains the expected vegan salvo: "There will be no meat, or meat by-products allowed to be served in the dressing rooms, production offices, or areas within the 'backstage area.' "
McCartney's concert special, the two-hour film Back in the U.S., offers excerpts from his extensive North American nostalgia tour, a two-part trek covering 50 arenas that began last spring, was interrupted when he married Heather Mills in June, and resumed in September.
The show features performances of classics like Hey Jude, Yesterday and Let It Be, as well as a backstage look at the tour. A three-hour DVD and a two-CD set of the tour are being released Thursday.
Now 60, McCartney says he still regularly yearns to go out on the road.
"I don't know why," he said. "It's a cyclical thing. Maybe I just need the feedback, maybe I just need audiences to tell me that they know the songs and like them. These songs are my babies, and they still like my babies."
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http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/rocknroll.gif
Song of the moment-Yer Blues
shyGirl's Hideout (http://www.geocities.com/smw15/index.html)
"I get shy when they start to stare."