Lord Duckhunter

Denny Laine hooked up with Paul after the first original album, apart from a few vocals from Linda, Paul played every instrument on every track. Laine played on the later live version, but even then I'm pretty sure it was Jimmy McCulloch who played the lead. The original and best version was all Paul. Music is obviously a personal thing to everyone, but I just find Lennon's solo stuff over produced. The Plastic Ono album is great and had Imagine been produced in the same raw way it would have been a much better album. I think Paul gets a bad press compared to John. Maybe because of the type of person he is and maybe because John got shot, but Lennon did some terrible rubbish and spouted a load of nonsense with Yoko. Yet could do no wrong, some of his "protests" ie the Hanratty thing and being interviewed in a bag, were just embaressing self promotion.I dont much listen to any of their solo stuff now, there's just too much dross, from all 4 of them.I read an interview with one of Wings once (can't remember who it was) but they said "how do you tell Paul McCartney he's written a poor song?", and I think they all suffered from that a bit. Lennon and McCartney could tell each other "that was poor", but how could Denny Laine or Klaus Voorman? Take George Martin out of the mix as well, and you can see why they couldn't match what came before (who could?) On a seperate note I feel that all musicans should be forced to retire at 50. Seeing one of my favourites Leon Russel, shuffling onto stage holding a walking stick to play with Elton John on BBC 4 the other night finally convinced me of it. As for Mick and Keith, they're just getting a bit cringeworthy now.Let's leave us old fossils to listen to the guys in their prime and let the youngsters do the live performances.

George was great, but he wasn't in the same class as a musican or songwritter compared to Paul.Even Lennon in his Jann Wenner interview in which he conducts a character assassination on Paul claims that him and Paul were "the best" and that George learnt from them. People forget what a brilliant musician McCartney is/was, a great drummer as well as keyboards, bass and guiter and other instruments. Listen to Maybe I'm amazed where he plays all the instruments, or Ballad of John and Yoko, where he plays everything except lead, including drums. In fact it was to thank him for his work on that song that John named him as a co-writter on Give Peace a chance. Personally, I dont accept your second point. Lennon and Harrison's decent solo stuff was done shortly after the break up, but Paul's (apart from a couple of songs on the first album) was poor and didn't get better until he got the Beatles out of his system. Band on the run being his first decent solo album and that was his 5th one.

John's on that album, Yoko's isn't bad, certainly better than anything else she's ever done (not that that's very hard). Beautiful Boy is just embaressing if you ask me. I liked some of his solo stuff, the plastic ono band album is a work of genius and New York City is one of my fav songs. But most of his solo stuff was over produced and Double Fantasy was just sentimental pap, something Paul's always been accussed of writting.

I dont understand why PMc gets stick for dross and yet Lennon gets away with it. That Double Fantasy album contains some of the worst musik I've ever heard. The whole Beatles solo work is patchy at best with some great stuff thrown in. Even Ringo's "it dont come easy" and "photograph" would not sound out of place on a Beatles album. As for "Band on the Run", it's a pretty decent album, personally I preferred "Venus and Mars" or "Tug of War", but none of them were ever going to match what they did in the 60's.

Anyone who thinks Daniel Levy is going to let Redknapp do a Skates on Spurs is really wide of the mark.Yes, he failed with us, but he did a bloody good job at Boscombe, was pretty decent at West Ham, did well at The Skates and is doing a great job at Spurs. His signings obviously contributed to the Skates downfall, but it's not his job to say "no I dont want to spend that money" to the chairman. How would we feel if NA was offered £8mil in the Jan window, but turned it down because he didn't feel we could afford it? The blokes dodgey, a right big head and a disloyal **** but the facts are he's a pretty decent Manager. He's forgotten more about the game than Lowe, Woodward and Clifford will ever know. Of all the **** ups Lowe made not sacking him following relegation (when it was obvious they couldn't work together) was the biggest one. It cost us any chance of getting back up first time around.

Then the BBC will have no problem getting money without using a poll tax to do so. If I object to Sky TV's bias or programme output I cancel my subscribition and refuse to pay. If I did that to the BBC I'd end up in prison. How can that be right in 2010? When the whole country goes digital that is the perfect time to do away with this nonsense and if people dont want to watch the BBC, then it should be easy to block the signal to them.If people had the basic right to choose whether they wanted to pay for the BBC's output, they wouldn't be paying Wossy and the rest of them obscene amounts of our money and sending many more people on a world cup jolly than any commercial station.

In this day and age it is wrong to pay a poll tax on watching a TV station . People should have a choice whether they subscribe to a channel or not. If the BBC is as good as it's defenders make out, then they will have no problem raising the money without forcing people who dont want to watch their channels to pay for it. If the BBC didn't exist and the new govt wanted to start a national tv station and charge people £142.50 whether they wanted to watch it or not. If you had to pay this whether you were rich or poor and your details were taken every time you purchased a tv, the lefties would be up in arms over it.

Had there been internet forums around in 1973 what would the supporters made of Lawrie's start to his Saints career? When are we ever going to give a new manager a fair crack of the whip.How on earth can you judge a man after a dozen or so games. A major part of the Managers job is identifying and buying players, NA has been unable to do this yet.Another important part of his job is pre season, again NA has not had one of these.

Channon's was the best week in week out. The last goal at The Dell was the best mass celebration I've seen.

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Looks like the Labour party are rallying around the "liar", Blair's wife, Brown and others must feel that he's done nothing wrong. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/8120131/Labour-MPs-mutiny-against-leadership-in-support-of-Phil-Woolas.html

Next time you're in your local supermarket, make sure you keep an eye on the checkout girl's tits. In these tough financial times,can you really be afford to be overcharged for fruit and veg? Not only will it save you money, but it'll make grocery shopping that little bit more enjoyable. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-11710712

Are we going to have 8 pages of moans because of the Mayflower ticket tax?

Reading some posts on other forums, the people behind the scenes at AFCW dont want to deal with Franchise FC, with ticket sales and other stuff that goes with Clubs meeting in the cup. The wounds are so deep that they are going to really struggle to do any normal day to day stuff with them. A lot of AFCW people really dont want the game to happen.

I bet the ones who had great excuses not to make the game, will be free for a third round game against The Skates or Man Utd.

Had the British people realised what the EEC would become, they would have voted to come out back in the 70'S.We were lied to by Grocer Heath and the rest of the Euro loons. I bet the leftie BBC want be ramming home the point that an unelected body is telling us who can vote in our elections.

Mark Wright.

What a joke, pubs are one of man's greatest inventions. Millions of people enjoy a drink in a harmless friendly way. Just because a very small percentage of people who drink, do so to such an extent that they ruin lives does not make in comparable to hard drugs in anyway. How many Heroin users lead normal healthy lives taking a bit of Heroin with their friends and family to relax?

How did he get on in the PR European elections? Second above Labour and the Lib/Dems, which goes to show a lot of people share his opinions on Europe.

Can someone with a contact in our squad, find out the Notts County team for me?

Didn't Storrie claim that the chants of "One Peter Storrie" convinced him to stay on.

Fantastic to see the great man getting a bit of publicity, thanks to that old queen Elton( who personally I cant stand).How on earth the Rock and Roll Hall of fame can continue to ignore him is unbelieveable. Since seeing his performance of Jumping Jack Flash in The Concert for Bangladesh I've been a great fan of Leon's and he's spent too many years in the wilderness. The hippy looking Father Christmas you may have seen lately played with Ike and Tina Turner, Joe Co cker, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Jerry Lee Lewis, BB King,The Beach Boys, george Harrison,Herb Albert and Frank Sinatra amongst others. His songs covered by many many artists, "Song for you" can still be heard on prime time TV. He also wrote Delta Lady, Superstar,Hummingbird,This Masquerade and countless other hits for other artists to perform.He was also a great performer in his own right. If you get a chance check out his performances on stage in the Mad Dogs and Englishmen film (although he does look a bit like that TCWTB) with Joe Coc ker and a band of world class musicans. He's not very trendy , I realise I'm a bit of an old dinosaur, and this is a bit of indulgence on my part, but I feel a tribute to Leon is in order before he passes away. Forget the old man you may see with Elton, this is Leon in his prime.The quality of the pics isn't great, but the quality of the band and performance is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjy7RAu8TJ4&feature=related

Dont bother with Consumer Direct, just take legal advise from the off. I had dealings with them and after 4 months of their advise,I got nowhere and they said they said I should speak to a solicitor. They said they had a list of local Solicitors who specilaised in the field I was in dispute about. Gave me the name of one, really local to Poole, Newport. I said that's the IOW, miles away, to which the lady replied Newport South Wales. They were a complete shambles. Pay a Solicitor for an intial interview, it'll be worth it in the long run.

Did anyone hear Duffin on Talksport this morning. If I was a Skate I'd be worried about what he had to say. He said that Chanari was now out looking for finance, but also that he (Duffin) understands that next season's parachute money has already been spent on running the club this season.

If anyone has any doubts about Trade Unionism nowadays, ask yourself why London Fireman are going on strike on Nov 5th. That tells you all you need to know about the Trade Unions.