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Paul McCartney has a net worth of more than $1.2 Billion
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First Speaker
(4,858 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Does that count?
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)Not ideological; he'd been in an accident while turning left.
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/27/archives/exagent-says-hoover-barred-left-turns-on-car-trip.html
BarbaRosa
(2,684 posts)Wikipedia:
The title refers to an inscription written by actor Michael J. Pollard in Jim Capaldi's book while they were both in Morocco. Capaldi and Pollard were planning to work on a movie that was never filmed. Capaldi said:
Pollard and I would sit around writing lyrics all day, talking about Bob Dylan and the Band, thinking up ridiculous plots for the movie. Before I left Morocco, Pollard wrote in my book 'The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys.' For me, it summed him up. He had this tremendous rebel attitude. He walked around in his cowboy boots, his leather jacket. At the time he was a heavy little dude. It seemed to sum up all the people of that generation who were just rebels. The 'Low Spark,' for me, was the spirit, high-spirited. You know, standing on a street corner. The low rider. The 'Low Spark' meaning that strong undercurrent at the street level.
Aristus
(66,387 posts)The staunch liberal Democrat, future Senator from South Dakota, and Presidential candidate was a fledgling pilot when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He and his fellow student pilots marched out together to join the armed forces. They were debating in front of the recruiting station whether to become Army or Navy aviators.
Someone told them that if they joined the Army, instead of the Navy, they would receive a ticket for a free meal at the restaurant next door to the recruiting depot. They chose the Army and got their free meal.
McGovern went on to fly 35 bombing missions over Germany in a B-24 Liberator bomber.
monmouth4
(9,708 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)and was sent to a reformatory, where he was held from 1944 to 1947.
After his release, he settled into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)specifically as a harmonica player.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Probably from a heart attack, but since no autopsy was done, they don't know for sure.
He died in his sleep.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Janis Joplin, James Brown, Elvis Presley, Gram Parsons, B.B. King and Al Green.
He chronicled his travels with The Rolling Stones in several of his works.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)characters and interview himself.
By the time he was in high school, he had developed a repertoire of strange sound effects.