#The Bruce McMouse Show
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LINDA McCARTNEY with WINGS performing "Eat At Home". 1972.
#there she is!#my queen!#linda mccartney#wings#paul mccartney and wings#the bruce mcmouse show#1970s#70s#1972#my gifs#beatlegirlsedit#wingsedit
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paul when he lies
#I workshopped like 20 different captions for this#but whatever I’m lazy#my quotes#paul mccartney#the bruce mcmouse show#the beatles#beatles
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Paul McCartney & Wings - Wild Life (Live from The Bruce McMouse Show, 1972)
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The Bruce McMouse Show 🐁
"Would I tell a lie to you?"
Paper doll of Paul McCartney wearing a tab-on version of clothes worn in the quirky Wings concert film, The Bruce McMouse Show.
"Make 'em dream, son. Make 'em dream." - Bruce McMouse, 1972.
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I urgently need a scholarly analysis comparing The Bruce McMouse Show with Stop Making Sense.
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I’ve read a few times that John enjoyed “Let Me Roll It”, but it’s always great to find audio. Here he is stating that it’s one of his favourite tracks off Paul’s album! [Yes, I know he doesn’t specifically name the song, but I think we all know what song he’s referring to :) ]
INT: Actually John, I was with Paul and Linda the other day.
JOHN: How are they?
INT: They're very well, working very hard on their movie.
JOHN: I just heard his latest album too and that's good.
INT: Band on The Run.
JOHN: Ya, it's a very good album.
INT: I think so too.
JOHN: Ya, I think it's the best he's done.
INT: There's a track on it John, he sounds very much like you, I can't remember which one—
JOHN: I know, it's one of my favourite tracks!
INT: [Laughs]
JOHN: I think I'll cover it!
INT: Ya, a cover version?
JOHN: Ya, what's this movie he's doing?
INT: All he would say was that it's touring, from the European tour, and uh one minute the camera is filming Wings doing the singing on stage, and then it pans back to the mouse stage and goes through a mouse hole, and then it's cartoon characters who are like complaining about the noise and then the mouse go on tour with Wings. [Note: It appears the interviewer is talking about Paul's concept for the part-animated concert movie The Bruce McMouse Show.]
JOHN: Oh, that sounds nice.
INT: It sounds kind of like he's got a lot of energy to doing things. Looking forward to seeing that.
JOHN: Sounds like Alice in Liverpool.
INT: [Laughs]
#John Lennon#Paul McCartney#The Beatles#Let Me Roll It#(Also John asking about his movie is sweet)#(But his response after hearing the concept is funny to me lol)#(“Oh…that sounds nice…”)#1973#Audio
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Hi, wingsoverlagos!
Love your blog from The Bruce McMouse Show' Paul to your posts on magic Lewisohn. Thank you a lot!
And not that it matters but I thought about you when read this comment on youtube (by @DrAnne-mc8er, who tells nice and seems truely stories about her family, especially on her unkle worked with The Beatles in 1969, and her own childhood near Paul, John, George and Ringo),
'… I've kept written diaries my whole life, which our youngest daughter is in the (necessarily) very long process of putting in date order with my help. These go way back to the early 50's, and include things which (now) seem so innocent and naive. Like when John knocked me off a swing in the local park, and when John and Paul had a real fight over a pair of £2 roller skates, both refusing to give up the one skate they each were holding on to for dear life! LOL Obviously this was when we were all still teenage kids fooling around.
Yes, I was contacted by a lady well over a year ago from "the office of" Mr Lewisohn in London, which to be quite honest, I thought was an arrogant way of him going about things, and I said so to the lady. Anyway he called back to "personally apologise". I should probably clarify that I'm now well into my seventies, and have a number of health issues. Yet rather than come up and see me at home in Liverpool, Mr Lewisohn assumed that I would be so keen to be in his book, that I would take the 3 hour train journey, to go and see him (or an assistant) in London, stay overnight if necessary, and then "hope" that anything I would say about the early days, might make it into his planned book. ALL at my own personal expense!
Needless to say I told my husband what Mr Lewisohn expected, and I also phoned Paul to tell him (in no uncertain terms) what I thought of the man. Frustratingly, our daughter who's here now, has just said I can't say what Paul said to me over the phone, here in a public forum. So that's as much as I can say. Well, other than I chose NOT to take the delightful Mr Lewisohn up on his offer! (I'm angry with him now all over again, just recalling what the arrogant sod expected me to do!) But anyway greenatom, you now know the story behind all that.
PS - Our daughter's gone home, so I'll quickly tell you that Paul said he'd talk to Richie (Ringo) about everything, and would phone me back. Anyway in the meantime, Barb phoned me and said Richie was furious with this Mark Lewisohn about what had happened, and that he should "stick his effing book where the sun don't shine!" LOL Then Paul phoned me back the same evening, and said he'd been round to Richie and Barb's (which of course I knew after chatting with Barb earlier), and said it was entirely up to me. but that he and Richie, both felt that I should tell Mark Lewisohn to "eff off". So I don't know for certain, but I think Paul and Richie might have temporarily fallen out a bit with Mr Lewisohn. Not just because of how he spoke to me, but mainly because as Paul said over the phone, the book is supposed to be about The Beatles. Not what the lads got up to as kids individually. Sorry for writing such a stupidly long reply, but take care anyway, and please stay healthy and wear a mask x'
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hv2EkzqUb8&lc=Ugy-Dnq03NdsYhh6xTB4AaABAg&ab_channel=YouCan%27tUnhearThis
Thank you so much for reading my posts, and for sending this message along! The comment thread in question is very interesting and sent me down quite the rabbithole. I wanted to believe! But I fear this person's story doesn't line up on close inspection.
The thread in question is at the top of the comment section on this video on the You Can't Unhear This Youtube channel. It's from the user "DrAnne-mc8er" who claims to be the neice of Bob Moog, of synthesizer fame. The thread is over 100 comments long with many replies by Dr. Anne. In addition to being the neice of Bob Moog, she claims to have known Paul and George as kids, being a couple of years younger than them, and to still be friends with them to this day. She says she has many handwritten journals starting in the 1950s and, most pertinently, she claims to have been contacted by the office of Mark Lewisohn. Her story goes that a research assistant of Lewisohn contacted her; Dr. Anne thought it was rudely done, and Lewisohn then conteacted her personally to apologize. She came away with the impression that he was full of himself, and then spoke to Paul & Ringo, who confirmed that Lewisohn was bad news.
Obviously, this story was like catnip to me. Having beef with Mark Lewisohn is such a specific thing to lie about, I thought, would anyone bother to add this detail if they were simply LARPing as someone celeb-adjacent? Still, there were some details that gave me pause. Dr. Anne said, for instance, that John was a devout christian at the time of the Maureen Cleave interview, which...lol. But one very wrong assumption doesn't necessarily invalidate her entire story. She also said that George Harrison had done uncredited backing vocals on London Town, which sounds improbable, but idk, you never know???
So I decided to dig in to see if anything she said held water. First, I image searched her profile picture (crazy how using a basic google function makes me feel like Sherlock Holmes), and the results were somewhat encouraging: the picture was indeed of a Dr. Anne Cremona, a psychologist. Further digging showed that the real Dr. Anne and the commenter Dr. Anne both professed to have at least four children. On the flip side, Commenter Dr. Anne purports to live in Liverpool, while Actual Dr. Anne practices in London. Not a realistic commute, eh?
But the story truly fell apart once I looked into Bob Moog, who I previously knew nothing about aside from the fact that he was the Synthesizer Guy. Commenter Dr. Anne said that her mother was Bob Moog's younger sister, who had moved to the UK in 1938. She named her grandfather as Robert Sr. There are claims with all of these problems, not the least of which is the fact that Bob Moog seems to have been an only child. I read the first few chapters of a biography of Moog--(Switched On by Albert Glinsky)--which provides plenty of detail on Moog's family going several generations back, but doesn't mention any siblings.
The second issue is the timing: based on this commenter's story, she would have been born around 1944 or 1945. Bob Moog was born in 1934. If he somehow had a younger sister who went unmentioned in his biography, she would have been at most three years old in 1938, when she purportedly went to Liverpool--with a non-parent guardian, as Bob Moog lived with both his parents. This sister would have been ten at the oldest when "Dr. Anne" claims to have been born.
Then we have her grandfather, Robert Sr. Bob Moog was actually the first Robert in a long line of Georges. His dad was George, his grandfather was George, and his great-grandfather was, I think, Georg. There may have been another George thrown in there.
So it seems like this commenter is just doing some high effort LARPing. The thing I'm left wondering is whether or not this commenter is actually Dr. Anne Cremona. If it isn't, they didn't just pick a random picture for their troll account, but used her name as well, all while incorporating details that seem pulled from her life. There's the number of children for one, but the commenter also sprinkles in some psychology talk.
What's the deal? Is this an actual psychologist doing some dedicated trolling (the comment chain spanned a time period of more than a year) with her actual name and picture? Or is this a troll impersonating an actual psychologist as part of their neice-of-Bob-Moog routine?
Thank you for sending this my way, @tavolgisvist! It may not be the genuine article, but I had a lot of fun digging into it. The Mark Lewisohn Tipline (my askbox) is always open!
#the added detail that dr. anne cremona formed a special interest group#for women in the uk in the field of psychology#guess what field ml's wife works in...#coincidence? almost certainly
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hi hi hi wingsheads! have YOU ever wished that the live recordings from 1972's the bruce mcmouse show were an actual live album?
well look no further, i've provided you with the mp3 files and you can find them here! (fair warning some of the songs have mouse noises in them. i'm annoyed too but i can't do anything about it)
#these live performances are utterly insane and to think they're not an album. ABSURD! my personal fave is wild life but they're all great#wings#paul mccartney#music
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we don’t need a john lennon biopic what we need is a theatrical release of the bruce mcmouse show
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whoever edited wings bruce mcmouse show 1972 i am kissing you with tongue
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Tuesday, 27 June 2023:
Wild Life (Deluxe Edition) Wings (Capitol) (reissue released in 2018, original album released in 1971)
This was the third album (the second album has yet to find it's way to my mailbox) I bought in the bizarre Sound of Vinyl sale I spoke about in the previous post involving The Jam's compilation Snap!. That sale involved upwards of 175 titles that were free of charge but for which the customer would have to pay shipping costs. The Jam's double album with bonus 45 cost a mere $8 and change to mail, but this double album (with no bonus 45) cost $10 and change.
So why am I buying a Macca album that I've never much cared (and truth be told, like so many other things in my collection, I once owned this back in the day)? Well, it wasn't because it was free. On 13 May I finally made my way through the massive book The McCartney Legacy Volume 1: 1969-1973 and boy, did I develop a taste for those early records of his that are discussed in detail within the book: 1970's McCartney, 1971's Wild Life and 1973's Red Rose Speedway. Even crazier is the fact just two weeks ago I watched the bonus Blu Rays in the Super Deluxe version of Red Rose Speedway because they included one television show I've not seen since it aired on TV and then another show that has never aired.
The first was the one hour TV special James Paul McCartney, a bizarre variety special that is corny beyond cornball. It aired in 1973 and featured the original members of Wings (the McCartneys, of course, along with Denny Laine, Henry McCullough and Denny Seiwell). The second special that McCartney devised and created that is just terrible to a certain degree: The Bruce McMouse Show. Both of these shows are discussed at length in the book. In Bruce McMouse, the premise is Wings are giving a concert (some of it is authentic, some of it obviously staged--Macca's phony introductions to the songs are colossally staged) and their music disrupts a family of animated mice living below the stage where Wings is performing.
This silly premise and show caused dissension in the ranks of Wings (McCullough and Seiwell were none too pleased with the fact they had to act with an imaginary animated mouse family). The animation is pure Saturday morning cartoons and the script (for the mouse family) is abysmal humor like you find in the worst of comedy television.
The live show, on the other hand, is fantastic. Wings is one rocking band. I believe the live show presented was from late 1970, perhaps very early 1971 and Wings is on fire. Denny Laine wears black nail polish (okay, on just one nail, but still), Henry McCullough is a hell of a live lead guitarist and at one point falls down on his back and rips out a guitar solo all while Denny Seiwell proves to be a magnificent drummer. (I ended up really liking the latter two musicians via the book's presentation, and ended up really disliking Mrs Macca.)
So what does that have to do with this album? In this concert they let loose with a live version of Wild Life that I simply got stuck in my head for one week! This is the only version of the song I've played (in my playing the three albums I mentioned, I cherry picked what I played and the title track of Wild Life was not one I played because I had yet to see The Bruce McMouse Show. When I saw this album offered for free on the Sound of Vinyl, I snapped it up after one day of deliberation. I plan on blasting the title track later this week!
Above you see the cover of the album with a hype sticker followed by the gatefold and then the back of the album cover. And man, is that not one of the worst haircuts McCartney suffered from back then? Did he invent the mullet?
Below you will see a close up of that hype sticker on the album cover. The second photo shows you the sticker that is on the back of the album which announces the tracklist.
This album comes with a booklet. Below is the cover of the booklet. That is a drawing Macca did of his vision of what the group looked like. The second photo is the back of the booklet.
I don't normally shoot photos of plain inner sleeves, but this album has an inner sleeve that mimics the original sleeve. It is certainly far different from the normal white inner sleeve as you can see.
When I bought this album I remember thinking these were the weirdest record labels I'd ever seen. I'm not claiming Macca was the first person to use photos on labels, but I certainly cannot recall any before although I'm certain there has to be some I have forgotten. Anyhow, the book I keep mentioning does a good job explaining why Macca opted for his labels to look like this and why he refused to allow the Apple logo on any of his first two post-Fabs releases (think Apple lawsuit and his abhorrence of Allen Klein). You make your claims for Lennon being the smart Beatle and the defacto leader and I'll make my claims for it being Macca. Anyhow, below are both sides of the labels for the first album, the album proper.
The second album is all outtakes, singles and single edits. It too is found in a yellow sleeve, so I didn't shoot a photo of that. But I did provide photos for both sides of the label.
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Paul in his The Ritva Man jersey
Paper doll of Paul McCartney wearing a tab-on version of his pale blue Wings jersey, made for him by London fashion label The Ritva Man. He wore it on stage in 1972-3, and he appeared in this outfit in the Wings film project The Bruce McMouse Show.
The Ritva Man made Wings jerseys for him in other colours: a deeper blue version sold recently at auction.
To learn more about the gorgeous designs of The Ritva Man, and their collaborations with David Hockney, Elisabeth Frink and others, explore this V&A collection.
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Wings - Red Rose Speedway (The Bruce McMouse Show) [2018, Blu-ray, 1080i]
Wings – Red Rose Speedway (The Bruce McMouse Show) [2018, Blu-ray, 1080i]
Genre: Rock, Pop, Pop Rock
Duration: 00:52:50
Release year: 2018
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Yes I’m live-blogging the Bruce McMouse show I’ve somehow never actually seen the full thing before but it’s truly delightful (even if paul decided to play all his most boring songs? idk what the thought process was lol) I recommend everybody watch it just for his fits at least
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Paul McCartney in the Bruce McMouse Show
Bonus because if I have to see it you do too:
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