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Paul McCartney:the life节选(一)

昨天读了Philp Norman版的泡儿传记,摘取了部分个人觉得有趣的内容。此作者似乎是以蹭热度出名的,以前也diss过泡,个人不太推荐他(爆过John和Paul的料,但总感觉和Yoko女士是一路货orz)。不过这版内容应该算是比较完整的了,记录了泡从出生到2016年的往事,index也很全,方便易查。


1)She shows us the drainpipe which,late at night,Paul would shin up to climb through the inside toilet window and let John in at the front door without waking his father.

2)Learning of the miracle that had occurred,Jim raised no objection when Mary wanted him baptised into the Catholic church.He was given his father’s and great-grandfather’s first name of James and the saintly middle name Paul,by which he would always be better known.

(Paul这个中名是受洗得来的,John和George的名字应该也是吧。怪不得侬哥说过“约翰、乔治和保罗,就像他们的名字一样,一直在一起,这是他们出生起就注定的”←大概是这样的意思吧,原话不记得了。。)

以下几段讲的是在文法学校念书时的泡。

3)Ian James remembers him as a highly personable,popular figure with an appeal by no means limited to their fellow juniors,”He was a brilliant mimic,”says James,”we were just starting to get the Goon Show on the radio and Paul could do all the voices from it,like Eccles and Bluebottle.In the mornings,you’d see him in the playground with a little crowd around him,acting out the show he’d heard the night before.He was an entertainer even then.”

4)His Coronation essay prize had included a book token,which he’d use to by grown-up volume about Picasso,Salvador Dali and Victor Pasmore.

5)“He had this angelic-type face and we’d see it peering out from the top deck of the 86 bus as it passed us when he was on his way to Liverpool Institute and we were waiting for our bus to Aigburth Vale high school,”Bernice recalls.”We’d all jump up and down and wave and shout at him.”

(Bernice是当地一个喜欢上泡的姑娘,当然她的伙伴们也无一不迷恋着泡)

6)The chubbiness soon disappeared,never to return,but the self-consciousness it brought lingered long afterwards.Years later,when writing about the more important encounter of his life,he would describe himself on that day at St. Peter’s church fete as “a fat school boy”.

(关于泡的婴儿肥问题…)

7)“That was the worst thing for me,”Paul would remember.”Seeing my dad cry.”But,grief-stricken though he was,the brown eyes shed no public tears.”I was determined not  to let it affect me.I carried on.I learned to put a shell around me.”

(回忆失去Mary时的情景“the brown eyes shed no public tears”说得挺到位的,今后泡还要挺过许多这样的场合...他真的是我见过最坚强的人之一了)

8)Mike McCartney remembers,“...we’d have Elivs,Little Richard,Fat Domino and Chuck Berry...and our kid[Paul] would be singing along or trying to write down lyrics.I sometimes think that if it hadn’t been for those Bakelite headphones,there wouldn’t have been any Beatles.”

(其实摘这句纯粹是因为弟弟Mike的这句our kid。一直以为只有隔壁曼城旮旯格才会这么叫的.感觉特别温暖就是了。)

9)He already known John Lennon by sight;with homes only a quarter of a mile apart,they could hardly miss each other.But until now,the age gap between them had ruled out any socialising....Although still at school-just-he looked like a Teddy Boy and displayed all the touchy aggression that went with it.”This Ted would get on the bus,”Paul was later to remember.”I wouldn’t stare at him too hard in case he hit me.”

10)Now at least Paul could inspect the tough guy of the 86 bus at leisure without fear of reprisals.

(在 St. Peter’s church fete上,泡和侬初次见面,切磋琴技【不是】 )

11)“I remember John leaning over”,Paul says,”contributing a deft right hand to the upper octaves and surprising me with his beery breath.”

(著名的beery breath的原话。特别喜欢这句话,而且感官上冲击力蛮大的。真的能感受到其中的吉他声、啤酒味,甚至是侬靠近时的体温和拂动右手时带过的风)

12)In many ways,Paul and John were not the total opposites they appeared.Both had the same passion for rock’n’roll and ambition to play it to the same standard as their American heroes.Both were artistic,bookish,fond of language and addicted to cartooning;both had the same sense of humour,nourished by the aural anarchy of Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers on BBC radio’s Goon Show,although John’s was ruthlessly cruel while Paul’s was subtler and kindlier.

13)“So the gig got nearer and then one day John turned up and he got a cream jacket that was lighter than Paul’s.It was John’s way of saying’Hey I’m cooler than you.’”

14)“Oh ,yes,he was well-mannered—too well-mannered.He was what we called in liverpool “talking posh”and I thought he was taking the mickey out of me.I thought’He’s a snake-charmer all right,’John’s little friend,Mr Charming.I wasn’t falling for it.After he’d gone,I said to John,”what are you dong with him?He’s younger than you...and he’s from Speke!”

(from Mimi ,talk about PAUL)

15)I used to tease John by saying ‘chalkandcheese’, meaning how different they were,and John would start hurling himself around the room like a wild dervish shouting’Chalkandchees!Calkandchees’ with this stupid grin on his face.

(from Mimi,非常经典的chalkandchees..十几岁的时候遇见真爱其实也是一件非常可爱的事,看侬嘚瑟的样子啊)

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