Paul McCartney is one of the most recognizable names in the world, but the musician sometimes likes to have more anonymity with his projects. His lengthy discography becomes even longer if one includes all of the projects he did under various pseudonyms.
Here are 5 pseudonyms used by Paul McCartney in his career Percy Thrillington Paul McCartney | Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images
Percy Thrillington might be Paul McCartney’s coolest pseudonym, but he only used it once. McCartney used the pseudonym for the Thrillington album, an instrumental version of Ram, released in 1977. While McCartney produced the album, the arrangements were by Richard Hewson. In an interview with Club Sandwich, McCartney reflected on Thrillington, calling it a “little bit of indulgence.”
“What I didn’t realize is that nobody would want to release an album like that,” McCartney said. “Not even then. And no way would you get it released now. It was...
Here are 5 pseudonyms used by Paul McCartney in his career Percy Thrillington Paul McCartney | Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images
Percy Thrillington might be Paul McCartney’s coolest pseudonym, but he only used it once. McCartney used the pseudonym for the Thrillington album, an instrumental version of Ram, released in 1977. While McCartney produced the album, the arrangements were by Richard Hewson. In an interview with Club Sandwich, McCartney reflected on Thrillington, calling it a “little bit of indulgence.”
“What I didn’t realize is that nobody would want to release an album like that,” McCartney said. “Not even then. And no way would you get it released now. It was...
- 2/27/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band was a comedy rock group formed in the 1960s. The band only had one hit song, which isn’t surprising since their hit was produced by Paul McCartney. However, many of his fans wouldn’t know about his involvement as he produced the track under a pseudonym.
Paul McCartney was a fan of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band Paul McCartney | Samir Hussein/WireImage
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band rose to prominence in 1968 as the house band for Do Not Adjust Your Set, a British television series that starred future members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. However, the band had been around before that, and McCartney became a fan after seeing them in a show.
The band even appeared in a scene from The Beatles’ 1967 Magical Mystery Tour movie. In an interview with Club Sandwich, McCartney said he went for drinks with lead singer Vivian Stanshall,...
Paul McCartney was a fan of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band Paul McCartney | Samir Hussein/WireImage
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band rose to prominence in 1968 as the house band for Do Not Adjust Your Set, a British television series that starred future members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. However, the band had been around before that, and McCartney became a fan after seeing them in a show.
The band even appeared in a scene from The Beatles’ 1967 Magical Mystery Tour movie. In an interview with Club Sandwich, McCartney said he went for drinks with lead singer Vivian Stanshall,...
- 2/2/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Somewhere between Charlie Kaufman and Monty Python, Skeletons is a very odd, very British little film, made on a shoestring. Is this the way forward for domestic filmmaking?
On paper, it isn't exactly a recipe for success: a former stage actor directing his first feature, two not-particularly-photogenic stand-up comics as the leading men, very little budget to speak of, and a far-fetched plot involving divining people's innermost secrets via their wardrobes. But Skeletons could well be this year's Moon: a film few had heard of a couple of weeks ago, but has suddenly been catapulted into the spotlight by winning the Michael Powell prize for best new British feature film at the Edinburgh film festival.
"Frankly I'm slightly embarrassed that it means people will have to put my name and Michael Powell's name in the same sentence," says Nick Whitfield, the film's 42-year-old writer-director. The phones in Whitfield's Derbyshire...
On paper, it isn't exactly a recipe for success: a former stage actor directing his first feature, two not-particularly-photogenic stand-up comics as the leading men, very little budget to speak of, and a far-fetched plot involving divining people's innermost secrets via their wardrobes. But Skeletons could well be this year's Moon: a film few had heard of a couple of weeks ago, but has suddenly been catapulted into the spotlight by winning the Michael Powell prize for best new British feature film at the Edinburgh film festival.
"Frankly I'm slightly embarrassed that it means people will have to put my name and Michael Powell's name in the same sentence," says Nick Whitfield, the film's 42-year-old writer-director. The phones in Whitfield's Derbyshire...
- 7/2/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
"If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it, on drink."
Right, let's get some pants on this phantom.
"I am Hubert. I do not know my last name. I was found in a snowstorm, clutching a tiny bundle, and on my finger—no wedding band." So says Hubert, played by Vivian Stanshall, in 1980's Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, demonstrating a peculiar form of romantic insanity which might involve him confusing himself with his own late mother, or possibly with the opening scene of Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs.
1980 was a particularly horrible year for British cinema, which seemed to teeter on the verge of complete gangrenous moribundity (a condition that had been gaining purchase throughout the seventies, altogether a more fecund, ballsy period, but tainted with decay even so) and so it's quadruply strange that The Famous Charisma Label, a record company...
Right, let's get some pants on this phantom.
"I am Hubert. I do not know my last name. I was found in a snowstorm, clutching a tiny bundle, and on my finger—no wedding band." So says Hubert, played by Vivian Stanshall, in 1980's Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, demonstrating a peculiar form of romantic insanity which might involve him confusing himself with his own late mother, or possibly with the opening scene of Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs.
1980 was a particularly horrible year for British cinema, which seemed to teeter on the verge of complete gangrenous moribundity (a condition that had been gaining purchase throughout the seventies, altogether a more fecund, ballsy period, but tainted with decay even so) and so it's quadruply strange that The Famous Charisma Label, a record company...
- 3/4/2010
- MUBI
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