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Paul McCartney to beam concert into space
Reuters - Science ^ | 2005-11-10

Posted on 11/10/2005 1:08:51 PM PST by Junior

LONDON (Reuters) - Former Beatle Paul McCartney is to broadcast live into space from a U.S. concert to two astronauts circling the globe.

He will play "Good Day Sunshine" and one of his latest songs, "English Tea," to NASA astronaut Bill McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev who are on an international space station 220 miles above the earth.

McCartney, who will be singing into space Saturday from Anaheim, California via NASA television, got the idea when he discovered that the crew of the spaceship Discovery were treated to a burst of "Good Day Sunshine" in August as a wake-up call from Mission Control.

"I was extremely proud to find out that one of my songs was played for the crew of Discovery this summer. In our concert we hope to repay the favor," he said in a statement.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: beatle; eileen
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To: Junior
Good place for it.

Good place for a lot of those musician/Hollwood types. Only a few are worth keeping here on earth......

81 posted on 11/10/2005 1:43:49 PM PST by b4its2late (To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a Support Group. Salvation in a can!)
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To: FreedomCalls

LOL! I just played that with the speakers cranked, my old man came in from the shop and threatened to rip the cables out if he had to listen to that sh*t any more, and the poor man is more than half deaf!


82 posted on 11/10/2005 1:43:58 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading since 2004)
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To: Junior

From: Deep Space Homer

Taylor: Listen, Aldrin, I'm not as laid back as people think. Now here's the deal: I'm going to play, and you're going to float there and like it.

[sings]
When you're down, and troubled,
And you need a helping hand,
And nothing, oh, nothing is going right...


83 posted on 11/10/2005 1:44:43 PM PST by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: b4its2late

And Paul Mc Cartney is one of them...


84 posted on 11/10/2005 1:45:12 PM PST by laney (little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
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To: Junior
Some FReeper (sorry, don't remember screen handle) once observed that Paulie is this guy of the boomer generation.


85 posted on 11/10/2005 1:45:29 PM PST by Revolting cat! ("in the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: FreedomCalls

How about mold and mildew?

If you guarantee it will take care of that too, then I will listen.


86 posted on 11/10/2005 1:47:11 PM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Revolting cat!
So, you would argue with John Denver above about the Mozart designation? You think Yoko is the Mozart?

Yoko is Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Haydn, Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Bruckner, Mahler, Schoenberg, Penderecki, Varese, AND Mozart all in one! She is both the culmination and apex of the great Western Musical Tradition, with the added spirtuality of the East thrown into the mix.
87 posted on 11/10/2005 1:48:03 PM PST by Cyclopean Squid (Leftism is Civilizational Masochism)
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To: Cyclopean Squid; proud American in Canada
Yoko Ono's "No, No, No" has been scientifically proven to be the worst song ever.

Here is a link to an mp3 of that song as well.

http://media.putfile.com/NoNoNo56

88 posted on 11/10/2005 1:48:24 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: G.Mason
Have you ever heard William Shatner's cover of Lucy In the Sky? It is beyond belief, used to listen to that album late at night when I was in college.
89 posted on 11/10/2005 1:48:49 PM PST by sticker
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To: laney

Yeah, I know. Too bad. I do like his songs, but hate his political leanings. Whenever any of them start spewing their political views, the remote zots them. If they shut up and sing, that is the best. I don't need to know their politics unless I ask them.


90 posted on 11/10/2005 1:49:07 PM PST by b4its2late (To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a Support Group. Salvation in a can!)
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To: Cyclopean Squid

"Her lyrics capture the entire range of human emotions and compel us to experience them simultaneously an exponentially."

Yes, the same effect as the stomach flu. I never realized your body and emotions could be thrown into such an upheavel all at once until I experienced the stomach flu. How the body can do so many things all at once just boggles the mind.

Yoko is a viral infection.







91 posted on 11/10/2005 1:50:36 PM PST by This Just In ("Those are my principles, if you don't like them, I've got others" - Groucho Marx)
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To: Bigh4u2
How about mold and mildew? If you guarantee it will take care of that too, then I will listen.

Oh, it will, believe you me! The louder the better.

93 posted on 11/10/2005 1:51:46 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: sticker
"Have you ever heard William Shatner's cover of Lucy In the Sky? ... "


Never have, but you piqued my interest. I shall make inquiries.



94 posted on 11/10/2005 1:52:21 PM PST by G.Mason (The barbarians are at the gates ... the Democrats and Republicans will open it for them)
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To: FreedomCalls

Thanks for linking those...I think.


95 posted on 11/10/2005 1:52:34 PM PST by Cyclopean Squid (Leftism is Civilizational Masochism)
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To: Junior
Former Beatle Paul McCartney is to broadcast live into space from a U.S. concert to two astronauts circling the globe.

Maybe this is being done so as to test out those fancy new space toilets.
96 posted on 11/10/2005 1:52:35 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
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To: b4its2late

WEll IMHO he's entitled to his opinion like we all are..He had a great marriage to Linda and is one of the most talented musicians and song writers we will ever see...


97 posted on 11/10/2005 1:52:55 PM PST by laney (little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
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To: FreedomCalls

I liked it! It ain't rap..............
My Briard prefers cooked vegies to meat. I can't figure it out. French dog, so,,,


99 posted on 11/10/2005 1:55:05 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: G.Mason

Live Long And Prosper

http://www.mp3.com/albums/155672/summary.html


100 posted on 11/10/2005 1:55:25 PM PST by sticker
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