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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: Constitution Day

Don't worry. They'll all be together again soon enough......


41 posted on 11/10/2005 1:27:59 PM PST by Red Badger (Whatever happened to formulas 1 through 408?.........)
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To: Revolting cat!

Thanks. Now I've got that damned song going through my head.


42 posted on 11/10/2005 1:28:15 PM PST by Junior (From now on, I'll stick to science, and leave the hunting alien mutants to the experts!)
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To: GSWarrior

What awesome talent she has.................../s


44 posted on 11/10/2005 1:28:35 PM PST by Red Badger (Whatever happened to formulas 1 through 408?.........)
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To: Cyclopean Squid

Ok can we agree that Yoko is definitely not the 20th/21st century version of Gilbert.


45 posted on 11/10/2005 1:28:46 PM PST by rod1
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To: Junior
Dear God, man! Have you no decency?

None.
46 posted on 11/10/2005 1:28:57 PM PST by Cyclopean Squid (Leftism is Civilizational Masochism)
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To: Junior

Someone needs to beam Paul McCartney himself into space.


47 posted on 11/10/2005 1:29:03 PM PST by PositiveCogins
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To: Red Badger
With an anti-matter detector of course.
48 posted on 11/10/2005 1:29:11 PM PST by ASA Vet (Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.)
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To: Junior

I hope they at least tell us why before Earth is obliterated by an interstellar death ray.


49 posted on 11/10/2005 1:29:43 PM PST by rattrap
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To: jwh_Denver

I think Sting nominated himself as the 20th century Mozart.


50 posted on 11/10/2005 1:30:06 PM PST by dmz
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To: Zathras

NICE! I am a huge fan of Hotblack Desiato!


51 posted on 11/10/2005 1:31:23 PM PST by Holicheese (Would you like a beer? No thanks, I will have a bud light.)
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To: Jersey Jim

Maybe George Clinton, in the P-Funk mothership, can intercept it before it dooms us all.


52 posted on 11/10/2005 1:31:29 PM PST by rattrap
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To: Semper Paratus

The guitar solo with only 2 notes played over and over again is more than enough to catapult "No, No, No" into the Bottom 5 songs just by itself. The lyrics serve to plummet it to the bottom of the list by a huge margin. It is absolutely hilarious to listen to, so long as you are surrounded by other admirers of the tragically awful.


53 posted on 11/10/2005 1:31:46 PM PST by Cyclopean Squid (Leftism is Civilizational Masochism)
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To: Junior
Ooops, sorry. Here's another one to chase that one off:
Someone left the cake out in the rain 
I don't think that I can take it 
'Cause it took so long to bake it 
And I'll never have that recipe again 
Oh, Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! 

54 posted on 11/10/2005 1:32:07 PM PST by Revolting cat! ("in the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: Junior
"Eeble dreeble mumbley ikbok shmeming!"

Translated: "TURN THAT CRAP DOWN!"

55 posted on 11/10/2005 1:32:07 PM PST by manwiththehands
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To: Junior

Maybe Paul and George Lucas can get together and do a music/space movie concert: It`s where you do something 30 years ago and stretch out for all it`s worth by doing it over and over and over and over and over...


56 posted on 11/10/2005 1:32:15 PM PST by WillamShakespeare (What is a John Kerry?)
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To: Revolting cat!

McArthur Park has my nomination for the absolute worst song ever recorded.


57 posted on 11/10/2005 1:33:13 PM PST by Junior (From now on, I'll stick to science, and leave the hunting alien mutants to the experts!)
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To: Junior
How 'bout:

Na-na-na-na,Na-na-na-na, Hey! Hey! Goodbye!

Na-na-na-na,Na-na-na-na, Hey! Hey! Goodbye!

Na-na-na-na,Na-na-na-na, Hey! Hey! Goodbye!

Na-na-na-na,Na-na-na-na, Hey! Hey! Goodbye!

Na-na-na-na,Na-na-na-na, Hey! Hey! Goodbye!

Na-na-na-na,Na-na-na-na, Hey! Hey! Goodbye!

58 posted on 11/10/2005 1:33:55 PM PST by Red Badger (Whatever happened to formulas 1 through 408?.........)
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To: Red Badger

None of us gets out alive...


59 posted on 11/10/2005 1:34:02 PM PST by dmz
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To: BigEdLB
"In spite of all his PETA nuttiness, "Sir Paul" is a pretty good sort..."

Anyone who forces their dog to strictly eat vegetarian because they do is a sick b@$^@&d in my book.

60 posted on 11/10/2005 1:34:08 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading since 2004)
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