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From: toby@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Toby Harness)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.flame
Subject: Re: Paul McCartney
Message-ID: <216@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 11:33:13 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  6 11:33:13 1984
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Keywords: Wings, any other bands he may have been in...


>> I heard about someone
>> overhearing a couple of teeny-boppers in a record store saying
>> something like "You mean Paul McCartney was in a band before he
>> was in Wings?"   Arghhh!

> OK.  I've heard this story before, and it's one of my favorites.
> But I'm willing to bet that it's apocryphal.  Has ANYONE ever
> actually heard someone say this (and mean it)?

Several years ago I was in a record store when this teeny-bopper came in
and asked the clerk if they carried the _Sergeant Peper`s_ album.  He said
"Just a sec", and came back with a copy.  The tenny-bopper took one look
at it and said: "No, no.  I want the original.  You know, by the Bee Gees."


Toby Harness		Ogburn/Stouffer Center, University of Chicago
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