Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!gargoyle!toby 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 Article-I.D.: gargoyle.216 Posted: Sat Oct 6 11:33:13 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 02:41:38 EDT References: <3737@decwrl.UUCP> <2807@mit-eddie.UUCP> <1539@nsc.UUCP>, <1193@pyuxn.UUCP> Organization: U. Chicago - Computer Science Lines: 18 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 ...ihnp4!gargoyle!toby