Post by yerblues1968 on Dec 22, 2008 1:16:47 GMT -5
CHARLIE ROSE INTERVIEWS PAUL McCARTNEY - JUNE 11, 2001
Charlie Rose sits with Paul McCartney in an hour long interview. Paul McCartney talks about his time with "The Beatles", his career since their break-up, his forays into classical music, painting and poetry and his first book "Blackbird Singing", an anthology of poems and lyrics. McCartney also discusses the process of writing, compiling and publishing his poetry and an upcoming album in the works. (56:57 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhCIC_2-p4o
One of the poems Paul McCartney wrote and read during the interview. The title of the poem is "Ivan" whom Paul wrote in memory of a scholar named Ivan, who died of Parkinson's disease.
IVAN
Two doors open
On the eighteenth of June
Two babies born
On the same day
In Liverpool
One was Ivan
The other--me
We met in adolescence
And did the deeds
They dared us do
Jive with Ive
The ace on the bass
He introduced to me
At Woolton fete
A pal or two
And so we did
A classic scholar he
A rocking roller me
As firm as friends could be
Cranlock naval
Cranlock pie
A tear is rolling down my eye
On the sixteenth of August
Nineteen ninety-three
One door closed
Bye bye Ivy