Tag archives: Paul McCartney

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Sir Paul McCartney: We Don’t Know You, But We Love You
By Richard Mineards   |   October 14, 2025

By Maria W. Long “I don’t know you, but I love you.”  – Sir Paul McCartney (Aug. 26, 2025) …And the crowd loved him back!  Sir Paul McCartney’s Friday night appearance at the Santa Barbara Bowl was the most spectacular show many of us would see in our lifetime. Lines stretched down the block beginning […]

Grapevine
Santa Barbara Music Man Alan Parsons is Being Elevated — and How!
By Richard Mineards   |   June 24, 2021

Alan Parsons, 72, who lives and works from a multi-million dollar recording studio on an organic avocado ranch in the Goleta foothills with his wife, Lisa, has been awarded an OBE — Order of the British Empire — for his work over the decades in Queen Elizabeth’s birthday honors list. “I actually heard from the […]

Entertainment
Dueling Duos Combine Forces, 50 Years Later
By Steven Libowitz   |   November 8, 2018

At 18, Peter Asher was a former child actor who was plugging along in London with the folk duo Peter & Gordon, and whose younger sister, Jane, just happened to be dating a fellow named Paul McCartney. In fact, the “cute” Beatle was living in the Asher family home when Peter & Gordon got signed […]