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I shall shortly be pressing myself to a few of these #Moonraker #JamesBond #RogerMoore

Well this is certainly true

#Faborsolo update - the conditions I’ve set for myself for this 10-day look at songs by #TheBeatles which could fit into their solo albums are: The Beatles tracks MUST be UK album tracks. A different Beatles album each day. A different solo album each day. Cover versions are allowed. A mixture of lead vocals from all the band (i.e. not just all John songs or whatever)

Indeed. Interestingly, two songs which you suggest were written by Paul before he was even in The Beatles! Also, I bet the rest of the band would have wished Maxwell’s Silver Hammer could’ve been recorded in half an hour too 🤣 Feel free to keep the alternatives coming in though over the next 10 days as we move up to the top spot. Discussion/opinions welcome.

@trargtweets Great shout. Other stuff from ‘Whimsical 30 minute song knockoff Paul’ that meets your criteria: when I’m 64, Maxwell. Other stuff from ‘belter song Paul’ that would fit: I’ll Follow The Sun, Birthday

#Faborsolo #TheBeatles released so many great songs and I thought it would be interesting over the next 10 days to look at a rundown of material which we all know from them which could have sat nicely on one of their solo albums… in at number 10: Wild Honey Pie Written by Paul The Beatles (White Album) 1968 Suggested solo place - McCartney (1970) This brief piece of what most people describe as filler or a joke could quite easily slot into Macca’s debut album, McCartney, from 1970. Originally recorded as a kind of ‘Goons-y’ bit of nonsense, legend has it it was included on The Beatles because Patti Boyd liked it. Given that John managed to get Revolution 9 on the record, I guess this extremely bizarre interlude from Paul is understandable. Both tracks frequently appear on lists of ‘the worst Beatles tracks ever’ and are always top of the usual suspects to remove when considering a slimmed-down White Album. Wild Honey Pie’s homespun simplicity and (albeit strange) humour make it a decent candidate for Paul’s debut solo album. It could fit well between Oo You and Momma Miss America. Personally, I believe this track is nothing more than a joke, Paul just playing around as he often does, sometimes the result stays as it is, sometimes it develops into an epic (or even an epic joke, witness You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)) 😉

@batcountry1980 check out my #Faborsolo - just going to do a 10-day rundown of tracks we know as being by #TheBeatles which could have been a good fit on a solo record. Just for fun of course. First one is out now!

@RodneyMarshall1 He’d thrash the balls off it in every episode, sometimes writing it off completely. Then in the next story it was pristine again. Maybe that constituted a chunk of the”$200 a day, plus EXPENSES” 🤣

Jim Rockford might have been down on his luck - unreliable clients, living in a trailer, he hadn't even paid off that answerphone machine - but as a kid I loved that gold Pontiac Firebird. It even had a small press in the back seat for printing undercover fake business cards.

RIP to #ValeriePerrine. Forever “Miss Tesch-MACHER!!”

“My mule don’t like people laughin’.”

@Kriegler007 Would you agree with this then: The fx-heavy one. The dark one (and best?) The peripeteian one. The comedic-but-also serious one. The misunderstood one. The topical, politically allegorical one.

@trargtweets The ideal ST viewing time for me mate. I'll watch it at other times but this is the sweet spot.

"I can't believe I kissed you!" "Must've been your lifelong ambition!" Some Sunday afternoon Trek to mark The Shatner's birthday, don't mind if I do! #NowWatching Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) 🎬

@Kriegler007 Agreed. Also during seasonal holidays, especially Xmas.

@batcountry1980 I haven’t! But I will now! Ta.

@trargtweets You seen the documentary series on Amazon called The Centre Seat, mate? It’s an 11 part series on Star Trek. I’m on the fourth episode now. It’s pretty good.

Happy birthday to #WilliamShatner - 95 years old! Actor, writer, producer, director, ‘recording artist’, horse fanatic, charity-fundraiser and personality. And James T Kirk, the greatest #StarTrek character of them all.

@vinylvanity1 Thanks for the engagement with it!

@trargtweets That’s tough. I like it, but tough.

Right - here’s the answer to my #TheBeatles brain teaser. #YellowSubmarine and #AbbeyRoad are the only two original UK albums (non-compilation) from 1963 until 1970 that… (drum roll) …feature only six tracks on side one, meaning the first track on side two is the seventh overall. All the others have seven (with the exception of the White Album, which has eight, as does the US version), meaning the first track on most of their second sides is the eighth overall. In the US however, most of the albums have six tracks on side one, sharing the characteristic with the UK’s minority.

@ProjectBoredom1 @purves_peter Interesting. I know Peter from #DoctorWho of course - as an actor. I know he can hold the screen adeptly as a presenter as well. You may be right!

@purves_peter auditioned for Bond for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (I believe). I think he would’ve been amazing and I feel like we would’ve had a proper revenge movie follow up with him too!

@Baz69 Totally. I just mentioned him in another reply and you’re 100% correct. People sometimes forget what a magnetic presence he was and focus on the off-screen antics. Would have been a top-drawer villain as well.

@trargtweets Oliver Reed, charismatic but looked like at any point he could take you apart. #BillSykes

Who could have been #JamesBond but wasn’t? I’m going to run through a few options - just my opinion - if you disagree that’s fine, whatever. #PatrickMcGoohan - no way he was ever going to do it because he didn’t want to, but he definitely had the magnetism. #RobertVaughn - he definitely possessed the sophistication and suaveness and I reckon he could have done it despite being more traditionally remembered in US roles (understandably as he was American). #MichaelBillington - definitely looked the part and could’ve jumped in there if Rog had decided to stop. #EdwardWoodward - could certainly have acted the role as well as anybody in the early 70s. He had the intensity, he had the charm, he certainly had the danger. #MichaelCaine - could he have done it? Yes of course he could, BUT I’m much more glad he made #TheIPCRESSFile and #GetCarter instead. #IdrisElba - should have been Bond, no question in my mind. Still could. #DianaRigg - a female Bond possibility and who better than Mrs James Bond herself? She could easily have done it. #GlynisBarber - yes, she would have kicked ass in the role. The talent, the glamour and the no-bulls*** attitude were all there. But overall, the biggest missed opportunity of them all was, in my opinion… #LewisCollins. He’d have totally smashed it as 007, but apparently came across as “too aggressive” 🤣 I know, what a joke. He was perfect for that part. Anyway, we had what we had and I’m grateful for all of it. Like I say, disagree? Let’s see your suggestions then.

@NRamsell It would take, ironically, a Pat McGoohan-style pitch to an executive willing to take a risk. But those days are over, alas.

@trargtweets But how would any studio put up the finance for a James Bond film with a female playing the part of a man? How is that possibly something they would ‘explore’ with the option to go back if it fails? £100 mill write off? I doubt it. 😉

@ChipsyYCFC Yes. That was an epic performance and no mistake. Ollie Reed could have done it too, but he’d have had to tone the menace DOWN I think. Could have been a top antagonist as well.

@trargtweets I’m thinking Legend style Hardy