Naomi Watts

I remember reading a long winded interview with Linda and Paul and she said (with Paul present) that it was HIS idea for her to be part of the band. He didn't want to tour alone without her and he felt incorporating her into the act would make it easier than her being bored in a hotel room waiting for him or hanging around back stage. It was a way of having Linda on the road with him 24/7. It kind of struck me as a bit odd and it made Paul look a bit insecure. But it seemed to work for him. Although Linda did get a lot of stick for it. I'm sure she would've been happier just going to a few shows and taking some photos. Edited to add: From widipedia... McCartney had insisted from the beginning of their marriage that his wife should be involved in his musical projects, so that they did not have to be apart when he was on tour http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_(band) So poor Linda copped a lot of flack but obviously did it to please Paul.

If these fines are left unpaid it could really screw up their future in a bad credit rating for renting a house, electricity and phone connections etc. It seems a bit harsh for kids so young to have their futures messed up like this. Especially if they can't afford to pay the fines or if there is a legitimate but unassessed reason why they don't work/study. E.g undiagnosed mental problems, depression etc. Why don't they offer them free access to mental health/coucelling services instead of beating them with the $ stick.

Amazed to see the Bee Gees in there.

Mine too!!

You can be absolutely positively sure that if Paul did beat Heather that she would've been down The Suns office first thing. She is no long suffering quiet petal. Linda was with Paul until the day she died. They never seperated, they never divorced. Whatever problems they MIGHT have had, they obviously sorted it all out and went on to live a long and happy life together. And just because Paul MIGHT have pushed Linda around (who know's , it might have been only once when he was a lot younger that he might regret) this doesn't mean either a) that he beat Heather up. One incident with Linda doesn't mean what she is saying is true. One doesn't prove the other.....OR B. ) that Paul should be lynched if there was an episode a long time ago. IF it did happen, Linda obviously forgave him and moved along or she wouldn't have stayed married to him till the day she died. Linda never came across to me as the kind of woman who would put up with systematic abuse. I never saw pics of Linda black and blue. I'm sure her friends would've known. It's really none of Heathers business what went on in Linda and Pauls marriage. And it's not the publics business either. If Heather shut her mouth and just moved on, then no one would be discussing her failure of a marriage either.

Why when things were quiet and Heather was not in the news for a while, she all of a sudden out of nowhere comes onto a TV show to court hatred all over again?? She seems to feed off the negativity. She's probably thinking that if she starts it all up again , she'll get another spot on a high rating American TV Series. I think people are beyond hating her now. I just think everyone wishes she would just go away and disappear. But she seems to have some weird personality trait that just won't let her do that. She acts like she's a bigger star than McCartney.

Well they did preserve themselves so they could "live on forever" . He's probably more famous now than he was 3,000 years ago!

Some countries do seem to blather and bobble around though for fear of being called racists and being unpopular in the international community. Whereas countries like Italy don't give a fig what the outside world thinks of them, they care only for their own and what's best for the majority. Maybe the Italian people back up their government more in situations like this and so they feel more confident in acting.

It's turning into a slippery slope. They'll soon include anyone who swears in public or drops a cigarette butt on the ground or taking a sickie off work. The offences will keep getting more petty until you'd have to be a new born not to commit some kind of infringement for them to legally take your DNA. Its all putting off the inevitable really. They know they can't make everyone give their DNA by force, so they just do this in a clandestine and under hand way until they achieve what they want anyway. We know what their up to and they know we know. But they know you can't do jack about it if it isn't obvious.

5th David Bowie ~ Queen b**ch 19 4th The Doors - Love Her Madly 20 2nd Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind 24 2nd John Lennon ~ Jealous Guy 24 So going through to the 1970s Record of The Decade Play-offs is: 1st Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary 30 OOh, 3 of my 5 were in the top 5. :dance: (only time it's happened tho' lol. )

1 A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran 2 Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen 3 Dire Straits ~ Private Investigations 4 Peter Gabriel - Shock the monkey 5 Abba - The Day Before You Came

1 Badfinger - Day After Day 2 Sweet - Wig Wam Bam 3 Hot Butter - Popcorn 4 Deep Purple - Highway Star 5 Carpenters - Goodbye To Love

Pink Floyd - Money 20 points Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground Stevie Wonder - Superstition Doobie Brothers - Long Train Running Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side Rolling Stones - Angie David Bowie - Sorrow Sweet - Ballroom Blitz Elton John - Daniel Eagles - Desperado Stealer's Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You Thin Lizzy - Whisky In A Jar Dobie Gray - Drift Away Steely Dan - Reeling In The Years Ike & Tina Turner - Nutbush City Limits David Essex - Rock On Sweet - Blockbuster Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly Carly Simon - You're So Vain Nominate.. diamond girl - seals and croft do it again - steely dan

Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing 20 points Herbie Hancock - Rockit Spandau Ballet - True New Order - Blue Monday Michael Jackson - Billie Jean Men At Work - Down Under Police - Every Breath You Take U2 - New Year's Day Orange Juice- rip it Up U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday UB40 - Red Red Wine Prince - Little Red Corvette Prince - 1999 Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow Spandau Ballet - Gold Cure - The Love Cats David Bowie- lets dance David Bowie - china girl Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat Toto - Africa Nominate... Stand back - Stevie Nicks she works hard for the Money - Donna Summer

What is a CHAV exactly? I hear Brits use this term often and THINK I know what it is......the equivalent to the american term - Trailor Trash? Can only white people be a CHAV or is it spread out amongst the nationalities???

We have a resurgence of TB here too after being totally free of it for near on 30 years.

70s british comedies have always been popular here in Australia. We recently had the Benny Hill show and Some mothers do have Em as part of a Saturday night comedy festival. I recently bought a DVD collection of Dave Allen who was a genius. I really hate modern comedies as they often have canned applause and they seem to laugh at lines that aren't even funny. The beauty of the old comedies is that they were filmed for real audiences and the audience sound genuinely humoured. Not to mention that the writers of old were just more funny IMO. People are way too serious these days and it shows. Especially in so called comedy writing.

I've always adored Wuthering Heights. Kate was a true beauty.

I really can't hack Dolly Parton, but like her song Jolene

Surfaris - Wipeout Shirley Bassey - I (Who Have Nothing) Beach Boys ~ Surfin' USa Bob Dylan ~ A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Beatles - Love Me Do

1st Metallica ~ The Unforgiven Metallica - Wherever I May Roam Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You Mariah Carey - Someday Martika - Love Thy Will Be Done

Metallica - Nothing Else Matters 20 points Nirvana - Lithium Jon Secada - Just Another Day Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You Guns 'N' Roses - November Rain Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness Nirvana - Come As You Are Pearl Jam - Alive Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge REM - Man On The Moon Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven Crowded House - Weather With You Richard Marx - Hazard Annie Lennox - Why Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson - The Best Things In Life Are Free Sophie Hawkins - Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite Tori Amos - Silent All These Years U2 - One Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You

Kinks - You Really Got Me 20 points Animals - House Of The Rising Sun Roy Orbison - Oh Pretty Woman Beatles - A Hard Day's Night Elvis Presley - Viva Las Vegas Zombies - She's Not There Herman's Hermits - I'm Into Something Good Beach Boys - I Get Around Jackie DeShannon (or Searchers) - When You Walked In The Room Searchers - Needles and Pins Swinging Blue Jeans - Hippy Hippy Shake Chuck Berry - No Particular Place To Go Manfred Mann - Do Wah Diddy Diddy Dusty Springfield - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love Bob Dylan - Times They Are A Changin' Roy Orbison - It's Over Drifters - Under The Boardwalk Petula Clark - Downtown Peter And Gordon - A World Without Love

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Madonna is getting paid that much because she is worth it. She's an incredibly hard working artist who doesn't rest on her laurels. If they didn't think they could recoup their money, they wouldn't have made the offer.