Paul McCartney has been named as the most successful composer of all time. Forty-three of his songs have each sold more than a million copies. He has had his name associated with sixty golden discs: those that have each sold a million copies. Paul has also been identified as the world’s most successful recording artist, having been a vocalist on an estimated one hundred million albums, as well as a further one hundred million singles.
This evening, I listened to the radio station, 2GB, and the programme, ‘1967 Gold’. Its presenter, Sam Galea, played hits from that year. These included ‘The Reflections Of Charles Brown’ by Rupert’s People, The Bee Gees’ ‘To Love Somebody’ and Jackie Wilson’s ‘Higher And Higher’. Sam said that Jackie had suffered a stroke some five years ago and that this had resulted in him now being a semi-invalid.
At half past seven, we watched another edition of the British comedy, ‘Mind Your Language’, on Channel 7. Actor, Barry Evans, is cast as a teacher whose job it is to teach English to a mixture of migrants from various countries.
This comedy was followed by another, at eight, in the form of the British offering, ‘The Dick Emery Show’.
The film, ‘Nevada Smith’, a western from the year of 1966, followed. Its cast includes Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Suzanne Pleshette, Arthur Kennedy, Martin Landau and Brian Keith.
Martin Landau appeared alongside his wife, Barbara Bain, in the cast of the televised series, ‘Mission: Impossible’, which was in production from 1966 until 1973.
I opted for bed at half past ten, having left Tiki to see it to its conclusion at 11.15.