Your Mother Should Know: From Liverpool to Los Angeles by

Angie McCartney

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ISBN-13: 978-1-941075-09-8. Total pages: 310.

Your Mother Should Know by Angie McCartney

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"Your Mother Should Know" is Angie McCartney's collection of stores about her life (and her daughter Ruth's life) as Paul McCartney's step mother. Her stories and musings are funny, romantic, sad, positive, inspirational, wise, witty, and simply fascinating. Now 90 years old, Angie takes you from her beginnings in Liverpool during World War II, through her romance with Paul's father Jim, Beatlemania, to life after The Beatles in Australia, Germany, Nashville, and Los Angeles. Angie's book has QR codes included throughout the book, making it a fun and interactive read.

Your Mother Should Know Table of Contents


Foreword by Rikki Klieman .............................................. xi 
Back in the Saddle Again ............................................... xiii
A Note About QR Codes .................................................. xiv 
A Note About UK Spelling ............................................... xiv 
Introduction ........................................................... xv 
Prologue ............................................................... xvi

1 The Chemistry of Lennon & McCartney, An Essay by Ruth McCartney ........   1

2 “You Should Write A Book” They Said ....................................   9
     Stopforth and Move Forward ........................................ 10 
     The Cannabis Revolution ........................................... 14
3 In The Town Where I Was Born ...........................................  17
     Hilbre Island ..................................................... 23 
     More Childhood Reminiscences ...................................... 27 
     Religiosity, Music, and Other Messed Up Musings ................... 29 
     Thoughts While Folding Laundry .................................... 31 
     My Big Sister Mae ................................................. 32 
     My Little Sister Joan ............................................. 33  
     Aunty Em .......................................................... 37 
     Liverpool ......................................................... 39 
     Ladies “Going to Bed” ............................................. 41 
     Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers .................................... 42 
     Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II .................................... 43 
     Racism ............................................................ 44 
     Bessie Braddock, M.P. ............................................. 46 
     Football Clubs, Derby Games, Blood & Guts ......................... 48 
     A Woman’s Place ................................................... 49
4 They Say It’s Your Birthday........................................... 51
     Ruth Nearly Meets God ...............................................  51 
     Ruth and God ...................................................... 54 
     Ruth Draws God .................................................... 54
5 When I’m 64 ............................................................  57
     The Cotton Man .................................................... 57 
     Jim McCartney at the Movies ....................................... 59 
     Meeting Jim McCartney ............................................. 60
     Marriage and Marzipan ............................................. 61 
     The Bells Were Ringing ............................................ 63 
     HELP! I Need a Honeymoon! ......................................... 66
     Leaving Liverpool for the Wirral Peninsula ........................ 70 
     Michael (McGear) McCartney ........................................ 74 
     Rembrandt Rocks ................................................... 78 
     First Christmas in London ......................................... 80 
     Good Ol’ Freda .................................................... 83 
     Dick James Honors Luncheon ........................................ 88 
     Fanz, Fan Mail, and Customerz ..................................... 89 
     Is The Doctor In? ................................................. 91 
     RIP Jimmy Mac ..................................................... 92
6 John, Paul, George, Ringo & Friends ....................................  95
     Liverpool’s Lord Mayor’s Civic Reception for The Beatles .......... 95 
     Peter Archer ...................................................... 96 
     John Lennon ....................................................... 98 
     John’s Aunty Mimi ................................................ 101 
     Firestorm! ....................................................... 101 
     Ringo Starr ...................................................... 102 
     George Harrison .................................................. 105 
     Louise Harrison .................................................. 106 
     Brian Epstein .................................................... 108 
     Ringo-isms that Resonate with Me ................................. 110 
     Come Back Milly .................................................. 111 
     How I Won the War ................................................ 112 
     Ray Connolly – Journalist ........................................ 113 
     The Magical Mystery Tour Launch Party ............................ 116 
     Hey Jude ......................................................... 117 
     Blackbird (Singing in the Dead of Night) ......................... 118 
     To Malta with Milly .............................................. 119 
     Lady Jane Asher .................................................. 121 
     The Lovely Linda McCartney ....................................... 123
7 All Things Must Pass ................................................ 127
     The Beatles Break Up ............................................. 127 
     McCartney Family Outing .......................................... 129 
     Wings Fun Club ................................................... 130 
     James Paul McCartney at the Chelsea Reach Pub .................... 131 
     Walking in the Park with Eloise .................................. 133 
     Four Lads Who Shook the World Statue ............................. 136 
     Joining the Circus ............................................... 137 
     London Town ...................................................... 139 
     RIP John Lennon .................................................. 141 
     Yoko Ono ......................................................... 142
     May Pang ......................................................... 144 
     RIP Linda ........................................................ 146 
     Pete Price ....................................................... 148 
     Down Under ....................................................... 150
8 Here, There and Everywhere ............................................  155
     Dieter the Running Meter (aka Dieter Bockmeier) .................. 157 
     Living in Germany ................................................ 160 
     Kim Cooper (The Original Malibu Barbie) .......................... 163 
     San Fernando Valley .............................................. 165 
     Nashville Here We Come ........................................... 167 
     The Birth of McCartney Multimedia ................................ 169 
     Playa del Rey, You Say? .......................................... 173 
     John Cleese ...................................................... 174 
     Wedding Facts from the Reverend Dr. Angie ........................ 179 
     Rikki Klieman and Bill Bratton ................................... 181 
     Tribute Bands .................................................... 183 
     QR Codes ......................................................... 184
9 Number 9, Number 9.....................................................  185
     Celebrity Cookbook ............................................... 185 
     Mrs. McCartney’s Teas & Mrs McCartney’s Wines .................... 186 
     Dinner with the McCartneys ....................................... 187 
     NASA’s Dental Magician ........................................... 189 
     Springboard South ................................................ 190 
     HELP! In Obertauern, Austria .............................. 191 
     Turkey for Beginners ............................................. 194 
     A Most Ebullient Gentleman ....................................... 197 
     Around The World in 10,000 Bites ................................. 198
10 With a Little Help from My Friends ...................................  203
     Art and The Beatles .............................................. 203 
     Citizen Martin ................................................... 204 
     Ellen DeGeneres .................................................. 209 
     Farrah Fawcett Foundation ........................................ 212 
     The Marriage of the Trans ........................................ 214 
     James McCartney .................................................. 215 
     Minerva Perez .................................................... 216 
     Pamela Des Barres ................................................ 218 
     Beit T’Shuvah .................................................... 219 
     Sweet Alice ...................................................... 221 
     Val Camilletti ................................................... 223 
     Arise Sir Richard Starkey ........................................ 225 
     David Cassidy .................................................... 226 
     Geoff Emerick .................................................... 229 
     Anthony Bourdain ................................................. 231
     Mike Portnoy ..................................................... 232 
     Lawrence Gowan ................................................... 233 
     Melissa Manchester ............................................... 234 
     Strummer Hollis .................................................. 234 
     The Nelsons ...................................................... 235 
     Gavin Scott ...................................................... 235 
     Ivor Davis ....................................................... 236 
     Christine Romeo .................................................. 237 
     Jim O’Heir........................................................ 238 
     Xavier Burgin .................................................... 238 
     All Worn Out ..................................................... 239
11 In My Life ...........................................................  241
     Big Data and Cryptocurrency ...................................... 241 
     Artificial Intelligence .......................................... 242 
     National Lampoon Lemmings Improv ................................. 243 
     Women and Credit in England ...................................... 246 
     Swannies ......................................................... 246 
     Men Are Just Happier People!...................................... 248 
     Charity Begins at Home ........................................... 249 
     The Man on the Moon .............................................. 250 
     Liverpool ........................................................ 252 
     Happy Birthday and other Liverpudlian Stuff ...................... 254 
     Tea and History .................................................. 255 
     2018 Capitol Records ............................................. 258 
     TEAFLIX Tuesdays ................................................. 260 
     Online Passwords ................................................. 262 
     Robocalls and Other Digital Interruptions ........................ 263 
     The Changing Face of Advertising ................................. 264 
     Ticket to Ride ................................................... 265 
     Ageing ........................................................... 266 
     Wet Behind the Ears .............................................. 267 
     Tongue Twisters .................................................. 269
12 And in the End .......................................................  271 
     Acknowledgements ...................................................  274 
     Appendix 1: Foreword by Cynthia Lennon .............................  279 
     Index ..............................................................  281 
     Publisher’s Note ...................................................  287 
     Angie’s Biography ..................................................  293