MCCARTNEY AND MANSON: MORE CONNECTED THAN YOU KNOW

Legend has it that Paul McCartney visited Portugal on holiday in 1968. While there, he got drunk with a hotel bar band and composed this song. If it were anyone else but Paul McCartney, such a song would've been stopped and dismissed as drunken mumbling (sample lyric: "Thank you for the trombone"). But, since it was Sir Paul's drunken mumbling, the song was considered finished and given to a guy called Carlos Mendes. If it weren't for that IMDB link, I would swear that this Mendes didn't even exist. Dude's voice sounds so much like Paul fucking around that I think I'm going to have to try to find more Mendes for comparison.

Another funny thing is that this record pointed out to me how similar the drugged out mumbly Paul voice is to one Charles Manson. It's really just in the phrasing of particular words, but it's still a funny coincidence in light of that whole Tate/LaBianca thing.

"Penina" was apparently only released on in Portugal and was not a hit because it sort of sucks. "Home Is Where You're Happy" was released over and over again on various Manson compilations, including one called "The White Album." Hmm....

(The internet tells me that there's a scrap from the Get Back sessions of The Beatles messing with "Penina". Anyone have that?)