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'ex-Beatle' Paul Mccartney ..

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andy-hughes | 10:49 Tue 08th Oct 2013 | ChatterBank
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Still, the media refer to Sir Tumbs-Aloft as 'ex-Beatle ...' and I find it baffling.

Given that there is an entire generation for whom The Beatles are a cultural footnote, but were not alive when the band last played or recorded, and that anyone who remembers the Beatles knows who Paul McCartney is - why do the media still insist on this pointless tag?

You never see 'Rolling Stone Mick Jagger', or 'ex-Jackson Five Michael Jackson', or even 'ex-Squeeze Jools Holland' - just our Paul.

Why?
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Oops - apologies for the typo in his name!
Andy, let it be! ;-)
it's not as if there is another famous paul mccartney
Good question! and why not 'ex wings'
Probably about time to loose the tag, as you say.
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That's what started him off, that's why, and what's making him particularly rich. Ringo gets the same tag.
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oh look, very similar question here in Related posts http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1108569.html
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boxtops - I know! it may be an 'age' things, but this sort of nonsense winds me up to an entirely disporoportionate degree!!!
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trig - "Cause he was in a group that have sold over 2 billion records."

Precisely! Doesn't that rather point to the fact that the world probably knows who Paul McCartney is - without the historical context?
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'Put some bush on ....?

Sorry, I need a bit more info on that one.

Speaking of 'bush' - no-one tends to say 'exWailer' Bob Marley do they???

OK, I'll stop now.
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Gotcha - thanks!
Moments of pleasure?
I guess i could understand him getting fed up with it, as i it detracts from his work from then on

to me he is ex beatle macca, i'd have a problem naming any songs of his after the beatles...
Ex Peter Gabriel collaborator?
It rather implies that he hasn't done anything of merit since - which may well be true.

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