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Paul McCartney's costumes in Give My Regards To Broad Street (1984)

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Hi! One question about this - https://www.tumblr.com/sgtpeppers/794739292365815808/so-i-was-standing-there-in-my-school-cap-and?source=share

Was Paul wearing his school cap... at Butlins?

Heey! Even better - he had his entire school uniform with him because they were the nicest clothes he had 😭

One memorable thing of importance happened when I was about eleven. My mum and dad and my brother and I went to Butlins holiday camp. I have a photograph of me there in short trousers and school blazer - a chubby little kid. (You would never wear your school uniform going on holiday, but I think it was all I had - my posh gear.) My brother took the picture. I'm in front of a hot-dog corner, which we thought was dead hip: an American hot-dog stand!

Paul McCartney in The Beatles Anthology (p.18)

Photo by Mike McCartney

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There was a post going around recently pointing out how even as a kid, Paul liked to make his friends wear matching outfits. I can't seem to find it this morning, but this is why!

So I was standing there in my school cap and everything, on a roasting hot day near the swimming pool, when out of the Calypso Ballroom came five guys from Gateshead. And they all looked alike. They each had on a little tartan flat cap, with a grey crewneck sweater, tartan shorts, pumps, and carried white towels under their arms. They walked in a line across to the pool to have a good old swim and I noticed everyone's heads turn and go: 'WHO'S THAT?' In that second a penny dropped for me and I realized the power of looking something. They won the talent contest at Butlins that week for whatever they did - and you just knew that they would win.

Paul McCartney in The Beatles Anthology (p.18)

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