Hello, welcome back to another episode of Broken Record. My name is Ellie. I'm your host. And today we are going to be talking about Paul McCartney.
So Paul McCartney is currently on tour for the got back tour. And he's playing two shows in Seattle, one was last night and one's tonight. So if you're going to have fun and yeah, I just wanted to talk about the concert because I was very, very, very, very, very lucky to be able to get out last night. And it was just outstanding.
And I'm so just mind blown that I was able to see Paul McCartney live in concerts. So yeah, in Paul's saying a lot of songs, he said it was a, it was like a long concert, but it didn't feel long, if that makes sense. He's saying 36 songs, which is a lot because most concerts do not sing that many songs. He had a, he had a six song on court, which is impressive because I feel like the longest on court I've ever experienced was only three songs.
So he doubled that way, which is pretty cool. But yeah, so Paul McCartney saying a bunch of songs he's saying, some of his own songs, he's saying some Beatles songs, he's saying some Wing songs. And he also sang a Quarryman song, which I thought was the Quarryman, sorry, one of their songs, which I thought was super fun. He was in that band before the Beatles, which is crazy to think about.
And so he talked a little bit about the song called In spite of all the danger. And I thought it was funny. So I'm going to play clip of him talking about it. I was in the group, was me, George, John, Colin, on drums.
And then Michael Duff on piano. And so we, it was going to be five pounds. So we just went in a pound each. So I was like, the idea was that we need to keep it for a week.
So we made the right one. And then John kept it for a week. He gave it to me. I kept it for a week and handed it on to George.
We handed it on to Colin. And he gave it to Duff who kept it for 20 years. And then something back at a considerable profit. Anyway, the song that we did that day is this next one.
It's by the song. The music in the general. It's by the law that may be the world for you. Any future?
It's by the song by the G.O.A.D. That you may not be. Yeah, I thought that was funny because it only cost five pounds or five euros. I forget what he said.
But it is not that cheap now. And I wish it was still that cheap. But it's not. And it's OK.
But yeah, after that, he went into talking about love me too. The first song we wanted to play for George was Love Me Too. And in this song, John played harmonica. So it went Love Me Too.
He sang Love Me Too and played the harmonica. But he couldn't. George Martin wanted this to happen. Like Love Me Too and on the wall.
He wanted the harmonica to come in. So John couldn't do that. He was like, Love Me. It's already a sensory pull.
Would you sing the Love Me Too? Just that one line. I mean, I've never been in the street. It's like, yeah, it's like.
OK. And I was so nervous. You know, I mean, it worked out when he wanted. But I can answer this thing.
I can still hear the quiver in my voice of love me too. But not tonight. Yeah, I thought that was funny because it only cost five pounds or five euros. I forget what he said.
But it is not that cheap now. And I wish it was still that cheap. But it's not OK. But yeah, after that, he went into talking about Love Me Too.
The first song we wanted to play for George was Love Me Too. And in this song, John played harmonica. So it went, Love Me Too. He sang a love me too.
And played harmonica. But he couldn't. George Martin wanted it to happen like Love Me Too. And on the wall, he wanted the harmonica coming.
So John couldn't do that. He was like, Love Me. So anyway, he said to me, would you sing the Love Me Too? Just that one line.
I mean, I've never been in the street. It's like, yeah, sure. And I was so nervous. I mean, it worked out when he wanted.
But I can hear it. It's like, I can still hear the quiver in my voice. Love Me Too. But not tonight.
Yeah, I love Paul. I think he's funny. But yeah, after that, he went on to sing Love Me Too, which I absolutely adore. So I'm going to play a couple of it right now.
I bought that song. The next song I want to talk about is one of my favorite songs by the Beatles. I think it's so beautiful. And it was so cool to hear live.
It's called Blackbird. Maybe you've heard of it. It was so cool to hear live. Paul was standing on a platform.
And then he got raised up. The platform rose. So he was really tall. And it was cool because the platform had screens on it.
So the visuals that were playing on the screens behind him were also being displayed on the platform as it was rising up. And I thought it was really cool. He had a galaxy spinning around. And it was so cool.
It was so cool. Blackbird is such a pretty song. And he sang it acoustically, which I love. I just love this song.
And it made me so happy to hear it live. So I'm going to play it a little bit. Blackbird singing the day on live. T.P.
is on the wings. Learn to fly. On your line, you go and win. But it's on to rise.
Blackbird. Blackbird. Blackbird. Blackbird.
I love that song. It is so beautiful. Blackbird is such a beautiful song. It was truly incredible.
The next song that I want to talk about is a little bit more upbeat. It's also by the Beatles. It is called Lady Madonna. And Pomma Carney played this at a piano.
And the piano was two sides of the piano and the back of the piano. The front of the piano where the keys are. It was all painted in this neon paint pattern. That looked really cool.
And then the back side was another screen. So it would show the visuals. And it was so cool. But yeah, I love Lady Madonna.
I think it's a really fun. So I'm going to play a little bit. Yeah, that was a fun song. Something I thought that was really interesting during Paul's concert was that he had telepromptors, which I think is actually really smart because that way he forgets the lyrics again and gets the teleprompter and see them.
But I thought it was really cool because they were one really official, but two. I had never seen anyone use a teleprompter, but yeah, I thought it was super interesting to see. So our seats were like, so the concert was in kind of a pledge of me now in our seats were on the side of this stage. Like his stage went out a little bit.
So we were able to sit and see the side of him. And I think it was really cool because we got to see a little bit of what his view looked like and we also got to see him. So I thought it was a very cool way to watch a concert. But it was super cool because we got to see the telepromptors and see the words move.
I mean, we couldn't see the words because they were very small, but I could see the screen moving, which I thought was cool. So the next song he's saying was one of my mom's favorite songs. She was really excited to hear it. It's called Something.
It's another Beatles song. It's kind of slow, but it's super duper pretty and beautiful. So I'm going to play a little bit. It was so cool to hear because he started off talking about how George Harrison was in love with the whole ukulele collection.
And then Paul started playing the ukulele and so he started off something with just ukulele. And then slowly there was drums that were added in. And then the bass and then the guitar. And then the cymbals and all the fun stuff.
And it was really cool to hear like a build up because I've never heard something like stripped in that way. So it was really cool to hear. The next song I want to talk about is called Obledi Blood Dop. And this is one of my favorite Beatles songs.
This is the Beatles song that really helped me fall in love with them because this one in help was a really big one. But I just think this one is so fun. And I always have it on my playlist because I think it's just like such a good make you happy song. So yeah, I'm going to play a little bit.
I love it so fun. I love when artists have the crowd sing back. And Paul did that a couple of times actually. But I think the one in the Obledi Blood Dop was the first time in the concert.
And it was super cool to hear because everyone knew the words. And it was really cool. The next song that I'm going to talk about is called Get Back. And it's super cool because, well the song's just good in general.
But recently there was a limited series that came out on Disney Plus called Get Back I believe. There's some variation of Get Back. But it's super cool because it was like a rough footage of the Beatles coming up with an album in like I believe three weeks maybe. It might have been longer than that.
But like a very short amount of time to come up with an album because they were doing a live TV performance. And it was like a first time performing together in like years. And it was really cool to see it because you got to like see the whole process of them creating their songs which I personally find like so interesting. I like I've always wanted to be in the room of someone like making a song because I think it's just so cool to like see what goes through their mind and like see what they test out and what melodies they try or what lyrics they change.
And so the series was super cool to watch. It was super cool and it was cool hearing this song live after seeing like the process of it being created. So here's a little bit of Get Back. Yeah, that's actually really fun.
I remember in a series there was like a scene of them. So their performance that they did was on a rooftop. I believe it was the Apple, Harry Curdoo's rooftop or something relating to Apple. But it was super cool because it was really cool to watch.
But also it was cool because they had cameras like upstairs like on the rooftop filming the boys and then there was also cameras in the streets looking at like showing the crowd like just like stopping in the middle of the street and like listening to the music. Because now we could like see the Beatles unless they were on top of a roof. So everyone was just hearing this music, not knowing who it was, what it was coming from. Some people recognized it, some people didn't and it was really cool to hear.
They like interviewed the audience and like not even the audience because they didn't even know what was happening. But like they interviewed the people in the streets and someone were like, yeah, this is so cool. Like my son's a huge fan of them. And then some of them were like, no, they needed quiet down.
Like it was very cool hearing them mixed opinions. The police showed up to their door and it was really funny seeing like the managers and stuff trying to like distract them and like get them to like knock them on to the roof and shut down the performance because they only had to perform like a certain amount of songs. Like it wasn't like a full on concert. It was just their whole album.
But no, but yeah, it was very interesting to see. I recommend watching it if you get the chance to. The next song I want to talk about is actually a wing song. It's not by the Beatles.
It's called Band on the Run. And this song, I actually hadn't realized Palm Carne was a part of until like the day before the concert because we were listening to his music getting ready. And I was like, wait, Palm Carne sings this song? But yeah, it was super cool.
I love the harmonies on the chorus. So yeah. Yeah, that song is so cool. It was very satisfying to listen to the next song.
I want to talk about it's also a wing song. It is also a home carne's James Bond song, which is super cool. It's called Live and Let Die. This song is so cool.
It was so cool to like hear live. So live and let die. Obviously a James Bond song. I just said that.
But it's a James Bond song and it was so cool to hear because it's like then in the beginning part of it, the instrumentals are like very subtle and like not noticeable. Like they just compliment pause the voice and then as the song goes on, like as it hits the chorus, there's like a big beat drop and this whole like orchestra comes in and it's so cool. During the live performance when the orchestra comes in and it has this big dramatic drop, it was like an explosion. No, not an explosion, but kind of an explosion.
So the visuals on stage was an explosion. Like there was a building and a graphic of a building and it blew up and it didn't really blow up because it was fake. But during the concert, there was like fireworks. There was like fire that shut up in front of Paul and behind Paul on the two ends of the stage.
And it was so cool. It was literally insane. I'd never seen such an intricate pyrotechnic show. It was so cool.
It was also a jump scare. We did not know what was happening. So and it was also like really loud. We were just like really surprised and it was really cool.
It was so cool. So I'm going to play a little bit of live and let die. This is it. You never let your night teach me to change you.
What in which we live in? We're too human. Yeah, that was so cool. So if you just heard that and you didn't hear like the preleading it, so that was Paul McCourtney singing live and let die.
And during the performance he had like fireworks and like fire that would shoot out. It was so cool. It was so cool. You could hear my sister screaming when the beat drops and like when it happened because like we didn't know what was going to happen and it was really funny and it was so cool.
It was so cool. But yeah, after that he took things down a notch and he sang Hey June, which again is such an iconic Beatles song. It was so cool. It was so pretty.
So here's a little bit of Hey Jude. I love that song and I love that part of the song because I love that song just in general. But during COVID I got bored. So I and I had like a blank canvas.
So I wrote non non non like like I made that the background and then I wrote Hey Jude on top of it. And so I had so I have a Hey Jude like poster up in my room and it was really cool to hear it live. And it was so cool. It was so cool.
It was so cool hearing everyone sing it and just like I love the part where he like he stops singing and like the it's like only very subtle drums that like keep us on beat. But it was so cool. It was so cool. It was so cool.
It was so cool. Anyway, after that he went off stage and we thought he was going to lead but then he came on for an encore and he actually sang a duet with John Lennon. So I mentioned this earlier but the get back series was footage of the Beatles like performing and creating songs. So Paul sang I got a feeling and they he took footage from the get back series and played it on the screen.
So it would be like him and John singing a duet and I thought that was really cool. So I'm going to play a clip of it right now. Yeah, it was so cool to see like live because I love that song but I also love how Paul made a duet with John. I think that was so cool and so special.
It was just so cool. The last songs that I want to talk about are Golden Slumbers and Carrie That Way. Those are my sister's absolute favorite Beatles songs. It was so cool to see her watch them.
I would be performed a lot because I just knew how much she loved them and it was really cool. But yeah, Golden Slumbers and Carrie That Way kind of flow into each other. The end of one song flows into the next song so Paul performed it live together without any talking or anything in between and so it was super cool. So I'm going to play a little bit of that transition.
That song is so cool. It's so beautiful and powerful and just it's amazing. I love listening to them. But yeah, thank you so much for listening.
I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you were introduced or reintroduced to a Paul McCartney song whether it be from him specifically or from one of the many bands he was in. And yeah, thank you so much for listening to Broken Record. I'm Ellie.
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