Current Paul McCartney news thread (interviews, articles, miscellaneous)

Rumors are that the Stones will play UK stadiums this summer. If McCartney plays the O2 and the dates coincide, I might reschedule our summer holiday!

 

Wow, really lovely piece, sort of moving, really. Thanks for sharing, RH

 

Oh yeah; learn which other left handed guitarist Macca copied in order to play his right handed guitar after viewing a picture of him playing the guitar upside down?

 

Guest appearance:
Watch Paul McCartney join members of Muse to cover The Beatles' 'Helter Skelter' - NME

 

It always looks awkward when he's around young people. It's like that moment when your grandpa thought he was legitimately cool. The cringe...

 

Paul is now 75+ years of age. Will he ever get too old to do these type of things?

 

If you don’t mind I’d like to use this thread briefly for a “Current Paul McCartney Question (not big enough for its own thread, etc.)”

On the lyrics of “Dear Boy”, fill in the blank:
My heart was down and out, but ___ love came through...

I’ve always heard and sung the line as “ but our love”, because it sounds like “are”, and in my American accent, “our” and “are” sound the same.

But yesterday it hit me that he might be saying “but her love” and dropping the H. Confirms more to his accent, but I’m still kind of hearing it with mine, haha

What say you all?

 

I always thought it was “but A love came through”. I’m thinking I’m wrong now.

 

For what it's worth, I checked three lyric sites. All say "her".

 

I hear it as "our".

 

I've always thought it to be "but HER love". Lyrically, it makes the most sense to me.

 

The lyric sheet included in the new vinyl issue of Ram says "her love..."

 

Wow 4 replies with 3 different answers! Macca scholars (un)United!

Edit: make that 5 replies actually

 

On Paul's website it says "her".

Dear Boy

 

I hear "cranberry sauce".

 

Thanks Scholars! Don’t know how I feel about this one but I’ll accept that Her is official I saw it listed on third party lyrics sites myself this morning and was skeptical but you guys brought the big guns!

 

He should...
1. Collaborate with Muse right now. Like, the I-want-it-in-my-ears-this-moment kind of now.
2. Never ever dance with Muse or anyone else on stage again.
3. Not appear without an instrument.

Not one "Mr. Bellamy" joke from the "humorists" here? Not one? Slipping.

 

My original 1971 booklet of sheet music for Ram shows the Dear Boy lyrics "but her love came through."

 

But who sang the "Aahs" in A Day in the Life?

 

It's obvious that it was Ringo.

 

Slim Whitman

 

This is not what I got from this at all. Big musicians in their own right are doing an ode in the form of a band for the occasion, and the singer and songwriter himself just casually walks on and has some fun with them to make everyone's day.



From September, the one-off which lit this fire. Miles Kane is in this "band", but he had to skip the Stella McCartney performance. He must be kicking himself...

 

Eggs Up! – A “Back to the Egg”stravaganza!!! (Part One – Sunny Side Up)

 

Pictures of Paul partying and signing at Stella's fashion show and after party in LA. Good to see he's finding time to have fun while working

 

And... where are the links?