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

I see McCartney 111 reimagined LP is finally coming down in price, couldn't have sold that much at the obnoxious price that was being asked for it.

 

Sweet I'm heading right to the dollar bin to pick it up!

 

I've watched it got from nearly £40 to £25. It still has a fair way to drop before I pick it up and even then I am likely to need to be inebriated whilst also being in my local HMV, which is unlikely.

 

Nice to see a very nice and complete copy of "Hello Piccadilly" floating around

 

Yeah, I did not know there was such a thing, but ... it may very well be one of the most melodious and beautiful radio jingles I have ever heard. Partially reminds me of another McCartney song ... but just cannot find the connection in my head right now.
And what a great idea, to record playing an unknown tape ... this podcast in particular is a treasure. I will become a member, this is worth getting in high res.
Posting the link again, it's worth not getting lost in the depth of this thread. Ok, it will.
Consequences 10cc podcast 76 - The Great Alcester Bake-off #3: Hello from Mike, Paul and Linda

I have now even uncovered the song it reminds me of: I'll give you a ring.

Edit:
Obviously this tape will also be coming to their Youtube channel soon.
https://m.youtube.com/user/smacreavy/videos

Just like this beauty.

 

"All your favorite veggie foods from the 1980's"

 

Addendum:
If you become premium member you will get high res files of the baked tapes.
https://www.podbean.com/premium-signup/qiegf-220cbb/The+Consequences+10cc+podcast

"You can hear most of the audio from this (and our other 10cc discoveries) in superb 24-bit, 48k quality by becoming a subscriber to our podcast via the link below. Thanks everyone."

 

Always liked this song!!

 

They have them separate & complete?

 

I'm not sure if this is "news' but there is a great Macca anecdote in the ICON: Music Through The Lens doc.
About a contentious Macca photoshoot, in the early aughts that is quite illuminating, and momentarily tense and stressful.

 

Here is the track separated at least on soundcloud with a photo of the tape box as the 'album cover'.

Paul & Linda - Hello Piccadilly Jingle (Strawberry)

 

Once again the announced list yesterday of songs for the Lyrics book released on November 2nd...…….

Songs included in The Lyrics: 

Volume 1

“All My Loving”
“And I Love Her”
“Another Day”
“Arrow Through Me”
“Average Person”
“Back in the U.S.S.R”
“Band on the Run”
“Birthday”
“Blackbird”
“Café on the Left Bank”
“Calico Skies”
“Can’t Buy Me Love
“Carry That Weight”
“Check My Machine”
“Come and Get It”
“Coming Up”
“Confidante”
“Cook of the House”
“Country Dreamer”
“A Day in the Life”
“Dear Friend”
“Despite Repeated Warnings”
“Distractions”
“Do It Now”
“Dress Me Up as a Robber”
“Drive My Car”
“Eat at Home”
“Ebony and Ivory”
“Eight Days a Week”
“Eleanor Rigby”
“The End”
“Fixing a Hole”
“The Fool on the Hill”
“For No One”
“From Me to You”
“Get Back”
“Getting Closer”
“Ghosts of the Past Left Behind”
“Girls’ School”
“Give Ireland Back to the Irish”
“Golden Earth Girl”
“Golden Slumbers”
“Good Day Sunshine”
“Goodbye”
“Got to Get You Into My Life”
“Great Day”
“A Hard Day’s Night”
“Helen Wheels”
“Helter Skelter”
“Her Majesty”
“Here, There and Everywhere”
“Here Today”
“Hey Jude”
“Hi, Hi, Hi”
“Honey Pie”
“Hope of Deliverance”
“House of Wax”
“I Don’t Know”
“I Lost My Little Girl”
“I Saw Her Standing There”
“I Wanna Be Your Man”
“I Want to Hold Your Hand
“I Will”
“I’ll Follow the Sun”
“I’ll Get You”
“I’m Carrying”
“I’m Down”
“In Spite of All the Danger
“I’ve Got a Feeling”
“Jenny Wren”
“Jet”
“Junior’s Farm”
“Junk”
“The Kiss of Venus”
“Lady Madonna”
“Let Em In”
“Let It Be”
“Let Me Roll It”
“Live and Let Die”
“London Town”
“The Long and Winding Road”
“Love Me Do”
“Lovely Rita”

Volume 2

“Magneto and Titanium Man”
“Martha My Dear”
“Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”
“Maybe I’m Amazed”
“Michelle”
“Mother Nature’s Son”
“Mrs. Vandebilt”
“Mull of Kintyre”
“My Love”
“My Valentine”
“Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five”
“No More Lonely Nights”
“The Note You Never Wrote”
“Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight”
“Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
“Oh Woman, Oh Why”
“Old Siam, Sir”
“On My Way to Work”
“Once Upon a Long Ago”
“Only Mama Knows”
“The Other Me”
“Paperback Writer”
“Penny Lane”
“Picasso’s Last Words (Drink to Me)”
“Pipes of Peace”
“Please Please Me”
“Pretty Boys”
“Pretty Little Head”
“Put It There”
“Rocky Raccoon”
“San Ferry Anne”
“Say Say Say”
“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
“She Came in Through the Bathroom Window”
“She Loves You”
“She’s a Woman”
“She’s Given Up Talking”
“She’s Leaving Home”
“Silly Love Songs”
“Simple as That”
“Single Pigeon”
“Somedays”
“Spirits of Ancient Egypt”
“Teddy Boy”
“Tell Me Who He Is”
“Temporary Secretary”
“Things We Said Today”
“Ticket to Ride”
“Too Many People”
“Too Much Rain”
“Tug of War”
“Two of Us”
“Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey”
“Venus and Mars/Rock Show/Venus and Mars – Reprise”
“Warm and Beautiful”
“Waterfalls”
“We All Stand Together”
“We Can Work It Out”
“We Got Married”
“When I’m Sixty-Four”
“When Winter Comes”
“Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?”
“With a Little Help From My Friends”
“Women and Wives”
“The World Tonight”
“The World You’re Coming Into”
“Yellow Submarine”
“Yesterday”
“You Never Give Me Your Money”
“You Tell Me”
“Your Mother Should Know”

 

Yes, but which Simple As That will it be...? Or both??

 

They should sell a digital version for the same price that includes the lyrics to every song he has ever written. Or even better yet just include it as a free bonus with the physical copy.

Let me put it this way. I probably won't buy this, but if it was released the way I've said above, I would definitely be getting a copy.

 

"Check My Machine".

 

I assume someone has posted the playlist of all of these tracks that Paul's team put on Spotify?

If not...

THE LYRICS: 1956 - the Present a playlist on Spotify

Paul McCartney recounts his life and art through the prism of 154 songs from all stages of his career, listen to most of the tracks featured in this extraordinary book published this November.

 

wait, wait...wait!
Does this mean that a NEW "McGear" re-issue needs to be made???


edit: Oh, I see it's just effects....

 

Paul about Charlie Watts

https://twitter.com/PaulMcCartney/status/1430221433100177409

 

So sad

 

Hearing Macca in that clip - really brings the sad news home. R. I. P. -
Rock In Peace, Charlie Watts.

 

That is sad. I do not really like The Stones, their attitude, but I have seen them in 1995 and enjoyed it quite a bit. And I thought Charly was especially noticable. Looking so serious and somewhat out of place visually, but being the rhythmic backbone and rock steady center point without ever pushing himself to the foreground beyond the requirement of the song. Sounds familiar?
I had not noticed him at all before, but he really was shining during that gig.
At the same time it was my first really huge show. While I did enjoy McCartney at almost the same location (a few uears later inside the newly built stadium), it also showed me that these huge stadium shows do have their own language and limits. I have enjoyed a local artist (Jens-Paul Wollenberg) way more, and my beloved and me were the only paying guests.
But Charly ... rocked. He was cool because he made the impression he was not, with everyone else going out of their way to be fancy, sexy and cool. He just did not care. He was ... just there, only playing his drums and I liked it.
The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015 - Programm in voller Länge | ARTE Concert

 

I don’t know how the book is laid out, it appears that it’s in alphabetical order, but if it was going to simulate a diary or autobiography, I’m sorry the work wasn’t done in chronological order.

 

Been listening to the "H" section, what a crazy fun ride! Why is Hard Days Night even on here as I've always thought of it as John's?

“A Hard Day’s Night”
“Helen Wheels”
“Helter Skelter”
“Her Majesty”
“Here, There and Everywhere”
“Here Today”
“Hey Jude”
“Hi, Hi, Hi”
“Honey Pie”
“Hope of Deliverance”
“House of Wax”

What a sublime juxtaposition of songs!

"H" is for happy happenstance!

 

Maybe it's pivotal to a particular memory? Or Paul inspired John in some way? Or the song inspired Paul? Be interesting to find out, that's for sure. That's a good idea you've got there, listening to songs by letter. Think I'll do the same. Did give the utterly brilliant House of Wax a listen this morning.

 

“So, y’know, ‘sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me’ was just what John and I were trying to get at in We Can Work It Out...”