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

I wonder if that It’s a Wonderful Life musical is still happening?

 

I think about this virtually every single day.
I suspect it is a holiday themed musical, and therefor would premier in mid-November.
But where? In which year? We just don't know yet. I am truly excited to hear Paul work in a theater mode.
I have no idea if he can, but it will be worth exploring.

 

My guess is Christmas 2023, purely because High in the Clouds should be this year.

 

I’m excited too! I fancy his chances!

 

Why Harry Styles' 'Matilda' Is His Heartbreak Masterpiece - Windobi

"The ghost of Paul McCartney is everywhere, from the Wings at the speed of sound march from “Grape Juice” to how “Keep Driving” evokes the Paul-and-Linda road trip in “Two of Us”."

 

Baby You’re a Rich Man

Sir Paul McCartney tops Sunday Times Music Rich List

"Sir Paul McCartney has topped the Music Rich List

The 79-year-old star has a personal fortune worth £865 million, which is up £45 million from last year thanks to his COVID-delayed Got Back tour and ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ documentary."

 

Regardless...

She (what did we do that was wrong)
Is Having (we didn't know it was wrong)
Fun (fun is the one thing that money can't buy)

And just listen to those peerless vocals by Paul and John. How did the stars align that allowed those two to join forces in one band? Wow...

 

The big picture: Paul McCartney at his parents’ home in 1962

"Mike McCartney took this picture of “our kid” reading the Observer a couple of weeks after the release of the Beatles’ first single, Love Me Do, in October 1962. The record had reached number 17 in the charts. He and Paul were still living at home, 20 Forthlin Road, in Allerton, south Liverpool. “This was the time before the time,” he told me last week. “We were just working-class Liverpool people trying to survive with our dad after our mum had died.”"

 

The two may well operate independently. I'm not aware that Paul has a producing or ownership stake in either, so timing will be dictated by financing and logistics over which he may have little control -- and the mechanics of getting a big Broadway show off the ground are inherently different than a movie. That said, a Broadway opening shortly before Thanksgiving would make sense for "It's a Wonderful Life," given the holiday theme. That would mean out-of-town tryouts in September and October -- which in turn means that if it's happening this year we should be hearing something soon. If we don't, then presumably it will indeed be 2023.

 

I never really thought about it before, but Paul didn’t mind the harp in “She’s Leaving Home”
but specifically asked for the harp to be removed at least from the end of “ The Long and Winding Road”.
So, either he thought the harp fit the former song but not the later, or by 1969 he thought a harp was too over the top.

 

Video: Watch Paul McCartney sing a happy birthday song to former bandmate from Thibodaux

 

Paul McCartney on Twitter:

"Congratulations to Paul! 'THE LYRICS: 1956 to the Present' took home the Non-Fiction: Lifestyle Book of the Year Award at the prestigious British Book Awards 2022 tonight #Nibbies"

 

The Beatles Blue Box Collection – A Homemade CD Box Set (Or the Winner of the You May Have Too Much Time on Your Hands Award)

 

They say it’s your birthday: Paul McCartney and me – in pictures

"As Macca turns 80 on 18 June, we take a trip through Harry Benson’s intimate images – from the Beatles 1964 invasion of America to horseriding with Linda"

 

Revisiting ‘The Cooler’: Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney’s experimental film



"Remarkably, the mini-film was entered into the short film category at the Cannes Film Festival, and it is styled in the form of a musical psychodrama. It is set in a prison camp in a dystopian future and contains flecks of The Great Escape, The Prisoner and perhaps even Westworld. "

 

Kind of neat to see Paul wishing old band member Thaddeus Richard a happy birthday:
Paul McCartney sings happy birthday to former bandmate from Thibodaux

 

Glad to see this back "out there". It was gone for a while. Same cruddy quality though.

As near as I can tell, these are all mildly different/unique mixes to the album recordings.

Makes for some extreme Paul and Ringo rarities!

 

The film is kind of terrible. But it’s interesting in the way Broadstreet is interesting. Maybe George would have been a better collaborator on a short film.

“Sure To Fall” sounds like a very different, Linda-to the front, mix. Not bad though.

I like “Private Property” and “Attention”, and sure Ringo could sing them, but they sound like tracks with Ringo’s vocal over top, rather than actually making sense with the song. I wish we had Paul versions of those songs

 

We have 27 seconds of "Attention."

 

Jan Vogler, BBC Philharmonic, Omer Meir Wellber - Golden Slumbers



Golden Slumbers (Arr. for Cello and Orchestra)
Artist Jan Vogler, BBC Philharmonic, Omer Meir Wellber
Jan Vogler plays “Golden Slumbers” from Paul McCartney and John Lennon.
Album “Pop Songs”

 

Who is this former bandmate??

 

Thaddeus Richard, a member of Wings horn section 1975-76.

 

Paul's vocals sound great!

Add the song to his setlist!

 

He was part of the same horn section for the 79 tour as well.