Saturday Deluxe / 19 February 2022
Macca bacca on the road (& other stories)
Paul McCartney has announced a new North American tour which will kick off in Washington, in April. He’s calling it the ‘Got Back’ tour which, while not exactly grammatically correct, obviously piggy-backs off the massive interest and success in the Peter Jackson-directed Disney+ ‘3-Part Event’ that was The Beatles Get Back. Let’s not forget that the home video release of Paul’s 1989/90 Flowers in the Dirt tour was also called Get Back. And it was directed by Richard Lester for a bonus Beatles connection.
When Paul walks out on stage for the first gig, in just over two months, it will have been nearly two and a half years since the last full gig to the paying public (23 November 2019 in New Jersey). You have to go back all the way to the mid-to-late 1990s when Paul didn’t really have a band, and Linda McCartney was ill, to find a gap that big.
“I said at the end of the last tour that I’d see you next time. I said I was going to get back to you. Well, I got back!”
Paul McCartney
Paul will turn 80 two days after this 14-date tour ends and while it’s fantastic that he has the energy and motivation to get back out on the road, one has to question whether he is still capable of properly singing his truly amazing back catalogue of songs. On the 3-2-1 documentary (also available on Disney+) Paul is embarrassingly croaky the odd time he goes to the piano to demonstrate something to Rick Rubin. The last time I saw McCartney live, at the snowy Hammersmith Odeon gig of December 2010, I was worried about how well he’d sing the songs, but while his voice has obviously degraded, he still had more than enough to put on a spectacular and memorable show. 12 years, and literally hundreds of gigs later, he’s back for some more!
I guess the sheer wonderment of seeing an ex-Beatle play live, and the power of Paul’s band with backing vocal support available from more or less all the members, will mean most fans will go home happy, regardless, but it would be nice to see Paul for once rethink his entire setlist and perhaps retire some of the songs he struggles with most, irrespective of how great the numbers may be. It won’t happen, because Paul is too much of a crowd-pleaser and he wants to deliver hits, and not just perform tracks that are more suited to his ageing vocal chords.
What are your thoughts?
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Should Paul McCartney still be playing live?
Operation ‘The Tipping Point’ is GO!
Next week is all about Tears For Fears and their new album ‘The Tipping Point’. We have already started international shipping for the SDE-exclusive CD and blu-ray and it’s a gargantuan task, as the picture above showing me next to some of the boxes, shows! UK shipping will happen around Wednesday next week with the hope that most of you will receive your orders on Friday.
I’ll be publishing my interview with Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith – In Search of The Tipping Point – early next week and I’ll also be popping along to the event (“Tears For Fears In Conversation“) at Hackney Earth on Monday evening. On Friday 25th, which is album release day, I will also be at a special playback event in London where the Steven Wilson Dolby Atmos Mix of The Tipping Point will be blasted out in a special theatre setting for a select few. Roland and Curt are going to be there and you can win tickets to come along. Five SDE readers will win a pair of tickets so if you haven’t already entered the competition, then here’s the post! The competition ends at midnight GMT tomorrow night (20th) so don’t delay.
Garbage Deal
Not literally a garbage deal, but a very good deal for the 2LP white vinyl edition of Beautiful Garbage! This album was reissued back in November and this coloured vinyl 2LP set is just £16 at the time of writing via Amazon UK. That’s already a great deal, but there’s more!
Although the physical vinyl product is just album-only (13 tracks) it comes with a 64-track MP3 autorip! This is effectively the 48-tracks from the 3CD set (including B-sides, rough mixes and remixes) plus 16 further bonus remixes. Admittedly the extra remixes might be the kind of thing the SAS use for advanced interrogation techniques (“Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!) [Roger Sanchez Tha S-Man’s Release Dub]”) but hey, it’s a free bonus. If you want to buy the same 64-track download it costs you £17.99 – go figure. I think you only get the autorip if you are in the UK.
The Audience vinyl reissue bonus tracks changed
Earlier this month, SDE informed you of the reissue of The Audience album from Scottish independent label Last Night From Glasgow. This is a 2LP set and the original plan was to include the six bonus tracks that were included on the original bonus CD. However this has now changed as original band member Billy Reeves confirmed on twitter.
He said “LNFG [Last Night From Glasgow] were kind to let me pile in. I reckon better value for money than the “piano” versions of stuff already on. IMO works better as a double vinyl album with this track listing.”
The new bonus tracks are now as follows:
- MAGNA CARTA vs MATTHEW ARNOLD
- BOUTIQUE IN MY BACKYARD
- JE SUIS CONTENT
- I’M ALWAYS READY
- HELEN & POLLY
- YOU AND ME ON THE RUN
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I’ve been a Paul McCartney fan since 1987 when I bought his All The Best! CD (US version, since that’s where eye iz frum). Same with George and John – I got into them in the mid/late 1980s via CDs. I became a Beatle fan too, and have since read many books, bought many CDs, the whole thing. And got to know the music at a data level – as an aspiring songwriter in the 1990s I recorded full versions of many Beatle songs in my old 8-track home studio. But – I never attended a concert. It became a regret, in later years.
Last week my wife bought tickets to see Paul in Oakland, CA. I’m ecstatic.
My point is – even being a fan for 20, 30 years doesn’t mean everyone’s seen him live; every concert is still somebody’s first. More well-travelled fans often take that luxury for granted. The fact that Paul can’t sing like a young man anymore is really irrelevant; people do grasp that he’s nearly 80. I saw Steve Jobs say that seeing Paul perform live is like being able to go back and watch Beethoven play his own compositions in 1812 – witnessing a pivotal composer interpret his own works. Witnessing history in real time.
And now I’ll finally be able to do that. I’m sure the crowd will be happy to help Paul out and sing the words, fueled by the decades of love behind them. I know I will:)
That shirt Sir Paul is wearing in the photo must be worth a fortune, as it features Yoko Ono’s 72nd Street mural artwork…. I wonder if it is signed by the artist….and the bloke wearing it too ?
ooooh! get baaack to where yoooo wuns be lonnnnn’d!
What often gets lost in these debates is that artists the stature of Macca employ a virtual community every time they hit the road. Additionally, his last album was a one-man band so his muso’s have effectively been unemployed for 2 years, not to mention road crew, merch, promo, venues, etc. He’s not just doing it for himself. But it respective of that, if he wants to play to a willing and adoring crowd, why shouldn’t he?
Paul will do what he likes – and he has earned to right to do just that. Good on him too! Absolute top tier icon. Utterly without peers. Keep on rocking Sir Paul!
Bob Dylan would certainly be a peer of Paul’s !! In fact many people would say that Bob is peerless!!
Paul’s music has a greater reach I would say. I quote – ‘According to Guinness World Records, “Yesterday” has the most cover versions of any song ever written. The song remains popular today with more than 1,600 recorded cover versions. Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) asserts that it was performed over seven million times in the 20th century alone.’
It is funny, one always reads about all these cover versions of Yesterday, but I don’t think I have ever knowingly heard one (except his own covers) Certainly none seem to have entered the the popular consciousness.
Last tour I am fairly sure he dropped this song.
Huh? I’m going to do your ears a favor right now: go listen to the version on the 1967 LP “Ray Charles Invites You to Listen”. It’s the definitive version of the song.
In fact, Paul himself basically said so – when the Grammy people gave him some lifetime achievement thingy in the 1980s, they asked which cover was his favorite, and he said Ray Charles’ version sounds like how he pictured it in his head, that it actually sounds like it was written for Ray to sing. Or something along those lines.
I don’t know if this has been though by Macca and Ringo, but the ultimate farewell tour for fans across the world would be a Paul & Ringo Tour in place of another Macca tour. Doing Macca songs, Ringo songs, Beatles songs and why not a Lennon one and an Harrison one. That would be a great tour to thanks all the Beatles fans around the world that always imagine a Beatles reunion. The last tour. (They are both 79-80 years old, it’s time now or never). Probably i’m only dreaming ! Imagine !
THIS!!
He just has to turn up, sit at a piano, play a bit, say a bit, sing the odd word, just like Brian Wilson. That’s more than enough, they are both legions, they have both provided enough happiness and earned the right to do whatever they want. Don’t like it, don’t go. It’s fucking Paul McCartney for Christ sake!
What’s this with a ‘good’ voice ? Bob Dylan has the ugliest voice of them all, but he is and always was the best singer: expression, creation, phrasing, projection, nuance. McCartney hàs done his bit of good on earth. In the Anthology videos, he says at the end: ‘I’m REALLY glad that most songs dealt with Love, Peace, Understanding … It’s ALL very ‘All You Need Is Love’, John’s ‘Give Peace A Chance’ … There’s a VERY good spirit behind it all !’ … Right on, and as Ringo said, ‘we gave a 1000 (thousand) per cent…’ If Hitler and Co. was evil incarnate, then The Beatles were thè Feel Good story of the 20th Century, for all of the world. There can be no harm at all in McCartney performing: I wish him Total Joy in his new tour, and to all of you who will see him on stage.
I saw Brian Wilson 4 times live. His voice can’t reach the high falsetto notes for decades. His bandmembers do that for him. It was fantastic. I saw Paul Mccartney live in 2003. It was a great night because I saw a legend performing his wellknown songs. I don’t care if a voice is old and lost it’s power. Paul Simon, Brian Wilson, Gordon Lightfoot, Ian Anderson, … are legends and I want them to do want what they always have done and that is making and playing wonderfull songs.
You can add Elton to that list, as well. I saw him well over 20 years ago at Madison Square Garden and, even then, he couldn’t hit the high notes and didn’t attempt to. It’s only natural. You can’t sound like you did in your 20s when you’re in your 60s. In Elton’s case, he’s 74yo.
i see no reason for this tour except for $$$$. like the stones,the who,genesis, kiss, motley crue etc its time to say its over. go out on TOP . dont keep flogging around playing in huge venues where the sound is awful.
Kiss and especially Motley Crue shouldn’t be mentioned at the same time as those other real artists!
I have to disagree. Macca was named richest musician (or something alike), he is not doing this for money. I think he genuinely wants to go out, tour and have fun. He wants to prove he still has it, like when he released III. He wanted a #1 record. Of course as he is touring, he wants to make money from it. Nothing wrong with that. I applaud him for doing this as he is almost 80. Good for him. He looks great. I won’t be attending his concert as I’m not enough into his solo stuff but have great respect for him.
Hmmm, solo stuff? You do realise he plays over 20 Beatles songs every night?
Why should they ‘ retire ‘ from touring. I’d still rather see some of these classic bands, even in their later years, than some of the stuff that passes for music these days. If you don’t want to see them don’t go
If there’s one thing Macca doesn’t need any more of it’s $$$$. He’s doing it because he loves doing it Every Night. And he plays huge venues because Too Many People want to see him.
As if Macca needs the money. As if he cares. He’s playing live because it’s who he is, what he is. We should be grateful he’s health enough to do it and frankly it’s awful that people think they can tell him what to do
I was lucky enough to see Macca live in 1993 when Linda and his voice were still with him.
It was in a 15.000 people capacity arena, ticket prices were affordable and as someone else here wrote it’s possibly among the top five gigs i ever saw.
I would certainly recommend attending a concert of him, even if his voice is not like in his heyday anymore.
Shortly before Covid-19 struck the world i watched Ian Anderson (of Jethro Tull) for the first time play live and though i found it a bit sad that his voice sounded really shot i wouldn’t have missed this for the world because i only discovered the band through their SDEs and haven’t had a chance to watch them in their prime.
I saw Paul on the 93 ‘New World’ tour as well and was stunned at how powerful his singing voice was. It seemed better than in 1990 when I saw him then.
If Paul McCartney wants to perform live then good for him, just like Bob some artists seem to need to go out there and in my opinion is clearly not about money. I saw him do a great gig in Glasgow at Hampden in 2010 and was then lucky enough to see him again in Glasgow at the Hydro in 2018 – that was even better, really enjoyed what was a nearly 3 hour show and any voice issues didn’t even register with me to be honest. Personally, if he does some UK dates I would love to see him again, particularly keen to hear some of McCartney III live (e.g. Slidin’) and other more recent stuff from Egypt Station plus Chaos & Creation. Currently halfway through the Lyrics books – thoroughly recommended.
there comes a time when to say its over. sadly not many see it that way. paul,the two ( the who), the stones, motley crue, kiss, genesis and others think the the glory days are still there. in reality all they are doing is relying on very very far past achievments. i saw macca twice back in 76. that was enough for me. medicore band ( wings) but they played well and the crowd ate it up. but thats was a long long time ago.its all for nostalgia and $$$$ now. go out on TOP not just go on and on and on.
When you had Denny Laine and Jimmy McCulloch in your band, as Wings does in 1976, it’s far above medicore band!
medicore, Wings were certianly not, by any maens!
;)
Keyboard player wasn’t all that!!
I also saw Macca in 2010, at Hyde Park. He played for about 3 hours and was magnificent. Obviously Paul and artists such as the Who, Stones, Elton etc no longer sound like they did in their heyday, but all the while there is a demand and desire to see them perform, then they will carry on, and good luck to them. Ticket prices now will stop me seeing these tours any longer. I paid £300 in 2010, though that was a VIP grandstand seat and open bar. I remember an article in the NME about 45 years ago suggesting all these artists who were then in their 30s, their days were numbered. Well, it turned out to be a bloody big number!
I think being who he is he’s still ‘stuck’ in that ‘global superstar’ persona. You know when Bowie and Tina Turner and Jagger all suddenly became these mainstream stadium ‘monsters’…
It must be quite difficult to step back from that… I would have liked Sir Paul to play some intimate gigs… maybe somewhere like the Café De Paris or Union Chapel and do a set list with perhaps some songs that meant something to him from his youth (Songs his father or uncles played from the 20’s/30’s/40’s?) with appropriate songs suitable for the key and vocal range he has now, with maybe a big band and guest singers.
Even if it’s a matter of talk-singing in the style of Rex Harrison.
When I was growing up
my school friends and I would see him and his family especially when filling up petrol on his way to his farm south of Campbeltown at the local garage, and within minutes he’d be surrounded by a bunch of kids that knew he was famous (and rich) but had no real idea why. He was always an approachable funny man as was Linda a lovely lady.
To be fair, Paul does occasionally do the smaller gigs (100 club, Electric Ballroom etc.) but even when that has happened the set lists haven’t changed much, apart from probably being a bit shorter. But you’re right, he’s stuck in that global superstar persona.
A great idea about Union Chapel, and a nice story about Campbeltown.
I saw PM live in Australia in 2017 – it was magnificent. Even though I was at the back of the stadium Paul’s voice was strong and the sound as good as it could be. If you get to see him don’t hesitate. Living legend. And yes – I would like to see some material retired too – anyone else want to hear Press? or My Brave Face? We can live in hope!
As long as he’s in good health and up for it, he should tour when he wants to. I personally don’t have any interest. His voice isn’t what it used to be, I haven’t been interested in his new material since Flowers in the Dirt (which was mostly disappointing anyway), and he seems to have been emphasizing Beatles songs for the last thirty-plus years. At one time, Paul McCartney playing Beatles songs live was exciting because he’d refused to do it for so long, but ever since Tripping the Live Fantastic it seems that that’s all he ever does. Fortunately, it’s a simple matter: I just don’t buy a ticket. (Don’t even get me started on ticket prices.)
Good point about flowers in the dirt Kevin!
Average at best!
Flaming pie much better!!
I have to agree and not wanting to go all existentialism on a Sunday afternoon why should anyone stop working regardless of age if it keeps them happy? I’m not a Beatles or Paul fan outside of the greatest hits to be honest but admire the fact at 80 he’s still gigging. I think he should be commended personally as far too many people in the UK are ready to down tools at the drop of a hat and no where near his age.
When i booked a ticket for Kate Bush in 2014, i noticed the price range was about £50 to £130. I went straight in at £130, click, click, click (did not want to miss out). When the process was complete I found that I had a balcony ticket. When i went to the gig, i discovered my seat was near the back of the balcony. I couldnt help but wonder where the £50 seats were!!
I had one of those £50 ‘seats’ it turned out to be a standing ticket in an all seated venue. We were told to stand at the back of the seats but pushed our luck and stood by the wall to the right of the stage, ended up about 6ft from the front. Bit cheeky though to squeeze out more ticket money.
Paul will go ahead as planned.
He’ll sing and have a good time.
Obviously he’s rehearsed and adjusted where he needs to.
It’ll be a age appropriate performance…
I saw Macca last year at the South Bank talking about his lyrics book and it was a rush just being in the same room as him tbh – but it was a really enjoyable chat.
I’ve never seen him perform live – just haven’t been able to for various reasons on tours in the past. I’d like to chalk that one off and am hoping he does some UK dates – he can sing what he likes to be honest or just read the phone book . I think with legendary artists like Macca it’s about more than the performance- it’s the history, the mythology, the love built up over time, the soundtracking of events in your life – all kinds of things are in the mix and we should cherish this generation of artists while they’re still with us.
I remember seeing Bowie on the Reality tour (his last) in 2003 and I was in tears for most of it. The missus kept telling me to get a grip. If I get to see Macca perform live I’ve told her to expect the same.
I totally agree Jay, these are LEGENDS we are witnessing in the flesh and they create memories forever!
I saw Bowie in 2003 as well, Jay, and felt the same. Had only previously seen him in ’73 little did we know Reality would be the final tour. And I know what you mean about being in the same room. When I saw Brian Wilson do Pet Sounds I could not get the thought out of my head that I was breathing the same air as an absolute legend. The same when Paul and Linda were surprise guests at a Faces gig in 75.
To pick up on a few points. Yes, his voice was shaky at the 2012 Olympics and it will have deteriorated further since then. I suspect that he will continue to play gigs until he can no longer physically continue. It must be very hard to give up the applause. The money and the bigger venues are in the US so if course he will play more gigs there. He is not going to tour at a loss. Personally, I have no great desire to see him live, especially in a stadium size venue. He lives near me (a schoolfriend lived next door to him in the 70’s) but he has never played a gig in Sussex to my knowledge post Beatles. It would be nice if he played some small gigs as warm ups for tours but never has. He can and probably does what he wants to do safe in the knowledge that the demand for tickets will always outstrip supply.
Wings played the Brighton Centre in 1979
At least Paul isn’t miming at a live event. Art is for all ages, so good for him for carrying on with a weathered voice. It’s always better to hear a brilliant vocal compared to a lesser version, but the attitude to a live performance is the most important element. Variety is also required, as it’s not as much fun seeing the same old show, tour after tour, no matter how good it is.
If you haven’t seen it, I’d recommend the Teddy Pendergrass documentary – If You Don’t Know Me, which is on BBC 2 tonight at 23.35.
Roger waters fans seem to enjoy his miming!!
That’s a fair point John. I suppose the artist does what he wants and you either enjoy it or don’t. I loved the Roger Waters concert up in your city. It was an incredible show. At the time, I was unaware of the miming stories, but that hasn’t diminished my memory of that night.
It’s the only show I’ve seen people leave early cursing, once Mr Waters started on about the Palestinians.
The last time I saw Paul McCartney in concert (2015) I came to the conclusion that he now takes a short while to ‘warm up’, vocally speaking. So when you see him just perform a couple of songs at say, the Olympics or one of the Queen’s Jubilee Concerts, it doesn’t sound great. 40 minutes into a regular show and he’s in control. That’s why I’ll certainly be there again if he plays some UK shows – annoyingly, he’s in Florida a week after I leave there!
I can’t be the only one who saw the Got Back image and thought, is he releasing a song praising big butts?
Opened my email inbox this morning and saw that my TFF blu ray just hopped on it’s flight to Australia. Excellent news. I really expected it not to be shipped until release date.
Thanks Paul for such great service
I’m a Bob Dylan fan so I don’t think Macca is croaky ;). To me, he has a fairly normal voice.
As people been saying, it’s more than a concert but an event. Part of the problem in respect of Paul’s singing is that he continues to play the songs in the same key as the recordings when he should be thinking of the best key now for his voice.
I’d love him to play some smaller gigs again with songs that are a bit below the radar from his massive hits. I’d also like him to go back to when his wings fun club members where given 1st opportunity for tickets rather than those people who have wealth and an American express card.
McCartney is playing the MetLife stadium here in NYC. I don’t have any appetite to see him live. I like his reissues (although I have plenty of criticism) and Paul (Sinclair) got me into Wings which really made some decent music. But seeing McCartney solo live in a stadium? No.
Regarding Sir Paul, I voted that he should be allowed to keep it going, but I think anyone attending a show has to acknowledge they are not getting the same musician from years ago. I think part of the thought process is the question “could this be the last time”…but I say that every time he comes around! I suspect there are casual fans who will go just to say they saw a legend, and thus the set list has to contain the hits, even those that no longer fit Paul’s vocal range. Perhaps a compromise is shaking up the rest of the songs…it may be hearsay, but I’m in the category of “more solo and Wings, less Beatles” even though I’m a huge Beatles fan!
These will be stadium shows, so the audience will listen to the usual hits. Hardcore fans can only hope that he’ll play “London town” deep cuts, but that’s very unlikely.
Cor blimey! Of course he should tour! A Macca concert is an event.
Paul McCartney couldn’t sing properly at the London 2012 Olympics so ten years later, no, just no.
I saw him on the 2018 tour. His voice was fine. I’ve heard of voices that have been sub par [Elton John, Fish,… ]. I am sure that maybe his voice on 2012 wasn’t that great but could depend on the context such as he’s in a long tour, he hasn’t sang in a while, etc.
Think yourself lucky if you weren’t watching The Stone Roses at Reading ‘96.
As i live in Finland, his shirt remind me of our national flag, which colours are blue and white!
Paul has lots of shirts like this – same design just different colours!
About “The Tipping Point”, can’t wait to have my deluxe cd and Blu-Ray here in Napoli, ITALY :)
I think that, those who choose to go to see Paul live, decide to go to see the myth and not the performance which, unfortunately and normally, is marked by the indelible signs of time.
I should have seen him in Naples in 2020 and who knows if he will decide to return to my city.
What is certain is that if he were to return to Italy I would pay to go there, if I were to follow him to some European city, definitely not.
That’s my opinion…
Do you think that the “in conversation” event will be moderated by Ben Shephard? Or is he introducing the Atmos event???
Laura Barton is doing it.
Paul McCartney is the current owner of the Paul McCartney franchise, so he can do whatever he likes with it.
Indeed.
Yes. It would be his decision as it is his group. He knows when it’s time to hang up the mic. I’m sure if his voice was deteriorating he’d stop. He doesn’t want his fans to remember him with a crappy voice at the end of his career.
I don’t think there’s any doubt that his voice is deteriorating!
My teenage son literally nagged me into getting tickets to see Paul McCartney on his last world tour. At first, I was very resistant to the idea. Being a massive Beatles & Wings fan I put up the argument that I would rather remember him as he was in his heyday than listen to a (then) mid-70s man try to reproduce his glory years. How wrong I was. Yes, his voice (very, very occasionally, only on a couple of songs) was what some fussy types might choose to describe as slightly sub-par.
I have seen most of the big names in music in a live setting & many, many of the smaller ones over five decades. Without question, Paul McCartney live in concert is one of the best music experiences I have ever had. He was freakin’ magnificent! 45 songs, 29 of which were Beatles classics, played & sung brilliantly.
To this day, I still thank my son for pushing me to go & would buy tickets to his new tour in a heartbeat should he return to Australia. The concert was definately in the top 5 shows I’ve ever seen. It was an event, with an ecstatic, noisy crowd going home happy, based on the smiles & raves I saw & heard immediately after the show.
Yes, Paul is nearing 80. If you accommodate the fact that all human voices inevitably change and then go in with realistic expectations, I feel confident, after discovering how wrong I was, you’ll have a fantastic concert experience. What’s the alternative? Not seeing a bona fide living legend?
Like all of us, he won’t be here forever!
I think we can all agree whichever version of The Tipping Point (from whichever store we’ve sourced it) the album is shaping up to be one of the early highlights of 2022. There are a few reviews out there already and I’ve yet to read a duff one…
If McCartney wants to tour and people are willing to buy tickets, then of course he should still be playing live and that goes for any artist, regardless of their age or the quality of their vocals. I’m surprised by the question you posed in your poll and I’m not even a McCartney fan!
Why is it surprising to want to know what fans think? We’ve learnt something and that is a quarter of people don’t agree with you.
Yes, absolutely. I’m 54. it’s always a shock when I have a shave and see a middle aged me and not the 22 year wrinkle free version. I still feel 22, I hope I’m still out and about when I’m 80 enjoying life, I saw the Flowers in the Dirt tour at Wembley, and a few times since, last time at Glasto. He’s looked after himself , I don’t think we’ve ever had a fat Sir Paul, I think a few croaky moments can be forgiven.
So full age to you would be 104??
You won’t be seeing that Antonio!!
Antonio said middle-aged, not half-aged.
As someone a little bit older than Antonio, I’m quite content with ‘middle-aged’.
Not yet ready for OAP.
Yes I know his third wife is American, and he seems to spend more time in that part of the world, but always America seems to get the McCartney gigs.
Hi Paul. Thanks for the heads up on the beautifulgarbage LP and MP3 deal on Amazon
Maybe Paul will release a cd of highlights from this tour similar to his BACK IN THE WORLD album from 2003
I have never seen Paul McCartney live, but I hope that I get a chance to see him live. You can’t expect that Paul, at his age, will be able to give the same performance as 20 years ago. You can hear on “McCartney III”, that his voice has changed. And that is why I would like to see some of his concerts being released on DVD/Blu Ray. I still hope that there will be an archive edition of “Tripping The Live Fantastic”.
Sooner or later Paul McCartney will realize that he can’t go on tour forever. Wouldn’t it be great if he would give his last concert in Liverpool.
Cue the Sir Mix-a-Lot. Macca got back.
You beat me to it!
saw him in 2013, 2017 and 2018 and have been just overwhelmed by the music. Yes, his voice might be struggling, but it has gotten older in a nice way, just like Johnny Cashs’ did. So all the power to him!
I like the Johnny Cash reference and, for me, my most listened to Johnny Cash albums are the 3 Rick Rubin produced. Lots of amazing outtakes also that are still in the vault waiting to be “Cash-ed” in.
I think Macca should play whatever he likes tbh, as he wrote & played on the songs obviously and it’s what he does. However, personally I’d like to see him change his set list to accommodate his changing voice and also play maybe smaller places. Changing his set list would also maybe give people the chance to hear lesser played songs and surely be more interesting for him and his band. I genuinely just hope the guy is enjoying life – he’s given a fair bit eh!
It maybe more interesting for him and his band. But the sad truth is that 90% of his fans wants to hear same songs over and over again. Same goes with the Stones, Elton John, The Who etc.!
Yeah, you’re right Jarmo – I totally get why they do it but would personally like some of these legends to mix it up a bit where possible. I know there’s certain songs they probably can’t get away without playing but when they’ve had a 50yr career or longer, that’s a lot of songs to choose from normally. Great site thanks Paul – thanks for all the hard work you obviously put in.