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Post by Dr Winston on Jun 24, 2004 8:24:13 GMT 1
Saturday 19th April, 2003. Earls Court, London.PicturesNEW SET LIST Hello Goodbye Jet All My Loving Getting Better Let Me Roll It / Foxy Lady- ending Lonely Road Your Loving Flame Blackbird Every Night We Can Work It Out You Never Give Me Your Money / Carry That Weight The Fool On the Hill Here Today Something Eleanor Rigby Here There and Everywhere I've Just Seen A Face Calico Skies Two Of Us Michelle Slow version of Band On The Run intro then Band On The Run Back In The USSR Maybe I'm Amazed Let 'Em In My Love She's Leaving Home Can't Buy Me Love Birthday Live and Let Die Let It Be Hey Jude (Encore) Long And Winding Road Lady Madonna I Saw Her Standing There (Encore) Yesterday Sgt. Pepper's Reprise / The End For the second Earls Court show, Paul dropped "Things We Said Today" which was replaced by "Maybe I'm Amazed." "Calico Skies," "Two of Us," and "I've Just Seen A Face" remained in the setlist. Paul was seen coming in around 4:30pm in a silver Mercedes car. He waved to fans but did not stop. There was very tight security, with body searches and bag checks. People were warned that if they were caught with cameras they would be tossed out. Security with walkie talkies were searching out camera flashes and people were being searched at their seats and if a camera was found they were escorted out. Paul's security physically pushed people back in their seats if they moved out of their area in the front row. Heather walked in to take her spot in the photo pit and shook hands with thrilled fans sitting in the mezzanine near the stage. The show started at 7:40pm with Paul coming on at 8pm. Paul wore a sky-blue Nehru jacket with a bright yellow lining, a red long-sleeved T-shirt and charcoal pin-striped trousers. The crowd sat for most of the concert, getting up when Paul first arrived onstage and then sitting down. Toward the end of the concert people were on their feet. Paul said,"Welcome to the court of the Earls. (a reference to Lord of the Rings) We have come to rock you." For the acoustic set just before "Blackbird" the band (as usual) left Paul all alone on stage. He told the audience, "This is the time they leave me alone with you. I'm not afraid, are you?" The audience laughed. When he introduced "Michelle" and mentioned landmarks in Liverpool there was no reaction. But when he mentioned "polo neck sweater" women screamed as at previous shows. Paul mentioned that now people were screaming for items of clothing and the polo neck sweater was getting screams all around the world. Paul's voice showed clear signs of strain throughout the show missing a crucial high note on "My Love" to which he grimaced. He handled "Maybe I'm Amazed" with no problems. There was a lot going on in the front rows with fans trying to have conversations with Paul. Paul feigning annoyance said, "The people in the front row, we seem to have a bit of a conversation going on here. 'How are you Paul ? How you doing.' I can't spend all my time talking to you. What about those at the back?" he said pointing to the balcony with brought loud cheers from the balcony. When the strongman brought out the psychedelic piano Paul said, "They've brought out the strange box that just appears... What is it?" A smartass audience member yelled out "THAT'S A PIANO!" Paul not missing beat said, "Good guess! Yeah, I know it's a piano." He talked about signs in the audience and losing his concentration while performing because he was reading them. He mentioned one sign and said, "My Mother Saw You At Shea Stadium! Big deal." (He did something similar in the States pointing out a sign that wasn't there -"My Mother Saw You in Chicago in 1965!") There was a line of signs in the audience that read "We Have Come To Rock You." The offstage crew played a joke on Brian. During "Birthday", Brian plays a tambourine which he discards at the end of the song by tossing it offstage. Evidently he must have hit a few crew members at previous gigs, because, just before tambourine toss the crew was seen putting on 'hard hats' with little flags on top to protect themselves from the toss. Brian couldn't stop laughing. Paul joked about Easter talking about "me and my bunny rabbit." When the end of the show was coming he told the crowd, "You HAVE to go home....because the Easter bunny is coming!!!" There was a new beginning to "Band On the Run." Paul performed the slow Radio 2 version (being played after the concert on the PA system) with Wix playing sitar on the keyboard. Paul sang a few lines and then began the normal version. Heather was shown on the screens quite a bit dancing during "Hey Jude." Members of the crew were dancing at the sides of the stage. Paul picked up all the Easter bunnies and eggs thrown on the stage including a Humpty Dumpty doll and either placed them on the stage or gave them to band members who put them on their heads. Just before "Sgt. Pepper Reprise / The End" Paul said, "Can you believe it? Someone in the front row has just asked me to play 'Something!' He knows there is no pleasing some people!" After the song he posed with a stuffed bunny waving the bunny's paw saying, "Me and my bunny would like to wish you a very happy Easter." Paul signed a DVD before he left the stage. Text messages:"Play something from Ram Paul." "I know you said get back Paul but surely you did not mean this far!" "Paul we need front row seats as my old man is getting on a bit. Give him something to talk about down at the pub." "Two gigs over 500 miles how about a front row seat?" "My mum thinks you're great." "I saw you at the Finsbury Park Astroia in 1963. I've been in love with you ever since."
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Post by Dr Winston on Jun 24, 2004 8:33:49 GMT 1
Sunday June 1, 2003. Kings Dock - Liverpool, England.PicturesSET LIST Hello Goodbye Jet All My Loving Getting Better Let Me Roll It/Foxy Lady- ending Honey Hush Lonely Road Your Loving Flame Blackbird Every Night We Can Work It Out You Never Give Me Your Money/Carry That Weight The Fool On the Hill Here Today Something Eleanor Rigby Here There and Everywhere I've Just Seen A Face Calico Skies Two Of Us Maggie Mae Michelle Slow version of Band On The Run intro then Band On The Run Back In The USSR Maybe I'm Amazed Let 'Em In My Love She's Leaving Home Can't Buy Me Love Birthday Live and Let Die Let It Be Baby Face (whole song) Hey Jude (Encore) Long And Winding Road Lady Madonna I Saw Her Standing There (Encore) I Lost My Little Girl Yesterday Sgt. Pepper's Reprise/The End Paul came to the dock around 4:40pm in a limo and did a soundcheck around 4:55 pm. He was wearing brown trousers, a long-sleeved white T-shirt and a black sport jacket. Paul took off his jacket and the group of people inside screamed, "MORE!!" Paul said, "That's all I'm taking off." He also commented on the police that were visibly present inside the makeshift stadium and said, "The FUZZ are all in!" After each song the small group applauded and Paul said, "Thank you tiny audience!" Macca bussed in 150 of his relatives for the concert. During the soundcheck, Gerry Stickells, the tour production director known for his loud Hawaiian shirts (lives in L.A.) stood front of stage. Several female staff donned loud multi-colored shirts and went to the front and danced. This inspired Paul to sing an impromptu song, "There's only one Gerry Stickells" to which Paul commented, "He's multiplying!" Songs heard at the soundcheck: "Spanish Castle Magic" (Rusty doing a Jimi Hendrix vocal - singing "Spanish 'Girls' (are) Magic" Paul was not onstage at the time) "India," "Coming Up" (included a break playing the Peter Gunn theme), "Volare," "Honey Don't," "Matchbox," Instrumental jam, "Celebration" (ragtime version), "C Moon," "Things We Said Today," "Midnight Special," "Here, There and Everywhere," "Blackbird" (speeded up version) "San Francisco Bay Blues," Jam, "You Never Give Me Your Money," (with nonsense lyrics "...you break down for the last time on this tour.") and "Lady Madonna." Before the show Paul presented the two millionth fan to buy a ticket, 19-year-old Laura Andrew from Bebbington, a red £17,000 ($27,800) Volkswagen Beetle Cabriolet. Outside a vendor was selling disposable cameras even though a large sign at the entrance of the Kings Dock forbid cameras. Surprisingly point and shoot cameras were allowed in at some gates but concertgoers with cameras were ejected if caught. Many with video cameras were tossed out of the show. Ticket touts (scalpers) were selling £30 ($50) tickets for £100 ($165) and there were tents outside selling food (meat!) and tour merchandise. Spotted in the audience were Peter Blake, Scottish soccer star Kenny Dalglish (backstage), Roger Taylor Queen drummer (backstage), singer Bonnie Tyler, Frank Skinner, and Liverpool local pop singer, Ian McNabb. The balcolnies of apartments behind stage right were packed with people who danced and cheered. Hundreds lined streets around the Kings Dock to hear the concert. The concert started late around 8:20pm to a packed stadium of 35,000. The pre-show performers walked through the crowds. Paul came emerged doing a limbo under the giant screen silhouette of himself. He seemed nervous. His voice faltered right at the beginning of "Hello Goodbye," but the vocal near misses remained few for this 92nd show of the world tour. At the end of the song when Paul sang "hey now, hey helloah," there were a sea of people pumping their fists and Macca nodded in approval. After "All My Loving" Paul said, "Oh Liverpool. It's good to be home and we have come to ROCK you." He said, "Ooh Liverpool" quite a few times during the show. After "Let Me Roll It," Paul told the story of staying over at John and Stu's flat his first time away from home, "just up the road here in Gambier Terrace." He said he'd stay up most of the night and would wake up with "eyes burning after doing too much of everything." John leaned out of bed and put this Johnny Burnette song on his old Dansette record player. With that Paul ripped into "Honey Hush." A light rain began to fall (which stopped later) when Paul introduced Abe and Paul said to Abe touchingly, "I'm going to miss you man." When Paul introduced "Your Loving Flame " he said, "I'd like to dedicate this next song to someone very special in the audience, my beautiful wife, Heather. "You just might have heard we had some very good news recently. This one's for you babe." Heather came in just before the show started and was sitting in the front of the pit barrier at stage right. She wore a black suit (combat type) with sleeveless jacket and high heels. After the first couple of songs she moved to the middle right in front of Paul (which allowed him to make eyes at her all night!). When it started raining she put on a hat and covered her legs with a plastic trash bag. She left the pit and went backstage for about 30 minutes around the middle of the show. During the show she sat smiling at Paul and seemed to particularly enjoy "Birthday." She left at last encore.
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Post by Dr Winston on Jun 24, 2004 8:35:16 GMT 1
Liverpool. Part 2.
Paul still did not sing the correct words to "You Never Give Me Your Money." Then Paul told the usual "massage" stories. "I'm going around telling this...well I have been until tonight, so I'll stop. Or maybe not!"
After "The Fool On The Hill" he said, "Thank You! Yeah, Ok, how you doing, all right? I mean, I you know it's the last night of the tour and everything but to be here the banks of the river Mersey with you lot is something special."
Paul mentioned during the intro to "Here Today, "I wrote this next song after my dear John passed away." [crowd screams] Paul yells, "LET'S HEAR IT FOR JOHN!" The crowd continued to cheer for about a minute. He started the song and while looking at a sign that read, "John loves you" he lost his concentration and the flubbed chords. Paul was emotional during the tributes and seemed nervous.
Paul dedicated "Something" to George and told the story about George Formby. "I don't know if you know that George was seriously good ukulele player. He was such a good player, he's a big fan of George Formby. You know, we go to America and say 'a big fan of George Formby'..." and there's one person in the back who knows who he is." Then he said, he played the song on the ukulele for George, "And I'd like to play it for you tonight on this special night as a special tribute to George." The crowd of 35,000 sang along.
After the song he said he said, "George hears me doing it and says, 'no it's not like that, it's like this!'" Then Paul played the fast version of the song to the cheering crowd.
Paul said, "There's someone in the front saying 'WHAT ABOUT RINGO?'" Then he led the audience in a brief singalong of "Yellow Submarine." "We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, a yellow submarine..." He ended the singalong with a cutting gesture. Behind Paul on the screen was a photo of the Yellow Submarine that is near the Albert Dock. Paul said about the song, "...I told Ringo that would happened at the shows and he rather liked hearing that."
He said it was great to back in Liverpool several times during the show.
He mentioned that there were a lot of people from all over the world at this concert.
On "Eleanor Rigby" he messed up the lyrics. Instead of singing, "where do they all they belong" he sang "where do they all come from?" He sang it wrong twice not realizing it.
Paul mentioned reading signs in the audience and read them out loud. "We've got some strange ones here tonight...there's one over here, 'Greetings from Hamburg! Looking forward to the new album.'" Paul feigned annoyance and said to the sign holder, "I'm working on the lyrics! Get off!" Then he noticed another sign and told the cameraman to focus on it. It was projected on the screen and brought cheers and laughter. Paul pointed and said, "And look at this over here," and proceeded to read the sign (with a smirk) which alluded to his baby making ability, "There's still lead in your pencil Paul!"
Rusty took a photo of the audience and told people to squeeze in together.
The audience chanted a variation of a football cheer (Three Lions) throughout the show, "He's coming home, he's coming home, Macca's coming home."
Wix said, "Paul keeps telling me Liverpool is the REAL capitol of Ireland. We recently played Dublin and I brought back a souvenir," and he put on the large Guinness hat. He introduced "She's Leaving Home" as "always being a reminder of the special time we had on this tour."
Brian said, "It's significant for us to play in Paul's hometown, Liverpaul. I couldn't resist that one! You raised a great guy. I hope I don't get in trouble for saying this."
After doing "Back in the USSR" Paul said, "I've recently had the pleasure of doing that one for the first time in the USSR -- the audience was great but you are even better!"
Just before his intro to "Let 'Em In," he remembered that he forgot to mention his brother Mike who had provided photos for the video screens during "Something." He said, "For the song 'Something' those photos were taken by 'our kid' Mike who is here tonight. There's a lot of family here and this song talks about people." Then he launched into "Let 'Em In" and mentioned new relatives in the song (who were most likely sitting in the audience), Uncle Harry, Uncle Albert and Auntie Dill. The audience clapped along with the song which pleased Paul.
Right before "My Love" Paul said, "Just wanna do a big special welcome to all the people from our family here tonight--hey, Our Kid, everybody! Love ya! I do want to take this opportunity as along as we're sitting by the Mersey just to say to each and every one of you--I DO love you!" (audience cheers) Paul seemed almost in tears. "Eh, eh, calm down! I wrote this song for Linda and now it's for all the lovers in the audience."
During "Two of Us" he sang, "I and I have memories" instead of "You and I..." He looked at Wix with a look of "I screwed up." At the end of the song he sang "all roads lead to Liverpool."
After "Two of Us" Paul did a country & western version of "Maggie Mae" which he said was done especially for Liverpool. "We just chucked it in for tonight." He did almost the entire song, minus the final verse and behind him video screens showed landmarks of Liverpool. The crowd went wild. After the song Paul said, "Calm down, calm, down!"
For "Birthday" he said,"I'd like to dedicate this song to anyone who is celebrating a birthday including my my cousin Mike--Mike Robbins, Mark Featherstone-Witty and Mr. Wickens who are all turning 80!"
During "Let It Be" the crew and pre-show performers gathered in the photo pit and lit colored lanterns. Paul called them "Little fairies with their lanterns."He was very emotional and said that it was the best gig he's ever done and that he couldn't find the words to express himself. He told the tour entourage,"I know it's sad to say goodbye, but we'll see each other soon, don't worry."
Paul sang the entire "Baby Face" fakeout to the beginning of "Hey Jude." He flubbed a line in "Hey Jude" saying "Remember to let her into your skin" instead of "Remember to let her into your heart." He looked around with an expression like "what did I just say?"
There were heart placards on the seats and being passed out in the crowd. Fans held them up during the "nah, nah nahs" of "Hey Jude." Paul was choked-up and teary-eyed. He said, "Oh...What are you doing to me?" Paul worked into the song's ending, "And our hearts go out to you too! Oh yeah, I don't know what to say now. Thank you, thank you!" He sang "I love you" over and over until the last chord.
When Paul left the stage for the encore the audience continued to sing the "nah, nah, nahs." The crew and pre-show people came out again and filled the pit and heart placards were passed out to the fans in front of the stage. During "The Long and Winding Road" everyone held up the red heart placards which read "Home is where the heart is...Liverpool 1st June 2003."
After the song he said, "For me, born in Walton Hospital just up the road here, it isn't a long way. But you know, in a way it is."
For the encore, People threw flowers, and stuffed animals on to the stage. Paul and the band leaped around doing the "monkey dance" dragging their knuckles and screaming like chimps before they left the stage after "Hey Jude." They also did that for the second encore after "I Saw Her Standing There" with Paul leaping higher than before acting like a chimp and dragging Abe along by the hand. Paul took the opportunity to introduce John Hammel his long-time personal assistant who nearly missed catching Paul's Hofner in the bass toss after "I Saw Her Standing There."
During the encore stage right seemed to turn into a makeshift dance floor with the crew and St. John's ambulance staff dancing their hearts out. Female staffers were visibly crying near the end and consoling each other.
Paul played "I Lost My Little Girl" right before "Yesterday." "When I was fourteen I wrote my first song just down the road at Forthlin Road and for some reason I have an uncontrollable urge to do it for you tonight...and I'm not so sure this is a good
idea!" He started the song and messed up the chords. "Wait! How does it go? I've forgotten it! No wait, I haven't...hang on!" and started over. Paul prompted the audience to singalong to the "uh-uh-uhs" in the song but the majority of people didn't know the song.
For "Yesterday," the 35,000 strong crowd sang along. Paul stopped singing and let the audience sing, "Why she had to go..." and waved his arms around conducting them like a choir.
Just before he played "Sgt. Pepper's/The End" Paul said, "We've been taking this tour 'round the world...I had to bring it home..." He thanked the crew, "Pab from Crosby" and the band, "Tonight more than any other I want to thank these mates of mine, these friends, my fantastic band!" He hugged each member. He thanked the audience, "Thanks from the hearts of our bottoms." (got a good laugh) and said, "Well, this the last night and I'm going to stop." Then he paused and said, "Maybe not. So see you on the next tour! Then he launched into "Sgt. Pepper/The End" which had an extended jam. At the end of the song he raised his arm pointing upwards and sang "Oh, yeah, oh yeah" several times.
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Post by Dr Winston on Jun 24, 2004 8:35:44 GMT 1
Liverpool. Part 3.
The pre-show performers came out wearing each other's costumes. It took Paul time to notice, but when he did he started laughing and shouted "Hey, you're all in drag! You look good in drag!" There were more hugs and a "monkey dance" by Paul and the band members. Paul said, "See ya next time!" and punched the air a few times as he lingered on the stage. Paul held up a white stuffed animal (rabbit) which he showed to the video cameras before he left the stage. Then fireworks were shot into the night sky. He left immediately in a people carrier to his dressing room and to an 'after party' that took place backstage. Paul and Heather left just around 1:30 am! Paul rolled down the window of his car and waved to the fans still hanging out. The party continued at the Pan American Bar at the Albert Dock for the band and the crew.
Text messages:
"Paul check your limo, it's probably on blocks!" "Any one here from the council? Oh yeah, all of you!" "They'll never find me here--Saddam." "John lennon lives forever," "All right, all right ,come'ed soft lad," "Is this the dole queue?" "I'm still alive--Brian Epstein," "Invite us to the christening," "You're the best Beatle, love Alice, age 5," "!@#$%^&*()>:!-- Stevie Wonder," "You are all buggered if it rains." "I've forgotten my incontinence pads." "Vickie smells." "Jenny stinks." "All the girls who love Paul get yer boobs out!"
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Post by TheWalrus on Jun 26, 2004 12:54:13 GMT 1
I wonder what he'll play at Glastonbury tonight? Anyone going? TheWalrus  |
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Post by Dr Winston on Jun 28, 2004 11:16:58 GMT 1
26th June, 2004. Glastonbury, England.
PAUL McCARTNEY paid a moving tribute to JOHN LENNON and GEORGE HARRISON during a Greatest Hits set at the GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL.
The 62 year-old rock legend, playing his first ever UK festival, had a packed Pyramid Stage enthralled with a two-hour gig that had the 80,000 crowd singing along passionately to every word.
During the set, an emotional Paul said sometimes people don’t take the opportunity to say their real feelings before someone passes away, before talking about his old bandmate John Lennon. At the mere mention of his name, the crowd erupted into mass applause.
McCartney then played his solo song ’Here Today’, inspired by Lennon, before covering George Harrison’s ’All Things Must Pass’.
The crowd then started singing ’Yellow Submarine’, originally sung by Ringo Starr, to complete the Beatles tribute.
Sir Paul recently played his 3,000th live show, but had never played a UK festival with the Beatles, Wings or solo. He was originally due to play last year on the same slot, but because Radiohead were already booked, he had to wait 12 months for his chance.
Among the Beatles classics played were ’Yesterday’, 'Got To Get You Into My Life’, ’We Can Work It Out’ and ’Blackbird’. But the highlight was when he led the massive crowd through a mass singalong to ’Hey Jude’ and ’Helter Skelter’.
He also ran through Wings and solo classics including the James Bond theme ’Live And Let Die’, backed by a theatrical firework and pyrotechnics display.
The setlist ran:
'Jet'
'Got To Get You Into My Life'
'Flaming Pie'
'All My Loving'
'Let Me Roll It'
'She's A Woman'
'Maybe I'm Amazed'
'The Long And Winding Road'
'In Spite Of All The Danger'
'Blackbird'
'We Can Work It Out'
'Here Today'
'All Things Must Pass'
'Yellow Submarine'
'I'll Follow The Sun'
'Calico Skies'
'Eleanor Rigby'
'Drive My Car'
'Penny Lane'
'Get Back'
'Band On The Run'
'Back In The USSR'
'Live And Let Die'
'I've Got A Feeling'
'Lady Madonna'
'Hey Jude'
'Yesterday'
'Any Destination' (Follow Me)
'Let It Be'
'I Saw Her Standing There'
'Helter Skelter'
'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' / 'The End'
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Post by Dr Winston on Jun 29, 2004 13:28:54 GMT 1
GLASTONBURY - Part 2
By Tom Bishop
Sir Paul McCartney declared: "It's great to be here in Glastonbury finally," as he launched into his festival headline set on Saturday. The veteran star played an extensive two-and-a-half hour set of Beatles hits, solo songs and Wings tunes to a mixed crowd of muddy revellers.
His purple suit and red shirt were plain in comparison to the Spice Girls dress and furry tail worn earlier by Glastonbury performers PJ Harvey and Alison Goldfrapp respectively.
But Sir Paul has an unrivalled pop history to leaf through, and sing-alongs Penny Lane, Lady Madonna and Yellow Submarine kept most of the rain at bay.
Younger festival goers showed a healthy disrespect for Sir Paul, in the same way that the Beatles once poked fun at authority.
Yet no amount of heckling could persuade him to perform A Hard Day's Night or The Frog Chorus, and shouts of "boring" did nothing to silence Sir Paul's drawn-out Beatles anecdotes.
Whipping off his jacket, there was a touch of Tony Blair about his attempts to speak to the Glastonbury crowd in a language they would understand.
"Standing in the conference of ley lines we are buzzing," he said, prompting further sniggers by adopting rasta and Scouse accents, using the words "groovy" and "cool" and declaring: "We are digging it!"
The Glastonbury gig was the final date on Sir Paul's extensive world tour, and his performance was as smooth and well-rehearsed as his tribute to his late Beatles bandmates.
"Let's hear it for Johnny!" he shouted to huge cheers, then "let's hear it for Georgie!"
But before their wellies could stick in the mud of nostalgia, revellers were persuaded to dance to storming renditions of All My Loving, I Saw Her Standing There, Live and Let Die and Get Back.
One finale rolled into another, but a world-conquering Hey Jude inspired the greatest number of campsite sing-along.
As a man with a pretend pigeon on top of a stick led the crowd back to their tents, one beaming reveller said to her boyfriend: "What a Saturday night - a night with Paul."
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