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Every year when December 8 rolls around it is a challenge as to how to observe the violent, senseless gun murder of John Lennon that day in 1980, to chronicle the worldwide psychic blow to a generation, while paying tribute to what John Lennon gave us as a lasting enduring legacy. Lennon’s mate-since-middleschool, Paul McCartney, […]
In early December 1965 The Beatles released the album Rubber Soul, highly significant because of a new approach to the LP (“long player”) as not just a collection of Top Forty singles. Rubber Soul contained “Norwegian Wood”, “In My Life”, George Harrison’s “If I Needed Someone”, “Michelle”, and it opened with “Drive My Car”. When […]
After listening to his songs with the Beatles for sixty-plus years, and playing his solo albums and Wings stuff on the radio/online for more than fifty, I felt that I was fairly literate in the compositions of Paul McCartney. So imagine my surprise and delight last night, only two performances into their previously unreleased and […]
Paul McCartney for “Flowers in the Dirt” 35th anniversary In the Studio with Redbeard !
The Beatles “White Album” 55th Anniversary: How can an album accomplish so much by embedding itself indelibly in popular culture, continuing to influence generations a half century after release, while on the surface revealing so little about its contents and its creators?
Paul McCartney’s performance in Hollywood record store Amoeba Records in 2007 is the stuff of rock legend…We figured McCartney’s performance of “Back in the USSR” that day would be an appropriate appetizer for the two-hour special we are featuring here In the Studio with Sir Paul to mark the fifty-fifth anniversary of the “White Album” on which the song originally appeared.
To get you primed for the upcoming Beatles “White Album” double-nickel anniversary interviews with the late George Harrison plus Paul McCartney, here is a live performance of “Blackbird” by Macca from 1991.
Confidence & poise to know that the audience is totally with Paul McCartney live so that “We Can Work It Out”.
Paul McCartney with me In The Studio remembering John Lennon on what would have been John’s 80th birthday .
-Redbeard
Paul McCartney performed one of my favorite setlists in a particularly spirited Lollapalooza appearance in Chicago Summer 2015, digging into the Wings catalog for this version of “Nineteen Eighty-Five”.