5/18/2023 0 Comments Paul mccartney tour![]() Later the most emotional moment of the night took place, leaving more than a few of the gathered mass wiping tears. This moment, like so many others during this performance, made this vast stadium performance among tens of thousands of fans somehow seem like the most intimate, personal, and touching performance one could possibly take in. As he performed "Something," McCartney found an opportunity each time he did not have to sing to turn around and take in the parade of photos projected behind him. ![]() Just as McCartney showed his deep love for John Lennon, he showed equal love and poignant affection for Harrison. He then went into a beautiful and re-imagined version of the Harrison classic, "Something." Fantastic images of George as well as the two of them as young men played on the center screen behind the band. One day he told George that he had learned one of George's songs to George's delight, and they loved playing it together. Paul had a Gibson ukulele that George had gifted him, and he talked about how they would get together and play together as younger men. Later on McCartney brought out a ukulele and told the story of how great a ukulele player George Harrison was. At this point, the performance started to show heartfelt and raw emotion. So he played a song he wrote for John shortly after he died, "Here Today." This was a truly poignant song that spoke for the deep love that Paul had for John and was all that he wished he could say in person. He said back in those days you really didn't think to tell people just how you felt about them, and he never got the chance to tell that to John in so many words. Completing that song Paul talked about John Lennon, his boyhood best friend and writing partner that changed the world with him. ![]() He proceeded to play "Blackbird" while that platform rose a couple dozen feet into the air and the screens that adorned so many spots on and along the side of the stage showed beautifully designed visual animations. The show really started to launch into another world when Sir Paul stepped to the very front of the stage on a separate platform with just his acoustic guitar. McCartney worked through a fabulous mix of Beatles songs and solo works, new and old for nearly three hours. McCartney was honored with a Knightship in 1997.Opening with "Can't Buy Me Love," followed by "Junior's Farm," the band shot out of the gate on fire. Other notable albums of his solo career are 1982's Tug of War (recorded with famed Beatles producer George Martin), his 1984 soundtrack for the film Give My Regards to Broad Street (which he also directed), and 1989's Flowers in the Dirt, and 1997's Flaming Pie. In the '90s, he expanded his already impressive musical repertoire by composing two albums of classical works ( Standing Stone and Working Classical) recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra and, in the same decade, released an album of ambient, techno music under the pseudonym The Firemen. Memorable collaborative songs were also produced in the '80s-"Say Say Say" and "The Girl is Mine" with Michael Jackson, and "Ebony and Ivory" with Stevie Wonder. Hit songs for the band include "Live and Let Die," "Band on the Run," "Jet," and "Silly Love Songs." McCartney proved, in the '80s, that his popularity with the public was still as strong as ever by embarking on a highly successful solo tour. Charts for four weeks and went triple platinum. Wings' most successful and highly acclaimed album, Band on the Run, stayed at the top of the U.S. In 1971 (within one year after the break-up of the Fab Four), McCartney formed the rock band Wings which would go on to produce numerous hit singles and enjoy strong album and ticket sales during the decade of its existence. Paul McCartney has been anything but idle during his post-Beatle years.
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