Paul
McCartney Tickets and Information
Paul
Mcartney Set List 2005
I saw McCartney last night (9/26/05)
at the Fleet Center in Boston and here are the
tunes I remember he played (this is only a partial
list that's somewhat in the order he played
them):
Opened With Magical Mystery Tour
Fixing a Hole
I Will
Til There Was You
The Long and Winding Road
Penny Lane
Drive My Car
Eleanor Rigby
Please Please Me
Blackbird
Band on the Run
Live and Let Die
Something
She Came in Through The Bathroom Window
Get Back
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Hey Jude
Let It Be
I'll Follow The Sun
Good Day Sunshine
Yesterday
Helter Skelter
Sgt. Peppers reprise
The End
Paul also played a number of songs
from his new album, but I don't know the names
of them. The stage was unbelievably cool, with
lights embedded in the floor, there was no opening
act, and McCartney played for 3 hours straight,
one set. His backup band was fantastic and Paul
played piano (which came up through the floor
when needed), guitar, and of course bass. I
highly recommend seeing this legend live in
his 2005 US tour. |
Paul McCartney Solo
Career Information
Early solo career
As the Beatles broke up in 1970, Paul immediately
launched a solo career with his album MCartney, which
featured him playing all the instruments and singing
all vocals apart from some support from wife Linda
McCartney. While many found this record underwhelming
(including Lennon in an interview), it did contain
the superlative "Maybe I'm Amazed", which
has remained a centerpiece of McCartney's concerts
ever since. Another successful track was "Every
Night", which was later a hit for singer Phoebe
Snow.
McCartney followed this in 1971 with
the stand-alone single "Another Day", which
to some recalled the observational style of his mid-period
Beatles work. The album Ram, later in 1971, was credited
to both Paul and Linda, and featured back-up from,
for the most part, studio musicians. While both single
and album were commercially popular, many detractors
viewed them as largely insubstantial. The album also
contained a couple of apparent insults towards Lennon;
later that year Lennon responded with the famously
scathing attack song "How Do You Sleep?".
McCartney famously insisted that his
wife should be involved with his music — and
later tour in his bands so they did not have to be
apart while he travelled — in spite of her protests
that she was not talented enough. After hearing Linda
sing, many seconded her opinion, but Paul's move was
clearly a deliberate act, intended to help dispel
some of the lingering Beatles mystique and prove his
assertion that "anyone can do it". Despite
persistent attacks on her ability (including one notorious
1990s bootleg concert tape in which her out-of-tune
vocals were deliberately mixed to the fore), Linda
became a valuable member of McCartney's bands and
an inspiring musician throughout the remainder of
her life. (In many ways this paralleled the role that
Yoko Ono played in Lennon's post-Beatles musical life,
just as there would be organizational similarities
between Wings and Lennon's Plastic Ono Band).
McCartney & Wings
Briefly, after an uneven start and despite
many personnel changes, Wings became one of the most
successful 1970s rock bands, hitting its artistic
apex in late 1973 with the Band on the Run album and
its commercial apex in 1976 with a wildly popular
world tour.
Pauls' later solo career
In 1980, as Wings came to an end, McCartney
made international headlines when he was arrested
for possession of marijuana in Japan and he spent
nine days in prison there before being deported. Since
that time he has reportedly stopped using all drugs,
although it is generally believed that he used marijuana
consistently throughout the late Sixties and Seventies.
Despite the devastating blow of the
murder of John Lennon later that year, McCartney enjoyed
continued success in the early 80s. His 1982 album
Tug Of War was a major success and in the same year
he scored two huge hits with duet singles—"Ebony
and Ivory", recorded with soul legend Stevie
Wonder, and "The Girl Is Mine", recorded
with emerging pop megastar Michael Jackson. Another
successful McCartney-Jackson duet, "Say, Say,
Say" was released in 1983.
McCartney's friendship with Jackson
was shortlived, however. Not long afterwards, Jackson
paid a huge sum to acquire the Northern Songs catalogue,
which included the publishing rights to most of the
Beatles' songs. Although McCartney subsequently approached
Jackson hoping to negotiate an increase in his royalty
rate, he was turned down.
In the mid-1980s, while making a home
movie reminiscing about his days as a schoolboy, McCartney
discovered the 1825 building which had once been his
old school was derelict. He purchased it, and pursued
a dream he had always had of helping his home town
of Liverpool in some way. January 1996 saw the dedication
of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, of
which Paul is the lead patron. On June 7th 1996 Her
Majesty the Queen officially opened the building.
In the late 1980s McCartney began a
songwriting partnership with Elvis Costello, with
the resulting songs appearing on several albums by
both artists. The best known of these is McCartney's
modest 1989 hit "My Brave Face", from his
album Flowers in the Dirt.
During 1989-1990 McCartney staged a
major, year-long world tour, in which for the first
time he included a substantial number of Beatles songs
in the set list. The tour was a big success, filling
arenas and stadiums at each stop. A similarly-scaled
tour took place in 1993.
In the 1990s MCartney was involved in
a feud with John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono. Their dispute
centred around the writing credits for a number of
Beatles songs. He had wanted to change the credits
for some songs from the traditional 'Lennon-McCartney'
to 'Paul McCartney and John Lennon'. Yoko Ono was
personally offended by this move which she felt broke
an agreement that the two had made while Lennon was
still alive to credit songs as a team. The two other
Beatles agreed that the credits should remain as they
always had been and McCartney withdrew his request.
Paul's Achievements and world
records
Appears in the Guinness Book of Records
several times.
"Yesterday" listed as the most covered song
in history with over 3000 existing versions
The most successful popular-music composer and recording
artist ever with sales of 100 million singles and
60 gold discs
The largest stadium audience in history when 184,000
paid to see him perform at Maracanã Stadium
in Rio de Janeiro in April 1990
The fastest ticket sales in history, which took place
in 1993 when 20,000 tickets for 2 shows in Sydney,
Australia sold out in eight minutes
The only artist to have UK number one singles as a
soloist ("Pipes of Peace"), and part of
a duo ("Ebony and Ivory" with Stevie Wonder),
trio ("Mull of Kintyre" with Wings), quartet
("She Loves You", among many others, with
The Beatles), quintet ("Get Back" The Beatles
with Billy Preston) and sextet ("Let It Be"
Ferry Aid). He was also a member of charity ensemble
Band Aid which had a UK number one with Do They Know
It's Christmas?
"Yesterday" was confirmed as world's most
popular song with over 6,000,000 airplays in the USA
alone.
Received an honorary Doctorate of Music from the University
of Sussex.
The first rock musician ever to receive Chile's Order
of Merit for "services to music, peace, and human
understanding".
First recipient of the Swedish Polar Music Prize ("Nobel
prize for music").
1998 Winner of Lifetime Achievement Award. From PETA,
according to another website.
Between his work with the Beatles and as a solo artist
and leader of Wings, McCartney has written or co-written
more than 50 Top Ten singles. When combined with the
Beatles' 49 Top 40 U.S. singles, it is a matter of
statistical fact that Paul McCartney is the most successful
pop-music composer ever and the second greatest hitmaker,
behind Elvis Presley.
Is the richest rockstar in the world, with a personal
fortune of £762 million in 2004.
Was actually the only Beatle to graduate from Britain's
equivalent of high-school; he majored in Art.
Made an honorary detective by NY Police.
The only Beatle to ever have been nominated for an
Academy Award in his own right.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999
(as a solo artist). \
All text is available under the terms
of the GNU Free
Documentation License (see Copyrights for details).
