Paul McCartney serves up surprise show in Liverpool pub
Rock star returns to home city for appearance on Carpool
Karaoke with James Corden
Alexandra Topping
Fri 22 Jun 2018 18.42 BST Last modified on Fri 22 Jun 2018
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As homecoming gigs for one of the world’s biggest rock stars
go, it was fairly low key: a small band on a slightly bigger stage in a local
pub.
But for the drinkers who just happened to be in the
Philharmonic Dining Rooms in Liverpool, seeing Sir Paul McCartney perform was
probably the best gig of their lives.
There was amazement, dancing and more than a few tears when
one of Liverpool’s most celebrated sons returned for his appearance on The Late
Late Show’s Carpool Karaoke with James Corden on Tuesday.
McCartney performed a piano rendition of When I’m Sixty-Four
as he revisited his childhood home, showing Corden the back room where he wrote
songs with fellow Beatle John Lennon. Walking upstairs in the small terrace, he
showed off his old “acoustic chamber” – the toilet where he would sit, strum
and sing for hours.
Describing how he and Lennon had played She Loves You to his
father, McCartney recalls him asking if they could change the refrain to “yes,
yes, yes” because there were already too many Americanisms in common use. “We
did not heed his advice. Had we have done, who knows what could have happened,”
he said.
Tweeting a link to the episode, Corden wrote: “Ok, so here
it is. Quite possibly the best #CarpoolKaraoke we’ve done so far. I hope you
like it. I’ll never ever forget it. Take a breath and jump in.”
James Corden
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@JKCorden
Ok, so here it is.
Quite possibly the best #CarpoolKaraoke we’ve done so far. I hope you like it.
I’ll never ever forget it. Take a breath and jump in
https://youtu.be/QjvzCTqkBDQ x
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The pair started the show singing the Beatles hit Drive My
Car, while cruising through the city, replacing the song’s “beep beeps” with
honks of the horn. On Penny Lane, they popped into a barber shop – which had a
picture on the wall of a much younger McCartney getting his hair cut – much to
the delight of the hairdresser.
Corden became emotional as the pair sang Let It Be in the
car. “I can remember my granddad, who’s a musician, and my dad sitting me down
and saying, ‘We’re going to play you the best song you’ve ever heard’. And I
remember them playing me that. If my granddad was here right now, he’d get an
absolute kick out of this,” Corden said. “That’s the power of music,” McCartney
replied.
McCartney harmonised with Corden singing Blackbird and his
new single Come On to Me from the album Egypt Station.
But the 18-time Grammy award winner saved the best
performance until last, when he appeared from behind a curtain in the Liverpool
Philharmonic Dining Rooms, or “the Phil”, where he had played and occasionally
drunk as a young man.
Within seconds, the small crowd was on its feet, and more
poured through the door as word spread, as he performed A Hard Day’s Night,
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Love Me Do, Back in the USSR and Hey Jude.
The star said the journey back to his childhood home had
made him reflect on the trajectory of his life. “The distance from here to
where we went, and where we are now is phenomenal.”
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