#Paul mccartney george harrison series

McCartney played his iconic fiddle-shaped Höfner bass - but also electric and acoustic guitar, mandolin, and both upright and baby-grand pianos. McCartney, keyboardist Paul “Wix” Wickens, drummer Abe Laboriel Jr., guitarist Rusty Anderson, and guitarist-bassist Brian Ray, opened with the early Beatles hit “Can’t Buy Me Love” and a heavy take on Wings’ riff rocker “Junior’s Farm.” The Hot City Horns (saxophonist Kenji Fenton, trumpeter Mike Davis, and trombonist Paul Burton) joined for Wings’ “Letting Go,” and lent tight and tasteful brass harmony across the night.

The show was one long set of Beatles, Wings, and McCartney tunes - and plenty of storytelling. In a small-city warmup in Spokane, Washington, a delighted McCartney led his tight band through a smorgasbord of Beatles, Wings, and solo classics - including portions of the famed Side Two medley from Abbey Road and some surprise vocals from the late John Lennon.

Paul McCartney, Kendrick Lamar Set to Headline Glastonbury Paul McCartney Pays Tribute to 'True Rock & Roll Hero' Taylor Hawkins Paul McCartney's 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' Lyrics Can Be Yours for Around Half a Million So, it’s no coincidence that McCartney, two months shy of 80 and returning to the road for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic threw the world into a collective doldrum, is calling his tour Got Back. It’s his job to get the Beatles back to being the Beatles again. And McCartney, bearded and overflowing with song ideas - among them, the seeds of “Get Back” - becomes the group’s engine. The Beatles are in the dumps and just about done. There’s a sequence in Peter Jackson’s 2021 Beatles documentary, Get Back, when, on the fourth day of the tense writing-and-rehearsal marathon for a high-stakes live show and what would become the Fab Four’s final album, Let It Be, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr are sitting around griping that John Lennon is running late, as usual. Harrison returned to the Beatles after five days and the band recorded two more albums in 1969 - Let It Be and Abbey Road - before disbanding for good early the following year.220428_PM_Spokane_1139RT1A - Credit: © MPL Communications Ltd

#Paul mccartney george harrison series

The Peter Jackson-directed series looks at the making of The Beatles' Let It Be album, using audio and video recorded during the writing and recording of the album.Ī major turning point in the documentary involves Harrison walking out of rehearsals, briefly quitting the The Beatles over frustration with writing process and with his bandmates' insistence on sailing to Libya for a grand comeback performance.

The anniversary comes following the premiere of The Beatles: Get Back documentary series on Disney+ this past weekend.

'And I said, 'Well, I gotta go to Boston,' and he goes - they're the last words I heard him say, actually - and he said, 'Do you want me to come with ya?' So that's the incredible side of George.' 'I was going back to Boston, 'cause my daughter had a brain tumor,' Starr said. In the 2011 Harrison documentary Living in the Material World, Ringo recalled his emotional final visit with George, which was in Switzerland where George was undergoing cancer treatment. 'Hard to believe that we lost George 20 years ago,' McCartney added early Monday. 'Peace and love to you George I miss you man,' Ringo wrote in a Tweet shared Sunday. Harrison passed away on November 29, 2001, at age 58 after a long battle with cancer. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr each shared poignant tributes to their late- Beatles bandmate and friend George Harrison to mark 20 years since his death.