viernes, 31 de octubre de 2014

Paul McCartney at the Greensboro Coliseum : October 30, 2014,

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Paul McCartney autographs woman’s foot (and other Greensboro concert highlights)
Mark Sutter
Editor-Triad Business Journal
Oct 31, 2014

Sir Paul McCartney said it was "a first."
"And a last," he added.
But there he was, on the stage of the Greensboro Coliseum, autographing the foot of a woman he had earlier spotted in the audience holding up a sign that read, "Trick or Treat, Sign My Feet."
McCartney joked about the apparently Halloween-themed sign a couple times during his sold out Greensboro performance, then surprised the audience during an encore by bringing up the woman, who identified herself as "Nina," for a signing, which he said he had more or less "promised."
McCartney first sprayed Nina's foot with water or some sort of cleaner and wiped it off with a towel, coyly looking at the audience and shrugging as if to say, "Hey, whatya gonna do? It has to be done."
Then sign it he did. The remaining question: will Nina ever wash her foot again?
Other highlights from the show:
- McCartney paid tribute to two of his Beatle bandmates, both now deceased. He played the heartbreaking "Here Today" in honor of John Lennon, which he wrote soon after Lennon was killed. Before playing it, McCartney talked about the importance of telling people how you feel about them because you never know if you'll get another chance.
He also played the George Harrison composition "Something," - first on a ukulele, and then a powerful full-band version. He talked about going to school with Harrison as kids. McCartney got on the school bus one stop before Harrison and they eventually began sitting together and talking about music.
- The show itself was a special effects spectacular, with an endless variety of photos and effects appearing on the video screens behind McCartney, an elevating stage, and lighting and lasers in every color of the rainbow. But the special effects highlight was undoubtably "Live and Let Die," the James Bond theme McCartney composed. The stage exploded with flames and sparks flying everywhere. The pure heat of it all could be felt by audience members far from the stage.
- There was a delay getting into the arena around the entrance to sections 109-11. Louis DeJoy, head of New Breed Logistics, could be seen waiting there too. Soon the reason became apparent: Gov. Pat McCrory was escorted in. New Breed has a private suite near those sections.
- McCartney and his band played a short instrumental snippet of Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady." Afterward, he told a short story about being friends with Hendrix and how after the Beatles released their landmark "Sgt. Pepper" album on a Friday, Hendrix opened a London concert just two days later with the title track. Unfortunately, he also knocked his guitar way out of tune in the process and McCartney chuckled as he recalled Hendrix searching the audience for another rock legend, Eric Clapton, in hopes that Clapton might help him tune the instrument.
- There was at least one glitch during the performance, but McCartney handled it with grace and humor. At one point there was a loud humming in the arena. "You probably think this is part of the show," McCartney told the audience as he and the band waited it out. "It's not." The noise sounded like it was perhaps the coliseum's air conditioning unit cranking up. The noise was stopped after a few minutes.

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An audience member who identified herself as "Nina," prepares to get her foot signed as Paul McCartney, towel in hand, prepares to wipe it off first.

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Flames and smoke abound as McCartney and his band play "Live and Let Die," his James Bond theme. McCartney can be see at the piano in the middle of the frame with three balls of flame behind him, as well as on a large video screen just to the right.

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Paul McCartney plays "Lady Madonna" as photos of glamorous female icons, such as Elizabeth Taylor (pictured) flash on the screen behind him. McCartney can be seen center stage at a colorfully painted piano, as well as in the larger image projected on a video screen to his right.


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Paul McCartney at the Greensboro Coliseum
Owen Covington
Reporter-Triad Business Journal
Oct 31, 2014, 

The Greensboro Coliseum Complex called it a "historic event" when they announced Paul McCartney had added Greensboro to his "Out There" world tour earlier this year.
Boy, they weren't kidding.

The sold-out show that included extra promotion and amenities for the British rock legend and his fans became the highest-grossing for the Greensboro Coliseum Complex, and generated plenty of buzz before the boy from Liverpool took the stage Thursday night.
That included a near-Paul McCartney strolling Elm Street in the days leading up to the show, massive banners and billboards welcoming Sir Paul to town and the last-hour release of extra tickets for the show.

Photographer Julie Knight with the Triad Business Journal was there to capture the action and the excitement as one of the biggest names in rock history took the stage.

PHOTOS BY : Julie Knight

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Paul McCartney performs for a sold out crowd at the Greensboro Coliseum on Thursday, October 30, 2014.

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A packed house at the Greensboro Coliseum awaits the arrival of Paul McCartney.

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Paul McCartney performs for a sold out crowd at the Greensboro Coliseum on Thursday, October 30, 2014.

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This scene is from the opening number, "Magical Mystery Tour."

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Paul McCartney performs for a sold out crowd at the Greensboro Coliseum on Thursday, October 30, 2014.

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Paul McCartney performs with Rusty Anderson (left), and Brian Ray with Abe Laboriel, Jr. on drums.

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Paul McCartney sings "Yesterday" during a second encore at Greensboro Coliseum Thursday, Oct. 30






Pitbull recruits Paul McCartney and Michelle Obama for new TV show

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Pitbull recruits Paul McCartney and Michelle Obama for new TV show
Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett and basketball player Kobe Bryant will also appear on 'The Real Change Project'
By Luke Morgan Britton
October 30, 2014

Pitbull recruits Paul McCartney and Michelle Obama for new TV show
Photo: Getty

Pitbull is working on two new TV shows, with Michelle Obama and Paul McCartney set to appear on one of them.

The rapper is reportedly working on one venture called The Real Change Project, which sees him interview high-profile figures in the world of music, sport and politics. The likes of McCartney, Obama, Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett and basketball player Kobe Bryant have all been confirmed so far, reports The Guardian, with live performances also promised.



Deadline report that Pitbull is also working on Pitbull: The Lyfe, a reality TV show following "his world tour, recording sessions, and his life behind the scenes".

Pitbull, whose real name is Armando Perez, has sold well over five million albums, with Number One hits in more than 15 countries. He recently teamed up with Jennifer Lopez for 'We Are One (Ole Ola)', the official anthem of the 2014 World Cup.

The rapper's single 'Timber' prompted controversy with its lyrics: "I have 'em like Miley Cyrus, clothes off/twerking in their bras and thongs." He also sings: "She say she won’t, but I bet she will."

Recently, BBC DJ Sara Cox said that hearing Pitbull on Radio 1 makes her "soul weep".


jueves, 30 de octubre de 2014

George Harrison: The notes you never hear

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George Harrison: The notes you never hear
By Vidette Editor and Gianna Annunzio
October 27, 2014

Dhani Harrison, son of former Beatle George Harrison, recently sparked conversation regarding his father’s guitar playing while rehearsing his song “Let It Down.”

The discussion began when one of Harrison’s band members overheard him playing his father’s solo, telling him he was playing the notes wrong.

According to Pitchfork’s website, Harrison said he was “doing my own solo, not the one in the song, and he couldn’t take it.” In a playful manner, Harrison decided to go back and figure out what was missing.

George’s guitar playing, within both the Beatles and his solo career, are nigh impossible to recreate. Dhani said because of this, in his early life, he tried not to learn his father’s songs.

Today, Dhani has moved past this defiance. Currently, his efforts to preserve and protect his father’s legacy are widely known.

If one ever hopes to encapsulate the guitar playing George Harrison once presented, your second-best window to his talents lives within Dhani.

“My father said to me, ‘I play the notes you never hear,’” Harrison said. George focused on touch and control, being sure he would not blow a solo due to hitting off notes or buzzing strings.

George’s lead guitar was never actually “leading,” in a sense. It was usually paired perfectly with background harmonies or a distant orchestra. His solos exhibited qualities of both lead and foreground tunes simultaneously.


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Exclusive 'Letting Go' Download

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OCT
28
2014

Exclusive 'Letting Go' Download

Exclusive 'Letting Go' Download
Next week will see the highly anticipated reissues of the remastered classic Wings albums Venus and Mars and At The Speed Of Sound, the latest additions to the GRAMMY award-winning Paul McCartney Archive Collection. Both albums will be reissued in a variety of physical and digital formats, including previously unreleased material on November 3rd (UK), and November 4th (US).
To celebrate, PaulMcCartney.com is giving you an exclusive extended and remastered version of ‘Letting Go’ to download, in association with 6Music. The track does not feature on the Venus and Mars reissue and is only available through Paul's website.
The track received its worldwide premiere this morning on Lauren Laverne's BBC 6Music show. 
To download the track, simply click HERE!

We also have a selection of downloadable colouring in images and GIFs (suitable for all ages!) This new download section of the website will be updated with more exclusive audio and fun stuff in the coming days and weeks, so make sure to keep checking back!



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Get out your pens and colour in Paul! This photo by Linda McCartney was illustrated by The Boy Fitz Hammond. Remember to share your image once you've finished colouring it in!

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Get out your pens and colour in Paul! This photo by Robert Ellis was illustrated by The Boy Fitz Hammond. Remember to share your image once you've finished colouring it in!

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miércoles, 29 de octubre de 2014

PAUL McCARTNEY IN LOUISVILLE : October 28 2014

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Paul McCartney rocks Louisville


Paul McCartney played the YUM Center on Tuesday October 28, 2014 in Louisville, Ky. Photos by Mark Cornelison | Staff HERALD-LEADER



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Sir Paul surpasses All– The Louisville Concert
by Ben Witherington
October 29, 2014

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The concert in Louisville was supposed to happen last June, but then Paul got sick. Pretty seriously sick. Worse still, Louisville was the last concert date on the tour— think no voice left, no energy left, especially when you are 73 years of age! You must kidding. Bear in mind that while Ringo is still out there doing concerts, of course Ringo did not write any of the classic Beatles songs, and sang lead only rarely, so if you really wanted to see a concert full of Beatles songs— Paul is the last man standing. No knock on Ringo, but his All Star Band does not produce many Beatles moments.
So when Oct. 28th rolled around, I was holding my cards close to my chest, not sure how this venture would turn out. Things began ominously with a 35 minute delay, but perhaps Paul was entertaining the VIP ticket buyers ($1,100 a pop and you get a meet and greet). But when we got going, boy did we get going—- 39 songs later we ran for the exits as Paul played a second round of encores beginning with Yesterday and then Helter Skelter…. It was already after 11 p.m. and the girls (Ann and Lisa Myers) had to go to work early on Wednesday. Fortunately we cruised right home and got there by 12.30ish. And we had shared a bucket list item to remember. The concert was amazing in so many ways (on which see below).
The Yum arena is some kind of massive Pittino dome with better acoustics than Freedom Hall, but not by a lot. But then, Paul needed a space to entertain close to 30,000 of his closest friends. Here we are……

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Then there was this— it was exactly 50 years ago this Fall that my previous incarnation as a 12 year old in High Point N.C. saw the Beatles on a black and white TV perform on the Ed Sullivan Show ‘Love me Do’ and ‘I Want to Hold your Hand’, and it was then that I looked at my Mom the pianist and said ‘I need a guitar’. With money from my first real job (ice cream dipper at the Guildford Dairy Bar) I remember buying my first Beatles albums. When I bought the White Album in 1968 it was a rip off because it had already been opened, and played, on their drugstore stereo, and yet the lady charged me full price. Oh well…. the music was great and the cover was…… welll….. White.
50 years is a long time to wait to see a Beatle, a really old Beatle, whose voice has a bit more quaver and less strength in the upper register than when he was much younger…. but remarkably,he still can pull it off. Here was the set list (more or less) from the website of what we heard….
Eight Days a Week
(The Beatles song)
Save Us
Listen to What the Man Said
(Wings song)
Let Me Roll It
(Wings song) (with “Foxy Lady” by Jimi Hendrix snippet)
Paperback Writer
(The Beatles song)
My Valentine
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five
(Wings song)
The Long and Winding Road
(The Beatles song)
Maybe I’m Amazed
I’ve Just Seen a Face
(The Beatles song)
We Can Work It Out
(The Beatles song)
Another Day
And I Love Her
(The Beatles song)
Blackbird
(The Beatles song)
Here Today
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Queenie Eye
Lady Madonna
(The Beatles song)
All Together Now
(The Beatles song)
Lovely Rita
(The Beatles song)
Everybody Out There
Eleanor Rigby
(The Beatles song)
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
(The Beatles song)
Something
(The Beatles song)
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
(The Beatles song)
Band on the Run
(Wings song)
Back in the U.S.S.R.
(The Beatles song)
Let It Be
(The Beatles song)
Live and Let Die
(Wings song)
Hey Jude
(The Beatles song)
Encore:
Day Tripper
(The Beatles song)
Get Back
(The Beatles song)
Encore 2:
Yesterday
(The Beatles song)
Helter Skelter
(and the band played on….)
It is not a stretch to say that Paul McCartney is the greatest popular song writer of the last half century, or perhaps the whole century. This is so not just because of the incredible success and sales of his materials (and re-recordings by a zillion other artists), but because of the continued quality of the songs. Paul is not simply caricaturing himself doing oldies. He has had some remarkable excellent albums in the last decade or so, notably the new CD ‘NEW’ and ‘Flaming Pie’. The man is a creative machine with endless catchy tuneful song ideas. ‘And we love him….’
Paul is personable has funny anecdotes to relate along the way, for example when he first met Jimi Hendrix in London, Jimi had gotten a copy of Sgt. Peppers on Friday when it came out, memorized the whole thing, and then played it in a concert on Sunday with Beatles and Eric Clapton in the audience! Amazing.
You will not hear any off color language come out of this man’s mouth, either in his songs or in his banter about his songs. He is good to his fans, and there was a sweet moment when he invited a mother and daughter with signs up on the stage for a hug. And he has such good humor as well…. he said “when you are in the middle of playing a song and concentrating and you see one of these signs, half your brain says— ‘don’t read the sign your concentrating on the song, and the other half say, oh… go ahead and read the sign’. There were several signs that said, “I waited 50 years to see you” ….. I could have held up that sign.
Paul also related when he first met perhaps the most famous person to ever come from Louisville, Muhammad Ali, in the 60s in Florida when he was training for the Sonny Liston fight. In a sense Paul is like a remarkable boxer, whom no one can knock out. He kept going round after round, song after song…. and then there was the light show….. and explosions… and fire works (especially with the Bond movie song ‘Live and Let Die’— which honestly should have been the grand finale considering the smoke etc. it put into the arena…). Here are some samples….

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And of course there was the astronomically priced memorabilia, T-shirts etc. (one T-shirt= $40!!).

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Inevitably one gets asked what was one’s favorite moment. I loved the story about the Beatles playing in Red Square in Moscow and the Defense Minister comes up and says ‘my first record I bought— ‘Love Me Do’, which of course introduced Paul’s singing ‘Back in the USSR’. I loved that he sang the ‘Birthday’ song from the White Album for his eleven year old daughter who apparently was present with his wife Nancy at the concert, and sang to all the other folks who had birthdays as well on Oct. 28th.
I loved it all, but the solo acoustic performance of ‘Blackbird’, a song Paul wrote in the 60s in response to the civil rights marches and riots in the South to support the movement, was very special…he stood on a platform that raises him up into the air with a stark tree image on the screen behind him. It was very effective….and affecting. He then quipped that wherever he goes, so many people tell him they have tried to learn how to play that song on the guitar. I plead guilty…. I learned it when I was still young, and still love to play it….

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There are images that will be seared into my brain for a long time to come…. of a man with dyed hair still looking fit, still singing and playing and creating… now singing to three generations of parents, children, grandchildren who all came to this concert. We will long remember where we were “when we saw him standing there….” both when we were “just 17, you know what I mean…” and ‘when we were 64….’
Thank you Paul for the blessing of using the creative gift God gave you, and being willing to so freely share it and bring so much joy and fun to millions for half a century and more now. As you sing on your new album knowing that the meter is running, “there but for the grace of God go I…..”. My hope would be that before you meet your Maker in eternity, you will meet your Maker in space and time. What kind of music might that inspire in you? It is a consummation devoutly to be wished…. But then perhaps you’ve already been thinking of such things :)