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Paul McCartney quotes and one-liners from his two Little Caesars Arena shows








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Paul McCartney quotes and one-liners from his two Little Caesars Arena shows
Story by Edward Pevos of MLive
Posted October 03, 2017

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Photo of McCartney in Detroit on 10/1/17 by Tanya Moutzalias of MLive

 As if three hours of The Beatles and Wings hits weren't enough from Paul McCartney, the living legend had one interesting or humorous quote after another. Sir Paul told the stories behind many of the nearly 40 songs he performed at each of his two shows at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on October 1st and 2nd, 2017.
Here are some of Sir Paul's most memorable quotes and one-liners.

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 "It's really great to be back in Detroit. "We're going to play some old stuff, some new stuff and some in-between stuff."

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Photo of McCartney in Detroit on 10/1/17 by Tanya Moutzalias of MLive

 "This is just so cool. I've got to take a minute here to drink it in for myself," Paul said right before going into his fourth song, "Jet."

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 "That is the only wardrobe change of the whole evening," as Paul took off his sport coat after performing the fifth song of the night, "All My Loving," before going into "Let Me Roll It."
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 After doing "Foxey Lady" for the outro of "Let Me Roll It." "That's a tribute to the late great Jimi Hendrix. I was very lucky to hang out with him in the 60s when he came to London because he kind of launched his career from London even though he was an American guy. I think the greatest tribute he ever paid us as a band was, after we released "Sgt. Pepper's" on a Friday night, he learned the opening track and opened his show with it two days later."
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 Introduction to "My Valentine." "I'd like to do this song now which is one I wrote for my wife Nancy, and she's in the audience with us here tonight."
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 "I wrote this next song for Linda," Paul said as he played "Maybe I'm Amazed."
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 "We love the signs. It's great you come along and hold them up. The thing is, you're up here and you're trying to remember your words and the chords and you're trying to concentrate and sing it good. In your mind you're saying to yourself "don't read the signs." So, if I get it wrong, I'm so blaming your signs."
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 Introduction to "In Spite of All the Danger." "We're going to take you back in time now. To a time in Liverpool before The Beatles when we were a group called The Quarrymen. We wanted to make our first demo record. Our very first recording ever. We found a little studio in Liverpool and we went there to record it. It cost 5 pounds. There were five of us in the group at the time. It was John, George, Me, Colin on drums and Druff on piano."
"The deal was, we'd each pay a pound and we'd keep it for a week each and then rotate it. John kept it for a week and gave it to George, he kept it for a week and gave it to me. I gave it to Colin, he kept for a week and Duff kept it for 20 years. Then he sold it back to me at a profit."
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 Introduction to "Love Me Do." "We're gonna dedicate this next song to the late great Beatles producer Sir George Martin. He was very important to use because he was the guy who first signed us to a record contract. Without him there would be no Beatles records."
"We got a contract and he invited us to come from Liverpool to London to Abby Road Studios. We were kids in our early 20s. We were pretty nervous. We were going to do "Love Me Do" for him. John had the "Love Me Do" line. Then he played the harmonica. But Martin wanted the harmonica wanted to come in on the one. John couldn't do two things at the same time so Martin turns to me and says Paul, would you mind singing the "Love Me Do" line. I said, uh, OK. I'm nervous already. Now I'm terrified. Even to this day when I hear the record I can still hear the nerves in my voice. But not tonight!"
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 After Paul asked people who were at the concert from Detroit, the Detroit area or somewhere completely different. "On behalf of the tourist board, we welcome you."
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 Introduction to "Blackbird." "Back in the 60s there were a lot of troubles going on over civil rights, in particularly in the southern states in the U.S. I wanted to try and write a song that if it got back to the people of Little Rock, Arkansas, Alabama... all those places, that it just might help them if they heard it with the struggles they were going through."
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 After playing "Blackbird." "One of the things I really like about having written that song is, as we go on tour people sometimes come up to me and say they tried to learn that song as a kid. How many people here tried to learn "Blackbird?" (cheers) And you all got it wrong."
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 Introducing "Here Today." This next song I wrote after my dear friend John died. This is in the form of a conversation that me and John never had."
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 Introducing "Queenie Eye." "We know which songs you like. We can tell from here because when we do a Beatles favorite, the place lights up. Your phones are like a galaxy of stars. Then, when we do a new number, it's like a black hole. But, we don't care. We're gonna do them anyway."
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 Introducing "FourFiveSeconds." "We've played you our oldest song we ever recorded. We'd like to come right up to date with the newest song I've been involved with. If you want to sing along, the words are going to be on the screen behind me. So I hear. I've never seen them because I'm always looking this way."
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 Introducing "I Wanna Be Your Man." "We had come to London as young guys. One of the things we loved to do was go to the city center. We'd hang out there. That's where all the guitar shops were. Me and John were doing that one afternoon when we spoted a taxi going by with a couple of our friends inside. It was Mick and and Keith of the Rolling Stones."
"We get in the taxi. We're all very excited. Young guys with recording contracts. Mick suddenly says the only thing is, we don't have a single. Me and John said we think we have a song that suits you guys. We sent it along to them and they did it. It was their first #1 U.K. hit. And this is it."
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 Introducing "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite." "We'd like to do a song now off the "Sgt. Pepper" album, an album that was released 50 years ago this year. I mean, that can't be true, can it? It's before my time."
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 Introducing "Something." "I'm not sure how many of you know, but George Harrison was a really good Ukulele player. He had a big collection of them. He gave me this one. I was at his house one afternoon and we were jamming on Ukuleles. I said to him that I learned one of your songs. We played it that day, so we'd like to play it for you now."
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 After performing "Back in the U.S.S.R." We were actually the first rock n' roll band to play in Red Square. Backstage there was a lot of Russian government guys hanging out. Free vodka. The Defense Minister comes up to me and says Paul, first record I ever bought was "Love Me Do." This other guy comes up, a big tall guy, he's also from the government, he says we learn to speak English from listening to Beatles records. He looks me right in the eye and goes, hello goodbye. So close. It's true."
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 Introducing "Birthday." "Some evenings we try to get someone up from the audience to come up on stage. Hey girls. Olivia: "I'm Olivia and there's no way you could ever top this birthday present. This is my mother." Katie: "My name's Katie. I'm your biggest fan." Paul: "Where are you guys from? Katie: "Frankenmuth." Paul: We want to wish you a really happy birthday. We have a song coming up. It's especially for you. Group hug." Paul: Anyone else have a birthday in the audience? This song's also for you. And also for anyone who has a birthday sometime this year."
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 "You've been a fantastic, brilliant audience tonight. I hope you've enjoyed it as much as we have. But it's time when we've gotta go home. It's roughly about the same time when you've gotta go home. As we finish the show, we always want to thank you. Thank you all. We love you. Thanks for coming. Thank you Detroit, you were fantastic. We'll see you next time."

McCartney sent out this tweet before his second concert at Little Caesars Arena.

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