Paul McCartney Is Having A Great Time In Australia

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Paul McCartney Is Having A Great Time In Australia
He's finishing his first full tour there in 24 years...
ROBIN MURRAY
NEWS
13 · 12 · 2017




Paul McCartney has been keeping fans entertained over the past few weeks with some hi-jinks in Australia.
The iconic songwriter is completing his first full tour in the country for 24 years, playing sold out shows across the nation.
As if that wasn't enough to keep him busy Paul McCartney has also been visiting a few friends, including Kylie Minogue and I'm A Celebrity... pairing Ant & Dec.

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Sir Paul McCartney believed to be in Hawke's Bay
Hawkes Bay Today
14 Dec, 2017


A private jet believed to have flown music great Sir Paul McCartney from Sydney, was parked at Hawke's Bay Airport overnight. Photo / Paul Taylor

Music legend Sir Paul McCartney is believed to be in Hawke's Bay after arriving by private jet last night.

The jet, which touched down at Hawke's Bay Airport late last night, is believed to have brought the former Beatle from Australia where he played a three-hour concert in Sydney on Monday night.

Hawke's Bay Today could not establish where McCartney was staying, but it is understood he is in the region for a break ahead of his concert at Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland on Saturday night.

A member of the plane's crew told the newspaper at the airport that "he's left already" and wanted to know how Hawke's Bay Today knew about the arrival.


A crew member aboard what is believed to be Sir Paul McCartney's jet. Photo/Paul Taylor

The plane landed after the normal daily schedule of flights had ended yesterday.

McCartney floored audiences with his 40-song set, which is being described as "epic" and "a musical experience like few others" in the Australian press.

The Sydney Morning Herald awarded Monday night's show 4.5 stars and dismissed any fears that McCartney was simply phoning it in.


Sir Paul McCartney has been receiving largely positive reviews for his latest shows. Photo/File

"Best of all, the show proves much more than an ageing rock star turning up, cashing in and helping a few thousand people with their bucket lists. By the end, it genuinely turns out to be a musical experience like few others."

• Paul McCartney plays Mt Smart Stadium on Saturday night. Tickets available from Ticketmaster.

ONE ON ONE IN SYDNEY (Second Night) : December 12 2017 - Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

  


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ONE ON ONE IN SYDNEY (First Night) : December 11 2017 Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

 

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Paul McCartney rocks Sydney with three-hour set packed with Beatles classics and more
ROCK icon Paul McCartney has wowed Sydney with a three-hour show packed with Beatles classics, and a few new tunes, leaving fans in an absolute frenzy.
Kathy McCabe
DECEMBER 12, 2017


LOVE, three chords and the truth are all you need when in the presence of the rock greatness of Paul McCartney.

After winning hundreds of thousands of hearts and minds as his One on One tour wound around the country, he finally arrived in Sydney for his two final Australian concerts at Qudos Bank Arena.

It was impossible not to marvel that after a very long 23-year wait for the Maccalytes, that here he was, a Beatle for crying out loud.


Paul McCartney had fans in raptures. Picture: David Swift.Source:News Limited

This was the man who managed to transcend the weight of that legend to maintain a profound influence on pop culture for five decades, with Wings, his vast solo work and who most recently shared chart glory with Kanye and Rihanna and the Foo Fighters.

McCartney traversed all those chapters in a show which stretched to almost three hours with plenty to sing about love, that perennial pop song obsession.

There was his great romantic loves. My Valentine was inspired by and dedicated to his wife Nancy in the audience.

And a couple of songs later, Maybe I’m Amazed which he wrote for his late wife Linda got a false start of wrong notes and words before this rock god decided to embrace his fallibility and declare it a trainwreck.


Paul McCartney brought the hits in Sydney. Picture: David Swift.Source:News Corp Australia


Paul McCartney rocked Sydney. Picture: David Swift.Source:News Corp Australia

“I could consider it was a rewrite but I’m going to start again,” he said to huge cheers.

Can’t Buy Me Love, Love Me Do, All My Loving, And I Love Her underscored the theme.


The enduring beauty of Something, for George Harrison, and Yesterday, the poignancy of Hey Jude and Eleanor Rigby and rock’n’roll grandeur of Live And Let Die and Back In The USSR, he was superb whether plucking heart strings or rocking out.

Blackbird was a sublime moment, just McCartney on acoustic guitar, deftly plucked its distinctive melody as the sold out crowd of 15,000 DisciPauls sang along to this song of solidarity.

And the epic majesty of A Day In The Life, mashed up with Give Peace A Chance, followed soon after by the three songs in one Band On The Run served as a reminder of the ambition of his songwriting and musical vision through the Beatles and beyond.


Paul McCartney in Sydney. Picture: David Swift.Source:News Corp Australia

The show wasn’t just one classic song after another.

The perennial performer knows the value of a great story and he has a lifetime of them. The time Jimi Hendrix played Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band to open his own show just two nights after the album came out.

The story behind In Spite Of All The Danger, the first song they recorded as the Quarrymen.

The musical conversation of Here Today, written for his mate John Lennon after his death.

Or singing Strangers In The Night to dolphins frolicking with McCartney and his family in Perth.

Often watching the crowd was almost as hypnotic as witnessing McCartney sing and play with effortless agility and unmistakeable joy.


Paul McCartney’s set was packed with Beatles songs. Picture: David Swift.Source:News Limited

Although it was tough to summon the love for Mull of Kintyre, even with a local piper band joining McCartney on stage during the encore.

From nine-year-old Harry, who got a birthday shout out from the Beatle legend, to those well into their 70s and 80s, there were beaming faces, bemused faces (during the Kanye and Rihanna number) and others stretched by the effort of singing along at the top of their lungs.

There are many fans who would have seen the 75-year-old rock great on this long-awaited tour thinking it might be his last here.

Let’s hope he takes Bruce Springsteen’s lead and books another run next year.

In the meantime, try to get a ticket for the final Sydney show tonight. It is the show of a lifetime.

Paul McCartney Brisbane: Former Beatle touches down

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Paul McCartney Brisbane: Former Beatle touches down
Kristy Symonds, The Courier-Mail
December 9, 2017

SIR Paul McCartney was every bit the crowd pleaser, rolling out a hit-filled set list for a sold out crowd during the biggest show of his Australian tour at Suncorp Stadium last night.

The 40,000-strong audience roared with approval as the 75-year-old former Beatle opened with A Hard Day’s Night.

McCartney treated his adoring fans, who were earlier lashed by wind and rain as they poured into the stadium, to a string of hits including Can’t Buy Me Love, Jet and I’ve Got A Feeling.

“G’Day Brisbane - I am getting the feeling here we are going to have a bit of a party tonight,” he told the enthusiastic crowd as they danced.


Paul McCartney plays to a sold-out crowd of 40,000 at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane. Picture: AAP/Sarah Marshall

From The Quarrymen and The Beatles to Wings and beyond, McCartney played gems including My Valentine, In Spite of all the Danger, You Won’t See Me, Love Me Do, Blackbird, FourFiveSeconds, Eleanor Rigby and I Wanna Be Your Man.

His first Brisbane show in more than four decades marked the largest crowd on a single night of the Australian leg of his One on One world tour.

“It’s really great to be back in Brisbane after a long time,” he said.

“It is so great here I am going to take a moment to myself here just to drink it all in okay.”

McCartney, who last toured Down Under in 1993, skipping the Sunshine State, has previously played four shows at Brisbane’s Festival Hall – two with The Beatles in 1964 and two with Wings in 1975 – but last night’s expected crowd was bigger than all four of those gigs combined.


Rain didn’t deter McCartney fans, with 40,000 turning out to see the former Beatle in action in Brisbane.

Earlier, before the weather eased up, lightning lit up the skies and a warning to take shelter was played on screens throughout the stadium.

“Due to storm activity please leave the field and exposed areas immediately. Announcements will be made when you may return to your seats on the field,” the warning read.

McCartney had jetted into Brisbane on a private plane under the cover of darkness ahead of his show.

Mushroom Group chairman Michael Gudinski told The Sunday Mail the hit-filled tour had so far exceeded his expectations and said promoting it had been “a privilege”.

“Paul holds the audience in the palm of his hand from start to finish in his close to three-hour set,” Mr Gudinski said.


Paul McCartney wasted no time belting out the hits in Brisbane. Picture: AAP/Sarah Marshall

The legendary singer-songwriter, who touched down in Australia last month and performed three shows across Perth and Melbourne ahead of his Brisbane concert, previously told media he continued to write and perform because he was addicted to the feeling it gave him.

His trip Down Under was announced back in June via a facebook live chat with Aussie comedian and musician Tim Minchin.

He will next perform two shows in Sydney, kicking off tomorrow night, before heading to Auckland, New Zealand, to continue his tour.

It was a big night for music in Brisbane, with Yusuf/Cat Stevens also performing his first of two shows at the Entertainment Centre.

The 69-year-old is in town as part of his Peace Train 50th anniversary tour.


Paul McCartney touches down in Brisbane. Picture: 7 News

EARLIER: SIR Paul McCartney has touched down in Brisbane ahead of his Suncorp Stadium show — his first in the city in over four decades.

McCartney, 75 — who last toured Australia in 1993, skipping Brisbane — has received rave reviews for his most recent shows in Perth and Melbourne, earning praise for his unwavering energy, vocals and song selection.

He continues his One On One world tour at Suncorp tonight.

While he has changed his setlist from show to show, he’s consistently delivered favourites including wrapping his main performance with Hey Jude and finishing his several-song encores with The End.

McCartney has previously played four shows at Brisbane’s Festival Hall — two with The Beatles in 1964 and two with Wings in 1975 — but tonight at Suncorp he will perform to 40,000 people, a bigger audience than all four of those gigs combined.

Paul McCartney on love, life and the secret Beatles hit written in New Zealand

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Paul McCartney on love, life and the secret Beatles hit written in New Zealand
By: Karl Puschmann
New Zealand Herald
7 Dec, 2017 


Paul McCartney plays Auckland's Mt Smart stadium on Saturday, 16 December 2017. Photo: MPL Communications Ltd/Photographer: MJ Kim NZH 07 Dec 2017

It's Saturday night and Sir Paul McCartney is zipping along to Perth's nib Stadium where, in a few hours, he'll walk onstage to perform the first show of his Australasian One on One tour in front of a sold-out crowd.

Over the following week he'll play five more shows across the Ditch before finally playing Mt Smart Stadium next Saturday night.

"We're practising on the Aussies," he jokes. "Getting up to speed."

In a summer crammed with big shows, McCartney's is undoubtedly the biggest. As a Beatle he wrote songs that, quite literally, changed the world. We simply don't have the space to even begin listing his musical accomplishments. He's Paul McCartney. You know his songs.

Now, after nearly a quarter of a century he's back. His last gig here was in 1993. That's a long time between drinks.


Paul McCartney on stage during his OneOnOne tour 2017

"It is, yeah," he laughs. "For a lot of that time I was having to be Daddy and do the school run. I had a young kid I was bringing up, so I couldn't get enough time away to make it practical."

He'd planned to visit in 2002, as part of the Driving tour, but the Bali terrorist attack in Kuta prevented it.

"We thought we can't go waltzing in with a happy show while the whole country's in mourning, so we had to call that off."

An odd footnote in Beatles trivia is that the Fab Four toured here at the height of Beatlemania in 1964, playing all four main centres. Does he remember much about that tour?

"I remember rubbing noses with the Maori," McCartney answers, referencing the traditional hongi greeting that welcomed the band at the airport. "That was very good."

News reports from the time suggest a sleepy country struggling to comprehend, let alone contain, Beatlemania. Woefully inadequate policing levels struggled with unprecedented crowds and the band was besieged by screaming fans.

"It was a lot of screaming girls, which was great, 'cause we were screaming boys," McCartney recalls.

One headline shrieked, "Screams and eggs greet the Beatles," and led with this wonderfully loony paragraph: "The Beatles are in New Zealand. And they were met by deafening screaming, singing and yelling, Maori songs, and eggs - hurled at them."

"I don't actually remember that," McCartney laughs when asked about the eggs. "But you block out all those things, don't you?"


Beatles memorabilia from the 1964 New Zealand Tour. 9 June 2014 New Zealand Herald Photograph By Greg Bowker

Instead, he remembers the tour fondly.

"It was lovely to finally get to New Zealand, to experience a place we'd heard so much about. Coming from Liverpool a lot of people you knew had relatives who'd emigrated. I felt the bond with New Zealanders. It was great. We had a lot of fun. The shows were really good. That's always the main memories, enjoying the crowds."

He briefly pauses, and says, "I don't remember any eggs, anyway. I just remember having a good time."

That good time also includes a yarn that's slipped into local Beatles lore. While trapped in their Wellington hotel, he requested a guitar so he could work on a song. He got the guitar, accounts differ on how, but no one knows what song he was working on.

"Let's pretend it was Yesterday," he quips, when asked to shed some light on this mystery. "No, it's a little too long ago to remember. It might have been a great mysterious lost song ... I don't think there was a lost song, because I normally remembered those songs. But it would have been one of the songs throughout that period that we recorded."

Whichever song it was, I'll Follow the Sun perhaps, maybe I've Just Seen a Face or, probably not but let's pretend, Yesterday, there's a good chance he'll play it next Saturday.


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That's because McCartney's playing more Beatles material now than ever. His set's packed with it. Onstage for over three hours he'll play far more Beatles tunes than the Beatles did during their 28-minute New Zealand sets.

"The first thing I ever do when trying to choose the setlist is think, 'If I was going to this show, what would I want to see them do?'," he explains. "There's certain songs I wouldn't want to see the band leave out. Those start the list. Then you go on from there.

"Sometimes I'll hear something over the radio and think, 'Oh, I'd love to do that,' so we'll take it into rehearsal and learn it up."

Then, a surprise confession.

"Sometimes it's a bit daunting because in the early days of recording, you know with The Beatles, sometimes I wouldn't put the bass part on 'til we'd done the song. That enabled me to get quite complex with the bass lines."

Because The Beatles had retired from touring this was never a problem. Until now...

"When it came to do it live it was like, 'Oh my God. I've really set myself a problem'. I've got this complicated bass line and I've got to sing this song that's going in a completely different direction. It's one of those co-ordination things. There are a few that I've got to concentrate. They're quite hard to do, particularly the ones with the crazy bass lines. But it's good to have a challenge. I wouldn't like to be phoning it in."

He says sometimes he fluffs it, "that used to really panic me, the shame of it all", but nowadays he'll just stop the band and restart.

"It proves we're live," he says. "The funny thing is, the audience like it. It gives them a special memory, 'remember when they blew it?'."


Paul McCartney

That audience connection is the thing he's enjoying the most.

"There may be thousands of people there but there's something about the show which feels like I'm talking to you directly," he says. "It's me and you."

Coming from anyone else, it'd be easy to be sceptical, but when the guy who has written some of the world's sincerest love songs says it, you believe him.

"Why I write about love, I think it's a great feeling. It's a universal feeling. That's the one thing that ties everybody on this planet together. Whether you're single, married, young, old, life involves love in one way or another. It's a very special thing.

"Sometimes I think I don't want to get too soppy, I don't want to get too corny, but I do like the subject so much that I find myself returning to it."


The musical group The Beatles. From left: George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney. NZH 7oct00 - NZH 26jan02 - BOP 19dec02 - BOP 13jan03 - HBT 5jun07 - ROT 22mar08 - ROT

His car's pulled into the stadium now and the singer's got to sing a song. He genuinely wants you all to sing along. We'll get our chance next weekend. I can't wait.

"Great, man," he enthuses. "I know we're gonna have some fun."

Then Paul McCartney, one of the world's greatest musicians, reassures me by saying, "I'm practising!"

LOWDOWN
Who: Paul McCartney
When: Next Saturday night
Where: Mt Smart Stadium. Tickets available from Ticketmaster