Saw Macca last night at the O2

Not a fan, horrible human being so wont be bothering

What's horrible about him?

Many years ago a woman who was a cleaner had in her possession the penned lyrics of one of the famous Beatles songs. It had been valued at about 40k which would of been a life changing amount to her. He took legal action against her so she couldn't sell it. Now given that he's worth millions around 800 I believe. Rather than do that, why not contact her and say I'd rather you didn't sell it so I'll give you the 40k which would be peanuts to him.

Ufcdan, funnily enough he told an anecdote very similar last night, with a different ending. He played the first song by the Quarrymen and said that there were five of them in the band at the time, John, Paul, George, another and a bloke called Duffy. They all paid £1 each to fund their first demo and the idea was that they would all share the one copy: So John had it for the first week, gave it to Paul, who passed it on the next week to George, who passed to the other (who's name escapes me) who in turn gave it a week later to Duffy......who held on to it for twenty years, and then sold back to Paul for a very healthy profit (as he called it, very much joking!)

It was a funny story which he told with great affection to Duff - raising his arm to salute him! He certainly didn't come across as a miserly bad bloke. Quite the opposite actually.

Well it's a story that has stuck with me, remember thinking wac at the time. Of course there is two sides to every story. I'm sure he does support some charities but I don't believe given his wealth that he is overly generous but hey ho. Glad you enjoyed your evening

I happen to KNOW that Sir Paul is very generous to certain charities. That does not alter the fact that his voice has gone. But that doesn't matter as he is still a great entertainer and the songs what he wrote will never die unlike the modern (c)rap!

Was very lucky to be there last night.

Bought a ticket at 4pm yesterday evening (always check resale seats on the day of the gig, kids)
20 rows back from the stage. Ringo, Ronnie Wood, Daltrey, recent Queen actor, Fry, Thompson and many others all sat about 25ft from me.

His voice was surprisingly good. Touring and practice obviously helps, rather that the patchy one-offs he does.

Enjoyed the Wings songs, even saccharine 'Wonderful Christmas Time' was moving with a local children's choir and tons of fake snow.
New songs went down very well

Worth the money easily and the brief reunion was special

Yeh, it was special wasn't it Poppydog - everybody loved it that I spoke to. If you don't mind me asking, how much did you pay for the ticket? (Don't worry if you'd rather not say but I was sat in a similar sounding seat at Robert Plant last month and it wasn't cheap!!!

Note: it was the authentic O2 website that sold the tickets. Not a resale site.
So I paid face value



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    Paul McCartney

calendar    Sun 16 Dec 2018, 06:00 PM
venue    The O2 arena - The O2,London, SE10 0DX

Order date    16/12/2018 15:44:57

    Item    Subtotal   
Tickets    £125.00   
Service Charge    £16.00   
Facility Fee    £1.75   
Box Office Collection    £3.50   
Total:    £146.25

Will post a couple of snaps, when they are approved

Wow! So you can just go on O2 website and there's a link to day of event re-sale then?

Think it's their selling site called AXS.com

Bits and bobs of seats appeared regularly all day.
Just bided my time for a seat close to the stage.

£125 close to the stage is better that £80 up in the Gods

£125 close to the stage is a bargain!!!! I paid the same on the pre-sale for up in the Gods!!!

Blurry photo because of the dark. There's a girl with bright orange hair to the right.
In the row in front of her is Ronnie Wood just to her right and Ringo just to her left.

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The reunion encore moment

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Oh apparently the guy in the black leather jacket standing to the right of Ronnie Wood is the Freddie Mercury actor,
but I wouldn't know. Haven't seen it.
Daltrey was tiny and you can't see him.

Yeh, been to his trout fishery (he must be a near neighbour of Macca) and seen Roger there, he's tiny.

More pictures here :
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6504263/Stella-McCartney-shares-photo-kick-ass-dad-Paul-Ronnie-Ringo.html

How the hell he can sustain a tour like this, with a ridiculous amount of travel, over several continents, and some gigs back to back,
I can't come to terms with!

The rest of his band are the best, and it's great to see him continuing with the same line up!

Musical perfection, and craftsmanship at it's best, and worth every penny, and more, for the experience of a lifetime!

This was the closing number on a gig, albeit twelve years ago.....

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MWVo1fjRsQ

Was that in the concert last night pixie?

Such an astonishing amount of material, that it can't be easy to decide on a set list!

No, LFV, but he did play 'All My Loving'. He introduced it by saying that he is often asked when the Beatles songwriting went up a  notch and he said it was 'when we introduced F# to our songs', and then played 'All My Loving'! Also played 'Love me Do' from the early stuff. Here's the setlist, 'Live and Let Die' was spectacular!

A Hard Day's Night
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Junior's Farm
(Wings song)
Play Video
All My Loving
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Letting Go
(Wings song)
Play Video
Who Cares
Play Video
Got to Get You Into My Life
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Come On to Me
Play Video
Let Me Roll It
(Wings song) (followed by "Foxy Lady" jam)
Play Video
I've Got a Feeling
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Let 'Em In
(Wings song)
Play Video
My Valentine
Play Video
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five
(Wings song)
Play Video
Maybe I'm Amazed
Play Video
I've Just Seen a Face
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
In Spite of All the Danger
(The Quarrymen song)
Play Video
From Me to You
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Dance Tonight
Play Video
Love Me Do
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Blackbird
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Here Today
Play Video
Queenie Eye
Play Video
Lady Madonna
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Eleanor Rigby
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Fuh You
Play Video
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Something
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Band on the Run
(Wings song)
Play Video
Back in the U.S.S.R.
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Let It Be
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Live and Let Die
(Wings song)
Play Video
Hey Jude
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Encore:
Birthday
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Wonderful Christmastime
Play Video
Get Back
(The Beatles song) (with Ringo Starr) (Also with Ronnie Wood. Tour debut)
Play Video
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Helter Skelter
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Golden Slumbers
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
Carry That Weight
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
The End
(The Beatles song)

Must have got tired of hearing "Play Video" !

....and  (The Beatles song)

That looks fantastic chaps.
I am jealous.

The concert of a lifetime, I think.
If I should get the chance and there's another one, I would love to go to it.

As someone who plays quite a lot of Beatles covers (among others), about a year ago I was having a little practice jam with my son.
We were in a quiet shop, me on keyboard, him on guitar and singing (Desperado, by the Eagles). A middle aged couple came in, so we stopped. They said, "no, do go on, we like music". So we finished the song and they came over and talked to us. Turns out they were both musicians -orchestral- and teachers of music. We felt a bit humbled, but proud too as they seemed to enjoy it. The man (Oboe player) was telling me how he (as part of the orchestra, AND when Oboes were required) used to back the Beatles on both recordings and live performance. He told me how McCartney was "driven" and a "Perfectionist" who was totally into the music and had to have everything 'just so' before stopping work for the day.

He's probably still the same - as with anyone so great at what they do, he works very hard to be that great.

I lived just up the road from where he grew up, for about 5 years, met a few people who knew him and have read loads about the Beatles. My feeling is that they weren't especially lovely people, maybe OK at best, and that McCartney might even be a bit on the mean side (although, I could be entirely wrong about that). BUT, musically there is no parallel. Just think, he could have done an alternative set of 40 of his own songs and it would have still have been a great concert, and you'd still have loved it, and I'd still have been jealous.

Paul McCartney review, O2 Arena: two Beatles, one Rolling Stone and 40 pop songs from heaven


Neil McCormick, music critic
17 DECEMBER 2018 • 4:06PM

It was the Beatles and the Stones at London’s O2 Arena on Sunday night. Ringo Starr and Ronnie Wood joined Paul McCartney for an impromptu jam through Get Back that utterly thrilled everyone in the 20,000-capacity arena, not least the musicians romping it up on stage.

A tingle went down my spine when a second drum kit was rolled out during the encores, while McCartney told the crowd: “We’ve got a little surprise for you. It was a surprise for me too – it only happened today.” Even with that heavy hint, it was as if a jolt went through the room, a communal blast of awe, as Ringo Starr ran onto the stage, fit and sprightly at 78, and settled into the drum seat behind his last surviving partner in the greatest band of the rock era.

“Y’alright?” asked McCartney, hamming up the Scouse accent. “M’alright,” shouted back Ringo. And with the ever nimble and always enthusiastic figure of their old ally and rival Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones ripping out Chuck Berry-style riffs, they blasted through one of the last great rockers from the Fab Four’s canon. The fact that Ringo made a mess of timing his re-entry for the final coda only added to the sense of spontaneous, unrehearsed excitement. They were, indeed, back where they once belonged, if only for a few head-spinning minutes. “I don’t know about you, but that was a thrill for me,” proclaimed Ringo. I am pretty sure everybody present felt the same.

This was the last date of McCartney’s tour for his latest, buoyantly charming album, Egypt Station. A fan in the crowd held up a sign proclaiming that he had seen McCartney 121 times. “You must be loaded,” joked McCartney.

He was clearly enjoying himself, but then again he always enjoys himself playing music, switching from bass, to electric and acoustic guitar, piano and mandolin as he ran through a two-and-a-half-hour set of classic songs from the Beatles, Wings and solo. No one in pop history has more great songs that mean so much to so many people and plays them with so much joy and commitment. A three-piece horn section popped up in the middle of the arena during a highly charged Letting Go and made their way onstage to add muscle and tone to a rip roaring Got to Get You into my Life and so many other great songs. I mean, genuinely, too many to mention.

Paul McCartney at the O2 Arena, London
Paul McCartney at the O2 Arena, London CREDIT: GETTY
McCartney played 40 songs, and although the smattering of tracks from the past two decades might not have the same nostalgic impact as his glory-days hits, they were not lacking in quality. My Valentine (2012), dedicated to his third wife, Nancy, is as beautiful a ballad as he has ever written, with a winding melody that never quite goes where you expect.

McCartney knows how to make a ballad flow, the rhythm section always subtly moving underneath while arrangements rise from peak to peak until they become overwhelming. Maybe I’m Amazed was, indeed, amazing. Let It Be remains soulfully overpowering. Hey Jude boasts what is still the greatest singalong coda ever composed, and the audience at the O2 were giving it everything they got.

Even at its cheesiest, McCartney’s big production staging was a delight, with fake snow falling during Wonderful Christmas Time. McCartney can rock (Helter Skelter was a wild ride) and he can groove (Let Me Roll It) and sometimes do it all in massive multi-faceted epics like Band on The Run and Live and Let Die (in which blazing indoor fireworks appeared to blow up the Houses of Parliament, adding to the sense that tedious normality had been suspended).


But there was something else in the air at this concert, a poignancy that is inescapable. There is a fragility creeping into McCartney’s thinning voice, adding emotional freight to everything he sang. Solo on a podium with an acoustic guitar, McCartney played a delicate Blackbird and his touching ode to John Lennon, Here Today. He got out his ukulele to play Something as a tribute to George Harrison, before the band slipped in behind him and it all went up a gear, building to an explosive climax.

McCartney has warrior musical skills to carry him through, find his place in the melody even when the notes are no longer always there, his voice shrouded in harmonic tones. But time is inevitably catching up with pop’s greatest star. There are only two Beatles left, and they can’t rock on forever. But as long as they are willing and able, we will be there, for nights like this, full of empathy, humanity, singing and dancing, crammed with music that has brought nothing but joy to the world.

I’ll leave the last words to Sir Ringo. “Peace and love everybody,” he declared, hugging his old comrade. “And merry Christmas!”

This is a pretty decent and accurate review of last night from The Telegraph

LOL - Ronnie Wood walking to the Tube queue last night after the gig [10 sec video]

https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/ronnie-wood-goes-incognito-after-sir-paul-mccartney-gig-as-he-takes-the-tube-with-commuters-who-were-a4019506.html

I so agree, with both journalists take on last night. Firstly, it didn't matter one little bit that Ringo messed up, quite the opposite, it made the whole thing more fun and informal and proved just what a professional McCartney is, by just counting him straight back in with the minimum of fuss and good spirit. Also, the comment about the thinning voice is spot on, and the Lennon tribute was genuinely moving, with him admitting he should have sorted out his differences with Lennon earlier.

You always find in life that the least talented people who "lucky" to succeed in life are the most arrogant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAU0l7325w0

Peace And Love - but f*** off the lot of you.

Slicer, very nice of him,which ones are they?

Various but several directed at those his dearly departed Linda supported. I can't say anymore.

Very commendable Slicer

There were a few small animal charity stalls in the O2 foyer on Sunday.
I'm sure part of Paul's contract, as I doubt they could afford those pitches.