How wonderful it is to go to a concert with your 8-year-old son. And not just any concert, but the one Paul McCartney gave in 2009 at the Gelredome.
Paul McCartney
James Paul McCartney MBE (Liverpool, 18 June 1942) is a British pop singer and composer. He became known as the bassist, pianist, guitarist, singer and songwriter of The Beatles. Since 1997, he has been entitled to call himself Sir.
In 1957, McCartney met John Lennon through a mutual friend, joined his band The Quarrymen, and together with him, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, made history as members of The Beatles. McCartney wrote much of The Beatles' material with John Lennon, although they only occasionally truly co-wrote songs – usually one wrote the bulk and the other finished it. Their working relationship was more a competition than a collaboration, but due to an early agreement, all songs for The Beatles that one or both contributed to were credited to Lennon-McCartney. One of McCartney's best-known compositions, Yesterday, has been covered by a record number of artists and is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for this.
After The Beatles broke up in 1970, McCartney immediately began a solo career. In 1971, Paul McCartney formed a new band: Wings. Despite many personnel changes, Wings was very successful in the 1970s. The only three constant members of Wings were Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney and Denny Laine. Wings produced several successful albums such as Band on the Run and Venus and Mars. They also scored several big hits including My Love, Live and Let Die, Band on the Run, Listen To What The Man Said, Silly Love Songs and With a Little Luck. The song Mull of Kintyre, recorded as an ode to the eponymous peninsula in Argyll (Scotland) where Paul McCartney has a house, became the biggest hit. This single was the best-selling single ever until it was surpassed in 1984 by “Do They Know It’s Christmas” by Band Aid.
On 22 October 2009, it was announced that Paul McCartney would do a short tour of Europe in December of that year. The tour was called The Good Evening Europe Tour. On 9 December, the GelreDome in Arnhem was visited. This was the first time in six years that Paul McCartney came to the Netherlands. He played a few songs for the first time in the Netherlands, including Mrs Vandebilt from the album Band on the Run, of which he played almost half. The concert received very good reviews from various newspapers.
Sunday Morning Classic: Tug of War
On 3 May 2020, Paul’s album "Tug of War" was on the turntable as Sunday Morning Classic.
Just like McCartney from the 70s, McCartney II from the 80s served as a way for Paul McCartney to clear the decks: to experiment and recalibrate in the aftermath of his band’s breakup. This means that Tug of War from 1982 is in many ways Paul McCartney’s very first solo album, a record recorded not at home but in a studio, an album made without Wings and not co-credited to Linda, who is nevertheless present as a backing vocalist. McCartney saw this album as a big opportunity, so he revived his relationship with Beatles producer George Martin and brought in various guests, including his hero Carl Perkins, his Motown counterpart Stevie Wonder, Stanley Clarke, Eric Stewart and Andy Mackay, and his old bandmate Ringo Starr, whose presence was overshadowed by "Here Today", an elegy written for the murdered John Lennon.
Hidden away at the end of the first side, "Here Today" is bittersweet and small compared to all the showpieces jostling for attention during Tug of War: the serious march of the title track, the vaudevillian "Ballroom Dancing", the stately drama of 'Wanderlust' and the heartfelt 'Ebony and Ivory', the Wonder duet that helped make this album the blockbuster it was meant to be. As good as some of these songs are – and they are, with an ambition and execution that surpasses contemporary Wings – much of Tug of War’s charm lies in the excesses at the edges, whether it’s the rockabilly of the Perkins duet 'Get It', the later Beatles quirkiness of 'The Pound Is Sinking', the throwaway game 'Dress Me Up as a Robber' or the long funk workout of 'What's That You're Doing?', a track that is more a collaboration between Paul and Stevie than 'Ebony and Ivory'. Such crowd-pleasing genre-hopping finds its apotheosis on "Take It Away", a salute to enthusiastic artists and the crowd that loves them, meaning it not only sums up the appeal of Tug of War in general – it’s a record that gives people the old Beatle Paul, but McCartney in general.
Source: Wikipedia and Jan Liebregts Photo: Raph_PH
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