I don’t suffer from nostalgia and I especially don’t suffer from musical nostalgia. I didn’t see “A Day In The Life”/”Give Peace A Chance” as a tribute to a fallen friend, I heard it as a musical abomination.
Because that’s what it was.
The actual songs are, of course, one masterpiece, and one major anthem, and 3/4 Lennon. Paulie’s tired run through, while presumably heartfelt, was, in the end, an exercise in musical cipherdom..
Catching McCartney two years ago, and for the umpteenth time, at Citifield, I felt, more or less, the same thing. It does make a difference if you are in the presence of one of the greatest melodists of all time: whingeing about Macca is like if G. Gershwin had lived a long life, complaining that his playing had no precision.
And I might well have done just that.
McCartney played the Apollo last week at an invite only gig for Sirius radio Subscribers.
here is the Playlist (I got it off Brooklynvegan).
Did it suck?
Of course it sucked but so what: I wish I’d gone.
Magical Mystery Tour
Jet
Drive My Car
All My Loving
One After 909
Let Me Roll It/Foxy Lady
The Long and Winding Road
Nineteen and Eighty Five
Maybe I’m Amazed
Blackbird
I’m Looking Through You
And I Love Her
Petrushka
Dance Tonight
Eleanor Rigby
Hitchhike
Band on the Run
Ob-la-di Ob-la-da
Back in the USSR
A Day in the Life/Give Peace a Chance
Let It Be
Hey Jude
Wonderful Christmastime
I Saw Her Standing There
Get Back
Yesterday (with a little bit of “Scrambled Eggs”)
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band/The End
Jet
Drive My Car
All My Loving
One After 909
Let Me Roll It/Foxy Lady
The Long and Winding Road
Nineteen and Eighty Five
Maybe I’m Amazed
Blackbird
I’m Looking Through You
And I Love Her
Petrushka
Dance Tonight
Eleanor Rigby
Hitchhike
Band on the Run
Ob-la-di Ob-la-da
Back in the USSR
A Day in the Life/Give Peace a Chance
Let It Be
Hey Jude
Wonderful Christmastime
I Saw Her Standing There
Get Back
Yesterday (with a little bit of “Scrambled Eggs”)
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band/The End