I didn't want to click on it, I thought, ¨hey it´s Paul again, I've heard hours and hours of this guy talking in interviews over the decades.¨ Then I click on it and I'm hanging on every word, ´cause it´s Paul McCartney and he´s just a lovely, charming, bastard.
I once walked into a very small bar at Lee Studio's and there was Paul McCartney and Linda and Lee Remick, well my heart stood still and I left really quickly, they all laughed at my shyness, I was 21 I'm 66 now and it's still like a dream in my mind but it was real
We're lucky to have had and still have this amazing man around for so long. I keep stumbling into old interviews like this and they're always incredibly insightful and earnest. Shame we lost John too soon as he was the same but I think part of him continues on vicariously through Paul. To have ~60 years of his documented personality and philosophy out there, in addition to his music, is a wonder.
In all the interviews I watched him give, he always gives honest answers to the questions and interesting little asides. I remember him telling a story of when one of his small children first realised that he was famous. He was leading her on a pony in the Scottish hills and she said “Dad?” Paul said “yes?” His daughter asked “are you Paul McCartney?” Of course she’d always known him as just Dad up to that point!
Being a Brit he is a cool guy very bright & gave us so much growing up along with the bands & his music’ arrangements words it all in there ! Thanks Mate !
Paul was on top form in the 80s. He looked great and seemed totally at peace with him self, he had nothing to prove so had this natural confidence which comes through in this interview. I think Paul was the most natural media beatle, he gives great interviews with unihibeted stories and one liners. Paul got the full package in genius level quantities! Suspect this interview was done at his St John's Wood home and the harmonium in the background featured on pepper?
You proved a million times over you were good Paul! I knew that as a 6-year old music connoisseur in '64. Of course, Elvis got my attention with Hound Dog and Blue Suede Shoes. I still remember singing and acting out those tunes. But then one day this phenomenal music and singing came out of the transistor radio that dear Santa delivered Christmas of '63. Although I loved lots of music and artists after that day, no one ever compared to The Beatles!
Thanks for sharing! We are all so so lucky to be alive the same time as this beautiful human! In centuries to come people will dream of what it must have been like to have been alive when Sir Paul was alive or George, Ringo and John etc. I was only one when John passed but how thankful I am to have had George, Sir Paul and Ringo in my life. Incredible.
I agree but be careful. The person you should count yourself lucky to know is yourself. Please, do your best to be kind and loving to others. Love is about that. John and Paul and George and Ringo would tell you....I hope.
4:05. He answered (finally!) one of the questions I've always had about him, ever since I started learning guitar, decades ago. Does he actually practice guitar, like the rest of us? That is, does he look up chords in chord books, practice scales, practice the hard parts of songs, etc, - over and over, and day after day. He always makes it look so easy, as if he found his way around a guitar quickly, through sheer talent. I've always pictured him just noodling on the guitar to produce a new song, or have a bit of fun, and that's it for the day. There has always been a partial answer, provided by all the Beatles - the long hours in Hamburg were where they most developed their skills, so that was thousands of hours of guitar playing to build the technique. Well, at 4:05 we've finally got it! He says that many '70s group "couldn't actually play" and don't know their way around a guitar fretboard. "It's not that easy to play the guitar... it's difficult" he says and gives a quick demo of what a guitar play should be able to do, then adds "That can take twenty years". He doesn't mention "practice", but it's implied.
Yes, I get that feeling too. They were all terrified, grief stricken when John was murdered and took a loooong time to start performing and getting back to normal again.
@@sratus This isn't the entire interview. I've seen a raw clip of them putting the mic on and her there bantering and he was full on flirting. He fancied her. Calm down little man, it's just a UA-cam video. Go play with your spinner.
"He thought I was hanging around with the wrong crowd," MCartney recalls of his dad's view of John Lennon (8:45). "And I was!" Brutal honesty and a touch of latent classism there perhaps, disguised as humor. He felt the need to do a little cleanup in his next breath.
I would say it's the opposite. It was just a joke. PM was every bit as working class as Lennon, wasn't he? I think Lennon enjoyed the "poshest" upbringing of all, with his Aunty.
@@vangroover1903 Nah, PM's situation was more secure. Plus JL was walking around dressed like a Ted. Jim Mac didn't want Paul anywhere near him and there was a lot of covert meetings between the two (at the house, no less) early on. All this from "Tune In" by Mark Lewisohn.
@@mayday63 Fair enough. Lennon himself mentioned he had a more affluent upbringing than the others, but maybe Paul's dad had a nose for trouble, right or wrong.
John admitted he was a troublemaker that wanted to stir up shit in his friends homes. He thinks it was because he didn’t have a mom or dad around. Paul’s dad was correct.
McCartney was much more open, funny and edgy in his 70s and 80s interviews. I think he has purposefully become more monotonous and square in recent interviews to avoid any controversy. So all this idea that Johnny was the fun one and McCartney was a boring square machine who just came up with catchy melodies is all a misconception.
On the contrary, the image of Paul as a square who just came up with catchy melodies was at its peak in the 70’s and especially after John died. That image has gradually been reassessed. His interviews used to be more interesting because he was often asked more interesting questions by his contemporaries rather than the same old questions by younger people who now treat him like an elder statesman. Also, everyone mellows as they get older and lose a little bit of edge, although he was never known as particularly edgy, but he was a Beatle so there was always that touch of insouciance.
@@johnp515 Well, I was never talking about his perception in this scenario. Perception is always very subjective, it always exists in different pole and it’s only sometimes that one side gets more vocal and gets more attention than the other.
Erinnere ihn mal bitte an seinen Fan aus Deutschland. Postcard is coming before his Tour. And please, please me, autograph for ,,the old ,not little girl,, in Hessen. Lg Ellen 😍
I would have liked Jane to have interviewed Paul but she didn’t seem to like him or the Beatles. She was a bit nasty to Linda. It seems that her husband Garry introduced her to it. Which seems odd to me. She was old enough to know Beatlemania and her cohort girl were into it. When she was in Chicago, she didn’t interview him. I always wondered why.
You could say that David Hemmings became a star thanks to Paul McCartney. Michelangelo Antonioni actually wanted McCartney to star in his film Blow Up, and ended choosing Hemmings because he looked like him.
my daughter loves your hair look. She bragged that it’s long in the back. We used to make fun or the boys. “Shlong” short & the rest in the long. I think Erik & the moody blues are dull.
my little 3-year-old-girl is the same age as Beatrice. You & John were the “wrong” crowd? My daughter’s friends keep changing their pronouns. I DISAGREE I AM OPEN TO INTELLIGENCE.
This interview proves once and for all that this Paul was the best Replacement Paul anybody could have hoped for after that sudden tragedy in Cheslewickstonminster. He has been with us longer, flown higher, and is still going. It's time we acknowledged that This Paul is the Real Paul McCartney (RPM).
@@pattyayers oh really? The name keeps changing, I heard Billy Shears once. It's all teen stuff, you know, so childish, so flat Earth-ish. I don't engage in conspiracy theories.
I always loved Paul McCartney but I did think he had sold out and was an old establishment figure by this point. He was only 43/44 here. It is interesting how conservative he became and I wonder how different his music might have been had John survived and been writing music that was political and with real depth in the lyrics. He seems to forget that the establishment went after them and they even planted drugs on John. I know he is just a musician but he could have raised his voice for the working classes that are still basically treated as second-class (literally) citizens. Instead, he has done what many working-class people do who make good, simply move up to the middle classes.
Too bad he charges criminal amounts to see his shows. The greed is unbelievable. Even nosebleed seats for a Paul McCartney show will set you back hundreds; good seats cost thousands. You can see Ringo on the other hand for well under a hundred and get great seats for under $200 Other surviving acts from that era like the Stones and The Who are also quite reasonably priced. But McCartney tickets are ridiculously expensive. And most of the stuff he's made since The Beatles split has sucked; mostly shallow pop dreck. There are exceptions of course but it's been mostly dreck. He has a great setlist however so I would see him if he didn't charge criminal prices. The average Paul McCartney ticket price is $860 USD. The best seats for thousands. It's insane.
I thought the thumbnail was Richard Madely. I'm not that bothered about McCartney to be honest, or indeed the Beatles. Needless to say I won't be watching the video, sorry. It's neither what I was looking for nor the kind of video im interested in.
Very intelligent and talented man.
I didn't want to click on it, I thought, ¨hey it´s Paul again, I've heard hours and hours of this guy talking in interviews over the decades.¨ Then I click on it and I'm hanging on every word, ´cause it´s Paul McCartney and he´s just a lovely, charming, bastard.
Hahah, so true
I hate that adorable asshole!
He says the same crap over and over again
Don't be jealous @@richbailey8174
I once walked into a very small bar at Lee Studio's and there was Paul McCartney and Linda and Lee Remick, well my heart stood still and I left really quickly, they all laughed at my shyness, I was 21 I'm 66 now and it's still like a dream in my mind but it was real
I can’t even imagine how thrilled you must have been!!
😮 Wow just wow
@@pinky69207 he is the closest to a fairytale and a legend, ever.
Greatest singer songwriter musician of all time
I’m smiling like an idiot all through this interview. He’s so cute and funny & SMART ! Man, no wonder he’s a Beatle. They all had something special.
Ever the charmer... 40ish here, now 80!!? And still charming.
James Paul McCartney died in car crash on September 11 1966 and was replaced by William (Billy). This is THE TRUTH no matter what.
❤ I know... so adorable
I adore this lovely man.
No need for me to comment, just DITTO :)
And I love this adorable man....
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No I adore him
@@pattyayers I guess we all do lol
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She obviously does too! Not green btw 😎
We're lucky to have had and still have this amazing man around for so long. I keep stumbling into old interviews like this and they're always incredibly insightful and earnest. Shame we lost John too soon as he was the same but I think part of him continues on vicariously through Paul. To have ~60 years of his documented personality and philosophy out there, in addition to his music, is a wonder.
I fully agree. Where do I sign?😂 great musician and person.
So beautifully stated!
I'm pretty sure Paul has been consciously carrying John with him for the last 40+ years.
James Paul McCartney died in car crash on September 11 1966 and was replaced by William (Billy). This is THE TRUTH no matter what.
I love this man so much. I was 13 when they came to America. I have followed his career for 58 yrs. His music never disappoints! Gifted musician.
You are so lucky!
I was 9 and still in love with Paul. what a great era!! We grew up with the Beatles❤
James Paul McCartney died in car crash on September 11 1966 and was replaced by William (Billy). This is THE TRUTH no matter what.
Paul is a treasure. We definitely are blessed to still have him with us.
Paul died in 1966. This is Billy.
Paul died in 1966. This is Billy.
What a great interview! One of the best, I think.
In all the interviews I watched him give, he always gives honest answers to the questions and interesting little asides. I remember him telling a story of when one of his small children first realised that he was famous. He was leading her on a pony in the Scottish hills and she said “Dad?” Paul said “yes?” His daughter asked “are you Paul McCartney?” Of course she’d always known him as just Dad up to that point!
PAUL
Is
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Professional
Entertainer for
60yrs
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i love Pauls interviews!!
He is addicting! :}
Paul is so right that when it comes to art and creativity, you need to satisfy yourself.
What a dude ! Macca is the GOAT
"It's not so easy to play that guitar". That's so true. And plus writing songs.
Paul Mc Cartney a World 🌎 Treasure
He’s so flirty with female interviewers. Always has been. So cute.
Being a Brit he is a cool guy very bright & gave us so much growing up along with the bands & his music’ arrangements words it all in there ! Thanks Mate !
I love Paul.
Paul was on top form in the 80s. He looked great and seemed totally at peace with him self, he had nothing to prove so had this natural confidence which comes through in this interview. I think Paul was the most natural media beatle, he gives great interviews with unihibeted stories and one liners. Paul got the full package in genius level quantities! Suspect this interview was done at his St John's Wood home and the harmonium in the background featured on pepper?
All you need is love. How beautiful! Thank you!
Such a talent
unbelievably attractive in body and mind!
Paul at full steam. Nice to watch.
Good interview, interesting to hear him at difference phases of his life. There had been quite a gap when he didn't tour, so good for his family life
Paul, always the best
Love seeing these early interviews from the 80's. This was around the time Paul released Press To Play.
You proved a million times over you were good Paul! I knew that as a 6-year old music connoisseur in '64. Of course, Elvis got my attention with Hound Dog and Blue Suede Shoes. I still remember singing and acting out those tunes. But then one day this phenomenal music and singing came out of the transistor radio that dear Santa delivered Christmas of '63. Although I loved lots of music and artists after that day, no one ever compared to The Beatles!
Ditto
Thanks for sharing! We are all so so lucky to be alive the same time as this beautiful human! In centuries to come people will dream of what it must have been like to have been alive when Sir Paul was alive or George, Ringo and John etc. I was only one when John passed but how thankful I am to have had George, Sir Paul and Ringo in my life. Incredible.
James Paul McCartney died in car crash on September 11 1966 and was replaced by William (Billy). This is THE TRUTH no matter what.
I agree but be careful. The person you should count yourself lucky to know is yourself. Please, do your best to be kind and loving to others. Love is about that. John and Paul and George and Ringo would tell you....I hope.
This is a very illuminating interview.
Paul is always relaxed when he is inteviewed in his MPL office
How could You mind hanging out and just hearing his great stories?
This Interview was
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Thanks for the upload! Made my day 💖🎶
I love him.
Same here!
Only for 58 years
@@pattyayers Me too!
1 of the greatest guys to ever live.
Two of the greatest
Someone wrote….Paul’s love songs..John’s truth…George had spirit and Ringo was peace….love, truth, spirit and peace…The Beatles
Good explanation! Love that!
@@LollieVoxAh, then you must be a Paul fan.
Muito gracioso o Paul sendo entrevistado , gentil e alegre
The perfect man
M3 is a fab album !
4:05. He answered (finally!) one of the questions I've always had about him, ever since I started learning guitar, decades ago. Does he actually practice guitar, like the rest of us? That is, does he look up chords in chord books, practice scales, practice the hard parts of songs, etc, - over and over, and day after day. He always makes it look so easy, as if he found his way around a guitar quickly, through sheer talent. I've always pictured him just noodling on the guitar to produce a new song, or have a bit of fun, and that's it for the day.
There has always been a partial answer, provided by all the Beatles - the long hours in Hamburg were where they most developed their skills, so that was thousands of hours of guitar playing to build the technique.
Well, at 4:05 we've finally got it! He says that many '70s group "couldn't actually play" and don't know their way around a guitar fretboard. "It's not that easy to play the guitar... it's difficult" he says and gives a quick demo of what a guitar play should be able to do, then adds "That can take twenty years". He doesn't mention "practice", but it's implied.
Thank you. Blessed
I like the way they identified him at 4.44 :)
For all the people who had never heard of the Beatles.
For those of you who don't know this man is, he's written a few decent tunes in his time 😉
Miss Linda, but she has a strong legacy
James Paul McCartney (Liverpool, Merseyside; 18 de junio de 1942)
handsome👏👏👏💖💖💖🆒
Roadies are the key to a great live performance. No doubt about it.
Live Aid should have been the Beatles doing their reunion set.
John was already gone.
@@j.bradley what's why it should have been but it wasn't
@@j.bradley I know.
If John was still alive then I’m sure they would have reunited for live aid
I love you
Watching these 1980s McCartney interviews, I always get the feeling he's wishing John was there.
He's certainly not alone, with that.
Yes, I get that feeling too. They were all terrified, grief stricken when John was murdered and took a loooong time to start performing and getting back to normal again.
He's great. Love him.
The interviewer is catatonic. Well done Macca for rising above the banality,,,!
Yes, brilliant! If you're referring to Paul McCartney
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The Beatles still rules
I wonder where this interview spot is - he's been recently interviewed in front of these stairs. Maybe MPL office?
This went well mostly because he genuinely fancied her. He had the charm factor turned way up.
'He genuinely fancied her' - Where are you getting that from? What are you on about? He's just being affable as usual.
@@sratus This isn't the entire interview. I've seen a raw clip of them putting the mic on and her there bantering and he was full on flirting. He fancied her. Calm down little man, it's just a UA-cam video. Go play with your spinner.
@@willswalkingwest7267 Oh William, you silly old man.
his microphone went off because it was rumored that Yoko was less than 500 miles away. the yell "cut the mike!"
No
So play the piano, if probably sounded like being a Beatle ~ I was recording every feed in nyc & I didn’t let them mix it out of sync
"He thought I was hanging around with the wrong crowd," MCartney recalls of his dad's view of John Lennon (8:45). "And I was!" Brutal honesty and a touch of latent classism there perhaps, disguised as humor. He felt the need to do a little cleanup in his next breath.
I would say it's the opposite. It was just a joke. PM was every bit as working class as Lennon, wasn't he? I think Lennon enjoyed the "poshest" upbringing of all, with his Aunty.
@@vangroover1903 Nah, PM's situation was more secure. Plus JL was walking around dressed like a Ted. Jim Mac didn't want Paul anywhere near him and there was a lot of covert meetings between the two (at the house, no less) early on. All this from "Tune In" by Mark Lewisohn.
@@mayday63 Fair enough. Lennon himself mentioned he had a more affluent upbringing than the others, but maybe Paul's dad had a nose for trouble, right or wrong.
John admitted he was a troublemaker that wanted to stir up shit in his friends homes. He thinks it was because he didn’t have a mom or dad around. Paul’s dad was correct.
Paul's fam was actually working class. John's wasn't 🙄
I miss John Lennon ❤️❤️❤️
So does he, if it helps.
A little high I'd say.
McCartney was much more open, funny and edgy in his 70s and 80s interviews. I think he has purposefully become more monotonous and square in recent interviews to avoid any controversy. So all this idea that Johnny was the fun one and McCartney was a boring square machine who just came up with catchy melodies is all a misconception.
On the contrary, the image of Paul as a square who just came up with catchy melodies was at its peak in the 70’s and especially after John died. That image has gradually been reassessed. His interviews used to be more interesting because he was often asked more interesting questions by his contemporaries rather than the same old questions by younger people who now treat him like an elder statesman. Also, everyone mellows as they get older and lose a little bit of edge, although he was never known as particularly edgy, but he was a Beatle so there was always that touch of insouciance.
@@johnp515 Well, I was never talking about his perception in this scenario. Perception is always very subjective, it always exists in different pole and it’s only sometimes that one side gets more vocal and gets more attention than the other.
His 90s one with Conan is quite good
@@micahlingle1060 and, the one with Bob Costas.
7:43; hahaha. I wonder if the subtext of this is McCartney’s troubles with publishing and not owning all his own material.
Your mic went off & it was funny?
Erinnere ihn mal bitte an seinen Fan aus Deutschland. Postcard is coming before his Tour. And please, please me, autograph for ,,the old ,not little girl,, in Hessen. Lg Ellen 😍
I would have liked Jane to have interviewed Paul but she didn’t seem to like him or the Beatles. She was a bit nasty to Linda. It seems that her husband Garry introduced her to it. Which seems odd to me. She was old enough to know Beatlemania and her cohort girl were into it. When she was in Chicago, she didn’t interview him. I always wondered why.
He looks really high LoL 🤣🤣
Not at all
He looks like David Hemmings.
You could say that David Hemmings became a star thanks to Paul McCartney. Michelangelo Antonioni actually wanted McCartney to star in his film Blow Up, and ended choosing Hemmings because he looked like him.
Billy's either 86 or 87 now & was born this month.Happy birthday Billy Beatle!
Yawn
How can people not see the differences after 1966. It is mind boggling.
Tara browne aka Paul mccartney
my daughter loves your hair look. She bragged that it’s long in the back. We used to make fun or the boys. “Shlong” short & the rest in the long. I think Erik & the moody blues are dull.
❤ Paul just makes my day
high as a kite.
I adore Billy.
Yawn
@@johnp515 They cant SEE that HIS right eye is a fake
It’s not easy to play an instrument?
I am not able to do that. I love that your wife and children love you.
He´s such a wonderful cheese salad.
Billy Shears Interview
His name is Paul McCartney not Macca.
NEWS FLASH SLICK MACCA was john's nickname for PAUL
Not sure about how he portrays Linda here… like yep she’s ok and she cooks…
Monitor wasn't working. He should've pulled an Elton John & threw a major tantrum!!!!
@Rockit 65 Paul McCartney wouldn't do that.
my little 3-year-old-girl is the same age as Beatrice. You & John were the “wrong” crowd?
My daughter’s friends keep changing their pronouns.
I DISAGREE
I AM OPEN TO INTELLIGENCE.
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Billy Billy Billy 👍
This interview proves once and for all that this Paul was the best Replacement Paul anybody could have hoped for after that sudden tragedy in Cheslewickstonminster. He has been with us longer, flown higher, and is still going. It's time we acknowledged that This Paul is the Real Paul McCartney (RPM).
James Paul McCartney died in car crash on September 11 1966 and was replaced by William (Billy). This is THE TRUTH no matter what.
Ah Billy !!!!
Ah silly !!!!
@@elizabethfonseca922 So you haven’t yet heard of the 5th Beatle, Billy Preston
@@pattyayers oh really?
The name keeps changing, I heard Billy Shears once.
It's all teen stuff, you know, so childish, so flat Earth-ish. I don't engage in conspiracy theories.
@@elizabethfonseca922 does he look like the original ? Take a good look and remember what heathet mills said.
@@elizabethfonseca922 its not a conspiracy theory take a really good look at Paul after 66.
@paulMcCartney 🤣
Billy Shears
Truly right. This is not Paul. He died 20 years earlier and was replaced with Billy "Shears" Campbell
Paul OR Faul ???
James Paul McCartney died in car crash on September 11 1966 and was replaced by William (Billy). This is THE TRUTH no matter what.
what’s with the Paul Is Dead autism in this comment section 😂😂
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I always loved Paul McCartney but I did think he had sold out and was an old establishment figure by this point. He was only 43/44 here. It is interesting how conservative he became and I wonder how different his music might have been had John survived and been writing music that was political and with real depth in the lyrics.
He seems to forget that the establishment went after them and they even planted drugs on John. I know he is just a musician but he could have raised his voice for the working classes that are still basically treated as second-class (literally) citizens. Instead, he has done what many working-class people do who make good, simply move up to the middle classes.
Live Aid London was pompous, self congratulatory crap. It was like punk had never happened. The Philadelphia set was marginally less awful.
Now Tina can meet the real James Paul McCartney 💔🙏
Too bad he charges criminal amounts to see his shows. The greed is unbelievable. Even nosebleed seats for a Paul McCartney show will set you back hundreds; good seats cost thousands.
You can see Ringo on the other hand for well under a hundred and get great seats for under $200
Other surviving acts from that era like the Stones and The Who are also quite reasonably priced.
But McCartney tickets are ridiculously expensive.
And most of the stuff he's made since The Beatles split has sucked; mostly shallow pop dreck. There are exceptions of course but it's been mostly dreck.
He has a great setlist however so I would see him if he didn't charge criminal prices.
The average Paul McCartney ticket price is $860 USD. The best seats for thousands. It's insane.
He's trying his best to speak with an American accent.
Without trying to sound like VIV
I thought the thumbnail was Richard Madely. I'm not that bothered about McCartney to be honest, or indeed the Beatles. Needless to say I won't be watching the video, sorry. It's neither what I was looking for nor the kind of video im interested in.
yawn, yes we`ve know you don`t like the Beatles yawn yawn...you couldn`t wait to tell us though
Thanks for clearing that up I'll be able to sleep tonight