Speaking of The Beatles. If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the video below, which is a combination of the sublime and the surreal.
Paul McCartney joined Neil Young onstage at his concert in Hyde Park, London, a few days ago for Young’s closing number, The Beatles’ A Day In The Life. McCartney joins in mid-song to pick up the singing on the bit he wrote of The Beatles classic from Sgt. Pepper’s, a song with which Young evidently has been closing recent shows.
The sometimes ragged collaboration finishes with Young literally ripping the strings off his Les Paul and then joining Macca at the vibraphone for a little one-note finale or something like that.
I have loved Neil Young since 1970, and wish I had been in Hyde Park for that.
John Lennon, of whom there is probably more in ‘ADITL” than there is of Paul McCartney, was the Beatle who appealed most to me.
Right now, I would bet the ranch that Paul and his accountants are trying to get the non-Sony half of the Beatles songs back from the Jackson estate.
I’ve also been a fan of Neil Young for at least that long. His early albums are among my favorites and his work in the Buffalo Springfield was groundbreaking.
I’m also with you on Lennon. I would suppose it would only be natural for the surviving Beatles, particularly McCartney, to recoup control over most of his song catalogue. I can’t say I necessarily blame him. He was quite miffed at the time when Jackson bought the rights.