Telegraph: концерт Маккартни на O2 Arena 23 мая 2015 года стал "кружащим голову мастер-классом"

Концерт Пола Маккартни на O2 Arena стал "кружащим голову мастер-классом", пишет Джеймс Холл в своей рецензии для The Telegraph . Ш оу получило от газеты пять звезд из пяти. По словам обозревателя, наблюдать за почти трехчасовым выступлением Маккартни — абсолютная честь.

Музыканту 72 года и у него один из лучших музыкальных каталогов: его можно было бы простить, если бы он дал "инертное" и "поверхностное" обзорное шоу, говорится в статье. Однако, отмечает Холл, "пенсионер" пробрался в свое музыкальное хранилище с такой же энергией и проворством, с какой пожилые грабители пробирались некоторое время назад в хранилище Хаттон-Гарден (речь идет о громком преступлении в Лондоне , недавно правоохранительные органы задержали подозреваемых в возрасте от 48 до 75 лет).

Как пишет Холл, Маккартни выдавал зрителям один драгоценный камень за другим из своего потрясающего сета. А поскольку сэр Пол еще и прирожденный рассказчик, концерт был "приправлен" анекдотами, сообщает обозреватель. Кроме того, в ходе шоу были сделаны трогательные посвящения Джону Леннону, Линде Маккартни и Джорджу Харрисону. "Это был кружащий голову мастер-класс от великого новатора музыки", – заключил Холл.

Сет-лист от 23 мая 2015 года выглядел так: 1. Eight Days a Week 2. Save Us 3. Can't Buy Me Love … 4. Listen to What the Man Said 5. Temporary Secretary 6. Let Me Roll It 7. Paperback Writer 8. My Valentine 9. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five 10. The Long and Winding Road 11. Maybe I'm Amazed 12. I've Just Seen a Face 13. We Can Work It Out 14. Another Day 15. Hope for the Future 16. And I Love Her 17. Blackbird 18. Here Today 19. New 20. Queenie Eye 21. Lady Madonna 22. All Together Now 23. Lovely Rita 24. Eleanor Rigby 25. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! 26. Something 27. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 28. Band on the Run 29. Back in the U.S.S.R. 30. Let It Be 31. Live and Let Die 32. Hey Jude Encore: #1 33. Another Girl 34. Hi, Hi, Hi 35. I Saw Her Standing There (with Dave Grohl) Encore 2: 36. Yesterday 37. Helter Skelter 38. Golden Slumbers 39. Carry That Weight 40. The End

https://www.beatles.ru/news/news.asp?news_id=11509

Что тут скажешь... Пол молодчина, но, вот неспетых жемчужин у него еще очень, очень много. Я вот например думаю, что уже никто и никогда не услышит вживую со сцены песни 'Tug Of War' или 'No More Lonely Nights'. Дай Бог ошибиться.

О, вот это интересно! Песня замечательная.

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УХ, ты, класс!
Вот это здорово: удивил.

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О, что-то новенькое.

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Вчера, перед концертом в O2 Арена

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The live Temporary Secretary

When Paul McCartney played his song "Temporary Secretary" live in London last night, it was a dream come true for many of McCartney's fans. The song was described by Rolling Stone magazine as a cult favourite, and an "oddly catchy electro-pop nugget, about a slightly creepy-sounding guy looking to hire a temp." Yet it ranked 36 on their list of all-time Paul McCartney post-Beatles songs, while at the same time it placed at 7 on their list of the 12 weirdest McCartney songs. On that list, they described it thusly: "An insane highlight of McCartney II. It's got a classic McCartney melody and lyric – set over bleeping music that could be drawn from an 8-bit Nintendo game. It sounds like McCartney is trying to simultaneously invent drum and bass and They Might Be Giants."

The song was released on the highly experimental, yet strangely popular "McCartney II" album in 1980. At a time when many 7" singles were followed by a 12" maxi single release, often containing a longer mix of the A-side, "Temporary Secretary" was a 12" maxi single only. I desperately wanted to get that single, but I was unsucessful at the time - I don't think it was released in Norway at all. I did manage to find a copy a couple of years after it's release, when a guy on the other side of town sold his record collection. The reason why I needed the single was both because it had a great picture sleeve, and because the B-side, the 10+ minutes long "Secret Friend" was not released anywhere else. Contemporary Beatles biographers Roy Carr and Tony Tyler describe "Secret Friend" as sounding like "the unobtrusive soundtrack to ten minute second feature on alpaca-combing in Peru." The single was limited to 25000 copies and therefore failed to chart. A 7" single exists only as a demo for radio stations.

Part of the Parlophone R-series, it had the catalogue number 12 R 6039. "McCartney II" was a vanity project for Paul, as well as an outlet for his more experimental side. The album was never intended for release at all, but he used to play a cassette copy to his friends. After they all had urged him to release it, he cut down the double album's length by chucking out the most experimental tracks, and released it as a single album. The original double album was later released under ground as a bootleg. Two of the songs that were removed from the album line-up appeared as B-sides to singles, "Check My Machine" was the B-side to "Waterfalls". "McCartney II" was his first album after Wings, and even though he did intend to keep the band going after this, it wasn't to be. Paul McCartney handles the vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards and drums on "Temporary Secretary".

"It's like a disposable secretary, and it struck me as being funny. The song is written from the point of view of a fellow who just wants a disposable secretary, and he's writing to a bureau to try and get one. I just like the idea. I just thought it was funny, you know, asking for a temporary secretary rather than a secretary."

"That sound on the track, which is like a space typewriter, is a sequence machine. I used that to give me a tempo and, again, I just made the song up as I went along. It was a little influenced by Ian Dury." —Paul McCartney.

The "Mr Marks" in the lyrics would have been very familiar to brits, because the Alfred Marks recruitment agency used to have posters on the streets and in shop windows, advertising temporary and permanent staff to a wide range of job sectors. I remember seeing such posters when I first visited London in 1982. To McCartney, this was a joke - because a radio comedian when McCartney grew up was also called Alfred Marks. "It was just the funny paradox of seeing adverts for the Alfred Marks Bureau, the idea of some comedian having a bureau was just funny." The Alfred Marks Bureau was sold to Adecco in 1983.

"I did have temporary secretaries. After I left Apple I still had business stuff coming up, so in trying to figure out how I could cope with that there were a couple of times I just grabbed someone to just put my letters in order and help. But that track isn't about a specific person. It said 'Temporary Secretary', and I thought, that's a kind of funky thought. Then there was the secretary thing: take a letter Miss Smith, sit on my lap... all that kind of stuff." —Paul McCartney, The Quietus, 2011

Contemporary Beatles biographers Roy Carr and Tony Tyler describe "Temporary Secretary" as being built from an initial, repetitive synthesizer theme, with more substantial instrumental portions added over time, and finally an insubstantial vocal. They complain that the song was done without commitment and that it "grows irritating towards the end."

In 2011, reviewing the McCartney Archive reissue of McCartney II, music website popmatters.com said:

"Temporary Secretary” is a manic, futuristic laser blast with an actual melody simmering underneath. It would be pointless to compare it to anything McCartney had ever done before, and would be equally so to compare it to anyone else as it couldn’t possibly be anyone else. More than any other song on either eponymous album, “Temporary Secretary” illustrates the complex nature of Paul McCartney’s musical output."

The song is probably much more popular in Great Britain and Europe than in the USA. In 2014 "Temporary Secretary" was ranked the 167th greatest song of all time by critics of NME magazine. They described it as "wonky electro-pop that didn't sound so much ahead of its time as out of it altogether."

I remember that when Paul did his 2004 European tour (essentially a warm-up tour for his concert at Glastonbury), there were rumours among the fans about "Temporary Secretary" being included. However, the song was only featured in the pre-concert music mix. Recently, McCartney's keyboard player Paul "Wix" Wickens was heard rehearsing the basic track of the song at a soundcheck, which rekindled McCartney's fan's hopes to get to hear the song performed live - and yesterday they were finally rewarded at London's O2 Arena.

Here is a YouTube upload of the faithful live performance, and another uploader describes it as "Paul finally plays his biggest hit live!". I know what he means. To a McCartney fan, the live performance of "Temporary Secretary" is more important than the inclusion of another hitherto unplayed Beatles track. For regular concert goers, it's a likely bathroom break.

http://wogew.blogspot.no/2015/05/the-live-temporary-secretary.html?m=1

Очередной отличный материал от Wogew (Roger Stromo)

Браво! Вот с этим бы шоу - да в Москву!!!))

Ну,блин, нашёл, чего спеть...

Супер! Верю, что он и в девяносто два споет!

Очень хороший отчет о концерте от Ричарда Поттера из Лондона.

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Все трое детей и 8 внуков на концерте!

На фото внуки показывают деду заготовленные дома надписи.

2Corvin:

>Все трое детей и 8 внуков на концерте!

Наверное все в Лондоне обитают, и легче собраться вместе.

Another day - Another girl

Только что приехал с обеих концертов (и одного саундчека). Были опасения по поводу голоса, но готов заявить официально, что с голосом у НЕГО всё в порядке. Два дня подряд по 40 песен в день (не считая саундчеков) - кто ещё так сможет в 72 года?
На первом концерте довелось сидеть на первом ряду и перед исполнением "Another day" я стал кричать "Another Girl". Пол сделал вид, что не слышит и переспросил "What?", а потом указал рукой и сказал "This is is for you as i can't understand what you are shouting"...

После Back in the USSR Пол охотно рассказывал историю о том, как он был на приёме у российских официальных лиц и т.п. Про годовщину концерта на КП, правда не сказал, но, наверное, это был не тот случай.

p.s. фотоотчёт чуть погодя.

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