Paul McCartney Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED

hi there it's Paul McCartney I'm doing wired autocomplete interview Google is Paul McCartney no I am poor Google is Google okay thank you where's Paul McCartney nicknamed maka cuz I'm from Liverpool and they abbreviate everything in Liverpool Oh McCartney needs to be too formal for a mucker so George Harrison a classic John Lennon Lenny so they just abbreviate everything there and so that's why it's a deviation derivation of McCartney where's Paul McCartney wearing an OP badge well if I knew it or not badge was I would tell you I suspect it's the thing a badge I had on the Sergeant Pepper thing just like a Canadian thingy I never found out what it was I just liked the badge why did Paul McCartney write let it be I had a dream it was in the years when we're probably overdoing everything drinking and getting staying out too late and getting crazy so I was a bit so exhausted I went to bed and he had a dream and my mother who died probably about ten years previously was in the dream she came to me in the Train it's a magic moment because you're actually there with your mother so she seemed to know that I was a bit stressed out and she said don't worry it's gonna be fine just let it be myself Wow and just felt really great that my mother had given me that advice and woke up and was just remembering the dream and I thought what did she say she didn't let it be and so I thought that was a great idea for a song so I went to the piano and wrote it now I'm gonna look at the last question unfortunately you won't at home won't be able to see this last question how dare you ask me that when did Paul McCartney become sir few years ago I don't actually remember what year it was well it's amazing because the first thing you hear you've got a letter through the post saying you're going to be knighted but don't tell anyone so that's a pretty buzzy letter to get it's very exciting actually you have to be a bit of a Royalist you have to think that the Queen is cool some people actually turn it down but anyway it's great you get to visit Buckingham Palace and you go in there and you're in a room full of people who are getting honoured and the guy comes in the aquarii some kind of military guy explains what you have to do how you have to approach the Queen you have to kind of walk in and then look at her and then walk straight ahead and then just bow your head a little bit the Queen takes a sword at this point you have to be very trusty she could do anything with that sword one shoulder the other shoulder and then says arise Sir Paul McCartney okay when did Paul McCartney write yesterday 60 19 or something like that I'm not very good on dates it was in the 60s shortly before we recorded it so you can look it up great thing about yesterday was it kind of wrote itself people say to me do you believe in mysticism and magic with that story I kind of have to because I just woke up one morning I was this dude what's that I like that tune after a couple of weeks of asking various people like John the eyes in the band George Martin everyone said well we don't know you know must be yours and it was it's very special because I say I just dreamed it what a gift I think a lot of people dream and this music in the dream they just go oh I was at a Stones concert and they were doing this you know I've done that too and they've been doing a song I don't know can I wake up Wow and they sometimes you can't remember yeah so that's how yesterday happened in early 60s that's as close as I can get all right Wendy Paul McCartney and wings breakup 70s sometimes no I'm you know the trouble is I'm too busy doing stuff to remember all the days just ask a fan they know the dates and you know the loads of people actually know stuff but when we broke up I think it's not an exact day I think it would be after a trip when I went to Japan and got busted I think that didn't help right when did Paul McCartney learn to play the piano when I was a kid we had a piano in the house my dad played it I've read stuff that lots of people in those days all over the world really had pianos in the houses it was it's like having a computer these days everyone's got one and that was the way people entertained themselves because there wasn't much other entertainment you know the going back before TV even you know so yeah we had a piano in the house a nice and just noodle on it and I asked my dad to teach me but he wouldn't he said you've got to get proper lessons so I took proper lessons and couldn't really get on with it because the music I was hearing in my head wasn't do-do-do-do do-do-do-do-do do-do-do-do-do this is like extremely you know I couldn't do that now you know I think kids learning continue I don't want to tell you not to but I just couldn't ever get it we get with it I kind of learned myself I just picked out chords on the piano that would have been when I was about 14 also when did join the Beatles I should know that yeah I mean I was like a teenager and John had a group that was actually called the quarry man and I joined them and when I was a teenage so I would be sixteen seventeen or something and then that became the Beatles the quarry man some of the members fell away George joined and then eventually Ringo joined so that would be like I I think the Beatles was when I was about 19 did the Beatles play at Woodstock no they didn't did the Beatles and Elvis ever meet yeah we did he was in Hollywood and he was renting a house while he was doing movies and we had wanted to meet him for years we rely massive fans of Elvis even though the sad thing was we kind of knocked him off his perch we didn't mean to you know he was the star and we became the stars and kind of his ii-era sort of ended you know we never liked that so he was so keen to meet him and we went to this house and the four of us all together and he came to the door which is a matter of dispute because we did this story once and Ringo said no we didn't he was sitting on the couch I say no he didn't he came to the door so my story which I leave is the correct one sorry Ringo is that he came to the door looking great looking really cool slacks and a kind of uh I think it was like a red red jumper it was amazing I mean it was just like a dream really meeting Elvis we'd fantasized about him since we were kind of young teenagers and here he was in the flesh so it was great it was lovely I I knew that he played a bit of bass so he and I chatted about what pace is he playing a more place I played and stuff and the most amazing things beside actually just meeting him but he had the first remote television channel changer that we ever seen you know because it you know it was that year when they came out and he was just aiming it at the TV and the channels were changing he is indeed the mighty God if we can turn the channels without approaching this television set so we were very impressed by their did the ripples and stones get along yeah we did it and we do to this day because the thing was we were all young guys who were just coming into the music business we all had a lot in common and we would meet each other in clubs or TV programs that we were all doing and we'd hang out socially you know yeah we we knew them quite well you know and a lot of fun and stuff I don't quite know how the room got started that you know we were rivals I mean me and John actually wrote their first hit which is I want to be your man so we couldn't have been that much rivals no we really liked I'm going to say to this day yeah I go to the shows and we sometimes get to hang out a bit good group not as good as the Beatles but good okay did the Beatles use a click track no because there were no such things click tracks and in actual fact it was a good thing because you just had to hold the tempo and if you ever went off if you're a good band you just go with that little you know drummers notoriously speed up I don't really think Ringo ever dead he held a really good temper but if he did we just go with him we could absorb that little thing but he hardly ever did and you know it's a great trauma so we didn't need a click track we can also we didn't have one even if we needed one did the beatles were wigs yes and i'm wearing one of them now I've had it colored to be appropriate to my age and this is a wig no it isn't and no we didn't wear wigs you know how that came no they really would there were no wigs involved but what used to happen people would tell us when we went on The Ed Sullivan Show first appearance on American TV all the dads who were probably very jealous of these fine heads of hair that we had and we were shaking and doing things with them and the dads of a lot of kids you saw the wigs wearing wigs oh no they would have talked to American ah there were wigs hey there me I wasn't wearing wigs so anyway they weren't wigs and I but I think that's maybe worth is the rumor started okay can Paul McCartney speak German yeah and best you'd be covered ask him Shula gallant okay give it up little word if you ever trying to go to Germany you need to know he's okay now I mean it's like yeah okay okay now you say that's virtually everything can Paul McCartney play violin no it's a completely different ball game from guitar I mean if you can play guitar you can kind of play bass because that's the same ball game but violin is different tuning and a much more difficult instrument for me to play so I can't play violin can Paul McCartney read can Paul McCartney pull tapes off component can't read sheet music kind of I can I can kind of follow it really it tell you the truth with sheet music we looked for guitar chords well if the lyrics and the guitar chords and all the dots passed us by you can see it goes up on boom boom yeah boom boom boom I mean to that extent I can I can read it but not really if it gets complicated know what instruments can paul mccartney cell can Paul McCartney eat play well it's probably play guitar which is kind of what I started on actually I started on trumpet so I can't play when the saints go marching in so yeah then I learned to play guitar and then after that bit of piano and you know when I say I can play them people say oh we can play these things I'm not really a great pianist or great guitarist but for my purposes and you know when you write a song I can play the stuff I write but then if someone says to me yeah oh you know play stairway to paradise I wouldn't know how to play well yeah I can roughly play piano I play drums but again you know if you put me in whiplash that guy would kill me I can't really do that kind of drumming but I don't really like that kind of drum but I can do that kind of drum and I can do and I've learned a bit of mandolin or ukulele you know it's a few little instruments like that is Paul McCartney happy oh yes at this moment don't get me mad is Paul McCartney a Liverpool fan okay now that's a long story my dad was born in Everton which is the other Liverpool team so officially I'm an Everton fan because that's our family team what I knew the players and the managers of Liverpool years ago and they they did so great and they were big fans of mine so I'm a Liverpool and ever than you fan I know it's not strictly allowed but I got special dispensation from the Pope okay is Paul McCartney a vegan no he isn't he's a vegetarian but eats cheese I'll tell you why it's it's a compassion thing for animals and it's a kind of thing that I recognize that a lot of people think it's dumb I mean actually less people these days than before but a lot of people think oh yeah but to me all the creatures on the planet that live on this planet this one little sphere in space we've all got a shot at our life and so many animals don't I like the idea of giving them their little shots plus I'm very happy being rich saying you can get loads of vegetarian options these days so it's not like it wasn't the old days when you just got the boiled sprout is Paul McCartney it's public and he's huffed and often abased the original yeah it's one of the originals I had two but one got stolen and we still don't know where it is just somewhere along the way the one I was using just vanished with no idea where it went but the one I'm using is one of the originals it's one that I've used for a long time it's an interesting note to think where did that one go because no one can bring it out because everyone knows it's mine they've got pictures of it so my theory is and it's kind of half fantasy but it's that you go to some German Castle way in the hills of Bavaria and you'll have a dinner and then the host will say come let me show you something and you go up into this little room and there's my base over his mantelpiece there could be just a fantasy do you know I always like hearing what people have are interested in and interesting for me it's interested to hear what people don't know you know a lot of hardcore fans know these answers actually better than I do but it's nice I like that people are even bothered to write into to join in the conversations I think that's a cool thing so my new album is called Egypt station and you can check out my live performance from Grand Central Station on my youtube channel check it out

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Length: 15min 13sec (913 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 13 2018

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[u/yoursweetlord70]

Entertaining as always, I was laughing my ass off at the wigs comment and also his fantasy about his bass being in some german guy's castle

[u/sad_john]

This was great! He seems so genuinely happy in this video, maybe it was refreshing for him to have a different interview format. It has always been hilarious to me how he can’t remember any dates.

[u/eltatuajefalso]

Man, Paul really went the extra mile to promote this album.

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[u/okayturbodude]

This man is an international treasure

What did we do to deserve him?

[u/hitchcockbrunette]

What a clean old man

[u/UpYourFidelity]

Wow never thought he'd do one of these. Super happy great video as well.

[u/neurofeels]

His impressions are wonderful. And I'm so glad he's happy :)

[u/pmnettlea]

I love him destroying that first board. I bet it was something to do with him being dead. Laugh out loud moment.