I received a request last week from a reader/listener to feature a rarity from Paul McCartney’s “Flaming Pie era” (circa 1997), so for this weeks BROW I’m serving up a recording made on November 20th of that year when Paul paid a visit on the Oprah Winfrey show to promote his new album. Paul was not accompanied with a band at the time but he had pre-recorded all backing instruments and backing vocals especially for the show’s performance which enabled him to sing and play guitar live with the backing in this account of Young Boy. The song has a slightly different feel than the version we hear on the Flaming Pie CD since the official version features Steve Miller on backing vocals and guitar and here Paul is playing all instruments and handling all vocals himself. Paul also performed the title track from Flaming Pie using pre-recorded backing as well, and also a quick keyboard solo of Lady Madonna. At the end of the show, the world premier of his Beautiful Night video was aired which featured Ringo Starr (although a scene of extremely brief nudity was censored from the video to make it suitable for us here in the “land of the free”). The show aired 4 days later on November 24th.

Paul McCartney on the Oprah show, 1997

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