This footage comes from The Beatles’ evening show at the Palais des Sports, Paris, France on June 20, 1965. It was recorded for French television and broadcast on October 31 of the same year.
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She’s A Woman – Live in Paris, 1965
A short Texas-style interview w/The Beatles (1964)
This week’s VOW feature comes from a local television interview in Dallas, Texas while The Beatles visited on their 1964 American Tour. This was recorded on the evening of September 18 and as you can see Paul decided to wear a cowboy hat for the occasion.
Only Love Remains – promo video (1986)
This week’s VOW is related to the BROW from earlier this week. As a promotion for his newest album Press To Play, Paul filmed a promo video in November, 1986 at Pinewood Studios in Buckingham, UK where he performed Only Love Remains before a small audience. Singing backing vocals with Linda McCartney here is Judith Light from the television show Who’s the Boss. A few days later Paul performed this song at London’s Theatre Royale for the Royal Variety Show.
Junior’s Farm – Live on ‘Wings Over Australia’ tour 1975
This clip comes from the 1975 Wings Over Australia leg of Paul McCartney & Wing’s 1975-76 World Tour. The date was November 13, 1975 and the venue was the Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne. The Wings line-up at the time was my favorite: Paul, Linda, Denny Laine, Jimmy McCulloch and Joe English. I thought the clip was of particular interest because despite the vastness of the standard McCartney catalog, there are no official live accounts of Junior’s Farm.
Borrowed Time – promo video, 1984
John Lennon went on a sailing holiday in 1980 between Newport, Rhode Island and Bermuda and along the way encountered a severe storm that lasted for several hours. The crew got seasick and fatigued causing John to have to take the wheel of the yacht alone for a few hours. This terrifying experience renewed his respect for the fragility of life and invigorated him at the same time. His recovery from a heroin addiction some years before had left him immune to seasickness, and this really paid off here. Once in Bermuda, he heard the line “living on borrowed time” from Bob Marley’s song Hallelujah Time and because of his recent near death experience wrote the lyrics about that theme. The reggae feel of the song is also inspired by Bob Marley. The song was featured on John & Yoko’s Milk And Honey album released in 1984. The video is a nice collection of snippets from John & Yoko’s past and is included on the Lennon Legend DVD.
Vertical Man – EPK, 1998
One of my favorite Ringo Starr album’s is 1998′s Vertical Man. The hit single off the album was called La De Da and along with Ringo’s regular band (Mark Hudson, Steve Dudas and Jim Cox), was his brother-in-law, Joe Walsh (doing that nice guitar work), and backing vocals by about 43 others including Paul McCartney, Barbara Bach, Steven Tyler, Nils Lofgren and Timothy B. Schmidt.
Note: Originally this post featured the La De Da promo video, but since this video has been pulled by You Tube, I have modified the post to feature the actual press kit (EPK) for the Vertical Man album which has some good snippets of La De Da and other songs on the album along with some interesting commentary from Ringo Starr. Enjoy.
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