Navigation

    Paul McCartney
    • Register
    • Login
    • Search
    • Categories
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Groups

    Macca - We are begging for forgiveness -- 08-Jun -- Brooklyn

    ROCK SHOW
    15
    36
    6133
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • M
      meuarsault last edited by

      Dear Paul, The US would like to personally apologize for their taste in music when you released the Mull of Kintyre single. Those were troubled times for the US and we are asking for your compassion and understanding for NOT achieving the chart success it did worldwide. We all live in a much more global world now and it is with this spirit that we ask, BEG, that you play Mull of Kintyre, 08-Jun at the Barclay's Center. When I asked my kids this week what three songs they wanted to hear the most, the response was unanimous: Eight Days A Week (check!); Band On the Run (check!) and... and... Mull of Kintyre. Sir Paul, I can't imagine a better place to make the US Live debut of this song than the Barclay's Center Saturday the 8th (not Monday the 10th, mind you). Thanks for your consideration, Everyone In America

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
      • J
        John Mackintosh last edited by

        meuarsault:

        Dear Paul, The US would like to personally apologize for their taste in music when you released the Mull of Kintyre single. Those were troubled times for the US and we are asking for your compassion and understanding for NOT achieving the chart success it did worldwide. We all live in a much more global world now and it is with this spirit that we ask, BEG, that you play Mull of Kintyre, 08-Jun at the Barclay's Center. When I asked my kids this week what three songs they wanted to hear the most, the response was unanimous: Eight Days A Week (check!); Band On the Run (check!) and... and... Mull of Kintyre. Sir Paul, I can't imagine a better place to make the US Live debut of this song than the Barclay's Center Saturday the 8th (not Monday the 10th, mind you). Thanks for your consideration, Everyone In America

        As a fellow American, let me be the first to endorse your plea. I journeyed all the way to Toronto three years ago to hear that played live. I was one of the relatively few Americans who bought and loved the single back in 1977. That song, along with my Scottish family background, influenced me in moving back to the land of my great-grandfather where I attended graduate school. I and many others would love to have at as part of the encore here in the U.S.

        New York City-1989; Boston-1990; Raleigh, N.C.-1990, 2002; Columbia, S.C.-1993, 2015 Charlotte, N.C.-1993, 2010; Toronto-2010-MULL OF KINTYRE AT LAST!!   Cincinnati-2011; Washington, D.C.-2013; Atlanta-1990. 1993. 2002, 2005, 2009, 2014. Knoxville-2022

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
        • oobu24
          oobu24 last edited by

          begging for forgiveness?

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
          • A
            admin last edited by

            What troubled times? I remember GIRLS SCHOOL being released here with MULL OF KINTYRE. GIRLS SCHOOL was the song the USA embraced, or was marketed here, and not MULL. And McCartney doesn't play MULL at every show outside of the USA, just a handful, actually. I think a better argument is that there are many people of Scottish ancestry in the USA, so Paul should play MULL here, or at least when he plays cities that have a lot of Scots or Scots-Irish people.

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
            • harleyblues
              harleyblues last edited by

              Hardly, Silly Love Songs & Uncle Albert are number one for song requests!~

              Paul isn't God but he's close to it ")

              http://harleyblues2007.blogspot.com/
              Sir Paul McCartney & The Beatles g band Purple melon

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
              • A
                admin last edited by

                meuarsault:

                Dear Paul, The US would like to personally apologize for their taste in music when you released the Mull of Kintyre single. Those were troubled times for the US and we are asking for your compassion and understanding for NOT achieving the chart success it did worldwide. We all live in a much more global world now and it is with this spirit that we ask, BEG, that you play Mull of Kintyre, 08-Jun at the Barclay's Center. When I asked my kids this week what three songs they wanted to hear the most, the response was unanimous: Eight Days A Week (check!); Band On the Run (check!) and... and... Mull of Kintyre. Sir Paul, I can't imagine a better place to make the US Live debut of this song than the Barclay's Center Saturday the 8th (not Monday the 10th, mind you). Thanks for your consideration, Everyone In America

                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
                • beatlesfanrandy
                  beatlesfanrandy last edited by

                  meuarsault:

                  Dear Paul, The US would like to personally apologize for their taste in music when you released the Mull of Kintyre single. Those were troubled times for the US and we are asking for your compassion and understanding for NOT achieving the chart success it did worldwide. We all live in a much more global world now and it is with this spirit that we ask, BEG, that you play Mull of Kintyre, 08-Jun at the Barclay's Center. When I asked my kids this week what three songs they wanted to hear the most, the response was unanimous: Eight Days A Week (check!); Band On the Run (check!) and... and... Sir Paul, I can't imagine a better place to make the US Live debut of this song than the Barclay's Center Saturday the 8th (not Monday the 10th, mind you). Thanks for your consideration, Everyone In America

                  You do not speak for "Everyone In America" nor do you speak for me in apologizing for taste in music. : I like Mull of Kintyre, but not that much. I don't really like bagpipes. I liked Girls School much better, and I would rather hear that Wings song. I also think you overstate that it was a "big hit worldwide" Britain sure, and maybe some former Colonies. Ouch!

                  Wings Over America - Cow Palace SF - June 1976. New World Tour - Anaheim Stadium - 4/17/93. Driving USA - Oakland Arena - 4/1/2002. US Tour - HP Pavilion - San Jose - 11/08/05. An Evening with Paul McCartney - The Joint at Hard Rock - Las Vegas - 4/19/09. Up & Coming Tour - Hollywood Bowl - 3/31/10. Walk of Fame Star Presentation - Hollywood - Feb. 2012. CBS-TV taping - The Night That Changed America (with Ringo!)  - L.A. Convention Center - Jan. 2014. Out There Tour -Dodger Stadium - Los Angeles - Aug. '14 and Petco Park - San Diego - Sept. '14. Petco Park - San Diego - June 2019.  Got Back Tour - SoFi Stadium - Los Angeles - May 2022

                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
                  • A
                    admin last edited by

                    C'mon, people. Where's your sense of humor?

                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
                    • J
                      John Mackintosh last edited by

                      beatlesfanrandy:

                      meuarsault:

                      Dear Paul, The US would like to personally apologize for their taste in music when you released the Mull of Kintyre single. Those were troubled times for the US and we are asking for your compassion and understanding for NOT achieving the chart success it did worldwide. We all live in a much more global world now and it is with this spirit that we ask, BEG, that you play Mull of Kintyre, 08-Jun at the Barclay's Center. When I asked my kids this week what three songs they wanted to hear the most, the response was unanimous: Eight Days A Week (check!); Band On the Run (check!) and... and... Sir Paul, I can't imagine a better place to make the US Live debut of this song than the Barclay's Center Saturday the 8th (not Monday the 10th, mind you). Thanks for your consideration, Everyone In America

                      You do not speak for "Everyone In America" nor do you speak for me in apologizing for taste in music. : I like Mull of Kintyre, but not that much. I don't really like bagpipes. I liked Girls School much better, and I would rather hear that Wings song. I also think you overstate that it was a "big hit worldwide" Britain sure, and maybe some former Colonies. Ouch!

                      I think this post is meant to be more humorous than serious. Probably not a ghost of a chance that he will play Mull in America. Since Paul won't import it, best chance to hear it on this tour is to head to Winnipeg. My old issues of Beatlefan show he played it there in 1993. Wish I could do but Toronto 2010 will have to be my only Paul Canadian concert foray.

                      New York City-1989; Boston-1990; Raleigh, N.C.-1990, 2002; Columbia, S.C.-1993, 2015 Charlotte, N.C.-1993, 2010; Toronto-2010-MULL OF KINTYRE AT LAST!!   Cincinnati-2011; Washington, D.C.-2013; Atlanta-1990. 1993. 2002, 2005, 2009, 2014. Knoxville-2022

                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
                      • A
                        admin last edited by

                        audi:

                        C'mon, people. Where's your sense of humor?

                        Thank you. Not sure why anyone's getting their feathers ruffled over something that is clearly meant to be funny. It made me laugh.

                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
                        • A
                          admin last edited by

                          Halifax NS-2009 Mull of Kintyre...was so epic!!!

                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
                          • thenightfish
                            thenightfish last edited by

                            John Mackintosh:

                            Probably not a ghost of a chance that he will play Mull in America. Since Paul won't import it, best chance to hear it on this tour is to head to Winnipeg.

                            He will probably play it in Ottawa and Regina, too. I believe he has played it at every Canadian show except for the shows he's done in Quebec province. I have seen Mull several times, and every one of those performances has been in either Scotland, or in Canada.

                            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
                            • J
                              John Mackintosh last edited by

                              thenightfish:

                              John Mackintosh:

                              Probably not a ghost of a chance that he will play Mull in America. Since Paul won't import it, best chance to hear it on this tour is to head to Winnipeg.

                              He will probably play it in Ottawa and Regina, too. I believe he has played it at every Canadian show except for the shows he's done in Quebec province. I have seen Mull several times, and every one of those performances has been in either Scotland, or in Canada.

                              Would love to have seen it in Scotland! Thus must have been superb.

                              New York City-1989; Boston-1990; Raleigh, N.C.-1990, 2002; Columbia, S.C.-1993, 2015 Charlotte, N.C.-1993, 2010; Toronto-2010-MULL OF KINTYRE AT LAST!!   Cincinnati-2011; Washington, D.C.-2013; Atlanta-1990. 1993. 2002, 2005, 2009, 2014. Knoxville-2022

                              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
                              • BOYCIE
                                BOYCIE last edited by

                                Paul rarely plays it in the UK and it's the biggest selling British single that's not a charity single, so not much hope of it in the US where it was ignored in favour of Girl's School.

                                1979 UK TOUR
                                1989/'90 WORLD TOUR
                                1993 NEW WORLD TOUR X 2
                                2003 BACK IN THE WORLD
                                2004 SUMMER TOUR
                                2010 UP AND COMING
                                2010 HAMMERSMITH
                                2011 ON THE RUN
                                2012 ALBERT HALL
                                2013 OUT THERE
                                2015 OUT THERE X 2

                                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
                                • P
                                  Perian last edited by

                                  beatlesfanrandy:

                                  I also think you overstate that it was a "big hit worldwide" Britain sure, and maybe some former Colonies. Ouch!

                                  #1 in the UK, Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and Switzerland and #2 in Norway.

                                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
                                  • year40
                                    year40 last edited by

                                    No. 1 in New Zealand too, for 7 weeks. Just before the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive", which was 2 weeks at No. 1.

                                    1976 Kansas City | 1990 Berkeley | 2002 Portland | 2005 Portland | 2013 Seattle | 2016 Portland

                                    kanye west is an asshole

                                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
                                    • A
                                      admin last edited by

                                      year40:

                                      No. 1 in New Zealand too, for 7 weeks. Just before the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive", which was 2 weeks at No. 1.

                                      Now THAT is interesting! Considering that was the era of Boogie Oogie Oogie.

                                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
                                      • beatlesfanrandy
                                        beatlesfanrandy last edited by

                                        Ane:

                                        beatlesfanrandy:

                                        I also think you overstate that it was a "big hit worldwide" Britain sure, and maybe some former Colonies. Ouch!

                                        #1 in the UK, Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and Switzerland and #2 in Norway.

                                        He can put any song he wants to in the setlist and I would like it. Unlike some people on this forum. But I don't have to like Mull because it was a big hit you know! And I know it was a big hit...As for a sense of humor, he can post it, that doesn't mean I have to go along with it! People on this forum can really be jerks sometimes.

                                        Wings Over America - Cow Palace SF - June 1976. New World Tour - Anaheim Stadium - 4/17/93. Driving USA - Oakland Arena - 4/1/2002. US Tour - HP Pavilion - San Jose - 11/08/05. An Evening with Paul McCartney - The Joint at Hard Rock - Las Vegas - 4/19/09. Up & Coming Tour - Hollywood Bowl - 3/31/10. Walk of Fame Star Presentation - Hollywood - Feb. 2012. CBS-TV taping - The Night That Changed America (with Ringo!)  - L.A. Convention Center - Jan. 2014. Out There Tour -Dodger Stadium - Los Angeles - Aug. '14 and Petco Park - San Diego - Sept. '14. Petco Park - San Diego - June 2019.  Got Back Tour - SoFi Stadium - Los Angeles - May 2022

                                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
                                        • A
                                          admin last edited by

                                          Yes...they surely can be. Especially toward first-time posters here.

                                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
                                          • Bruce M.
                                            Bruce M. last edited by

                                            I would LOVE to hear "Mull," and always thought Capitol made a huge mistake by promoting "Girl's School," which is ok but nothing special -- and wasn't a major hit. In the U.S., I think only the serious fans even know "Mull."

                                            "The only true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the nation all the time, loyalty to government when it deserves it."

                                            \--Mark Twain

                                            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote
                                            • 1
                                            • 2
                                            • 1 / 2
                                            • First post
                                              Last post
                                            • TERMS & CONDITIONS
                                            • PRIVACY