Macca - We are begging for forgiveness -- 08-Jun -- Brooklyn
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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
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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.
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begging for forgiveness?
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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.
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Hardly, Silly Love Songs & Uncle Albert are number one for song requests!~
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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
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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! 
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C'mon, people. Where's your sense of humor?
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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.
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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. 
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Halifax NS-2009 Mull of Kintyre...was so epic!!!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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No. 1 in New Zealand too, for 7 weeks. Just before the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive", which was 2 weeks at No. 1.
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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.
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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. -
Yes...they surely can be. Especially toward first-time posters here.
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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."
