Sao Paulo, Brazil, Allianz Parque, March 27 - CONFIRMED
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Paul McCartney: 'É tempo de falarmos a verdade'
Here is a new interview (conducted two days ago by phone and published today) about Paul's upcoming concerts in Brazil. It includes interesting questions, but since it's in Portuguese and some of them are about politics, I'll translate just a few of less controversial ones:
While Brazilians are happy that you're coming, many fans that can't afford the tickets are sad. Ticket prices are high in Brazil. Isn't it time to do a free concert here?
"A few years ago we did a show and allowed it to be broadcast on TV in Brazil, I think it was for a network called Globo. Then, even people who lived in small villages had access to the show. We do that kind of thing sometimes. I've done it in Rome for more than one million people on the streets and in Mexico, for about 500,00. It would be great to be able to do the same in Brazil".
Your latest record, 'Egypt Station', includes a story set in Brazil on the song Back in Brazil. Part of it sounds like a social criticism when you say that the girl is afraid and that “Hope starts to crumble and her dream begins to fade”. Is that a metaphor?
"That song is a love story, as it it were a movie, and I didn't think of anything else when I did it. But I like it when the song opens doors to other interpretations. If you want it, you can see it that way, I think that's great".
Are you going to play it in Brazil?
"We are rehearsing it, I don't know whether we'll have the time to learn it until then. I hope so".
You voice sometimes sounds tired at concerts and you seem to have a hard time reaching some notes. Is it becoming more difficult to do three-hour concerts?
"In which moment do you think my voice gets tired?"
"Oh, during moments of higher notes in songs like 'The Long and Winding Road', 'Oh, Darling' or at the end of 'Hey Jude', for example..."
Paul becomes silent for a moment and then lets out a scream with the highest note that he seems capable of reaching, hurting the interviewer's eardrums. Then he sings the beginning of ‘Oh, Darling’ in an equally strong way. He stops, breathes and asks: "How about that?"
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Paul McCartney Setlist of the concert at Allianz Parque - March 27, 2019
- A Hard Days Night
2) Junior's Farm
3) Can't Buy Me Love
4) Letting Go
5) Who Cares
6) Got To Get You Into My Life - Come On To Me
Let Me Roll It
9) I've Got A Feeling
10) Let 'Em In
11) My Valentine
12) Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
13) Maybe I'm Amazed
14) We Can Work It Out
15) In Spite Of All The Danger - From Me To You
17) Dance Tonight - Love Me Do
19) Blackbird
20) Here Today
21) Queenie Eye - Lady Madonna
23) Eleanor Rigby
24) Fuh You - Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite
26) Something
27) Obla Di Obla Da - Band On The Run
29) Back In The U.S.S.R
30) Let It Be - Live And Let Die
32) Hey Jude
Encore
33) Birthday
34) Sgt Pepper
35) Helter Skelter
36) Golden Slumbers /Carry That Weight / The End - A Hard Days Night
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AndrewMBarros wrote:
Paul McCartney Setlist of the concert at Allianz Parque - March 27, 2019
- A Hard Days Night
2) Junior's Farm
3) Can't Buy Me Love
4) Letting Go
5) Who Cares
6) Got To Get You Into My Life - Come On To Me
Let Me Roll It
9) I've Got A Feeling
10) Let 'Em In
11) My Valentine
12) Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
13) Maybe I'm Amazed
14) We Can Work It Out
15) In Spite Of All The Danger - From Me To You
17) Dance Tonight - Love Me Do
19) Blackbird
20) Here Today
21) Queenie Eye - Lady Madonna
23) Eleanor Rigby
24) Fuh You - Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite
26) Something
27) Obla Di Obla Da - Band On The Run
29) Back In The U.S.S.R
30) Let It Be - Live And Let Die
32) Hey Jude
Encore
33) Birthday
34) Sgt Pepper
35) Helter Skelter
36) Golden Slumbers /Carry That Weight / The EndNo Back In Brazil?!
- A Hard Days Night
