Wednesday, April 29, 2015

"Another Girl" PLAYED LIVE FOR THE FIRST TIME

Sir Paul in action(photo credit:Getty Images)


Its been almost fifty years since the Beatles played at the Budokan in Tokyo and Sir Paul McCartney is somewhat sentimental for playing there again.And one fact that Sir Paul made another first in the past 49 years by playing "Another Girl" onstage.The track which was on the band's fifth album Help! was never sung live until today.

Here are some other fun facts regarding the song:

1.On the album version it was Paul McCartney and not George Harrison who played lead guitar throughout the song.

2.The song was recorded in one take,and George Harrison's supposed to be guitar solo and lead guitar was said to have been mysteriously removed when McCartney remixed the song in the studio.

3.The song's music video which was actually a scene/song number on the Beatles' second feature film Help! was shot in Balmoral Island,Bahamas where McCartney was standing on a coral reef with a female model standing in as his "human guitar".Each of the Beatles had traded each others instruments on the video,with John Lennon playing drums,Ringo playing acoustic guitar and George Harrison playing bass.

4.Paul McCartney wrote the song himself while on a 10 day holiday in Tunisia though the track has been credited as "Lennon-McCartney" as their contract had stated.

While on his sentimental and historical performance in the Budokan,McCartney was said to have quipped
"It was sensational and quite emotional remembering the first time and then experiencing this fantastic audience tonight"

This serves as an awesome treat from Sir Paul to his Japanese fans considering that his tour of the country was cancelled last year due to illness.
Ticket to Paul's Japan concert 2015(photo credit:Karin Tokyo)


(c) Keith Vernon Adagio

1 comment:

  1. We arrived a little over an hour before the event at party venues in Houston and were told right away by our awesome waitress that a special menu on the table would begin serving half priced food that day.

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