Oh, Katie, you bring back some great memories. What an amazing experience for you. Just one thing, though, John Lennon was the cute one. Gosh, how I miss him - when you think of the music he and they could have given us over these last years....thanks so much for sharing.

Thanks, Zerelda! So glad you appreciated this as well. And I loved John too, for his incredible wit and intellgence and yes, his edge. I used to produce music videos back in the day, and one of my directors had also been a rock photographer, who traveled with the Stones, and shot so many iconic photos and covers, i.e, the Let It Be cover, etc. Anyways, he was the one who filmed the Imagine piece, that included John and Yoko walking through Central Park, the one that was shown over and over when John died. He was very close to John, so six degrees of separation, sort of.

In case you or anyone else is interested, here's the set list from last night (7/17). Billy Joel joined him on "I Saw Her Standing There".

Mr. McCartney’s Citi set list:

“Drive My Car”
“Jet”
“Only Mama Knows”
“Flaming Pie”
“Got To Get You Into My Life”
“Let Me Roll It” (with a “Purple Haze” coda)
“Highway”
“The Long and Winding Road”
“My Love”
“Blackbird”
“Here Today”
“Dance Tonight”
“Calico Skies”
“Mrs. Vandebilt”
“Eleanor Rigby”
“Sing the Changes”
“Band on the Run”
“Back in the U.S.S.R.”
“I’m Down”
“Something” (on ukulele)
“I’ve Got a Feeling”
“Paperback Writer”
“A Day in the Life”/“Give Peace a Chance”
“Let It Be”
“Live and Let Die”
“Hey Jude”
“Day Tripper”
“Lady Madonna”
“I Saw Her Standing There” (with Billy Joel)
“Yesterday”
“Helter Skelter”
“Get Back”
“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” (reprise)/“The End”

Wow, wish I could of been there. I am going to have to get out my Beatles records tonight, for sure. Yes, I still listen to my "records". So nostalgic.

My favorite memory of John Lennon is the way he stood on the stage with his guitar. He had a very distinctive stance. Gosh, he was dreamy. Oh man, I am reverting to my early teen years. I just need my sister squealing in my ear, and I will be back in time for sure. She was a HUGE Paul fan.

You're right about John. Feet firmly planted. I remember his look. Very determined. But he was so funny as well.

I wish I still had all those Beatle cards! I can't believe I threw them out! Chewed and awful lot of gum! I still have all my records too (LP's). Did finally get rid of the 45's.

Love this thread, katie!

Oh how I loved/love the Beatles! A bigger fan there never was (maybe you two!)

You are soooooo lucky, katie, to have seen that right there in NYC...wow!

I, too, loved watching them on Ed Sullivan in Feb. 1964! I had just turned 13 the month before. I was gone over Paul (John a close second, z)! Also, as to Paul on Dave the other night...I enjoyed the Letterman performance on the marquee immensely.

I have a scrapook of all the Beatles stuff (news articles, movie tickets, 16 mags, etc.) I still go through now and then...and also some of their records (stax o' wax!) I wish I had all their albums...I have only Beatles '65, Rubber Soul, The White Album, and Meet the Beatles.

I have a newspaper article from just a few years ago when Paul was traveling Route 66 with his current girlfriend and stopped and stayed in a hotel in Oklahoma City and ate at a local restaurant...I'll find it in my scrapbook and post the contents later....so cool....he was just like you'd think....down to earth and that legendary charm....again, you're so lucky you got to see that live deal!

That article was from a newspaper from Oklahoma City (not my town, but I do live in Oklahoma)

from: The Oklahoman --

August ? 2008 (I think it was in the first week of Aug.)

Mother Road Brings McCartney to city

by Gene Triplett
Entertainment Editor

A Bricktown restaurant employee found out something this week about Paul McCartney that most of the ex-Beatle's millions of fans could only guess---he's a big tipper.

"I'll say this," said Toby Whiteside, a staff member at Nonna's Euro-American Ristorante and Bar. "The bills will be paid on time this month."

McCartney is driving across the country on Route 66, doing it up right behind the wheel of a "classic" 1989 Ford Bronco with his girlfriend, Nancy Shevell, 47, at his side. On Tuesday the couple made Oklahoma City one of several stops on their "Mother Road" adventure, reportedly staying overnight at the Skirvin Hilton Hotel and dining at Nonna's.

Although the hotel's management would not say whether they hosted the famous pair, one of the restaurant's chefs said a Skirvin staff member called to announce the couple's impending arrival.
"They were staying at the Skirvin," said John Burruss, catering and banquet manager at Nonna's. "The Skirvin called, asked us what we could do for a vegetarian and we told them several different things, and they called back and said they wanted a quiche. At first we weren't going to do it. We had about 14 functions that day and I was standing around and I said, 'Well, I'll make a quiche. And then it turns out it was a good thing I did."

No one was sure the couple would appear until they arrived at the eatery about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. McCartney was dressed in a dark sharkskin suit and Shevell was wearing a modest, dark dress. "Let's see, I think we made him one of our regular salads with our fresh field greens that we grow at Cedar Spring Farms, our homegrown tomatoes, and he wanted a slice of avodado on top, and we put a hazelnut vinaigrette on top of that," Burruss said. Whiteside, 26, a senior bartender/server at Nonna's was elected to wait on McCartney and Shevell, who chose to eat in the main dining room instead of the private room offered to them. "He's very personable," Whiteside said. "Being Paul McCartney, I really didn't know what to expect. You don't know how these celebrities are going to act, and he was just the friendliest guy, very attentive, ... He said everything was delicious, and he struck up a lot of conversation. I was kind of trying to serve the food and get out of there and just do my job... "And then they talked to a few guests. There were a few guests that did notice who they were. They approached him and he was the nicest guy, had a conversation with a couple of guests and was just a complete gentleman to everybody. '

"He signed one of our menus and enjoyed everything. Left with a smile, shook my hand..."

Although Whiteside is too young to remember the Beatles in their heyday, he said he grew up on their music because his father "was the biggest Beatles fan I've ever met."

But Nonna's owner Avis Scaramucci, 62, remembers gathering around a television set with several of her high school friends in February 1964 and watching the "Fab Four" make their U.S. TV performance debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show."

"It's kind of I guess what you would call full-circle," Scaramucci said. "Here I was just a kid, and some 40-plus years later...first of all I never would've believed that one of those young men that I was watching would someday come visit my restaurant."

McCartney and Shevell began their journey from his holiday home in the Hamptons, N.Y. on July 31, picking up Route 66 in Illinois on a vacation trip that will take the couple all the way to Santa Monica, Calif., according to newspaper reports from cities they have passed through.

Burruss said the couple were allowed to dine without interruption from most of the restaurant's patrons.

And apparently, Burruss' quiche was a hit with the great hitmaker.

"He said they'd come back on their way through again."

Hope you don't think that's hijacking your thread, katie...but, I couldn't resist posting it, since we all love Paul/The Beatles here so far....

I loved the part about how he wanted to eat with everyone else (no special treatment/private room)...just what you'd expect!

The Beetles did not introduce us to Rock and Roll!

You're right, PinkPen. ;o) Good catch.

Hello, Drink & Smoke, miss you much. Cheers!
The Beetles were the first group to perform at Shea Stadium August 15, 1965. The band started in 1960 and was done by 1970 formeryl know as the Quarrymen. Shea Stadium's next big show was in 1970 I think in August also. Rock n' Roll started as far back as the late 20's early 30's in America! New York had already been exposed to Rock n' Roll and the Beetles music was first classified as rock. I mention in another thread that a "Hard Days Night" was just on IFC a week ago. Good stuff, but their music is now a part of the estate of the late Michael Jackson. I think it's worth about 45 million.

Wow, Wow, Wow...Katie, I have in fact met Sir Paul. I think some of you know that I hail from the same city as the Beatles and met Paul when I was 12 years of age in 1968. I am going to keep the story until we reach 1968 in a future series of MM. Everything changed so rapidly during the '60s and the group themselves underwent a sea change between 1964 and 1968 to the point that they were virtually unrecognisible from their earlier days. Not only did they change but the world turned full circle during this time and by the time we reached 'the year of revolutions' in '68 everything was so different from the early '60s of the current MM days. I'm sure as we go into the next series we will begin to see aspects of the massive social and cultural shifts that hit the planet at that time. I'm looking forward to Betts getting Don up to dance to a Beatles record!! Thats one to look out for...

My Dad saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium. He went with his brother and a friend. The audience was so loud he remembers not hearing anything. It has left him with a prejudice against outdoor and stadium concert ever since. Sometime I agree with him. But the friend he was with was a big guitar buff kept on pointing which guitars they were using.

My Dad saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium. He went with his brother and a friend. The audience was so loud he remembers not hearing anything. It has left him with a prejudice against outdoor and stadium concert ever since. Sometime I agree with him. But the friend he was with was a big guitar buff kept on pointing which guitars they were using.

I seem to recall that was the reason the Beatles quit touring (or what they said was the reason, anyway) was because they felt like no one could hear them anyway (loud audiences)....sad....

Wowee, EP...I understand your wanting to keep your meeting Paul story for later...can you at least tell us if he was like in the newspaper story I posted up there (down-to-earth and charming?) I can understand completely if you want to wait on even that, though.

Thanks, SCFan for all of your contributions! I remember when he and Nancy were touring across the country. She's a NYC girl, like Linda, (and me!). During the concert Friday night, Paul referenced the fact that they couldn't hear anything at Shea in 1965 because of the sound system and the screaming girls, at which point, all the women in Citi Field started screaming! He brought it up again a few times, and really milked it, with all of us screaming each time. It was very funny. But that's not why they broke up. It was complicated and was more about Apple, and their relationships I imagine, and less about the audiences.

Pinkpen, did you see Paul on Letterman last week? He did talk a little bit about Michael Jackson and the Lennon-McCartney catalogue that Michael bought (it's called Northern Songs, if I remember correctly from back in those days). Michael said "it was just business" and they sort of drifted apart. I hope Paul can re-acquire his music at some point. With all his holdings, it's amazing he doesn't own this.

Thanks for sharing, English Paul! But, are you really going to wait for 1968 to show up in the series to fill us in?! What if they never get there! Inquiring minds want to know................!

You said it, katie...we do want to know...let's hope EP will take pity on all us seasoned Beatlemaniacs!

Yeah, I imagine they might have just outgrown each other when they broke up...having been together so much for so long....I guess they just needed a break in general, which is perfectly understandable.

If you haven't already, Google Paul McCartney Route 66 for quite a few listings with pics and articles on all the stops they made on their across-the-USA adventure...really interesting.

EP, one more plea....if you'll post about meeting Paul, we promise to forget it by the time you post it again! (CRS, you know!)

SCfan, if you go to YouTube and type in Paul McCartney Citi Field, you'll see a lot of videos from the concert Friday night. Looks like a lot of people posted. (I only took stills.) I checked out a bunch of them and the quality varies. But you'll get the idea of how FAB it was!

To all you MM Beatlemaniacs-Yes he was down to earth (could'nt be anything else from Liverpool) As for charming...well he was with a lady and he was certainly charming to her. Enough!!! You will have to wait until later in the series...his dress, haircut, behaviour and manners were VERY 1968, not '64.
I PROMISE I will tell all in an extended post later..despite what old man Cooper said in the last series about not trusting the Brits, you can trust me. Luv to you all across the pond.

Katie, I missed Sir Paul on Letterman.

Oh, by the way Katie I think that Jackson purchased the muisc for 45 million and now it's worth 100 million. Something like that.

Thanks, katie...I'll surely do just that.

It's also on the Letterman area of CBS' site...pretty decent quality.

Katie! I saw where they scanned the crowd (the CBS video) -- did you get on TV?

If so, let us know which one you were!

Wow, wish I'd have been there!

...."comin' up!.....like a flowah!" soooooo cool!

ha

Here's a link!

http://www.cbs.com/late_show/video/mccartney.php

Great clip, SCfan, thanks. So neat that he so obviously still loves playing his music for us.

SCfan, loved your post about Sir Paul and his lady friend on Route 66. There was a big hooha in my town when someone wrote to the newspaper and swore they met the couple at the gas station. No one could believe it was actually true until someone else sent in a picture they had taken of Sir Paul and friend posing with another couple right in front of the station. Then, of course, there was major gloom 'cause everybody else missed seeing an actual Beatle in our little burg.

Yeah, z, he had a concert at the Ford Center in OKC in 2002...my niece who's 30 now (and who I infected with Beatlemania at an early age---even made her a copy of all my scrapbook "stuff" -- she asked for this as a 1998 Christmas gift! --- (included some of my original mag photos, since Yoko had/has a ban on reproducing certain pics!---that's what Kinko's told me anyway) Anyway, she attended that concert and was gaga...She even waited on Heather (his, then wife) when she worked at the store she happened to shop at while they were in OKC -- said she nearly cleaned out the store!

I think I'm glad he's rid of her.....! His kids tried to warn him!

The store's name was Ann Taylor (quite expensive) -- but, then a girl's gotta have something to do while the hubby's at work! ha

I think that store is bankrupt now....should've charged less!

I think you're correct Pinkpen. I know the catalog is worth much more now than when MJ purchased it.

SCfan, we, the audience, were right in front of the marquee. There was a lane for traffic and then us. (BTW, Bruce Willis, who did the Top Ten List that night, was on a scissor scaffold behind us, and he had a straight-across view of the marquee.) As you were looking from the POV of us looking up at the marquee, I was on the right side. I thought I glimpsed myself from an overhead shot, for a mili-second, since I knew where I was standing and I had on a coral top. But who knows? It was so fleeting. What I neglected to mention, is that while the band was warming up, Paul was looking out over the crowd. I caught his eye as he looked in our direction. I waved and he waved right back. I felt like I was 12 years old...........Very, very cool....

Looking forward to your next installment, EP!