Paul McCartney performed on Saturday Night Live on Saturday. He and his band (minus Abe, plus Chad Smith and Ingrid Michaelson) played a couple of songs, two of which the television audience got to see, plus a few post-episode songs for the studio audience.
First, “Days We Left Behind,” from Macca’s forthcoming album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, about growing up in Liverpool.
Next, “Band on the Run,” which I am very slightly older than.
For a man a few months younger than my dad, he looks really good. He does sound his age — that really began about fifteen years ago, when he released his standards album, Kisses on the Bottom — but when one’s smoked as many cigarettes and as much weed as he has over the last seventy years, there’s only so much you can do.
Still, he’s out there making music and entertaining people, doing what he does as only he can.
There won’t be many more days like this for McCartney, and hopefully they number still in the four digits. Treasure him while we have him. The world will not see his like again.