{"id":35393,"date":"2026-05-18T18:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35393"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:31:08","slug":"mccartney-on-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35393","title":{"rendered":"McCartney on SNL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul McCartney performed on <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, &#8220;Days We Left Behind,&#8221; from Macca&#8217;s forthcoming album, <em>The Boys of Dungeon Lane<\/em>, about growing up in Liverpool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Days We Left Behind &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulMcCartney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PaulMcCartney<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eDIsd7FAuC\">pic.twitter.com\/eDIsd7FAuC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbcsnl\/status\/2056041277561475098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next, &#8220;Band on the Run,&#8221; which I am <em>very<\/em> slightly older than.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Band on the Run &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulMcCartney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PaulMcCartney<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wBhzenLBAI\">pic.twitter.com\/wBhzenLBAI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbcsnl\/status\/2056041561977172458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a man a few months younger than my dad, he looks really good. He does sound his age &#8212; that really began about fifteen years ago, when he released his standards album, <em>Kisses on the Bottom<\/em> &#8212; but when one&#8217;s smoked as many cigarettes and as much weed as he has over the last seventy years, there&#8217;s only so much you can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, he&#8217;s out there making music and entertaining people, doing what he does as only he can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There won&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, &#8220;Days We Left Behind,&#8221; from Macca&#8217;s forthcoming album, The Boys<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35393\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;McCartney on SNL&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4097],"tags":[5445,5446,4831,1107],"class_list":["post-35393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beatles","tag-band-on-the-run","tag-liverpool","tag-paul-mccartney-2","tag-saturday-night-live","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}