Because you are not just messing around, you are not singing with Joe Bloggs – you are singing with John Lennonįor 90 minutes, McCartney spoke with Muldoon about their collaboration on The Lyrics. I just remember how great it was to work with him. “Thank you,” the 79-year-old said simply as the audience rose to give the former Beatle a standing ovation. At 7.30pm sharp, McCartney – trim, grey haired and unshaven – appeared at his first live event in two years to a rapturous reception. There were plenty more Macca stories and fervent fans in the room, but no more time to talk. “I got carried off by the police for jumping on the field,” she said. Wearing a T-shirt that read Fans on the Run, her fellow American and friend-in-McCartney Marianne Laffan (69) shared memories of seeing The Beatles at Shea Stadium at the age of 11. He walked away saying see you tonight,” said Bienek, still not quite believing the encounter had happened. “Big fan, eh?” McCartney shook his hand and declined a selfie, saying: “This can be a private moment, just us.” They chatted for a few minutes. He said the former Beatle had noticed Bienek’s jacket. Photograph: Mary McCartney/PA WireĪ delighted Bienek recounted the story later as he waited to enter the hall where McCartney was about to speak. Paul McCartney, whose new book, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, features 154 songs from all stages of his career, spanning across the Beatles, Wings and as a solo artist. “I recognised him by his hair from behind, I couldn’t believe it,” said the young man, recalling the moment he saw McCartney standing there. Bienek, wearing a denim jacket embroidered with McCartney’s name, was walking through the park around St John’s Wood church when he spotted a man with a familiar haircut up ahead. It was a few hours before the former Beatle was due to speak to nearly 3,000 people at the Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre to mark the release of his two-volume book The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, written with Co Armagh poet Paul Muldoon. Last week 22-year-old Bailey Bienek, a McCartney superfan from Lincoln, brought his partner Amy there for a Beatles-themed stroll.
For fans of McCartney and The Beatles, the area is a place of pilgrimage. It’s around the corner from the famous studios at Abbey Road and the zebra crossing immortalised on the cover of the Beatles 11th album. Paul McCartney still has his house on Cavendish Avenue in St John’s Road, North London, a home he bought in 1965 at the height of Beatlemania.
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