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One more time for Louis Cato and the band right there. That's a good band. I heard you guys. Great band. That's a good band right over there. Yeah. Now, as you can see, please have a seat my friends. As everybody out there see, we're here with Sir Paul McCartney. Paul, um one thing I wanted to ask you, uh we're talking to What the [snorts] Tom, did you see that? Yeah. What was that? I don't know. All right. Where was I? Paul McCart- Okay, Paul McCartney. Uh Paul, you have not stopped making music, okay? In fact, you've got a brand new album. Is this out now or about to come out? About to come out.
It is called The Boys of Dungeon Lane. What was Dungeon Lane? It was a place nearby where I used to live in Liverpool, a place called Speke. And this was the road that led down to the shore. So, it was kind of escape from where I used to live. What kind of neighborhood was Dungeon Lane? Uh Dungeon Lane's okay, but the neighborhood I came from was rough. Okay, so this was the night This is the fun place to go. This is the place to go down, escape. From the dicey neighborhood. Then the It was okay. You know, it was all we knew and we loved it. I apologize for calling your neighborhood dicey. Yeah.
Well, exactly, yeah. Please don't leave like the Pope did. Have you ever met the Pope? Uh no. Oh, I have. Oh. Just You're Paul McCartney, but I've met the Pope. I just want to get that out there. Get you. This is Who were the boys of Dun- a Dungeon Lane? Dungeon Lane, um you know, basically, it's kind of all the guys I knew then. They were in my mind, they were a couple of us I could say I used to go down there. I had a little bird book. I used to Yeah, I used to be an ornithologist. Oh, like with binoculars and stuff like that? Uh you know, well a book, no binoculars.
Oh, okay. Just a book. I thought maybe you meant like a bird, like a pretty girl. No. You never had a book of those? Well, I did, but that's another story. Anyway, I used to go down there kind of as an escape, you know, from where I lived, and it was great fun until one day the boys um couple of big strapping guys, ugly-looking guys, decided to mug me. Really, how old were you? I was little and scrawny, and they were big and uh they wanted my watch. Did they get it? Yeah.
What was I going to do? Yeah. However, I reported them to the cops. And? And they got done, and I got my watch back. Wow. Now, that didn't cause you any trouble with the boys like the next time they saw you? They didn't say, "Hey, you're the one who dropped the dime on us?" No, they were in jail. They went to jail for stealing your watch? All right. There's some beautiful photographs on the inside here. These are well, these are the other members of the Beatles right there.
There you go. Look at that. Did the other did like John and George and those guys go down to Dungeon Lane with you? Uh George would know. He was from that area. Yeah, that's where I met George. Well, on the bus. But near there. Mhm. In the song "Days We Left Behind", which is a lovely song, you sing, quote, "Nothing stays the same. No one needs to cry. I've been thinking about change lately." Um are you good with change? No. Mhm. I'm not. I like things to just stay the same. Yeah. Cuz I've learned how to do them and then somebody changes it.
You're like iPhone. I know how to do it and it says update. Yeah. I don't want to update. I say I bought you. I don't want you to change. Wow. But it changes. Yeah. It does happen a lot. All the time. Yeah. What do you do? Like what's nothing to be done about it? No. And I hate cookies. Oh, you mean No. I like those. You like those? You mean like the cookies that attach on the files on your phone. Yeah.
No, you don't. I bought you. I know you haven't met the Pope, but I bet you could call Tim Cook and say don't change my phone. Well, I did meet him and I told him off about it. Not the Pope. Tim Cook. Yeah. I named him and he left Apple. You're the one who drove away? Scared of Paul McCartney. Um uh you know, this is our last show tonight. Uh I have a lot of rituals I do before the show begins. You know, all certain things that have to get done. A little superstitious. It just feels right. I
don't like things to change either. Uh I don't have a ritual for ending a show. Do you have What Do you have any rituals for when you're done with a show? Yeah. Um we normally sort of get on a bus and do what we call a runner. And uh I have a cheese and pickle sandwich. A cheese and pickle sandwich? Cheese and pickle sandwich. Rock and roll. Oh, hey. Wild. I KNOW it's it's very far out. Accompanied with a margarita. Oh, that helps.
What's the earliest song Paul McCartney can remember? Uh well, my dad used to play piano in the house, you know, so I would sort of lie around on the carpet listening to him. So, probably the earliest one would be Chicago. Chicago, Chicago. The town of the town, yeah. Sammy Cahn. Yeah, I like that. Say he was the family pianist, so I heard a lot of those things. Beautiful dreamer. That goes back Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me. Yeah, yeah. That's that could be a contender. But um yeah. Do people ever misinterpret your songs to you? Yes. Yeah, I mean I kind of like it though.
Cuz you When they get it wrong? Yeah. You write it and you sort of say, "Okay, there it is. It's done. That's the song." Um Strawberry Fields, the beginning it says "Living is easy with eyes closed." But uh Misunderstanding all you see, yeah. But uh some people think it's "Living is easy with nice clothes." It's better. Much Misunderstanding salty sea. Yes. You know about the upcoming four-part Sam Mendes series of movies, each one from the point of view of a different Beatle? Yeah. You're going to be played you are going to have a Paul Mescal is
going to play Paul McCartney. Yeah. Who's cuter? Young Paul McCartney or Paul Mescal? Me. You're the cute one. No, he's very cute. We have to take a quick break. We'll be right back with more Paul McCartney, everybody. Stay around.
