Alright, my first blog post. I'm gonna write about a recent, amazing experience. I went to the Paul McCartney concert last Saturday. My mom surprised me with tickets around June and I could not have been any more excited, The Beatles being my favorite band in the whole world. I knew it was going to be a great time. He started with Jet and it was so overwhelming. The first Beatles song he played was All My Loving, and it was incredible. I was getting choked up and tears were filling my eyes. I was in the same room, listening to a legend, who was once part of the best band ever. He looked so cute too, I love him.
It was funny though, before the concert started, my dad got my attention and told me because of legal rights with Yoko Ono, he wasn't sure if Paul was going to play a lot of Beatles songs. He was obviously saying this to get me a little more excited than I already was when he did play Beatles songs.
There was this one part, where he had a ukulele and was talking about how George Harrison had a collection of ukuleles and they'd play together. Paul then proceeded to play 'Something' with the ukulele. In the middle of the song, I can't even describe how it happened but the band started playing along and it turned into the regular song with the normal instruments. It was my dad's favorite part and one of mine too. Another memorable part was when they played 'A Day in the Life'. They played it normal, then when it started getting hectic in the song, they went on singing 'Give Peace a Chance,' by John Lennon. They had a huge peace sign it was amazing, and everyone was singing along. Those two parts were pretty emotional, considering they were showing all these pictures and clips of George and John. As any Beatles fan can imagine, Hey Jude was one of the highlights of the concert. Everyone singing the na na na's along it was great, not that it was the only song everyone sung along to.
Also, for the first time on tour, Paul sung Ob La Di Ob La Da and we were the first people of Philadelphia listening to it live on tour since the Beatles broke up, which is really something.
I could most likely go on forever about this amazing experience, and I'll probably refer to it in later posts. But I think I did good for now.
Ob la di, ob la da
