Publisher: Kairos Records
Reference: KR004
Date: 2004
Reference: KR004
Date: 2004
The complete Paul McCartney interviews for Flemish Public Radio and
Television Uncut.
For DVD please go to my DVD blog.
On Thursday 18 May 1989, Andre Vermeulen called his friend and ex-colleague
Johan Ral to ask if he would come along the following Monday to Hilversum,
The Netherlands, where he was going to interview Paul McCartney for the TV-news
of the VRT, the Flemish Public Radio and Television network. McCartney was
coming to the Concordia TV Studios to participate in Veronica's Countdown, then
hosted by Wessel van Diepen, to promote Flowers In The Dirt and the latest
single taken from it, My Brave Face.
During the Countdown show, which was broadcast on 24 May 1989, Paul McCartney
and his band performed some live improvisations and mimed to the songs How Many
People and My Brave Face.
At the time, Johan was working for Kredietbank (now called KBC), in charge of
Internal and External Communication. He decided he'd go along and try to
persuade Sir Paul to dedicate the sleeve of the CD single to an auction in
favour of Kom Op Tegen Kanker, a cancer research project that was sponsored by
both the VRT and Kredietbank, which he kindly agreed to do in the end. What you
see on this DVD is the result of these encounters - uncut.
With Andre Vermeulen, Sir Paul speaks about his "Russian Album", Glasnost and
talking to Russian fans on the BBC World Service, as well as his upcoming world
tour, Flowers In The Dirt and working with Elvis Costello. They also discuss the
difference between being a Beatle in the sixties and being Paul McCartney in
1989, Yesterday, McCartney's greatest moments and disappointments, his film
projects (announcing what would become Daumier's Law *), his ambitions as
a painter, and his definition of "good music".
Andre Vermeulen's interview was broadcast the next day, on 23 May. McCartney's
promoting of Kom Op Tegen Kanker was used in the Kom Op Tegen Kanker Journaal
on 23 and 24 May.
The short discussion between Sir Paul and Johan Ral on why McCartney changed
the lyrics to Here, There And Everywhere for the Give My Regards To Broad Street
movie and CD, even leaving out a whole verse (!), has been unseen footage until
this day.
* On 31 May 1989, Paul McCartney was presented with a very rare lithograph of
Plate 55 from Les Bons Bourgeois by Honors Damier during the French television
show Sacree Soiree. The litho was later used to illustrate a 12" vinyl single
of Figure Of Eight and Ou est le Soleil?
Spanning a period of 15 years, these unique conversations are complementary to
each other in content and approach, offering a fascinating insight in the world
of Paul McCartney and the way he handles media interviews.
In this exclusive double set, hear and see Paul McCartney speak about:
- his "Russian Album" and Glasnost
- his greatest moments and disappointments
- his ambitions as a film maker and as a painter
- the first Wings tour and touring the world in 1989, 1993 and 2003
- the musicians in his bands
- warming up before a concert and being nervous on stage
- his crusading for vegetarism, animal rights and the environment
- (not) showing his vulnerable side
- the Belgian painter Magritte as an inspiration for the Apple logo
- collaborating with John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr... and Elvis
Costello
- performing Here Today and Something live
- the burning of Beatles records in the Bible Belt
- playing the Hofner bass on stage
- McCartney-Lennon versus Lennon-McCartney
- his personal Top 3 of McCartney songs.
You will also see him being taught to say "Ik ben Paul McCartney en ik kom op
tegen kanker" ("I am Paul McCartney and I'm fighting against cancer") in Dutch
for a Flemish fund raising campaign in favour of cancer research - and
illustrating the sleeve of the My Brave Face CD single.
01. Johan Ral For Studio Brussel - Flanders Expo, Ghent - 17 October 1993.
Interview between the soundcheck and the New
World Tour concert. Edited version broadcast
on 5 November 1993 on the occasion of the
launch of 'Paul Is Live'.
02. Evert Venema For Radio Donna - Telephone interview before the first Antwerp
concert of the Back In The World Tour -
1 April 2003. Edited version broadcast on
the same day.
03. Jan Leyers For Radio 2 - Sportpalais, Antwerp - 2 April 2003.
Interview between the soundcheck and the
second Antwerp concert of the Back In The
World Tour. Edited version broadcast on
3 April 2003 on Radio 2 (and also on 6 April
2003 in Classic Rock on Classic 21).
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