Paul McCartney Interview on Ellen 11/14/2005

Now, before we continue, may I call you served? Do you like being king? Reyes call me Paul oh yeah, it's really okay Paul, yeah, it's okay, Paul, it's okay, Ellie, it's okay, Paulie Paul, this is so exciting now that you are so loved and you have such an influence on all of us, I mean, what? What is it like to be a strange man? You know, he's actually great, but he has his moments where you suddenly realize that you know, oh my God, I'm not a famous guy, yeah. but it's really very nice and I'm very grateful and I wouldn't want it any other way, well that's good because you don't have a choice, you're stuck in being this big icon and then I mean, and also when I see those pictures of your feet on Shea Stadium and also on the Ed Sullivan show that kind of shouting.

I know you were popular in England, but are you people who did that right away with all of you? uh, no, not at first, no, they. They were really throwing money at us to get off very well, yes, but we tricked them, we picked it up, aha, they never threw it, yes, well, it's better, yelling wine later, that's what we all yell for ice cream, aha, you know, get a nice one. One, everyone was crazy about you, so everyone was like, "You know, imagine you're the qaul at 63, yeah, you're 63 and you're about to turn 64 and you wrote the song 60 when I'm 64, how Do you feel good about that now? really good, yeah, well, a couple of my kids said, dad, you've got to disappear off the face of the planet next year, yeah, but I said everyone be in the thick of it, yeah, well, 'cause 64 seemed old, then I'm sure.

He seemed very old, so yes, but I met a lady on holiday who said: I hope you don't mind, she said she, but I play one of your songs, she did. I work in a nursing home and she said, then I play when I'm there. 64 her, I hope you don't mind. I had to adapt the lyrics to when I'm 84 because everyone thinks 64 is a joke, right? a good bet then, and how did you meet John when he started it all? Yes, we had a mutual friend named Ivan and I was actually born on the same day as Ivan and he was a mate of John's Ivan and he knew it. to each other at our school and one day he said, you said you should come to this place, it was the Walton Garden Village party and I met John, I saw him perform and then you started writing right away because you two wrote quickly. - Yeah, and then I started working with John and we didn't really write right away, we used to do covers, but what happened was we were backstage and all the other bands that were before us were doing our whole act.

Does that work, so we had to continue and everyone had heard our whole act and we have to try to do better, but we thought, you know, if we write this stuff, there's no way they can understand it mm-hmm and I think it's actually that's why we started writing Wow, in a kind of weird way, yeah, well, thank God people were doing that, yeah, okay, we're going to want to talk about this book because I love the idea. I love the story and I am with you I am totally with you on this seller we will talk about the book we will be back more with Paul good afternoon cleaning today on NBC 5 News starting at 4:30 high school tragedy two teenagers are dead three others injured In a tragic car accident, what the driver was doing when he lost control of a car full of friends, it's a story in the making: a teenager who allegedly killed his girlfriend's parents and kidnapped her is captured after a high-speed chase which led to this strange uproar. tornado alley amazing home video of what it's like to be right in the middle of a tornado it all starts today NBC 5 News at 4:30 America's number one arts and crafts affair is back with something for everyone the 23rd annual Tornado Alley Festival fall Thursday through Sunday at Odium Villa Park, two giant levels filled with 500 exhibitors in 30 states offering quality traditional and contemporary fine arts and crafts, all for sale, enjoy non-stop stage entertainment, delicious food, gift certificates every hour, free parking, check local newspapers for discount coupons.

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I said, oh, he's so sad, you know what it is, but that's what happens anyway, so we all decided, so he must go and avenge his mother's death, he must go and find this magical land that she He always talks called Animalia, where all the animals live happily and he does and it's his adventures and try to find the animal island of Animalia and in China let all the animals free that's sweet you're so talented and I don't know how many people know that you are an amazing artist. I love your artwork. I have a book of yours and you don't sell it.

That's how I want some children to leave me. Oh, it's amazing. You should get a book of his artwork. Is incredible. you're very talented stand um first of all everyone in the audience by the way is getting this book we have big fans in the audience we beat the line when I surprised them and told them they were going to get front row seats Sharon is right Sharon has a question: Is it true that your wife Heather didn't know you when you said you were coming back? That's actually true. Yes, her younger sister knows all things Beatles, but Heather was just going to miss out.

I do not know why. I would say, I mean, how could she miss her beat? I don't know, I don't know, she was doing something good, yeah, yeah, but no, she's like AC/DC and Elo on them, really yeah, so how did she realize that she wrote you? that's how good it was sounding and then she said: is that you? I said yes, although it leaves out the song called get back Wow, it's okay and Karen is next to her, is it true that you wear fake nails when you perform? You have to go and tell everyone.

Nature might tell you that I actually have a false nail and this was Heather's idea because when I play my guitar, mainly when I sing the song Blackbird, I have a kind of funny finger-picking style that's not really the right style, but anyway. I play strings, so at the end of a tour I was with this nail and when I got to the blood and skin I thought maybe this isn't such a great idea. Heather said you should put an acrylic nail on it. I said acrylic, what she is. a big nail, so there we were in the nail salon, okay, Paul McCartney is acting again after this, don't leave, keep going.