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You know, 'cause I was here, in America, on September 11 th

and just taxiing out to fly to Britain

for my kids' birthdays actually. Two of my kids' birthdays.

And the captain said , "There's been a terrible accident.

"Those of you on the right-hand side would be able to see."

We could see that one of the two. . . We could see both the Trade Towers.

We could see one of them was on fire.

And when we heard it was a plane,

we immediately thought it was an accident.

Then , we heard it was two.

Like everybody else you go, "No. This is some act of sabotage."

And then , we heard about the Pentagon .

I just started thinking , you know, "What can I do?"

You know, 'cause there's gonna be a spirit shift in New York, in America.

This is suddenly a place where people are gonna feel vulnerable.

First time in a long time.

Being born at the end of World War I I , I was only a baby then ,

but I grew up, in the, sort of, shadow of that.

So, all my parents and the grown-ups

talked about this idea of being in a war.

You saw how they dealt with it, and it was with humour,

and it was with music, and ...

That's how they dealt with it.

On that note. . . Get ready, guys !

I was talking to someone about being a pacifist.

I'd take it back to what I used to say

when you'd get into arguments as this, kind of, student,

or the early days of the Beatles.

Some people'd say, "I'll always be a pacifist."

And I used to say, "Yeah , but you know,

"if someone like H itler was invading Britain ,

"I don't think I could be a pacifist any more."

I'm not a hard guy,

but I think I'd have to sort of go and try and fight it.

Silence would be worse, the way I see it.

Dan got held up.

Yeah , don't worry about it. It's like an airport, right?

So, the 1 0 minutes is going to be 20.

No, he's actually on his way.

-Sure. I believe you . -He'll be here shortly.

Sure. Right. What do you estimate then?

We're looking . . . I just got the call , we're at 11 : 02, I'd say 11 : 1 5 max.

He just wanted you guys to see that.

My dad didn't used to let us take his photograph .

-No? -We'd say, "Why not?"

He'd say, "I just don't like it, you know."

Turned out he didn't like himself looking like that.

We said , "You look like that, Dad ."

And I never used to understand it until more recently.

I lost my mum when I was 1 4,

so there was three, it was two boys and my dad at home.

So, we had to do all the cooking .

So, he'd drop off, you know,

a half pound of sausages, or a chop, couple of chops.

Right.

You know, that was the meal .

And the rest was just peas and stuff out of cans.

So, it was kind of difficult at first just eating the other stuff.

Good morning , Dan , how are you?

-I'm really sorry. -That's okay.

-Don't ever do it again . -Believe me, I will not.

Thank you . I'm really pleased to see you . Thanks.

Everybody has their excuses, but I will say that this is...

It's a pretty good one, I bet.

We had this anthrax scare 'cause everybody's having them .

That's a pretty good one.

In my office, right in my office.

One of them has had what she thought was a spider bite

that did not heal . And she has no symptoms.

But they want her to take a test today, a biopsy.

And you know, you can understand that

while I think she's fine, she thinks she's fine,

it's something to worry about,

and you need to put people's minds at rest, especially...

-Especially hers. -Yeah .

As a result of September 11 th ,

we have a lot of people who are still grieving .

I wondered if you had learned anything

from the times you've grieved ,

with your mother, John Lennon , and with your wife.

Anything that would be of help to them .

You like to think you're tough , you can take these things

and you're gonna, you know, "Give me your best shot."

But of course, when you lose someone, it's not really possible.

You can put it inside yourself, and hide it if you want,

but I don't think that's a good thing .

So, for me, what I found was to talk to people a lot,

not worry about crying , like a baby sometimes,

if that's what you had to do,

not worried about who was looking at you .

And just really let it all out.

-Thanks for waiting . -Thanks again .

Yeah . We'll see you Thursday, Friday.

I look forward to seeing you for the next episode.

-You coming on the next episode? -Sure.

-Yeah . -Couldn't do it without you .

Okay, guys, good to see you .

That was good .

-I thought it was good . -Yeah .

The stuff in the middle about songwriting was not a throwaway.

We were gonna ask you that at the Ed Sullivan Theater.

We only did it because you asked me to do that.

To put a little bit of light-ish stuff in there.

I know it's cliché, but it's what we wanted .

Anytime we do someone who is good at something ,

we wanna understand why they are good at it. So...

U nfortunately, I don't understand , so there's your answer.

No, it's true though .

Keith Richards, how many times has he said ,

"I don't know, man , it's like radio waves."

How many times has he said that?

It's great though , isn't it, that it's like that?

You know, it's interesting .

George, speak to me, baby.

What happened in the Yankees game?

-The Yankees game. . . -Yeah .

Clemens was not in his best, really.

He was just second-rate.

What happens next for the Yankees then , George?

They're playing tomorrow, I think, in Seattle.

-Yeah? -Best of seven .

'Cause of September 11 th , I think people want New York to do well .

So maybe it rubs off on the Yankees a bit.

I certainly want them to win .

I went to my first baseball game last year.

And that was before they won the Series.

Yeah .

And I was saying to them that I've played all those stadiums

but I've never actually seen a game in them .

So, we're always the entertainment.

So, it's really exciting to go in there

like part of the crowd , you know?

And with those amazing seats

Lorne Michaels gets behind home plate.

It was a big spectacle, and they're a good team , and they won .

Fell in love with them .

And then , they went and won the World Series.

I may have, at the office, seen a lot of it.

I'm so glad to see you . Give them my love.

Thanks, dear.

I'm not really some weird person accosting you on the street.

I wish you were.

If they were all like you , wouldn't it be nice?

See you , Barbara. Bye-bye.

You worry for a moment that, like, you know,

"My God , she's not gonna recognise me.

"Gonna think I'm gonna mug her."

J ust like the Fonz.

H i Paul , I'm Dave Anderson .

-How are you doing? -N ice to meet you , Sir.

-How you doing? You're gonna do this? -Yes, Sir.

-You're gonna talk to me? -Yes, I am .

And that's why you've got makeup on , then?

You can tell?

It's okay. I can tell . But the viewers won't be able to.

Okay, good . I'm glad to hear that.

Sir, I would just like to talk a little about the concert

that's going on right now.

Why is it so important for you to propel this particular event?

Like everyone else, I thought I wanna do something .

You know? But I'm not a fireman , I'm not a rescue worker.

So, there's no point in me really going down there,

I've got to think of something else.

I remember being with a friend of mine,

we were going around a fairground ,

and I had a headache.

Got back to his house and we put on Elvis, All Shook U p.

By the end of that record , my headache had gone.

So, you know, I know this phenomenon ,

Elvis even gets rid of a headache.

Did you set out to make it such a definitively

American-sounding record?

I hooked in with David Kahne who is American ,

and he put me together with three musicians.

With the idea being that if we got on , great.

But we got on so well .

We had such fun , that it has turned out to be a very American album .

It's made in America, really.

You know, I'm the only Brit on it.

It really feels. . . This is just an organically...

You like this record !

-I love this record . -All right!

Love it!

You gonna take it down a little bit

so I can , like, walk on the street without looking like Liberace?

Much as I love Liberace. Nothing wrong with that.

Rest his soul .

No. It's true, you know. J ust a bit conscious of it.

-Thank you very much . -Good fun .

I'm really glad you liked the album so much .

-Loved the album . -Cool .

No, we're not doing . . . No, we're not doing that one.

-That would freak 'em out. -That's the one.

And relax.

Watch the shadow. Come from higher up, higher up.

Yeah , we'll walk with you now.

Yeah , okay. Let's walk and let's talk.

Let's do the walk.

Thank you .

Thanks for that. You can come again .

How you doing , Paul?

I'm all right, man . How are you doing? You okay?

-What's up, Paul? -Okay, rocking .

Feel like I'm running for mayor.

This could be fatal moves.

That's it. That's the last one then . Okay.

I bought a tape of yours many, many years ago.

-Yeah? -It's called Let it Be.

Yeah , man .

I don't know, if you ever got it...

-Somebody took it from my house. -It wasn't me.

Anyway, I . . . I'm now looking to be a musician .

I'm looking to, you know. . . I would like to begin my touring .

Yeah , good luck to you , man .

-No, no, no, come on , do. . . -Do what?

You have to probably get...

...me some show and give me some other to improve my career

so that I can go back home in less than five years.

Yeah , man , okay. I can't help that.

-No, no, no, I'm being serious. -Well , I can't help you .

All right, I can't do nothing about it, man .

Hello. Do you remember Jerry Hopkins?

-Yes. -Postcard .

-Andrew Valentine. -My goodness me.

Remember I was coming and doing the thing there.

Yes, indeed , how are you?

I'm great. What are you doing here?

I believe we got to keep moving my way. How do we do?

Yeah , can we all come in front now?

Camera and mic.

If you get there, I'll turn around .

That's another way of doing it.

Shoot from ...

-Paul , how are you? -I'm good .

-I'm Joel . -Hey Joel .

How about those Yankees? You mind signing this?

-Really good , yeah . -Yankees.

I saw you at the game the other night.

Sir, can you sign for me, please?

Yeah , will do that. On your passport? Is that legal?

-It's legal . -It's legal?

God bless you ! My God !

-Thank you . -Take it easy.

Paul McCartney. Man !

Where are you from?

-Dominican Republic. -Dominican Republic?

-All right, take it easy. -God bless you .

-You , too. -My God !

I can't believe it!

Alex, it's just. . . Paul McCartney's here.

I can't believe it! I'm on 45th Street.

Okay, here's your pen , man .

-Mine. -Lost the pen .

-Okay, write here. -J ust write here, on that napkin?

Do you know how hard it is to write on a napkin?

Can you say hello to my wife? She doesn't believe me.

I don't believe this.

-J ulia. -Yeah , this is true.

I'm gonna hand you back to your husband . I send my love.

All right, I got to keep moving .

Paul ! Paul !

Okay, George, get us out of here.

Whichever way you go. Go down a bit.

Don't just. . . You're hanging about the area too much .

Get out! Let's get some distance.

If you take the next left, we should be okay, George.

And relax.

Okay, see you at 1 2: 00 tomorrow?

-Yeah . -All right.

I'm gonna do Howard Stern .

I love him .

Yeah . People say, "You're not gonna do him , are you?"

So, I'll do him , all right.

He seems quite fun to me. We'll see, won't we?

If I arrive all , sort of, shattered

and totally losing every shred of confidence,

you'll know he had a go.

Okay, guys, lovely to see you all again .

-See you , man . -Lovely to see you .

-It sounds great. -Good to be back with the old team .

Abraham ! How's your folks?

Great. They're doing great. Thanks for asking .

Now we're jealous.

No, I don't know that.

It's one of the old Liverpool ones. Family used to do that.

With "Abe" in it? Really?

I have to find that.

-Old musical song . -That's great.

Kind that my old relatives would sing , like at New Years.

Towards the end .

Then , they'll end after that.

Then it goes. . . Is it the same thing again? Or does it go right into...

-Let's go to our chairs. -To the chairs !

Let us go, to the chairs !

-Now you go first, okay? -To the woods.

No, not the woods.

It was made for a real Beatle memor...

...memorabilia is real , right?

It's not easy to say when you've had a few, is it, that?

-That's right. You know, Irish . -Memorabilia.

You know, like, his drums, you know where those are?

You obviously know where your guitar is.

I've got a few things, I'm not sure what I've got.

I just try and stick that in the archives, stick that in the...

You got the boots?

Don't think I've got a pair of boots. No.

-Who knew? -Who knew? I know...

I always wanted to try and get a bit of Beatle talcum powder.

It was an interesting item , always used to amuse me.

Of course the inevitable conversation in the rows was

this would be a perfect time for the remaining Beatles

to get back together.

-Did that come up? -You know, that's come up.

Anytime I ever do a concert, that comes up. Particularly...

I never ask you about this, that's the first...

It's true, you don't.

We've always said we would not reunite.

And I'll tell you , I know why.

Because I'd be standing there playing ,

and I would look over to my left and there'd be a guy missing .

And we all feel that way.

I mean , the Beatles don't exist any more. John's missing , you know.

I don't want to try and do something we oughtn't to do.

I love the Lennon line, that's a good one.

Which one?

Look left and there's gonna be somebody missing .

But isn't that the truth , you know?

And that's also why we don't re-form Wings.

Yeah .

It just struck me.

I was like, "Why don't we even consider it?"

Bang ! Linda wouldn't be there.

You know what, I'm not sure I want to know...

Do something else.

-Here you go. -Thank you , Sir.

Okay.

-It's always great to see you . -That'll be $ 1 0. 50.

You know, eBay.

Fifteen Viagra. You're not kidding , I don't think.

No, I just like the taste of pills.

These are the purple, like, diamond-shaped pills.

And tiny, like, M&M's, you know.

Sharon ...

I ended up looking like a tent pole.

I love Ozzy, he's funny.

And , Sharon , you now have a beautiful body...

Ozzy was quite funny though . He did a British TV thing .

And he admitted that once, when he was a kid , he'd been a burglar.

And he said , "The only thing is though ,

"I don't think I was very good at it."

He said , "I used to wear gloves, you know,

"but I used to wear those gloves with the. . ."

"I used to wear the gloves with the fingers off, you know,

"no fingers in them ." For a burglar.

Boy.

George, maybe we should just go around the park.

Give it a miss?

Should we just go around the park and blow this show out?

J ust be prepared .

He will ask you questions about how you make money and things like that.

-Royalties, things like that. -I'll pretend to forget, like Ozzy.

I'm like Ozzy.

Yeah , I was just saying about that Dreamin' track.

-Good track. -Yeah .

But I said I didn't wanna do the...

Wanna do the bass. . . God , no ! You've not let him in !

Bloody hell . Hello, darling .

-How you doing? -All right, lovely, yeah .

It's great to meet you . I mean , it's been a lifetime ambition of mine.

You guys made me start music, you know.

Yeah , after the burglary?

I love that story, with the gloves with no fingers.

Yeah , that's typical me, that is.

-All right, I'll see you later, Paul . -Yeah , all right, man .

Come on , let's have one quick picie.

-Yeah , come on . -Yeah .

Listen , did you ever see that early stuff of the Beatles?

-Which one? -By the Maysles brothers.

-I've got absolutely everything . -Okay, meet Albert Maysles.

-Really? -Yeah , man !

That's Al .

He shot it. Are you ready for me? Okay.

-I'll see you , babe. Take it easy. -God bless you , Paul .

-Good to see you . See you later. -Yeah .

See you . All right, guys. N ice to see you .

See you , man . Bye-bye. See you .

-Look at you ! -It's really him , not an imposter!

This is exciting .

This is exciting . H i , Paul . N ice to meet you .

Now, here's the thing that I'm wondering .

The fact that your marriage lasted ,

that you didn't need the love of 30 women or the whole world .

One person's love was enough for you ...

I find that mind-blowing .

It just was different.

And I think both of us had got that out of the way,

and we were kind of fed up with it.

And so, you know what, we fell in love.

-Right. -It's all it was.

-And it lasted . -And it lasted , yeah .

You've always lived , like, a pretty moderate life.

Reasonably, yeah .

You sent the kids to public school , right?

I can talk to anyone.

Guy in the street, anywhere, I really actually enjoy that.

It may sound like I'm being , you know, man of the people,

but I really do enjoy that.

"Paul , right." Like in New York for instance.

It's very handy that I don't go, "Get away from me, you ! "

Right, you're a man of the people?

So, I like that, and I wanted my kids to have that.

'Cause the big danger when you've got money in the family is

the kids go to these private schools,

and they all suddenly cannot talk to the mailman .

"Who is this person , Daddy, in our house?"

What can I say, man? I don't even know what to say to you ,

-except that I'm a huge fan . -Cool .

-And I'm glad you came in here. -I'm glad I came in .

I'm gonna go back and tell George he was wrong .

It's okay, it's okay to do the Howard Show.

-George, the driver? -Yeah .

Paul , you know, sometimes you wonder about people who...

'Cause you have branched out into classical music and so forth ,

-do you find that as enjoyable? -Yeah , it's a good stretch .

I thought your question was gonna be,

"Have you ever had sex with a black woman?"

-He has, I know that. -How do you know that?

He was with The Ronettes, give me a break.

You banged The Ronettes? Look at you !

Thank you .

You know how big this is gonna be?

You know what we need? Have you got one of those pens?

Here.

-These pens work better. -Okay.

Pete, my name's Pete.

-Could you say, "To Pete. -Sure.

"My buddy, Paul McCartney."

-I'm like a little kid again . -You're like a little kid , Pete.

This is what he did to me. This is what you do to me.

Maybe that's not a bad thing .

-Okay. -There's worse things to happen .

-All right, Pete. -Thank you very much .

-God . -Don't lose it.

-Don't lose that thing . -Thank you .

Cheers, man , thanks so much .

Stop now.

Boy! It's mania time.

Remember this, Al? Yee-haw!

See you , folks. Bye.

The kid's running down to the next block?

You can get 'em , George.

Try and make this light, George.

I've got some guy here.

Wherever you go, you make friends.

Okay, we got it. Good . Get some distance now, George.

We got this. . . We wanna lose everyone now.

-Yeah . -Much as we love 'em .

No, go over straight down .

-Go straight? -Yeah , straight down .

Go, go, go, go !

Shoot! They're still here. No, guys, no more. No. No. No...

Let's try and get some distance, George. However you can do it.

Let's just try and put some. . . They're just too near.

No, I've done one of them . No, no more.

-This one ! This one ! -No ! No more !

Sorry, I'm not doing it. No, that's commercial .

-Do you have a photo? -Yes !

-You got it? -You'll love it.

-These guys sell this stuff. -Thank you . God bless you .

Okay. You always know this.

They've got like about six of these guitar plates, scratch plates...

Now, how did he make us, George? He's on a bike, that's how.

Anywhere or you're going home now?

Yeah , just let's get a bit away from all of this stuff.

That's the park right here, is it, George?

-That's the park coming up. -Okay.

I'll tell you what I'll do, I fancy a little walk, anyway. I'll hop out.

And I'll meet you down by The Plaza.

By The Plaza?

-Plaza, yeah , this is 5th , is it? -Yeah , this is 5th , and ...

So, I'll meet you down by The Plaza at 5th .

Yeah , I'll be in front of The Plaza.

Yeah , just actually watch me for a little while.

I'm just suspicious about this taxi behind .

If the guys are still in that then I'll get back in .

But if not, I'll just go for a little walk.

Clear my head .

See you a bit later, guys.

Where's the high harmonic?

It's in . More of the high harmonic.

There. Good .

Overdo it.

Great. Lovely.

-You did great today. -What, on Howard's thing?

-Man . -Way cool . Way cool .

Shouldn't have done it. Should never do that show.

No, it was good . No way, I'm kidding . I'm kidding .

No, no, I know but it was incredible.

And , you know, he was actually kind of...

He said , "Have you laid any black chicks?"

I thought he was getting a little near the mark there.

You know, "We better just move off this subject, Howard .

"Like I wanna talk to you about this on national radio."

More than my life is worth .

We're just gonna work a bit.

Make yourselves at home. Coffee, tea, stuff.

One, two. . . Okay.

One, two...

Two, three, four, five.

Rusty. Okay. What's the count on that one? You know, it's...

I know it's five, but it's...

One, two, three, four, five, cool . Okay.

Two. . . So five starts on that...

Yeah , 'cause the first chord is one, if you count seven .

Yeah .

One, two, three, four, five.

Again .

Yeah .

Yeah .

Yeah . No, it was just that is was such a huge event, you know.

And I was here on American soil .

And I just thought to myself, "What are my thoughts?"

And they were quite simple really.

This is my right to freedom , you know.

And so I just put it all together

and didn't worry that it was a bit corny.

-Did you write it really quick? -Yeah , very quickly, yeah .

J ust a couple of hours.

Does that come really naturally when you feel emotion about an event?

Yeah , I think so.

Come on , you come here.

-It'll be a duet. -Yeah .

Our man at the song .

Tom , you're gonna lean in just a little bit.

Paul , if you can put your hands on the...

-Yeah . -Okay.

What key are you in? What key are you in?

F.

-I'm not very good . -That's it, yeah .

Yeah , all right!

Okay, you got it, guys?

He's excellent. He's excellent. Get that man outta here !

I said to the VH 1 guys, "You know, I've got this song . . ."

They were sort of, "Well . . ."

I said , "Look, let's just try it.

"I got a feeling it might work."

They'll sing the chorus the first time they hear it.

Yeah . Audiences are very hip on that stuff.

-And , Paul . . . -Sing a lot better than you think.

So that's what we're thinking , you know. We'll just do it.

I wanna take a multi-track...

We'll see what happens Saturday night.

And then shrink-wrap it in or something .

I will hold the pressing of the record to put it in .

Maybe press it.

I wanna put it out and raise the money

and give it to whoever you want.

Firemen's fund , or the Robin Hood Foundation .

'Cause all the proceeds I think are going to the Robin Hood Foundation .

From this thing , yeah .

And it's a lot of support to firemen , police and families.

Good thing about Robin Hood is that...

We were worried that you give some lady who's lost her husband

a lot of money, and she'll run off to Vegas.

You know, what's to say she won't?

So, the Robin Hood people are hipper than that.

And they're kind of paying rent and food ...

I'll tell you , they can keep my paycheque this week.

And if you keep playing ...

Every time I see you play I say, "They can keep my paycheque."

The last time when you played in LA, I'm gonna be working for free.

-You're not getting any money. -That's just why I'm doing it.

All right, man .

Okay, guys, I'm gonna work like a real grown-up.

Try and do this show.

It's a fantastic place, Liverpool .

Yeah . When were you there?

The last time was at the end of August.

For the. . . There was, like, a festival thing .

Beatles festival , yeah .

-Were you playing on it? -Yeah .

With whom?

We were the closing act. Fab Faux.

-We have a band called Fab Faux. -Yeah?

It's incredible. We do all the later Beatles material .

The hard stuff. The impossible stuff.

-Yeah? -That's what we go for.

There's a lot of wig bands. A lot of wig quartets...

Happiness is a Warm Gun and stuff like that, you do?

Yeah .

-Tomorrow Never Knows? -Absolutely.

You do some good songs.

I made all the sounds at home. I have a sampler.

Laughing , seagulls, stuff.

There's a great book out...

So, people who are gonna join in on Let It Be, where do they go?

That's what I've said , I don't know yet.

That's just been the idea. What do you think?

Yeah , definitely.

I did it at rehearsal yesterday

and the producer's wife was sitting out and she started crying .

Crying , yeah . Let them cry.

We'll let them cry. I think it's like, "Let me not cry."

I mean , I wrote it so simply.

You can tell , it's just where I was imagining ...

-I've forgotten it already, man . -You've forgotten it already, man?

I think you should be...

You know, after years of drugs abuse.

-Drugs abuses. -Drugs abuses.

I'll tell you what, guys, what Pete and I were just working out here,

which I think is right, is for me to do it.

I said , "This is your song . You do it."

...me to do it in the set, then what I said is

when I'm all on here for Let It Be

I'll spring it on them , all the guys,

one last, "Do you wanna hear that again?"

You know, make them go...

And they'll say, "Yeah ! "

-Let Pete do it. -Let Pete do it.

No, that was what we. . . I'm joking .

Actually, Pete was saying that he might say,

"Do you wanna hear that again?"

Only that...

You'll have to say Freedom song .

If you say, "Do you wanna hear that again , it'll be Let It Be."

Right.

I'll say, "That really great, new song Paul wrote

"specially for this occasion ."

"Specially for this occasion ."

He's hoping we'll create the Rolling Stones next single.

And to me, I agree with them anyway,

it's like an assault on freedom .

You know, you've got all the huddled masses after H itler,

so they all come here, the immigrant nation , democracy,

and really, this is one of the only places...

Not many places where you can actually...

Women got rights and all that, you know.

There's a lot of freedom .

Besides all that was that's the thing

that your average Yank, "I want freedom ."

So, I put it together, check it out, see if you like it.

Okay.

Good morning . Good morning .

So, when you're done here

we're going to take you on to the theatre, to the lobby,

Dan will meet you there in the lobby.

I'm sure you probably have questions for him about yesterday.

If you don't, fine.

Why? I haven't been up with what's happening .

Well , you know, one of his. . . H is assistant tested positive.

And was she the girl he was talking about

who opened the mail all the time?

He was talking about that the other day.

That's right.

That's who it was.

It's funny though , people these days say,

"I'm sure you heard about yesterday."

I'm just like, "What? Which bit of it?"

Like, "Is that. . ." 'Cause there's always some sort of little

horror story.

So, if you wanna talk about that,

you'll have time when you first meet him .

And then after a couple of minutes of you meeting

we'll stop, my cameras are gonna run into the room ,

and you'll stop at the bottom of the aisle,

chat for a minute or two, then we're gonna stop

for about five minutes and sit you in the chairs

and then conduct the formal part of it.

It's ring-in-the-end- of-the-nose time.

That's right.

J ust stick a hook in it and pull me around .

Okay.

By the way, when we were with you 37 years ago in a limousine...

You remember our first stop was this building?

My God . Of course it was.

Then we went, "Oh , we can't get in there

"because of the unions, this that and the other. . ."

So, instead of walking in with you guys,

we walked down the street, walked into a tenement building ,

heard your music coming from one of the doors,

knocked on the door, walked in

and filmed the family watching you on television .

Yeah , I remember that. Fabulous.

Okay.

Strange, time, though . It doesn't seem that long ago.

It's just a blip away.

You know what comes to mind? Getting made up.

We came in , little British guys,

and the makeup ladies put this very thick, heavy brown make-up on .

We looked in the mirror, "God ! We look like women !

"What's this?"

She said , "No, it's okay, don't worry.

"The lighting is very strong in here. It'll work."

Then right before we started ,

one of the guys, one of the crew, he said , "You nervous?"

I said , "No." You know, bluffing , "No."

He said , "It's going out to 70 million viewers."

"Thank you . Now I'm nervous."

But he doesn't look too nervous.

Did you talk about it among yourselves,

before you got here, on the way over?

About doing the Ed Sullivan Show?

I think we talked about coming to America

more than just specific events like Ed's show.

For us, you know, to come to America was a dream .

Because, you know, most of the music we loved

and had inspired us came from here.

So, to come to the place where Elvis was born ,

to come to New York, and to come to Detroit and places like that,

it was like Mecca to us.

Paul , I wanna show you something .

If you'd just take a look at this television set.

Let's just watch and listen for a bit here.

Ladies and gentlemen , the Beatles !

True.

All right!

-Remember them? Good group. -I do.

I'm old enough to remember that group, actually.

Good group.

Love Ed Sullivan with his eyes up and ...

"The Beatles ! "

Miami Beach . Miami Beach .

You remember that very well .

He just had a funny little accent.

Very New York. Very New York.

And I also love the story, being on the street...

-"It's him ! " -Yeah , there he was.

I know that you know that look.

"Jesus, I don't know who the hell this is."

I'm the same, now.

"I worked on your show."

I thought, "He's gotta remember the Beatles. Hopefully."

Everybody does it. But the worst always is,

"You don't remember me but. . ."

God .

And you ache to say, "You know what, pal?

"As a matter of fact, I don't."

But you never do that.

"No. Sure. . ."

Wait till they say their name. It's the worst.

"Yeah , yeah , I remember. Fourth grade."

"Sure. Where was it again?

"You look so familiar."

You know the worst thing I keep doing

is I say, "We've met before, haven't we?"

And people say, "No."

It's just their faces are so familiar,

and I just keep saying to myself,

"J ust don't say that. J ust stop saying that."

I'm so glad you said that. I can't discipline myself to stop saying it.

Paul , good luck with your concert.

-Great, thanks. -Thanks for doing this.

-We really appreciate this. -No, I'm really proud to do it.

J ust got to get up and sort of...

Give me a shout when you're ready.

Okay, hi , greetings from New York. Here we are.

This is Abe right here.

That's Gabe.

And next to him is Rusty.

And so we're getting ready,

we're sending our greetings to all of you .

You people out there on the web.

USA! New York City! All right!

Come on , man !

-Should we have a look at that? -Yeah .

That's the beauty of modern technology.

-Let's have a look at that. -I love it.

And it's just so exciting , so instant,

because this just goes out on the Net.

You have people in Australia...

You know, those jerky little pictures...

Yeah , right.

Are you gonna wear these tonight?

No, I have a dark blue suit, long coat...

No, I just thought, if you're only...

These are my rehearsing pants.

"The man with the colorful legs ! "

It's New York rehearsal pants.

Kaleidoscope thighs, we call you .

Wasn't that a lyric from "Girl with kaleidoscope eyes. . ."

"The boy with kaleidoscope eyes" was the original lyric.

They changed it. I don't know. . . I tried to stop it.

William Shatner did the definitive version of it.

Okay, so the thing is, Dave was just thinking ...

You know I asked you to do...

I like that but he just thinks...

He was listening to it in the truck.

So you think it'd be better, what, we start like that?

Yeah , just start like that.

So, we do the first verse with a sort of...

And then you just hold longer notes a bit.

Yeah , just start moving around a little bit more.

J ust a little bit more but not too complicated .

I think just a...

Keep a sort of. . . Worst, four in a bar.

Duke of Earl . All the way.

Yeah , sort of that. But not too...

I'll be, "Will , Will , Will ,

"it's all very well singing about freedom , Will , but not that much ."

That's good , that. What were you saying?

I was saying we've raised $20 million from ticket sales alone tonight.

Ten people wrote out cheques for a million dollars or more

so that they could bring the firefighters

and the rescue workers here tonight.

Each one bought 500 tickets for firefighters and rescue workers.

Cool . I love it.

H i , Bill . Lovely.

I hope you like it. And you'll recognise it's Opus 1 . Soliloquy.

That's the one I'm showing you .

But it's quite different than it was when we started .

Exciting .

-Who's that? -Yes.

This is Mr Albert Maysles.

Maysles brothers.

-H i . -And he's shooting ...

This is Mr William Joel .

So, you've got the May-sels?

The May-sel . The May-sel .

He's got the May-sels. Exactly.

All right. All right.

These are the jokes, folks.

This is Billy's new album .

H is classical Fantasies & Delusions.

And you can get it now on RonTel .

K-tel .

Yeah . We're ready to go.

K-tel . All right. See you later.

This is RonTel .

Okay. Let's go and play something .

Yeah , man , I'm ready to go.

You know me, I'm always ready to go, man .

Ready to rock.

That's the way. Security.

The only thing was Billy wants to play on Let It Be.

I warned you .

...he's so down .

J ust get another organ for Billy...

-Okay, yeah . -. . .and then both of you play.

Okay. Yeah . That'd be great.

That's what I think's the cool thing .

You know what. . . Yeah , let me do that in a minute.

-You are the best. -Wait, so I can ...

Guys, all right?

How we doing for time, all right?

What, we go on half an hour from now?

Yeah . Yeah .

Intro. Talking , talking .

I think we'll plan on doing Freedom .

Something tells me.

I think it's probably a nice idea.

When I thought of it, that was where I thought of it.

The whole idea is if we get...

I wanna hear the noise of the whole crowd ...

I got a feeling that could be like tingles time.

'Cause they're all talking ...

It's a nice feeling they can leave with too.

And , you know...

And they will have learned it a few minutes ago.

-Exactly. -We got a new anthem .

Yeah . I think it's great.

-Thank you . -You got it, guys.

-I'll see you later. -Cool .

-All right, Bill? -Are we all right?

You look gorgeous, darling .

And you know we're all wearing kind of blue T-shirts,

so will you wear that tonight?

I think I'm gonna wear something like this.

Something like this.

'Cause the other thing is we can get you ...

H i , man . Cool .

We could get you . . . Yeah . Okay.

We can get you a firemen's...

We're wearing firemen's T-shirts...

We can get you one like. . . Watch out.

-Watch yourself, John . -. . . if you like.

If you look, we're always in the way.

We're always in the way.

I know, man .

-That was amazing . -Okay, guys.

The band , three-set and you make the entrance.

-Okay. -He thinks it'll work much better.

-Is that okay? -All right. Yeah .

Okay. Thank you , Sir.

"Sir."

It's a change.

-Guys, coming through , please. -H i , man .

-Good to see you again . -How's it going?

H i , Dave. You feeling better?

No. Frankly, no.

H i , how are you? N ice to see you .

-I think I'm here somewhere. -Yeah , you are.

-How you been? -I'm okay, thank you .

Good to see you , man .

-Sensational . -Excellent.

J ust gotta get the big pictures done first.

Okay, everybody, back. Everybody, back.

Got to go back five feet. Got to go back.

Sir, you gotta go back. You gotta go back. Back, back, back.

I can't. . . I don't wanna push . I don't wanna push .

You gotta go back. You gotta go back. You gotta go back.

Five seconds. Five, four, three, two, one.

We have a show!

Over. Over. Over.

-Yeah . Could you sign this for me? -Yeah !

And we really appreciate you doing this for the family members.

I tell you , man , I'm proud to do it.

We lost eight from our Emergency Services U nit

and 1 3 from the command that we're from .

-And 37 from our department. -From our department.

Thank you so much .

Let's hope we can kick their ass and get it back, man .

-I hope so. -Okay? Let's end this.

It's what we're here for, right?

-It's what we're here for. -Give 'em hell .

I'm just gonna go see Eric.

You know, I get a little nervous.

Yeah . I get a little star struck.

It was good , but then you kinda lost it with ...

"Did you ball any black chicks?"

You would have been disappointed . You would have been disappointed .

You know what, I would have.

Can I get you and Howard?

All right, if he has to.

All right then , you fucker.

J ust take them out, man .

We had a good time.

Yeah , it was good though . Yeah , people loved the show.

-Thanks so much . -Sure, yeah .

Okay, nice one. Thanks for coming , man .

-So you've been here all week? -Yeah .

With your band?

Yeah , but we've been just rehearsing a couple of days.

'Cause we don't play together that much .

We made the record . We've only played once together.

That's nice how you're doing that like...

It's almost like a proper gig then .

Yeah , this is like. . . This is probably like a little gig .

You brought your band and you're gonna...

And then the idea is we get a few people on the end to do Let It Be.

-You know, like the closer. -Yeah , yeah .

And the other thing , I've written another little song which is...

I've written it especially for the thing .

I came in the other day and I had the idea of maybe closing with it.

But then I come in and Harvey, Harvey Weinstein ,

you know, he's like head of Miramax.

He said , "Paul ," you know, "You wanna talk to the guys about it?"

I said , "Okay, sure."

"Pete and Mick and you talk about doing this number, you know?"

So I go in and I'm talking to Mick, and I'm saying ,

"I've got this number, Mick."

Well , of course I feel like I'm fucking auditioning for Mick.

And I'm going , "It goes like this." And I go, "Oh , no."

It goes to Mick and he goes, "I don't know, Paul . You know...

"I'm not sure." And whatever, you know?

Pete says, "I'm not sure you wanna work. . ."

-I am gonna. We've worked it out. -Yeah , yeah , yeah .

Yeah , I am gonna do it.

Pete says, "You're brave, man .

"It's workshopping a number in front of 1 00 million people or something ."

No, it'll work great, 'cause it's just for this event.

And it's just. . . It's just like...

It's just very. . . About this, you know, to live a free life.

So you got something going on ...

-So, so. . . -. . . in the back.

Yeah . What I wanted to do is get the crowd to give me a sort of...

Yeah , yeah .

-Give Peace a Chance style. -That'll be great.

Like I said , it's difficult selling it to people.

'Cause if I was hearing this sell , I'd be a bit unsure.

I'm not like that.

But it's great. You'll be happy.

It's G , basically G .

So, anything in G , E minor, bluesy stuff will work.

Yeah , okay.

The chords, you know, you can just do...

You know, the E minor?

-You don't need to think about it. -No.

-It'll all fit. -Yeah .

The chords, it'll all fit.

What's going on , man? How are you?

-Pleasure. -Take a photo?

Sure, absolutely.

-How's it going? -Very good .

Right. Here we are. Doing it for New York, man !

Great, baby.

-Good to see you . -Thanks for stopping by, man .

-Absolutely. -Thanks for doing that.

I will do that soon .

-Yeah . -What we're doing is just Let It Be.

-Okay. -Yeah .

So, if you would just come on and go...

Absolutely.

-Can you do that? -I'd love to.

It really. . . J ust kind of show something from everybody.

Yeah , that'd be great. Love that. Thank you .

It'll be fun . I'm honoured , honoured to be there.

-Thanks for doing this, love. -See you there.

So you were here when it all happened?

-Yeah . -Where?

J ust about to take off, yeah . J FK.

While you were up in the air?

No, we were on the. . . We were taxiing out.

And suddenly they said ...

The captain said there's been a terrible accident.

We could see it. The smoke.

They said they're closing the airport.

We're gonna have to go back to the ramp.

We had to turn around and go back.

What did you think? Yeah , what did you think?

I don't know. The first one, we thought, was an accident.

Second one, we thought, "Okay, it's not an accident."

Third one, Pentagon . . . It's an invasion .

It's still burning .

Yeah , I've seen it.

I'm working down , about a kilometre away, whatever that is.

-Away. . . -From there I can see it.

-The smell . . . -Quarter of a mile.

Yeah , you can still smell it.

Are you supposed to make friends or entertain them?

Hello, darling !

-We're the film . -Here's the fun .

Hello, darling .

I think you're all right.

H i , how are you doing? You did a great job.

You did a great job, yeah .

And it's so terrific to have you here tonight.

It's great. Thank you . I'm really. . . I'm really proud to be here.

So. . . I was watching you guys during those first couple of days.

You did a great job.

-Everybody came together and . . . -Yeah .

What I was saying to J im , is they were ordinary people,

the firefighters, the construction workers, they inspired all of us.

-That's what it's all about. -That's what it's all about.

Everybody's come together like never before.

That's all it's ever going to be about.

And , you know, America, you've got to bring me...

"Give me your huddled masses." That's what America's about.

You try to take that away, and you've got a problem .

And they're not gonna take it away.

This is a great country and it's going to be greater

as we get through this.

And tonight is a tremendous shot-in-the-arm

for New York City. Thank you .

They just bought about another 400 more years of patriotism .

-Exactly. -You know.

And it was doing pretty good anyway.

I gotta go work.

See you later. You're gonna be fantastic.

A big fan .

-Oi , yeah , man ! -Yeah , man . True.

Probably hook you up with a policeman's outfit

if you wanna come out.

Someone else does it.

-N ice to meet you . -Thank you , Paul .

See you , guys.

I walked around with him today,

and it was like walking around with the mayor of New York.

It was a very scary experience.

It's good though , innit? Good fun .

On behalf of my brother, John ,

and the 1 2 members from Ladder 3 that we've lost.

Our relatives, they are not gone because they are not forgotten .

And I want to say one more thing .

Osama bin Laden , you can kiss my royal Irish ass.

Wow. It's amazing !

-It's really emotional , isn't it? -Yeah .

If you wanna come out and ...

All the firemen , all the policemen , risked their lives to be...

Bye, yoga man .

All the people that's no longer with us.

I'm hooked on this show.

Also, we wanna let them know that we gonna remain strong ,

we gonna party here tonight.

Everybody gotta get up real quick with us, real fast.

Come on , Scratch .

Hands up.

That's one of his other characters, J Hova.

Jay-Z, J Hova.

Wow! He has quite a story going on .

Yeah , exactly.

So, H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A.

Jay-Z.

That song was written by Marvin Hamlisch .

U nbelievable.

-J immy. . . -How you doing?

Great! Come on and . . . Come, sit down .

I'm sorry, man . Of course.

It's a crazy day.

Yeah , yeah , it's crazy.

It is one of those days.

People you've slept with you don't remember.

-That's right. That's right. -Yeah .

James and I met up in the '60s

when he and Peter Asher, was my girlfriend's brother at the time...

Kinda discovered you or whatever...

He brought my...

I was pushing my little acetate demo around London

and he heard it, came across his desk,

played it for Paul , gave me the thumbs up. I was signed to Apple.

And it was as if the heavens opened .

It was crazy, yeah , but it was great.

They were working in Trident Studios in Soho recording The White Album .

And I would come in and just use whatever studio time

wasn't being taken up.

So I'd sit down and listen to rough mixes of Hey, J ude and Revolution ...

-It was so great. -It was true, yeah .

It was so great.

Yeah , Caroline on my Mind , on that record .

That's right. And Paul played bass and sang .

It was just cool , you know. Great, yeah .

Yeah , we had a lot. . . We hung together.

Remember I wanted . . . I thought the album

might be called "James Taylor & Son ."

'Cause I'd seen a shop window.

It was like a shoe shop or something . It was called James Taylor & Son ,

so I thought, "James, maybe you could , like, sit in that window."

Disastrous idea. He said , "I don't know about that."

-You going out front? -J ust for a minute.

Come on . Do you know my little baby?

Yes, we just ran into each other a second ago.

You probably last saw her as a little baby.

She's my big baby now.

I'm big . I'm grown up.

You going out, sweetie?

J ust for a minute, 'cause I'm a huge Bon Jovi fan .

Get out there.

Get out there. No, he's looking good . He's rocking .

So Harvey Weinstein , we were going back to England

and we'd been at my nephew's wedding in Martha's Vineyard .

And Harvey was at the wedding 'cause he's a family friend .

And Harvey says, you know,

"Do you want a lift back on my jet, to England?"

I said , "Yeah ." You know.

So we got the bed , Harvey slept on the couch , on his jet, you know,

the whole thing . It's like a big double bed .

So, apparently he said to John Eastman , "Talent gets the bed ."

Harvey came in and said , "You know, Paul ,

"I really think I'd like you to do this show.

"It's a big thing we're putting together."

John Eastman says, "Here comes the commercial ."

But I thought, you know what,

if Harvey's involved it'll be good .

So then I got involved and then it really did snowball .

It's great.

I didn't realise till recently.

No commercials.

No, I don't think there's gonna be a commercial . I think they'll do...

Change strings and tune it up...

We'll be watching .

Time to get ready. No. . . God ! No, don't tell me that.

We'll be unable. . . We will be unable to see your segment.

We won't see your segment, James.

I am not actually on , you can't actually see me because...

No, you're not doing the show, you just can't...

-Great to see you , man . -It's wonderful to see you , too.

-So cool to see you again . -Okay.

Love you , man .

See you , James.

I'll see you in a bit. I'll come back if I can .

We're here for the duration .

Well , have a good show.

Yes, thank you , my dear, yeah .

A few numbers.

J ust gonna do a couple of heart-jerkers.

J ust a couple of rockers.

A bit of this and that. I've got a new song .

Crazy new song called Freedom .

J ust about, you know, freedom .

Have you been here while this was going on?

Yeah , I've been here since the beginning .

I'm here for the duration , Harrison .

Good on you , Paul . Good on you .

We met when he was doing Raiders.

-Yeah ! -Raiders.

-A hundred years ago. -God !

It was a long time ago. I still love your stuff.

You're one of those actors when it's like you believe the film he's in .

That's saying something .

-Is it true? -It's true.

-You know. . . -She doesn't know.

I just met her in the street.

She was mine for the price of a drink.

Thank you .

They were so great!

They woke up the crowd . The Who.

-They just woke up. -Good band .

-England , sorry. English band . -English . . . British band .

Good band .

That's my daughter, Stella.

-That was great though . -Yeah .

How cool is that?

Yeah . And Zak, is he just good?

I'm so proud of him . I just think I'm watching Zak.

Zak is Ringo's son .

Really? Which one was he?

-He's the drummer. -My God !

The drummer of The Who who is a good drummer.

Because I know him . Yeah , I've seen him .

Well , you finally made it into the film , Harvey.

Good , Albert.

Everybody's probably surprised to see me here tonight.

After all , I'm the idiot who embarrassed himself

at many award shows in the past.

But tonight,

I present the new and improved Howard Stern .

Tonight, I'm a class act.

A serious performer.

I'm a changed man .

So, that's Howard's butt.

There's no more you'd see if he had a swimming costume on .

I just want to say something to all the celebrities

who have stayed away from New York.

I say, shame on you .

Come back to New York.

Don't run . Don't hide. People like Drew Barrymore.

Don't be afraid , honey.

She did Saturday N ight Live, man .

No need to go back really.

No need for it, Howard .

He's embarrassing himself now.

No. It...

I mean , I think with the cut-out arse,

there's nothing to lose really.

-It was good , man . It was odd . -Yeah .

Bill .

How are you?

-Good to see you again . -I'm so glad you're here.

Has this been a great night or what?

Good show, man .

-There's Mick. . . -You got Mick and Keith ,

with the guys, back together again .

I couldn't believe The Who were out there.

I know. . . It's all those tough old guys.

And Ringo Starr's son?

Yeah , Ringo's son .

You know, that's what I said , I did all the TV interviews.

They asked me, and I . . . First I did all the stuff I was supposed to do,

and then I said , "I just want to point out one thing ,

"a phenomenal number of these people,

"the best musicians in the last 40 years are about my age."

I said , "Now they can say whatever they want to

"about the '60s generation .

"We did a good job of hanging around ."

-And you're right, man . -That's what I told them .

Would you look at it? Elton , Billy Joel ,

The Who, those guys, you .

And that's Ringo's son drumming , who was a little baby,

he was a little blonde baby when I first knew him .

I just saw him , it was amazing .

Beautiful little guy.

-Having a good time? -I am .

Yeah , good .

What do you say?

-Look at that! -There you go.

Miss you .

James. Do you know James?

Never met the man .

Come on . You know each other as well .

No, no, no.

The first time I went sailing in the Atlantic

off of Martha's Vineyard , in my life,

he was one of the crew, but we've been friends a long time.

So we go out and they take the sails down and he takes his guitar out

and he sings to us, under a clear Atlantic sky in the ocean .

One of the great nights of my life.

I just told him , I said ,

"You know a phenomenal number of the people who are performing tonight

"are all about my age."

-It just goes to show. . . -Or older.

Yeah . "Which goes to show, you can say whatever the hell you want to

"about the generation of the '60s. We were good at hanging on ."

We hung on . Definitely hung in there.

Tough , man . That's what's needed .

-We miss you , of course. -Miss you , too.

I'm doing what I can .

You're doing great. No, I've seen , from the word go

you're doing a lot of great stuff. A lot of great support.

I saw you within a day of the 11 th , perhaps it was

the 1 2th , perhaps it was the 1 3th .

It was wonderful to see you there

and to see you doing what you do best.

-Giving people. . . It was wonderful . -The support.

Absolutely, yeah .

-Have fun , guys. -Thanks, man .

Be with you in a second .

We're all going to remember for the rest of our lives...

Good show, man .

Love you . Love you , you're the best.

-Come on . -Will , get up...

-Come on , then . -Baby.

Rusty. Go get 'em , Rusty. See ya.

Rusty, my boys.

El? You're not coming to the thing afterwards?

I've gotta go to Mexico.

Okay, darling , thank you for coming .

I love that kiss.

-I'll see you , baby. -Bye, darling .

I just have one question for you firemen .

Where's the party at after this thing , anyway?

'Cause it looks like you guys know how to party.

Yeah . Sure. I'll take that.

There you go.

That's what a hero looks like.

There you go.

Tonight, I have the privilege

of introducing a person who's done great things with his freedom .

He landed in New York City in 1 964 as a Beatle.

And it was one of the biggest moments in this city's history.

He once said , "The love you take is equal to the love you make."

Ladies and gentlemen , he's here tonight

because New York City deserves a little payback.

Ladies and gentlemen , one of our favourite lads from Liverpool ,

Paul McCartney!

New York, USA!

I love you .

I want to thank all the guys and girls that came along tonight.

You know, just so cool .

America said , at the end of the last war, "Give me your huddled masses."

That's what America stands for.

And it always will .

Let it be, America.

Boom !

Let it be, one more time?

Freedom !

You gotta join in .

Eric! Play me a solo, Eric. Come on .

One more time, everybody.

Thank you .

God bless everyone. That's it.

Good night, thank you for coming .

Good night.

See all these beautiful people who came out for New York.

Thank you , New York. Thank you , America !

Paul , you are the man . You are the man .

From everybody in emergency services

and the police department, we thank you .

All right. Thank you , very much .

Paul , come on .

Thank you very much , Paul .

Okay, thank you very much . I really appreciate it.

New job. New job.

Now, my dad was a firefighter in World War I I .

And I was born at the end of the war over there.

And he used to tell us these stories, you know,

'cause after the war he just got a regular job.

And I never used to really appreciate it.

'Cause if he's not out there fighting fires it's like he's just my dad .

But when I saw all this, saw all you guys.

It's like, "Whoa ! My dad did that."

You know, really brought it home to me.

All right, guys. You take it easy.

Thank you very much for coming .

No, Craig , my pleasure really, very much .

Good to see you . Thank you .

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