Paul McCartney on Wogan ...1989 -

[@bratachban]

who else is watching this with a big smile on their faces?

[@krinapatel-sage9568]

And he’s playing at Glastonbury tonight on his 80th birthday! What a legend 🎸✨

[@jerrileeplaylistjerome5245]

Oh, he's eternally young!! Just love him soo much!! ❤❤

[@ej2333]

There nothing better when your depressed than listen to Paul.

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

You're*

[@tallscreengabbo]

Flowers in the Dirt is one of Paul's best solo albums.

[@robshank1983]

It’s a great album. It’s definitely one of his best. My favorite is ‘memory almost full’ the guitar solo on house of wax is legendary

[@shesarockstudios]

Flowers In The Dirt was his most Beatlesque album since Wings up to that point. amazing.

[@paulalanghorn1774]

Love this tune reminds me of my uncle he had this album when I was a kid my brave face is so beatlesque love the fact Elvis Costello got him to play his violin bass on this

[@lesleyduckworth2415]

Dear Sir Paul.I really enjoyed you over all the years your music is great.I wish you the best of birthday and happy birthday to you may you have many more

[@JohnH108]

Oh my, Paul was younger then than I am now. Wow!

[@luckiest1]

This is great, I've never seen it before and 1989 was the first time i saw Paul & band live.

[@LisaGemini]

Such a great album. If you don't have "Flowers in the Dirt," you should buy it. I saw him in concert at Tampa Stadium in 1990 on this amazing tour. Great times!

[@joycerwhite6171]

great

[@richommenicolas6165]

"My brave face" sonne très Beatles 😉🙂

[@fb9532]

Love that groovy voice. Figure of 8 is still one of my fav in Paul's discograohy. I sang It in the world tour he mentioned, in Milan Italy. "Is It Better to love One another...."

[@rogerd3051]

my brave face is still a great song , so lucky to see him on tour that year

[@jonig388]

Love the harmonies on this song. Could listen to it repeatedly about 1,000 times. No kidding.

[@steveconn]

He still had that great howl at that point. Powerful rock voice.

[@tunesmusic8929]

Great song- wish he would still do this one on tour

[@32mybelle]

That was a great album and my first concert! Lovely Linda was still alive! Macca looks so much younger here! 💗

[@jamesdunn9714]

Well, it was 1989. Long time back.

[@RussTube59]

The first time I've seen this. Slightly surprised Linda wasn't acknowledged by name. She wasn't just "in the band".

[@lesleyduckworth2415]

Dear Sir Paul Have a happy eightieth and God bless you when you are 84.Les

[@f1livenews2023]

damn McCrtney got a voice out of this planet

[@jaydeecee1643]

I LOVED this album

[@wormsnake1]

What were those dancers all about!!😂. I remember getting this album and loving it. It was a return to proper songwriting rather than the predominant garbage that was around in the late 80’s. McCartney is a one man institution.x

[@jasminerr]

I love him so much

[@SomewhatofanArtist]

LOVE YOU PAUL!!!!😭😭😭

[@optimusprime732able]

I love this, he is really a music- living legend since then, how I wish I could watch him here in Canada before living the earth

[@jameskolar354]

the way he bites his lip after making a joke at 3:27, I feel like one of those screaming Beatles fans in the 60s documentaries....

[@sandrashuler9756]

Love his meaningfully lovely song. This one most people wouldn't think of as lovely. The guy n the song really loved her...

[@ousetunes]

I recall watching this when it aired Friday 19th May 1989. I got Flowers In The Dirt a few weeks later for my 20th birthday. It remains one of my favourite Macca solo albums which takes me back to that glorious summer.

[@budsmoker60]

RIP Linda xx

[@dk045u]

She's the Godess for him yet❤🌹

[@debrabugay6335]

I love you Paul

[@michaelfleming40]

I LOVED Flowers in the Dirt which came out in 1989.

[@reasonrestored9116]

Love Sue. Especially enjoy listening to her presenting Desert Islands Discs. She retired too early for me.

[@tach409]

What a Legend!

[@dedrajade5394]

To think that their first child Mary was already 20 years old at this time!❤

[@stevenrutter4910]

...to all the moaners , who complain about 'miming' etc....someone has mentioned below about the musician's union thingy ....AND this Wogan show was a LIVE broadcast , 3 times a week , so to help prevent any LIVE cockup ...special arrangements are made for shows like this. I was at a ''LIVE to Japan by satellite'' broadcast in June 1989 , when someone messed up the playback of a taped performance , meaning that the band were stood waiting for the intro for around 5 seconds ...then it suddenly came through, but cut short - meaning that Paul and the band missed the opening of the harmonies on 'My Brave Face'. I bet 'someone' on the sound-desk got a severe telling off by Paul after the broadcast was over...

[@TonysMusic1974]

Love the Steinberger that Hamish Stuart is playing! So 80's!

[@jamestilby2223]

Yet another Great Song!! JUST LIKE ELEANOR RIGBY WHERE DO THEY ALL COME FROM ?????

[@galesummers2704]

😂❤ This is SO PAUL! He loves performing!!🎉

[@justiceforjamespaulmccartney]

Paul McCartney died in car crash on September 11 1966 and was replaced by William (Billy). This is THE TRUTH no matter what.

[@ДмитрийЗайденберг]

Pity he abandoned those songs. I wish he did My Brave Face again.

[@Vectorbas]

The idea is he wants people buying his CD's. And just promoting the new once.

[@Gabriel-ki7uj]

​@@Vectorbas he has no need, he's got enough money

[@proactivelifewithljc4000]

Great vocals!

[@annamazzucchelli7652]

Bellissimo uomo speciale musicista straordinario ❤

[@54WMD]

The dancers make the performance like as if they were on American Bandstand. Fantastic all the way around.

[@johnross2924]

She's very well spoken 🇬🇧

[@davecostello560]

That could well have been the first time the Hofner bass had been out in public since 1966 (discounting the rooftop gig).

[@steadywoodward9390]

Dave Costello but he’s not using the violen bass

[@polythenepepper]

@@steadywoodward9390 second song

[@shesarockstudios]

it is. Elvis Costello convinced him to pull it out for flowers in the dirt. Still had a beatles setlist taped to the side from 1966 which inspired the My Brave Face video

[@romainlabaye]

The Höfner was used in the Coming Up music video in 1980 but it also has been seen in public during the concert for Kampuchea in 1979, but guess what, it's "played" by Robert Plant. ;-)

[@Aderin.]

The entire iconic rooftop concert?

[@justlikeu2]

Happy Birthday to Paul McCartney!!

[@joaofaria6547]

Excelente musica

[@ezktime7]

good quality!

[@Berkner80]

Yes, that was my first McCartney concert at Texas Stadium,. Had floor seat tickets, 2nd section, $37.50- those were the days. Now a nose bleed seat will cost $75.

[@Gerardoooooooo]

“Unless we sack’em all”. 🤣🤣🤣

[@10MinuteGuitarJams]

Great Recooooord! Great record.

[@TheArtofGuitar]

Now he just has to be on Rogan and he can say he's been on Wogan and Rogan. I don't know why but that made me giggle.

[@HashimotoTheBand]

What?! A 5-string bass ?! Say it ain't so ! Oh it's OK - Paul can do anything he wants.

[@dk045u]

Linda the Godess💙💜💚💛🧡❤

[@josephbrancatelli8176]

thank you :)

[@timothyflyte9443]

Great channel I just subscribed. Lots of cool stuff .

[@andrewvincent7299]

It's very interesting that he is using an almost exact raspy style of vocals he used in the mid 70s. He pretty much stopped singing like that in 1980 and onward. It's really cool he sung like that on this great song Figure of Eight. I honestly think this is his best song that he wrote in the 80s

[@Jeff-jg7jh]

Thanks for pointing that out. I don't pay that much attention, but my brother does so it's good to be up on it. I remember seeing a vid of one of his concerts in the U.S.(after our concert in Tempe,AZ) where his voice was shot.

[@dedrajade5394]

He had to stop or he wouldn't of had a voice today! ❤Paul

[@michaelfrazia4569]

The 89 90 era of rasp was due more to age than effect like it was during his excellent vocal period of the mid 70s...don't take my word ...listen to maybe I'm amazed off of wings over America...then play maybe I'm amazed off of tripping the live fantastic and you get a solid illustration of this . He is my favorite musician of all time so I am very familiar with his work. That awesome 70s rasp was last heard on tug of war..the song "the pound is sinking is the last time his vocals were truly comparable to his 70s zenith

[@michaelfrazia4569]

A final note...listening to this in 2020 is much different than listening in 1989..due to the current state of his vocals this sounds smooth and powerful...albeit not as strong as his 70s stuff....when i was listening in 89 I was disappointed in the deterioration of his vocals

[@kevinkiley6503]

@@michaelfrazia4569 I have to wonder if Paul not touring much (at all) in the 80’s till 1989 weakened his scream. I saw him in 2002, and his scream on “Maybe I’m Amazed” was better than what he did for Tripping the Live Fantastic. His voice had a resurgence during that 2001-2007 period when he was out on the road more.

[@stephentowelie8924]

80s 😍

[@Quasatoad]

It seems this performance was lip-synched, but I enjoyed it anyway. This is the first time this clip rotated to my attention. My Time Stamp for viewing this is 9/27/2022

[@jayroberts2017]

Great video. Wonder why he performed Figure of Eight live but not My Brave Face?

[@johnmacdonald977]

He did both. Watch the whole video.

[@allthekingshorses593]

None was live. Terrible lip-sync.

[@andreverhagemusic]

looking young there!

[@KC-wi4gh]

I remember this album and tour . I wonder why the drummer departed before the World Tour started.

[@ruudl8711]

“November of the world, yes” 🤣🤣

[@DanielFranco-nt9ze]

Paul McCartney one of The Best of The Beatles and Ringo Starr too

[@TonysMusic1974]

Weird that they played "Figure Of Eight" live but "My Brave Face" was to a track . . . . more odd since they did play that song on the tour. I knew it wouldn't be live when he didn't give them a chord before it started to get their harmonies.

[@kevinbanks7472]

Both songs were performed to playback, not just the second.

[@TonysMusic1974]

@@kevinbanks7472 not how I hear it. "Figure of eight" had a slower tempo than the original and the guitar sound was different. Clearly live to me but 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@kevinbanks7472]

@@TonysMusic1974 Bands who did playback for tv sometimes had different recordings made especially for playback, that would reflect the players on the day. Paul cleary misses words. He misses "early" at 4:27, "wanna" at 4:33, "better" at 5:08 etc. Who is playing bass at 5:55?

[@TonysMusic1974]

@@kevinbanks7472 you clearly watched it more intensely than I did 🤣. Good catch

[@kevinbanks7472]

@@TonysMusic1974 I come by it honestly; I edit music to picture for a living. 😆Chris is killin' it, though. I think I only noticed one bad snare hit in the entire set.

[@DouglasMitchell]

This is all lip synched, which makes it even weirder that the backing track of Figure Of Eight isn't even the record. It's some pre-recorded live off the floor version where Paul's voice is especially raspy which may mean that it was done as a last minute thing. I wonder what the deal with that show is. And of course he wanted to play and not talk to the host. Good hell, if that wasn't obvious to everyone. Let the goddamned band play after introducing them, Sue.

[@davecostello560]

I think there were still BBC Musician's Union rules that meant you could only mime to a track if you recorded it again, rather than simply play the studio version.

[@petermills542]

@@davecostello560 Ah that's interesting to know , I was a bit puzzled myself, cheers

[@daytripper9222]

I'm with you Douglas. Lip synched indeed.

[@crosmas]

Yep, there's a video Paul did that was a rehearsal for that tour that he mentioned at his farm in Scotland I think and this is the audio for that. The video is called Put it There I think, I recommend it it's great and intimate and such.

[@andrewvincent7299]

@@crosmas Yeah, this is from the Put it There movie. I think Paul recognized that this is the best version of the song and right before his voice sadly started to go. He was able to use that style of singing he used with Wings in the 70s. He couldn't do it anymore in 1989 and onwards. His voice finally started to give out his 89-90 world tour.

[@markdoughty8780]

Poptastically uplifting tunes; the second song made me think Paul had collaborated with Andy Partridge rather than Elvis Costello, as, it sounded, to me, like an XTC number. Enjoyed it and the legend that is Paul McCartney is going as strong as ever to this very day, and showing no signs of slowing up, thankfully.

[@mellowwillowpillow]

The miming is quite funny.

[@DavidHartley88]

Dancers ? What a great idea !!!

[@AlHuerta]

“Keeps me off the streets” say Paul… 😂

[@mez5590]

I almost cried when I heard My Brave Face on the radio for the first time. Not used to watching him lip sync here…

[@patsmith36]

The original photo bomber!

[@richardperrins1442]

flowers in the dirt is a fantastic album .im biased I love all his music .great-songs superbly produced.flaming pie is another genius album .but I have always seen him as a modern day handle .or Bach.wether you like him or not he’s a genius

[@Dadaadad268]

Wogan looks good in a dress

[@PaViLionsChannel]

very rare ! he with WAL BASS!

[@jrpacer6355]

Is that Linda in the back ground?

[@dedrajade5394]

Yes

[@jrh11254]

I found it odd that she was completely ignored by the inept hostess!

[@dalebachman4510]

I believe they are syncing to the recording

[@kissmad11]

Yeah Yeah Yeah . . . she loves you . . .

[@darwinaltamirano3512]

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@stevenrutter4910]

...on another 'live' Wogan show - George Best was a guest and had been drinking ....and told Terry he'd just been 'screwing' ....and he'll be 'screwing' later on as well....as he loves screwing. Oliver Reed told Des O'Connor that he had a tattoo 'on his cock' - so DO YOU NOW UNDERSTAND WHY 'LIVE' SHOWS CAN BE DIFFICULT OR EMBARRASSING SOMETIMES ? Did you see MTV Unplugged when Paul forgot the words to We Can Work It Out , and on Jools Holland's show the Rock n' Roll Band messed up the intro of a song so Paul just stopped ....then started again - SO 'miming' is best sometimes.

[@alexandrepaschoal9824]

90s very good

[@ЕленаЗинкович]

Ochen krasivay impresario...

[@DrewMoody]

That interview was impossibly thick

[@vc5183]

I love this but did he actually think anyone thought he wasn’t miming?

[@pedroluz5525]

Total playback ! And badly done !! Hahaha

[@ewest14]

He didn't have a choice. Paul would have preferred to play live but tv shows like that didn't let you

[@boba2783]

The sound levels are too high and distorted

[@ricric9521]

We have dancers for you?

[@TonysMusic1974]

what the hell is with the dancers? :-P

[@davidlee2490]

truly awful

[@DanielFranco-nt9ze]

Sir Paul McCartney is also is watching me just in case their is some one who is trying to judge me for things i never done because I am a Beatles fan and i am an English teacher and a drummer who likes Rock n Roll Music only that's why I have won for ever because i Like Roc n Roll Music too

[@petejones879]

Sue Lawley I'd forgotten about her.. 😅

[@mtdouthit1291]

Where did you get this clip??

[@StevesHornet900]

...I don't understand your question !...'where' ?

[@stevenrutter4910]

....ALL my videos were recorded onto VHS videotape straight from the original television broadcast, although some of the uploads were from tapes I'd swapped with London fans...but they are a bit fuzzy - whereas mine are good quality ! Someone else has uploaded a very poor copy of this show....!!

[@とも智-f3l]

楽しそうな笑い声‼️ どなたか日本語訳してください。

[@glasshalffull8471]

Lennon and Elvis is hard to beat.

[@krinapatel-sage9568]

Is it Miranda’s mum?

[@davesuiter]

Elvis Costello was NOT like John; Paul makes that clear. Lennon and McCartney didn't even understand the magic.

[@kommissar.murphy]

"Interestng" choice of reverb on the vocals here....

[@romanmurray9489]

Several seconds into the song you can see that he wasn't really singing the song.

[@thequarrymen58]

lol

[@paulwilliams9278]

Sue lawley is fit

[@nureinherz]

Why does his voice sound so rough? Just before he was talking quite fine, no sore throat or anything.

[@andrewvincent7299]

Have you not heard any songs from his Wings tours in the mid 70s? Or even Wings over America album? It's the same exact style..or at least close. He use to sing like this a lot. I believe this is the last time he sang like this . It was pretty much his singing style in the 70s

[@nureinherz]

@@andrewvincent7299 you are right, I haven't. I was born in the 70s, and later discovered the Beatles for me and became a Beatles fan, but never really came to know Wings. Have to look into that now ☺👍

[@andreaschlapek9208]

He used this voice on Beatles Songs too. Im down for example.

[@andrewvincent7299]

@@nureinherz His Wings stuff was great! I recommend watching his Rockshow concert which was when Wings and McCartney were in their absolute prime. Then listen to each each album starting with Wildlife all the way to Wings last album Back to the Egg. McCartney was in his absolute prime in the 70s in my opinion. He broke away from the Beatles and really became his own person.

[@BlueEyes-gp8lg]

Newcastle - don't dare criticize his voice on here. The Paul sycophants will come out in droves and devour you. They don't want to hear a word about their master having an off night.

[@petejones879]

What do you call a dog with wings... You already know the answer lol

[@wildbill8635]

Macca songs for me began to feel not right in late 80s despite Elvis Costello doing the Lennon bit. He's always missed him. In all ways. Linda's on tambourines. Its best.. Not heard from Sue Lawley for ages. Still swooning..

[@Colsoloact-po9wv]

My brave face is a great song...not keen in figure of 8 but ok-ish.....wonder what Sue Lawley's doing now!

[@andrewvincent7299]

@crush_davis Paul is the best at taking his album versions and just mastering them on tour. I haven't heard this song live but I imagine it's amazing! I love this album version but I can only imagine how much more I'd love the live version! Paul has seemed to stop adding to his songs on his tours. He plays them almost exactly the album versions which is a bleeding shame!

[@jrh11254]

I hope Sue was roundly sacked after this show. Don’t know how McCartney kept his composure after her insufferable comments.

[@kevanbodsworth9868]

Sorry I found it pretty run of the mill pop, Not comparable to Beatles achievements,

[@Galaxie500IN]

He’s been pretty much back into prime form for the last several albums, though. I didn’t love this one, either, but some really love it.

[@thesilvershining]

@@Galaxie500IN I loved Chaos & Creation, NEW, and Egypt Station quite a bit!

[@rmstitanic8163]

The same wit Paul had in the early Beatles days is still there. 😊 Always been a massive fan. But got to say. Figure of Eight was not a good one. Sorry Paul.

[@justiceforjamespaulmccartney]

Paul McCartney died in car crash on September 11 1966 and was replaced by William (Billy). This is THE TRUTH no matter what.

[@scoobydoo4087]

This dance music is light years from the Beatles

[@ChainNonSmoker]

Ahead u mean