Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road was meant as a promotion for McCartney's album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. As the audience was of close friends and selected fans, the concert was intimate in nature and was littered with monologues and song fragments. It was shown on BBC Two in the United Kingdom on 17 December 2005,and on PBS in the United States on 27 February 2006 as part of the performing arts series Great Performances.
McCartney plays left-handed and right-handed guitars, drums, harmonium, double bass, Mellotron, and even wine glasses in a reworking of the Wings song "Band on the Run". He also reworks the Beatles' track "Lady Madonna", which he calls "Old Lady in New Clothes", with a much slower tempo and a swung melody line.
The bass McCartney uses on his performance of "Heartbreak Hotel" once belonged to Bill Black, Elvis Presley's bass player who died in 1965.
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Sir Paul McCartney appeared at home amid the cameras and props in Abbey Road Studios as he prepared to the music for the lesson.
The former Beatle reminisced about recording Love Me Do and Lady Madonna as a host of awe-struck celebrities joined him in Studio 2 to film his latest video.
As the studio fills up, McCartney admits he was not expecting such a turn-out for his video.
When Paul McCartney returned to Studio 2 at Abbey Road, the famous (and recently endangered) site where the The Beatles recorded their wondrous albums. As part of the BBC production, Chaos & Creation at Abbey Road, McCartney introduces viewers to vintage instruments used by the band and an assortment of recording techniques. And, above, we have Sir Paul recounting the very first moments when he and John Lennon met, then breaking into a version of "Twenty Flight Rock," the Eddie Cochran song he played to audition for The Quarry Men (later to become The Beatles). You can watch the full program above.
