Red Rose Speedway was the first Paul McCartney and Wings album to top the US album chart, starting a sequence of chart-toppers that included Band On The Run, Venus And Mars, At The Speed Of Sound, and Wings Over America. The ome single from the set, the enduring ballad “My Love,” similarly became Wings’ first No.1 single in America, and a fixture in live shows by the band and then by McCartney for decades to come.
The full Red Rose Speedway tracklist is: Side One
1. Big Barn Bed2. My Love3. Get On The Right Thing4. One More Kiss5. Little Lamb Dragonfly
Side Two 1. Single Pigeon 2. When The Night 3. Loup (1st Indian On The Moon) 4. Medley: a. Hold Me Tight b. Lazy Dynamite c. Hands Of Love d. Power Cut.
YALE- 16 Feb. 2023
Paul talked about growing up in Liverpool, the music played by his family at gatherings, how John influences his writing to this day and retold a few stories that die hard Beatle fans have already heard. He also shared a cool story of hanging with Little Richard in their early days, watching him prep for a show and telling himself how beautiful he was.
About 10 minutes after the end of the event, a group of people came out walking past us and Paul was conveniently mixed in with them. The group of people (which may have included his grandsons who were in attendance, one of which is a recent Yale grad) was quickly escorted to a waiting van. (Source and Photos from Telecaster-discussion)
Super fans all lined up to tell they had a conversation with Paul McCartney. People waited in line for hours last night at Yale. Some even traveled as far as California.
Some of his super fans have been to over 100 of his shows, and they even have his autograph tattooed on them.
“This is so great. I’ve seen Paul so many times live but seeing him in this scenario at Yale and talking about his book. This is once in a lifetime. He’s humble, his humility when we met him, he treated us like we were the only people in the room and we were at a venue with thousands of people,” fans said. To watch the video below follow this LINK
Paul McCartney tickets problem led to apology for Yale's Feb. 16 eventIt was noted that registration to attend a Feb. 16 event with the legendary Beatles star Paul McCartney opened to Yale College students on Feb. 3. Pre-registration tickets sold out within two minutes. (McCartneyproject/ Yaledailynews)
Thousands of Yale community members were touched by Beatlemania Thursday night.
Fans went wild over Paul McCartney
Below: Paul McCartney celebrate The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, in a world-exclusive event -full video
McCartney, who received an honorary doctorate degree in music from Yale in 2008, is slated to speak about his new book, “The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present.” McCartney will converse with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Langdon Hammer, a University English professor.
According to the online details about the event, The Lyrics “encompasses McCartney’s earliest boyhood compositions through the legendary decade of The Beatles.”
The book arranges the compositions alphabetically rather than chronologically to “provide a kaleidoscope” and records both McCartney’s song lyrics as well as the circumstances around the lyrics.
The “extraordinarily high demand” for tickets resulted in the YaleConnect website shutting down shortly after it opened. The Schwarzman Center then suspended all public ticket sales until the technical team could fix the issue
“I’m surprised that for such a high-profile event like Paul McCartney, Yale thought their dinky registration system would be able to handle all that demand,” Cristian Pereira ’25 wrote to the News. “Ticket sales for such an event should have been thought through and organized more thoroughly.”
Yale Information Technology did not respond to a request for comment. Despite technical difficulties, some members of the Yale community were able to secure tickets on Wednesday — including Michael Garman ’25, a former staff photographer for the News.
“I just kept refreshing and trying to get the ticketing system to load so I could register,” Garman wrote to the News. “Eventually, after about an hour, I lucked out and was one of the few people able to get a ticket in the brief window while it was open.”
Tickets are currently unavailable to anyone “to ensure equity in the ticketing process” until their technical team resolves the issue.
