The evening has become even more beautiful, mild and summer light. The concert begins at forty minutes late, but then the same with the two classics “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Can not Buy Me Love”. And suddenly an unkind thought creeps in: Since plays a Beatles cover-Revival Band. With great visual effort and giant screens. Before 22,000 people, almost full house. Strangely only that there are five musicians on the forest stage, ie one too many. Or three enough.
Paul McCartney is seen but not every day. For all the joy, excitement and pop holiness that must be sorted once everything. Here Paul McCartney occurs, not the Beatles, and yet – the founder, the heir, the man of 73 years, which further carries the torch. Ringo Starr is for this role is not really in question, and John Lennon and George Harrison are long dead. And Paul McCartney is not just the ex-Beatle. The four had their creative climax almost forty years ago. Now he played the intro with the early hits once some new things, good mainstream popular music, more rock sound, but that’s not it somehow, you fremdelt.
Only when he acoustic guitar umhängt and “We Can Work it Out” unpacks, engages a mechanism. Yes, we can do that tonight, we can get it out. Getting better and better than expected, at the end. McCartney popular and much speaks to the audience, has learned German sentences that acts a bit like a politician on a state visit. Not stiff, but a bit of an effort. Sympathetic, but close as it gets. What will change in the course of the evening, bringing more presence and, yes, happiness, more direct Paul McCartney As for the story. The until now incomprehensible story of a band, with pop music and another was that music at all.
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In the “New York “was recently reported that few composers have the wonderful gift of finding tunes. Mozart and McCartney have. Melodies that sit in the collective memory as elementary historical events, or shall we say, folk songs?
“Blackbird” he sings solo, high up on a hydraulic platform, a man on a Monument. He says that he has written the song in the sixties for the Civil rights-movement in the US South. “Fool On the Hill” is reminiscent of the surreal poetry of the Beatles, to John Lennon. His “buddy John” he acknowledges with a cheesy song – nothing against the brilliant tribute to George Harrison that follows soon. On the Ukulele intones Paul “Something,” he sings as if on wings, and the memory of a jam session of the two leads to a big pop aria.
Friendship, Love, death – in the background pulling the old photos of the Beatles over, and, funny: In “Something” is not sentimental, but deep emotion. As far as one can say in such an event; the best places cost 230 euros.
Paul McCartney not conquered audiences by storm. Many of his jokes get stale over in “Eleanor Rigby” makes the keyboard-man electronic strings, sometimes it lacks this, sometimes that. The arrangements are based scrupulously on the old recordings, there is little air to breathe, and yet : Paul McCartney grows into during the concert in the size, anyway always had.
It is the year 2016 – and suddenly sings all Waldbühne “Obladi, Oblada”. And now “Band On the Run” from the Wings: a huge thing. Densification of hits, classics and atmosphere is tremendous. “Back in the USSR”. In “Let It Be” Paul is back on the piano in “Hey Jew” sings everything again with, and with “Live and Let Die” is fired pyrotechnics, as befits a James Bond song. The Waldbühne wobbles. Pauls temporary hoarseness is blown away. Grand Opera. Fireworks sizzle in the sky, flames beat high at the ramp.
Charismatic he never
The concert has no climax. It has several. They come with the Germany flag and the Union Jack on the stage, which are already the additions. A demonstration of Europe, against the Proposed referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union? Paul McCartney plays “Yesterday”, he dedicates the song terror victims of Orlando and swinging a rainbow flag. Still not a conclusion. Now the irresistible medley comes from the “Abbey Road” album. “Boy, you gonna carry did weight, carry weight did a long time.” He did that without a doubt, with dignity. carried the burden of being a Beatle and to grow old.
Well, he looks lean, playing two and a half hours without a break, are coquettishly and ironically, and he has promised a party at the beginning, you have to say: There have been worse. It is also clear: McCartney is not, never was the charismatic performer. No frontman. Exceptional Aura is not given to him. It has highly professional musicians there, but not a band of extreme individualists. At the end he alone, with his inexhaustible compositional treasure melodies for eternity. And of course: It interprets itself not new. This could not be expected.
In this context, the looseness, but also increased the intensity, piece by piece. It remains a mystery to this band, which also Paul McCartney can neither solve nor wants. As these young guys from Liverpool invent this music could find out why they just came to them for a few years, in the sixties, when the music God has his cornucopia already poured generously.
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