Fan on the Run meets McCartney
Super Maccafan Rick G (aka “Fans On The Run”), who regularly follows McCartney’s concert tours, unexpectedly ran into his idol while in Detroit. Rick was visiting the Hitsville Motown museum just to see the building myself. As he was leaving, some cars pulled up, bringing the star. Paul McCartney recognized Rick and gave him a hug, revealing that “I always look for you” (in the concert crowds). A special day for Rick G indeed!
McCartney’s set list from Detroit Sunday:
- Hello Goodbye
- Juniors Farm
- All My Loving
- Jet
- Drive My Car
- Sing The Changes
- Hitchhike
- The Night Before
- Let Me Roll It
- Paperback Writer
- The Long and Winding Road
- 1985
- Let ‘Em In
- Maybe I’m Amazed
- I’ve Just Seen A Face
- I Will
- Blackbird
- Here Today
- Dance Tonight
- Mrs. Vanderbilt
- Eleanor Rigby
- Something
- Band on the Run
- Ob-la-di Ob-la-da
- Back In The USSR
- I Got A Feeling
- A Day In The Life/Give Peace A Chance
- Let It Be
- Live And Let Die
- Hey Jude
- Lady Madonna
- Day Tripper
- Get Back
- Yesterday
- Helter Skelter
- Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
How cool is that!? Love it! I've just met Ringo and he was VERY kind too. Love these bugs! Congrats!
wonderful photo, incredible moment – congratulations rick!!!
Hi Wog!Do you know this rare video about John? youtube.com/watch?v=vKPojY5M6Bo&feature=youtu.be
Keith Badman's book THE BEATLES DIARY VOLUME 2: AFTER THE BREAK-UP 1970-2001 says:
Tuesday March 18, 1975:
At the Dakota, John records his second interview with the journalist Jean-Francois Vallee (his first being on December 14, 1971), this time for inclusion in the French television programme Un four Future. His piece, entitled Il Etait Une Fois John Lennon (Once Upon A Time There Was John Lennon), is produced by Michael Lancelot and features John, besides speaking on the telephone, being interviewed while sitting on the floor. Among many topics of conversation, he discusses Paul's drug taking admission to ITN news in 1967, The Beatles as "world leaders", his visit to Paris in 1961 and the trademark Beatle haircut and collarless jacket. He also reveals how he incorporated reggae into the 1964 Beatles tune 'I Call Your Name'. At one stage, he goes out onto the balcony and performs a mock magical trick with a handkerchief, which appears from the bottom of his trousers. Inside his apartment again, this time solo on the piano, John performs a unique version of Labelle's hit 'Voulez Vous Coucher Avec Moi, Ce Soir (Lady Marmalade)'. (John appears in the interview wearing a T-shirt that has that logo stamped on to it.) For its first television broadcast, on Saturday June 28, and for the benefit of the non-English speaking French viewers, Lancelot strangely dubs John's answers with two separate male/female French voices. Sections of the interview where John speaks frankly about sex and drugs are deemed too risky for transmission and are never screened. Following the French TV filming, John records another transatlantic telephone conversation with the Capital Radio DJ Nicky Home for his programme Your Mother Wouldn't Like It. A planned meeting between John and Ringo, who is scheduled to appear in Capital's US studio to ask John some questions, fails to materialise as Ringo fails to show because he had to return to England for additional work on Lisztomania at Shepperton Studios.
Later in the day, the concluding part of the Old Grey Whistle Test show takes place at the Hit Factory studios in New York, where John and his band film studio performances of 'Slippin' And Slidin' ' and 'Stand By Me'. The production of these are carried out by Apple and subsequently licensed to the BBC for inclusion in the programme. ('Slippin' And Slidin' ' is filmed because, at this stage, this is the choice for the second single from the Rock 'N' Roll album.)
The Beatles on DVD has the date as April 7th, 1975.