Maybe I’m amazed

Published on July 31, 2013

Sevilla

 The leftie from Liv­er­pool of­fered an ample array of mu­si­cal col­ors, in­stru­ments, lights, and, of course, his char­ac­ter­is­tic rock gen­tle­man style. For those who said in cap­i­tal let­ters that this man is play­ing, noth­ing was fur­ther from re­al­ity: he ir­ra­di­ates vi­tal­ity from head to toe.    

Fire­works in syn­chronic­ity with counter time notes, in­stru­ment changes, two bises, homage to “won­der­ful Linda”, to his friend John who left with so many things pend­ing to be said, or his com­pan­ion George Har­ri­son. There was also time for jokes at Amer­ica’s cap­i­tal when he men­tioned the good level of Eng­lish his songs of­fered to the cit­i­zens of the for­mer So­viet Union.

Sud­denly, Black­bird. A paren­the­sis on stage, lights com­ing down and heart felt si­lence. There was Paul, our usual, call­ing for so­cial com­mit­ment and hope of a world, which in the 60s was pend­ing to be fixed and con­tin­ues de­mand­ing re­forms. At that point, any small in­con­ve­nience, hol­i­days claims, or tired­ness dis­ap­peared. Among the au­di­ence there were cou­ples of grand­par­ents danc­ing songs that were prob­a­bly their first love songs, chil­dren of these grate­ful for hav­ing found their own through the Lady Madonna, and sen­si­tive grand­chil­dren prov­ing the leg­end of an era, a liv­ing myth.

After the words the ono­matopoeias came to try to de­scribe the at­mos­phere that only the Bea­t­les, Mc­Cart­ney and his bands are ca­pa­ble of cre­at­ing…”wow, ho-ho, vii-haa…” but which con­tinue in­suf­fi­cient. We leave you the reper­tory of his con­cert since what is only left to say is: Thank you Sir Paul Mc­Cart­ney.

• Eight days a week

• Ju­nior’s farm

• All my lov­ing

• Lis­ten to what the man said

• Let me roll it

• Pa­per­back writer

• My Valen­tine

• Nine­teen hun­dred and eighty five

• The long and wind­ing road

• Maybe I’m amazed

• I’ve just seen a face

• We can work it out

• An­other day

• And I love her

• Black­bird

• Here today

• Your mother should know

• Lady Madonna

• All to­gether now

• Lovely Rita

• Mrs. Van­de­bilt

• Eleanor Rigby

• For the ben­e­fit of Mr. Kite

• Some­thing

• Obladi Oblada

• Band on the run

• Back in the USSR

• Let it be

• Live and let die

• Hey Jude

• (after 1st bis) Day trip­per

• Hi, hi, hi

• Get back

• (after 2nd bis) Yes­ter­day

• Hel­ter Skel­ter

• The Abbey Road Med­ley (Golden slum­bers / Carry that weight / The end)

Note: Spe­cial thanks to my uncle Acis­clo, who in­tro­duced me to this great band with a whole gen­er­a­tion of mu­si­cal and so­cial change in the 60s and 70s. Chronic Curro ded­i­cated to my friend who ac­com­pa­nied me in spirit through­out the show.

Clara Fa­jardo

Translated from Maybe I’m amazed