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Paul McCartney <\/a>has opened up in a new podcast appearance about his issue with seeing Bob Dylan live.<\/p>\n McCartney and Dylan\u2019s history dates back to when they first met each other in a New York hotel in 1964, which saw the singer-songwriter introduce the Fab Four to marijuana<\/a> for the first time.<\/p>\n The Liverpudlian\u2019s respect for Dylan as a songwriter knows no bounds, previously saying in 2020<\/a>, \u201cI always like what he does. Sometimes I wish I was a bit more like Bob. He\u2019s legendary\u2026 and doesn\u2019t give a shit! But I\u2019m not like that.\u201d<\/p>\n Above is where the main difference lies between Dylan, who only cares about his own opinion and McCartney, a self-proclaimed people pleaser.<\/p>\n During a new interview on The Rest Is Entertainment<\/a>, McCartney highlighted the difference between his approach to performing live with Dylan.<\/p>\n Firstly, he explained why he wants to play the hits, \u201cI think we could do songs they don\u2019t know and have a lot of \u2018black holes\u2019. But they\u2019ve paid a lot of money. I remember as a kid, I used to go to shows and save up. I went to a Bill Haley concert. There\u2019s a name to conjure with.\u201d<\/p>\n He added, \u201cBut I\u2019d saved for months and done a paper round and done everything. And I knew what I wanted. I wanted him to do his hits. And if he got all clever on me, I would be like, oh, OK. I\u2019d let him indulge himself.\u201d<\/p>\n McCartney then said of Dylan, who plays whatever he pleases, \u201cIn fact, talking about Mr Dylan \u2013 I\u2019ve been to see a couple of Bob\u2019s shows, and honestly, I couldn\u2019t tell what song he was doing. Now, that\u2019s a bit much, because I know his stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n The Beatle admitted that he does understand \u201cif he doesn\u2019t want to do \u2018Mr Tambourine Man<\/a>\u2019 \u2013 maybe he\u2019s fed up with it\u201d, but speaking from a fan\u2019s perspective, he added, \u201cBut I would like to hear it. And I paid.\u201d<\/p>\n Poignantly, elsewhere in the conversation, McCartney discussed how he enjoys unifying audiences across the political divide, particularly in the US, through \u2018Hey Jude\u2019.<\/p>\n The musical legend shared, \u201cAnd particularly these days \u2013 you do something like \u2018Hey Jude\u2019, and you see the whole audience singing together. In Trump\u2019s America, where Republicans and Democrats are at each other\u2019s throats \u2013 when we do that song, they\u2019re not. They\u2019re all loving it.\u201d <\/p>\n Macca added of the power of music to bring people together, \u201cAnd it\u2019s like, wow. Suddenly, this room has forgotten all of that. We\u2019re not going to argue; we\u2019re just going to sing together. Those kinds of things, I think, are valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch or listen to\u00a0The Rest Is Entertainment\u00a0<\/a>wherever you get your podcasts<\/strong><\/p>\n
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