Oooh He sounds the same as when he did it when he was like 20! What a lovely trip to the past Paul singing this song brings to us. And yeah Paul's awesome in rock. He should have done more rock music in his post Beatles days.
and Pete was drunk off his ass during the whos performance and for this, cant blame him, only 3 weeks previously 11 people died at their show in Cincinnati
Paul can be heard making a comment about Pete Townshend before the song about Pete being a "poof" (gay in British slang). "Thank you, Peter. Only lousy sod who wouldn't wear the silver suit. Cuz he's a poof." . Lawrence Juber can be seen walking up putting a sparky hat on Pete, who flung it into the audience. Pete commented about it in several interviews following the show, eventually admitting that he over-reacted
"Rockestra Theme" won the 1980 Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance
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It was rumored the The Beatles were going to play together this night in 1979...in Sept.the U.N. had asked The Beatles to reunite and play a gig to raise money for the Cambodian"boat people"refugees....but alas....nothing....
Paul mcCartney and Wings, Ringo Starr, John Paul Jones and John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, David Gilmour from Pink Floyd, Ronnie Lane of The Faces, Kenney Jones and Pete Townshend of The Who (the only one not in a silver suit cuz he's a puff according to Paul), and Hank Marvin of The Shadows. Keith Moon was invited, but died before the event took place. Robert Plant, Rockpile, James Honeyman-Scott, Hank Marvin,David Gilmour. (Gilmour and Marvin were on the Wings album version of Rockestra only)
@4FabBEATLES Please, explain to me what did Paul mean when he said that Pete Townshend is a puff. i am not a native English speaker so I don't know what exactly that word meant in that case.
@more1and1more "Puff" is an old British slang term for "Gay". Paul was kidding, of course as Pete is clearly not gay, but he was teasing him/making fun of him because Pete refused to wear the sparkly silver hats everyone else wore and ended up throwing his into the crowd in disgust.
@residentevlidead maybe he was BI, but he's less so now. Pete has been in a relationship with a girl singer-songwriter named Rachel Fuller for a while- just like any other guy & girlfriend. People didnt know he was Bi at the time, and would never joked about it if they had known he was. Pete never said anything or showed any sign until later and only openly admitted it recently in his book. I guess that makes the then harmless joke hurtful to Pete, but to others more funny in an ironic way
@CHRISFREEMAY hey men,dont you see him? make a pause in 2:28 and you can see him behind Paul. You know Brian, He is very modest and He let to his friends to show themselves more.
@zandunguero2009 Brian May is a guitarman not a bassman,you can see at 2:31 that guy with a Hoffner bass violin body like Paul's bass in beatles,Brian May play his guitar "Red Special"!!!!!
Oh, and at one point he did a Tony Bennett impression ("Fly Me To The Moon" - Bennett was in the audience) and it was actually operatic with tons of vibrato. As nice as it was, thank God he doesn't usually sing like that.
i think Pete townsend is drunk when playing on this. i think he was getting into the brandy, missing keith moon and realising that rock n roll is dead if he has to wear a matching silver suit jacket and back up a 3rd rate peter pan little richard rip off bass player who used to be in the beatles all in the name of charidy
Why does Townsed always look depraved and lecherous? He's a great musician but every time I see him in something the expression on his face makes me think he didn't take his much needed meds.....!!!!
Anyone hear John sing this with Paul on Drums on the Toot and Snore in 74 bootleg? John's voice is LETHAL. Paul sounds terrified on the backing vocals - you can tell he had no idea John could sing like that. Neither did I! Paul rips it up on this kind of thing but man that was the only good thing about that boot: John was something from another world.
@iggyshwartz YOu must have missed the 70s my friend. Wings did some great rock and roll songs...Rock Show, Band on the Run, Live and Let Die? I dunno..they qualify IMHO
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Macca should have stopped or been prevented from doing any more music after about 1971. His solo career is dire, Rochestra & The Frog Song have to be the worst ever.
Musicians who performed on this song (and on "So Glad To See You Here", also on Back to the Egg) included: Denny Laine, Laurence Juber, David Gilmour, Hank Marvin, Pete Townshend (guitars), Steve Holly, John Bonham, Kenney Jones (drums), Paul McCartney, John Paul Jones (pianos), Ronnie Lane, Bruce Thomas (bass), Gary Brooker, Linda McCartney, Tony Ashton (keyboards), Speedy Acquaye, Tony Carr, Ray Cooper, Morris Pert (percussion), Howie Casey, Tony Dorsey, Steve Howard, Thaddeus Richard (horns).
Great fun, but it shows that even Paul has his limits. To sing Lucille, you have to be as crazy as Little Richard, meaning that you have to *be* Little Richard.
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Pete Townsend is a paedo end of! all it's records leave a bad taste in my mouth since i found out,castration with a rusty set of pliers wouldn't be enough for me as a father of 2 kids.Paedo paedo paedo til death.
He's not a paedo, you moron. He was honestly just trying to research for his essay about a friend of his. The police searched through his computers and analyzed them, and found no downloaded material of it at all.
@scartissue94 Thank you for the voice of reason. Do judges, magistrates, councillors etc. become paedophiles when they have to make judgements on related cases?
@beagleman123456789 Thanks for pointing that out, I totally missed that!! The only good thing out of delboy8000 comment is that your comment is next after his.
@DElasee Paul already embarrased Pete for not wearing the suit- in the beginning of the Rockestra Theme in this concert Paul called Pete a "Puff" (gay) and put a sparkly hat on him, which Pete threw into the crowd to get rid off
I think you`re right, but I`m sure it was a friendly-type thing. Townshend was at Linda`s funeral and everything, so I guess when you`re good friends like that, you can do those type of things, and it`s cool!!!
Oh yes. I know they are friends. The friendly bird. I once thought it would be interesting for the remaining Who members (singer, guitar) to create a band with the remaining Beatles (bass and drums). They could call themselves The Whotles.
LOL I` read in a magazine once where someone came up with the very same idea. But a MySpace friend of mine once said Townshend`s ego wouldn`t allow it. Still sounds like a good idea, though!
@123fork I can see what you're saying. But, I think the "finger" is the result of Paul gesturing to Pete while holding the pick between his thumb and forefinger.
I can't believe so many of the people involved in this concert are gone now. Freddie Mercury. Joe Strummer. Ian Drury. James Honeyman Scott. Pete Farndon. John Bonham. Ronnie Lane. John Entwistle. Linda McCartney.
By the way, that intro was spoken by Billy Connolly---"Give 'em a welcome for UNICEF-FAH!"
@poughkeepsiejohn1 God, i know. I was thinking that the other day when i was watching this show. This meeting of 1st generation Brit rockers and 2nd & 3rd generation is the summitt of everything great about Rock. It's NEVER been as good since.
This was also Wings final and last performance. The scheduled 1980 tour of Japan was cancelled when Paul was busted for drugs on landing at the airport.
Four nights at the Hammersmith Odeon at the end of the Wings UK tour December 1979, later relased as a film. I remember a lot of media speculation at the time about a Beatles reunion (almost 1 year before Lennon's murder), but Paul was the only Fab to appear
So what exactly did the People of kampuchea get from this? I always wonder whether all these charity concerts we westerners do for the rest of the world get appreciated or even do what they are intended for? Bangladesh? What about Africa? It's all better now?
Plant has a geat rock voice, but he can't rock this song like Macca. In fact Macca still has a voice - Plant's voice left years ago. Go ahead and give me negatives. It's still true.
@livingwhites No negatives here...It's sadly the God's honest truth: Plant, in fact, began slowly losing his upper range growl far before Zeppelin was over, and even then had to cheat on certain songs. Now, he's nothing but an old croaker. Macca, on the other hand, has a voice that not only remains sweetly intact, but seems to gain more character with age. Enough said!
@livingwhites The difference is that Paul is cotton candy no matter what he's screaming...what's the deepest thing he ever screamed---Helter Skelter? Plant expressed joy, frustration and searing pain. Face it, man, Paul at his heaviest is neat, clean, safe and in control---nice, but no shivers.
@SlappyFrankenstein Clearly you dont have a clue about Macca's repertoire. His voice was so expressive (Maybe I'm Amazed), versatile (from a low tone soft ballad to a screaming falsetto) and his vocal range is enormous (Monkberrymoon delight). He's such an underrated singer... This is coming from a huge zeppelin fan.
@livingwhites Yes, Macca still has a voice but it will be leaving very shortly...the door is open...Almost 2011...he will struggle from then on...as the Sinatra song goes...'That's Life', nothing lasts forever...lets remember him at his best and hope he retires while he is still top.
@MrSoftshoe Having just listened to McCartney on Sirius a week ago, his voice is still fantastic. He has a problem with high notes (who'd have ever thought 4-octave-McCartney would have a problem with any note) but he makes up for it by just rocking those notes harder, so as a result all of his songs are a little heavier now. ...Then again he did still hit that very high scream in Hey Jude so he can do it... His rock voice is still incredible, and as always he has that flawless falsetto.
The guy playing the big white drum kit is master drummer Simon Phillips. By the way Paul is playing a Yamaha, not a P-Bass... hehe. And Macca is lucky that Plant isn't singing with him because he would have drowned Macca's vocals.
Not true Paul McCartney as The All Music Guide says in their review of his great Beatles blues rocker,She's A Woman proved why he was one of the greatest white rock male singers.
And as The All Music Guide's excellent biography of The Beatles says,that as singers both John Lennon and Paul McCartney were among the best and most expressive in rock.Listen to Paul's screaming vocal in his 1965 rocker,I'm Down,Oh Darling.Helter Skelter and so many etc etc
Both Paul and John had great rock singing and love song voices and both were also great rock screamers,listen to Paul's Long Tall Sally vocal done in one take Paul's great vocal on Kansas City Hey Hey ,and John's Twist and Shout also done in one take with John's bad cold and sore throat,and John's vocal on Money and Rock n Roll Music,etc etc
i would to break away from you tube,(no offence to any one) it almost seems like they won't let me go,they give me info on everything but how to leave. can someone help thank you
For the number of guitars and the old technology, the sound is incredible. Both Pete and Paul look wasted to me. They have a good chemistry on stage together - probably would have been a good fit in a band together. Oh, well, they both did ok with the bands they landed in I guess.
@roberhau What was 'old' about the 'technology' exactly in 1979? Until HD film was easily superior to video and multitrack recording has been around forever, 48 track no problem. Guitar & PA technology is the same in principle. You really expected a primitive rough sound because it was recorded in the 1970s. Have you ever heard a Carpenters (I'm not a fan) or Beach Boys album from the 70s, technical perfection is the word. Classical recording in the 1960s is still a benchmark for how to do it.
@3replybiz One word: Rumours. I can't think of a more perfect example of technical perfection when it comes to the mix and that was 1977. I completely 100% agree with everything you said.
Wow, a little sensitive aren't we? This is VHS. If you have dragged out some of your old tapes, you will realize this format does not stack up to most formats. I don't need a history lesson - Im over 45.
Nothing ironic about someone else playing a Hofner bass. Plenty of people used them after Paul made them famous.
What *is* ironic in this vid'- a song written by an African American & not a single one on the front stage. I love all those classic rockers (esp. Paul) to death, but why not have Little Richard himself at least for that 1 number?
god, pete was soooo drunk..he arrived too early for the show, well, he went to a pub with ronnie lane..they came back complete drunk for the show..Pete refused to wear the lame´suit and hat..well, on the face the face vid he wore a lame´suit at last..problably for Paul..
fuck if i was in the audience i would die of the rock stars
kaiserkeller61 1 day ago
McCartney is a huge cunt!
MrChrisCunt 6 days ago
Love it that Pete T. is not wearing the prescribed uniform for this concert--A rebel always...
CanYouSeeTheRealMe63 1 week ago
Oooh He sounds the same as when he did it when he was like 20! What a lovely trip to the past Paul singing this song brings to us. And yeah Paul's awesome in rock. He should have done more rock music in his post Beatles days.
babyinblack 1 month ago
2:30 There is an Hofner 500/1
McCartneyTELEPHONE 2 months ago
Rabbit Bundrick!! Piano baby,The Ooooo!!! What a fuckin night!
napolibri88 2 months ago
@ iggyshwartz--yer kidding, right? I know it's been a year, but still...
scottgeshen 2 months ago
Best band EVER!
gca0 3 months ago
and Pete was drunk off his ass during the whos performance and for this, cant blame him, only 3 weeks previously 11 people died at their show in Cincinnati
phaedra90731 4 months ago
The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who....Jesus Christ who was the sound guy? Chuck Norris?
zachmcfatridge 5 months ago 7
fuck if im wrong but i like to believe that is him.
zandunguero2009 6 months ago
I hear pies like us. do u?????
unnim 7 months ago
Paul can be heard making a comment about Pete Townshend before the song about Pete being a "poof" (gay in British slang). "Thank you, Peter. Only lousy sod who wouldn't wear the silver suit. Cuz he's a poof." . Lawrence Juber can be seen walking up putting a sparky hat on Pete, who flung it into the audience. Pete commented about it in several interviews following the show, eventually admitting that he over-reacted
"Rockestra Theme" won the 1980 Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance
4FabBEATLES 7 months ago
paul looks like is trying to stand like john did when he played guitar at 0:35
TheBeatlesJPGR53 7 months ago
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BeatlesBournemouth 7 months ago
Goddam Ronnie Lane. What a talented bastard!
photoeng1 8 months ago
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2:48...BONZO!!!!
tjcoffey 8 months ago
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tjcoffey 8 months ago
I could fuck him right away!
MarieKristy 9 months ago
who is playing the hofner bass behind??
edobb001 10 months ago
@edobb001 Suddenly Robert Plant.
vorschmack 10 months ago
Paul McCartney: the superb vocalist
kooziemodo 10 months ago 5
Too bad John Lennon wasn't there too.
glimmer2158 11 months ago
It was rumored the The Beatles were going to play together this night in 1979...in Sept.the U.N. had asked The Beatles to reunite and play a gig to raise money for the Cambodian"boat people"refugees....but alas....nothing....
BeatleJim55 11 months ago
"ROCKESTRA"
pauljames00 11 months ago
damn all that talent under one roof I'm amazed black hole didn't form then&there :))
PaulXPZ 11 months ago 3
haha wtf is townshend doing when he goes up to paul?
kraken589 11 months ago 3
Excellent!! Thanks for the share:)
Grandma mary
Fr3derick 11 months ago
Paul mcCartney and Wings, Ringo Starr, John Paul Jones and John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, David Gilmour from Pink Floyd, Ronnie Lane of The Faces, Kenney Jones and Pete Townshend of The Who (the only one not in a silver suit cuz he's a puff according to Paul), and Hank Marvin of The Shadows. Keith Moon was invited, but died before the event took place. Robert Plant, Rockpile, James Honeyman-Scott, Hank Marvin,David Gilmour. (Gilmour and Marvin were on the Wings album version of Rockestra only)
4FabBEATLES 1 year ago
@4FabBEATLES Please, explain to me what did Paul mean when he said that Pete Townshend is a puff. i am not a native English speaker so I don't know what exactly that word meant in that case.
more1and1more 7 months ago
@more1and1more "Puff" is an old British slang term for "Gay". Paul was kidding, of course as Pete is clearly not gay, but he was teasing him/making fun of him because Pete refused to wear the sparkly silver hats everyone else wore and ended up throwing his into the crowd in disgust.
4FabBEATLES 7 months ago
@4FabBEATLES - WOW!!! Thanks for these explanation. I would never been able to understand it on my own.
more1and1more 7 months ago
@4FabBEATLES funny considering he is bisexual
residentevlidead 7 months ago
@residentevlidead maybe he was BI, but he's less so now. Pete has been in a relationship with a girl singer-songwriter named Rachel Fuller for a while- just like any other guy & girlfriend. People didnt know he was Bi at the time, and would never joked about it if they had known he was. Pete never said anything or showed any sign until later and only openly admitted it recently in his book. I guess that makes the then harmless joke hurtful to Pete, but to others more funny in an ironic way
4FabBEATLES 7 months ago
@4FabBEATLES Hey, I got no problem with Pete, I'm bisexual to, and, it's quite ironic
residentevlidead 7 months ago
Paul looks like a cute little boy with that hair.
kirchfam 1 year ago 3
Paul McCartney sure has a lot of friends!
Evertale1 1 year ago
If BRIAN MAY was there it would be great too!!!!!!
CHRISFREEMAY 1 year ago
@CHRISFREEMAY hey men,dont you see him? make a pause in 2:28 and you can see him behind Paul. You know Brian, He is very modest and He let to his friends to show themselves more.
zandunguero2009 6 months ago
@zandunguero2009 Brian May is a guitarman not a bassman,you can see at 2:31 that guy with a Hoffner bass violin body like Paul's bass in beatles,Brian May play his guitar "Red Special"!!!!!
CHRISFREEMAY 5 months ago
@CHRISFREEMAY I'm pretty sure the guy playing the Hofner Beatles bass is Robert Plant, oddly enough
ManfredDeJesus 3 weeks ago
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CHRISFREEMAY 1 year ago
where is jimmi page? Did they ever met
blondauge 1 year ago
Paul rocks out! He does great in this rave up Great rock singer that can rip it up.
jimidee33 1 year ago 2
What a Voice!!!
paul7703 1 year ago 3
you cant hide jonesy! ill always spot you out with that alembic beauty!
aripahs 1 year ago
McCartney is the most influential rock artist ever.
omeletpants 1 year ago
i was wonder...if jimmy page were there,the entire world would problably explode,too many awesome people for just one stage.
P.S.:Sorry,my english is not very good.I'm from brazil.
MrIvansl 1 year ago 3
Bonzo on piano! Awesome!
Greg2600 1 year ago
PAUL THE BEST EVER!
pat30d 1 year ago
Oh, and at one point he did a Tony Bennett impression ("Fly Me To The Moon" - Bennett was in the audience) and it was actually operatic with tons of vibrato. As nice as it was, thank God he doesn't usually sing like that.
superman11978 1 year ago
i think Pete townsend is drunk when playing on this. i think he was getting into the brandy, missing keith moon and realising that rock n roll is dead if he has to wear a matching silver suit jacket and back up a 3rd rate peter pan little richard rip off bass player who used to be in the beatles all in the name of charidy
samriley75 1 year ago
Why does Townsed always look depraved and lecherous? He's a great musician but every time I see him in something the expression on his face makes me think he didn't take his much needed meds.....!!!!
edcabanas 1 year ago
Personally, I have always thought Macca and Plant have amongst the best vocals in Rock history...
MrCrampy 1 year ago
I only clicked on the video because I saw Pete!! :)
invaderzimgirl14 1 year ago 2
What did Macca say about Townsend at this gig? I recall it went something like "...and peter wouldn't wear a silver coat, 'cos he's a poof!"☺
MarkB1ngham 1 year ago
ROCK!!!
HollywoodParadiseYes 1 year ago
Boy in Let it Be from Live Aid, you got Pete tickling Paul and here you got him looming behind him with that priceless face. Good pair those too.
coyoteartist 1 year ago
Pete Townshend may be the only musician in the world who could have upstaged Paul McCartney on his own stage.
poppersmoke 1 year ago
I remember seeing this in the movie theater with some other concert movie.
PeterMayer 1 year ago
(and Macca is my all time favorite artist, just befode Lennon)
WantedTom 1 year ago
Anyone hear John sing this with Paul on Drums on the Toot and Snore in 74 bootleg? John's voice is LETHAL. Paul sounds terrified on the backing vocals - you can tell he had no idea John could sing like that. Neither did I! Paul rips it up on this kind of thing but man that was the only good thing about that boot: John was something from another world.
ATOMSPIESMUSIC 1 year ago
I always wondered why McCartney didn't rock more and harder. The best voice in rock. Should have had a harder edge to his music.
iggyshwartz 1 year ago 20
@iggyshwartz YOu must have missed the 70s my friend. Wings did some great rock and roll songs...Rock Show, Band on the Run, Live and Let Die? I dunno..they qualify IMHO
davehutchinson67 2 weeks ago
Lucille great as never before,as never could be.
And this is for real, man !
TheDianabana 1 year ago
why is this soooo good?
starship21ZNA9 1 year ago
1:39 Pete looking at Paul hahaha
freklfacejpgr 1 year ago 34
:D Funny cause Pete's the only one who's not wearing white :p U ROCK PETE!
beatlegirl456 1 year ago 2
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Macca should have stopped or been prevented from doing any more music after about 1971. His solo career is dire, Rochestra & The Frog Song have to be the worst ever.
3replybiz 1 year ago
MY FAVORITE part of the video! 1:27
glueforall 1 year ago
Hard to tell, but that has to be Plonk in the scarf standing next to Macca at 1:19? And then he does a little bow at 2:58.
clareyh1973 1 year ago
Pete The puff AHHAHA.THIS ROCKED!!!
SmokeBojangles 1 year ago
Townshend is the one who wears black clothes hahah!
XuanSextilis 1 year ago
of course as with nay song nothing compares to the original- but I think Paul and the Rockestra does a great job with it!
QueenBeatlesWings 1 year ago
Voice left him years ago...Plant won five grammys last year.
fishboy91 1 year ago
wow
tickyreal 1 year ago
Musicians who performed on this song (and on "So Glad To See You Here", also on Back to the Egg) included: Denny Laine, Laurence Juber, David Gilmour, Hank Marvin, Pete Townshend (guitars), Steve Holly, John Bonham, Kenney Jones (drums), Paul McCartney, John Paul Jones (pianos), Ronnie Lane, Bruce Thomas (bass), Gary Brooker, Linda McCartney, Tony Ashton (keyboards), Speedy Acquaye, Tony Carr, Ray Cooper, Morris Pert (percussion), Howie Casey, Tony Dorsey, Steve Howard, Thaddeus Richard (horns).
4FabBEATLES 1 year ago
Great fun, but it shows that even Paul has his limits. To sing Lucille, you have to be as crazy as Little Richard, meaning that you have to *be* Little Richard.
soaringvulture 1 year ago
@delboy8000 you are a stupid ass,go and do your research before you make a comment like that!
angstwon 1 year ago
when Beatle Paul takes the stage eveyrone else is second hand.
cloudchaser07 1 year ago
@cloudchaser07
Except when he's on stage with Beatle John.
powerhouse345 1 year ago
Pete!!!!!!!! GREAT EPRESSION!!!!!
Fastboy007 1 year ago
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Pete Townsend is a paedo end of! all it's records leave a bad taste in my mouth since i found out,castration with a rusty set of pliers wouldn't be enough for me as a father of 2 kids.Paedo paedo paedo til death.
delboy8000 1 year ago
@delboy8000
He's not a paedo, you moron. He was honestly just trying to research for his essay about a friend of his. The police searched through his computers and analyzed them, and found no downloaded material of it at all.
scartissue94 1 year ago
@scartissue94 Thank you for the voice of reason. Do judges, magistrates, councillors etc. become paedophiles when they have to make judgements on related cases?
lumbago12 1 year ago
Bonham is one of the drummers, you see hin right at the end.
beagleman123456789 1 year ago
@beagleman123456789 Thanks for pointing that out, I totally missed that!! The only good thing out of delboy8000 comment is that your comment is next after his.
deanajandeny65 1 year ago
1:40 I love how Pete is embarrasing Paul despite the fact that he already pissed him off for not wearing the sparkly suit. XD
DElasee 1 year ago
@DElasee Paul already embarrased Pete for not wearing the suit- in the beginning of the Rockestra Theme in this concert Paul called Pete a "Puff" (gay) and put a sparkly hat on him, which Pete threw into the crowd to get rid off
4FabBEATLES 1 year ago
@4FabBEATLES
So they basically annoyed eachother. :p
DElasee 1 year ago
great seeing Paul and Pete on stage together
slappyabromowitz 2 years ago
Yeah and having one hell of a good time ...
ollarik 2 years ago
Whoa, that's crazy! Finally found Bonham :O
cookmoore 2 years ago
@cookmoore Bonzo? when? i mean, wich minute/second
charlybeatle 2 years ago
@cookmoore sorry, I just found him
charlybeatle 2 years ago
Yep, saved him till the end.
cookmoore 2 years ago
Townsend is a paedo---learn to live with it as Kenney on drums(who)makes up for the beast!
delboy8000 2 years ago
Lol Pete must've been on some paedo shit then---glad Paulie gave her the rubber ear!
delboy8000 2 years ago
surely this incredible song inspired paul to compose "birthday"... the both are too coolest!!!
marcegambler 2 years ago
I remember watching this when I was 16 years old on the T.V. I grew up a big WHO fan.
for the first time in my life I noticed at 1:34. It looks like McCartney gives Townshend the Bird
123fork 2 years ago
I think you`re right, but I`m sure it was a friendly-type thing. Townshend was at Linda`s funeral and everything, so I guess when you`re good friends like that, you can do those type of things, and it`s cool!!!
estyle40 2 years ago
Oh yes. I know they are friends. The friendly bird. I once thought it would be interesting for the remaining Who members (singer, guitar) to create a band with the remaining Beatles (bass and drums). They could call themselves The Whotles.
123fork 2 years ago 2
LOL I` read in a magazine once where someone came up with the very same idea. But a MySpace friend of mine once said Townshend`s ego wouldn`t allow it. Still sounds like a good idea, though!
estyle40 2 years ago
@123fork I'd love to see that.
alinedv 1 year ago
@123fork I can see what you're saying. But, I think the "finger" is the result of Paul gesturing to Pete while holding the pick between his thumb and forefinger.
NoirFan01 2 years ago
2:50 Bonzo! must have been one of the last video recordings of him
UndisclosedUsername 2 years ago
Townshend you loveable bastard. Great video, and great expression from Pete.
orgorg7 2 years ago 44
+1
Oh, yeah. What a grin he had! It could have been creepy if I didn't find it so adorable.
vicxtoire 2 years ago 3
@orgorg7 stoned out of his mind
vladtepes97 1 year ago
@orgorg7 That was Pete during the tail end of his "substance and alcohol abuse" years. It was around 1980 or so when he cleaned up his act.
rayjr62 11 months ago
LOL at Pete's face at 1:40 xD
Canaveral305 2 years ago
test
glorifiedp 2 years ago
wowowow paul, laine and pete ...wow....in on the same stage.. personal favs!
sonobagon13 2 years ago
I can't believe so many of the people involved in this concert are gone now. Freddie Mercury. Joe Strummer. Ian Drury. James Honeyman Scott. Pete Farndon. John Bonham. Ronnie Lane. John Entwistle. Linda McCartney.
By the way, that intro was spoken by Billy Connolly---"Give 'em a welcome for UNICEF-FAH!"
poughkeepsiejohn1 2 years ago
@poughkeepsiejohn1 God, i know. I was thinking that the other day when i was watching this show. This meeting of 1st generation Brit rockers and 2nd & 3rd generation is the summitt of everything great about Rock. It's NEVER been as good since.
RubHerSoul1 2 years ago
And when's the last time you heard about a country called Kampuchea? Hopefully Myanmar will go the way of Kampuchea in the near future.
Gerkinstock 2 years ago
This was also Wings final and last performance. The scheduled 1980 tour of Japan was cancelled when Paul was busted for drugs on landing at the airport.
UKmoondog 2 years ago
@UKmoondog Yup. He was busted less than a month after this show.
RubHerSoul1 2 years ago
Four nights at the Hammersmith Odeon at the end of the Wings UK tour December 1979, later relased as a film. I remember a lot of media speculation at the time about a Beatles reunion (almost 1 year before Lennon's murder), but Paul was the only Fab to appear
UKmoondog 2 years ago
wooohoo!!! love this! go paul!
babyinblack 2 years ago
Rockestra lol... complete insanity!! I love it
plarter 2 years ago
Who is taking that guitar solo after Towshend's creep look?
Lambseye 2 years ago
So what exactly did the People of kampuchea get from this? I always wonder whether all these charity concerts we westerners do for the rest of the world get appreciated or even do what they are intended for? Bangladesh? What about Africa? It's all better now?
FlamingoKicker 2 years ago
Plant has a geat rock voice, but he can't rock this song like Macca. In fact Macca still has a voice - Plant's voice left years ago. Go ahead and give me negatives. It's still true.
livingwhites 2 years ago 54
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mokogintaz 2 years ago
tell paul to do immigrant song, since ive been loving you, etc. lol. then you can say that.
iamtheeggman100 2 years ago
Townshend is fucking bombed
Flerg3 1 year ago
@livingwhites No negatives here...It's sadly the God's honest truth: Plant, in fact, began slowly losing his upper range growl far before Zeppelin was over, and even then had to cheat on certain songs. Now, he's nothing but an old croaker. Macca, on the other hand, has a voice that not only remains sweetly intact, but seems to gain more character with age. Enough said!
Rockstaralan 1 year ago 3
@livingwhites No negatives from me. I just saw Paul do three hours non stop. That voice is made out of adamantium. It'll never break.
RichYan33 1 year ago 3
@livingwhites Plant's voice is still incredibly beautiful (cf. Raisong Sand, Band og Joy...)
WantedTom 1 year ago
@livingwhites The difference is that Paul is cotton candy no matter what he's screaming...what's the deepest thing he ever screamed---Helter Skelter? Plant expressed joy, frustration and searing pain. Face it, man, Paul at his heaviest is neat, clean, safe and in control---nice, but no shivers.
SlappyFrankenstein 1 year ago
@SlappyFrankenstein totally agreed. I heard him live last year and his voice was as strong as ever.
Dratini999 1 year ago
@SlappyFrankenstein Clearly you dont have a clue about Macca's repertoire. His voice was so expressive (Maybe I'm Amazed), versatile (from a low tone soft ballad to a screaming falsetto) and his vocal range is enormous (Monkberrymoon delight). He's such an underrated singer... This is coming from a huge zeppelin fan.
mavs1986 1 year ago
@livingwhites Yes, Macca still has a voice but it will be leaving very shortly...the door is open...Almost 2011...he will struggle from then on...as the Sinatra song goes...'That's Life', nothing lasts forever...lets remember him at his best and hope he retires while he is still top.
MrSoftshoe 1 year ago
@MrSoftshoe Having just listened to McCartney on Sirius a week ago, his voice is still fantastic. He has a problem with high notes (who'd have ever thought 4-octave-McCartney would have a problem with any note) but he makes up for it by just rocking those notes harder, so as a result all of his songs are a little heavier now. ...Then again he did still hit that very high scream in Hey Jude so he can do it... His rock voice is still incredible, and as always he has that flawless falsetto.
superman11978 1 year ago
@livingwhites SO FUCKING TRUE!!! I was at a concert last year and Macca was just awesome!
Dratini999 1 year ago
@livingwhites yeah but MErcury smokerd 'em anyday :D
mouloudo 1 year ago
The guy playing the big white drum kit is master drummer Simon Phillips. By the way Paul is playing a Yamaha, not a P-Bass... hehe. And Macca is lucky that Plant isn't singing with him because he would have drowned Macca's vocals.
A caotic but great performance.
jaaguero 2 years ago
Not true Paul McCartney as The All Music Guide says in their review of his great Beatles blues rocker,She's A Woman proved why he was one of the greatest white rock male singers.
And as The All Music Guide's excellent biography of The Beatles says,that as singers both John Lennon and Paul McCartney were among the best and most expressive in rock.Listen to Paul's screaming vocal in his 1965 rocker,I'm Down,Oh Darling.Helter Skelter and so many etc etc
4165m 2 years ago 5
Both Paul and John had great rock singing and love song voices and both were also great rock screamers,listen to Paul's Long Tall Sally vocal done in one take Paul's great vocal on Kansas City Hey Hey ,and John's Twist and Shout also done in one take with John's bad cold and sore throat,and John's vocal on Money and Rock n Roll Music,etc etc
4165m 2 years ago 5
This is 100% better than Little Richards version.... It's smokin!
littlebutterfly19 2 years ago
im biased, but you cant beat original material, no original....no covers.
JurelLathe 2 years ago
Of course..... I agree with you JurelLathe!
My comment was a spur on the moment reaction.... Originals CAN'T be beat!
littlebutterfly19 2 years ago
This is crazy
PeteMazzoli 2 years ago
littlebutterfly19 thanks for the agreement.lol
JurelLathe 2 years ago
Pete is very playful
micmore007a 2 years ago 2
1:40, look at Pete Townshend & his ugly Dr. Jekyll face, what a beautiful nose !
PupuTheClown 2 years ago
Robert Plant should have sung with paul
slowhandguitar1 2 years ago
where's robert?
DoctorRobert66 2 years ago
i would to break away from you tube,(no offence to any one) it almost seems like they won't let me go,they give me info on everything but how to leave. can someone help thank you
backbeats100 2 years ago
For the number of guitars and the old technology, the sound is incredible. Both Pete and Paul look wasted to me. They have a good chemistry on stage together - probably would have been a good fit in a band together. Oh, well, they both did ok with the bands they landed in I guess.
roberhau 2 years ago
@roberhau What was 'old' about the 'technology' exactly in 1979? Until HD film was easily superior to video and multitrack recording has been around forever, 48 track no problem. Guitar & PA technology is the same in principle. You really expected a primitive rough sound because it was recorded in the 1970s. Have you ever heard a Carpenters (I'm not a fan) or Beach Boys album from the 70s, technical perfection is the word. Classical recording in the 1960s is still a benchmark for how to do it.
3replybiz 1 year ago
@3replybiz One word: Rumours. I can't think of a more perfect example of technical perfection when it comes to the mix and that was 1977. I completely 100% agree with everything you said.
AppleCorp3 1 year ago
@3replybiz
Wow, a little sensitive aren't we? This is VHS. If you have dragged out some of your old tapes, you will realize this format does not stack up to most formats. I don't need a history lesson - Im over 45.
roberhau 1 year ago
anyone else spot the zep guys? i saw bonzo. lost plant and jonesy in a sea of bad hair and tacky clothes.
iamtheeggman100 2 years ago
Nothing ironic about someone else playing a Hofner bass. Plenty of people used them after Paul made them famous.
What *is* ironic in this vid'- a song written by an African American & not a single one on the front stage. I love all those classic rockers (esp. Paul) to death, but why not have Little Richard himself at least for that 1 number?
THAT'S ironic. & a little sad.
Syrinx77 2 years ago
at 2:50, is that John Bonham!?!?!
Defenderofmankind 2 years ago
2:23 Anyone notice the guy playing the Hofner Bass? ironic eh!
JRGrange25 2 years ago
Sorry thats 2:22
JRGrange25 2 years ago
The guy playing Hofner bass is Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin vocalist)
prussia5 2 years ago
Pete and Paul were friends for decades. I heard Paul bailed on Pete after Pete's arrest. Any truth to this? They still friends?
commieobama 2 years ago
What do you mean by "bailed"? Do your sources tell you if Pete Was there for Paul when he got arrested?
galileo1957 2 years ago
Pete maintained a friendship when Paul was arrested but it may appear Paul did not after Pete was arrested.
commieobama 2 years ago
My biased reaction to that is - in 99.9% of circumstances, you DEFinitely wanna maintain a friendship with Sir Paul if you have the opportunity.
Syrinx77 2 years ago
god, pete was soooo drunk..he arrived too early for the show, well, he went to a pub with ronnie lane..they came back complete drunk for the show..Pete refused to wear the lame´suit and hat..well, on the face the face vid he wore a lame´suit at last..problably for Paul..
towser06 2 years ago
haha what the hell..
there is like 5 people playing guitar and bass each
hahaha i wonder how what works out..probably not that well..
maxtronbis 2 years ago
i think this is the only video with paul useing a p-bass
alicecooper1968 2 years ago
Pete cracks me up on this! Man, They HAVE to put this out on dvd already!
Syrinx77 2 years ago 2
At 0:45, is that Robert Plant ? on guitar ?
dockaiser 2 years ago
Yep.. That's him alright..
MEBUUS 2 years ago
Strong voice, Paul McCartney, but then that's
obvious look how much he's made!
esraesuocs 2 years ago 3