Paul McCartney played a lunchtime gig at London's famed 100 Club on 17 December, 2010. The club, the city's oldest live music venue, has been under threat of closure due to an increase in rent. This was Paul's smallest gig in more than a decade ago when he played at the historic Cavern Club in Liverpool in 1999. The 300 strong audience included Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones.
The 100 Club opened in the 1940s and is famous for sets from bands like The Sex Pistols and The Clash, but The Beatles never played there.
Paul urged the audience to help save the club several times throughout his 28-song set. "It's a great gig for us and many bands," he said, "so I think, please, Mr 100, try and save it, because it's a really class place, this".
The performance included classic tracks Let It Be, All My Loving, Eleanor Rigby and Hey Jude and finished with a medley of Yesterday, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band and The End.
The owner of the club, Jeff Horton, said it was "incredibly special" to have Macca play. "To have Sir Paul McCartney step up to the plate and fight for the cause with us is brilliant - there is nobody bigger than that," he said. "To have the man who changed the face of pop music play here is incredibly special."
wow!!!sounds awesome
vdaversa1660 4 months ago
this blows away the usual stadium rock footage of this great tune, good job.
alramone1 4 months ago
Wow! I was wondering what Paul would be doing these days. What does that place, sit about 350 people.
2010, almost 70 and still playing.
I'm just pretending Paul hadn't had a hit since Magical Mystery and this is the size venues he plays now. I think with this band and all of his hits up to Magical, he'd still be playing the big shows.
debjorgo 1 year ago
Thanks for posting! Great quality, and he is really "on it" at this show. Maybe the best live version I have seen / heard of this song, and I have seen him twice. Cheers.
mackdaddybeats 1 year ago
Magic pure magic !
AgentEarl 1 year ago