Did you have to convince people that you can sing? 'Cause like when you're doing the Carpool Karaoke with Adele, which I have watched, I'm gonna say a dozen times, and you start harmonizing and her face is like. And the both of us are running out of time That was amazing. So hello from the other side Like, do they know you can sing? 'Cause it's an important part of it. I mean, certainly David Letterman's not gonna do that. And Stephen Colbert can't do that. Like you can sing. I think we thought that it was important that it sounded good. These are people's hits, you know? You're really going back into a back catalog of people's stuff. I think it's more about the interview than it is about the music. I agree. I think it's the intimacy of it. Look, this chat we're doing now would be very, very different if there were 200 people here. Yeah. It would just be very different. You're talking about the most famous people on planet earth. And they are constantly surrounded by people, security, managers, press, makeup, everything. And suddenly they're just on their own. Hey man. - Hey James, yeah man. (audience cheers) Thank you so much for this. Yeah, no, happy to help. I don't know Liverpool that well, see? I'll show you around. Very slowly, people just start to lean into it, and they relax, and they start to talk openly. I had a dream in the '60s, where my mom, who died, came to me in the dream and was reassuring me, saying it's gonna be okay, just let it be. So I wrote the song "Let it Be" but it her positivity. That's the most beautiful story I've ever heard. There's something wonderful about when you see a human being in somebody. In times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be There's something about being in a car that's sort of disarming. Like when you were talking to Paul McCartney about melancholy and nostalgia, and going back into that house after so many years, I think it was so moving. Well, that was a really special thing. Okay, this is Forthlin Road. -
James
And this is on number 20 here? -
Paul
That's it, yeah. So how old were you when you lived in that house? About 12 or 13, I think. He said to me on the morning, we were in this hotel room in Liverpool, and he said, "James, can I have a word?" I said yeah, yeah, sure. And we went into this like walk-in closet, and he shut the door. And he said, "Look, I've been thinking about it. "I don't wanna go in my house." And he said, "I haven't been in there. "Since I walked out the door, I've not been in there." And he said, "I just feel a bit uneasy about it." And I was like, Paul, the only thing that matters today is that you and me have a great time. And if there is anything you feel uncomfortable with, we're never gonna do it. I said, but don't rule anything out now. Just see how you feel. And we'll pull up outside, you just give me a look if you don't wanna go in, and we'll drive on, and I'll take the blame for it. I said, but don't rule it out today. He was like "Okay." And I thought what has happened to my life that I'm giving Paul McCartney a pep talk in a wardrobe, you know? But anyway, we get there and we drive up outside the house, and as we drive up, I suddenly thought we should have used a code word, 'cause what if he's giving me a look and I don't know, and I'm looking at him going so would you, and he's like, and then the end... And it's on the thing, I go, should we go inside? And he goes, "Yeah, let's do it." Let's get in there, let's have a look. Come on, you two lead the way.
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