Classic
The former Beatle also plays a surprise encore to close out the season finale
Paul McCartney, 15 months after closing out Saturday Night Live‘s 50th anniversary special with a memorable Abbey Road medley, returned to the late night show with a performance of the lead single from his upcoming album, as well as a Wings classic. When the show seemed all but wrapped up, McCartney then had a surprise encore.
McCartney opened with the mellow “Days We Left Behind” from The Boys of Dungeon Lane, which draws on his childhood memories in and around Liverpool.
“I was thinking just that, about the days I left behind and I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past, but then I think how can you write about anything else?” McCartney, 83, said in a statement earlier this year. “It’s just a lot of memories of Liverpool. It involves a bit in the middle about John [Lennon] and Forthlin Road, which is the street I used to live in. Dungeon Lane is near there. I used to live in a place called Speke, which is quite working class. We didn’t have much at all, but it didn’t matter because all the people were great and you didn’t notice you didn’t have much.”
