Howard Stern Paul McCartney Weekend
01/16/2009
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(PR) SIRIUS XM Radio announced today that it will broadcast a Howard Stern-Paul McCartney special this weekend on SIRIUS XM�s Howard 101 channel.
This week on his SIRIUS XM show, Howard Stern interviewed Paul McCartney. Stern described the importance of the music of The Beatles in his life, saying �[The Beatles] are more of a religion to me than any organized religion. Their music does more for my spirit and elevates me to a higher plane than any religious ceremony ever did.�
Howard and McCartney went in-depth on the music legend�s life, family, The Beatles, his new Fireman album Electric Arguments, and much more. McCartney presented Howard with a brand new Hofner bass guitar as a surprise birthday gift, singing as he entered the studio: �A very merry un-birthday to you, to you�a very merry un-birthday to Howard.� This guitar is also known as the Hofner �Beatle� bass, made popular by McCartney and favored by him because it was symmetrical in shape and could be easily turned around to play left-handed.
This weekend Howard 101 will broadcast a Paul McCartney special featuring this new interview, plus highlights of Stern�s first McCartney interview from 2001. The Howard Stern-Paul McCartney special will air January 17 at 8:00 am ET and 8:00 pm ET, and on January 18 at 11:00 pm ET exclusively on Howard 101.
�Paul�s interview with Howard Stern is not to be missed�it is Paul like you�ve never heard him and it is Howard with one of his all-time heroes,� said Scott Greenstein, President and Chief Content Officer, SIRIUS XM Radio.
The special will also feature tracks from McCartney�s new Fireman album Electric Arguments.
�We decided we would go in the studio and have fun,� said McCartney of the making of his new album. �We�d have the track going, have a groove going, and I just stood up at the mic and started throwing things at it. I�d hear a bit of a lyric or we�d look at a poetry book �we just started to concoct it and put it together and paste it�that�s the whole thing about the Fireman � he can do anything.�
McCartney also commented on Ringo Starr�s recent public statement that he will not sign anything more for fans, asking that people stop contacting him for this:
�The truth is, Ringo was always like that. He was the one, if fans came to his door, he�d just say �piss off�this is my private life�out there I am a Beatle and�that�s fine and I�ll do things when we go to show but I am at home with babies and a wife and I don�t want that�� He has the right to do whatever he wants to do in life and he doesn�t want to do that and I think it�s very brave of Ringo.�
McCartney also revealed the story behind the naming of Abbey Road, first working title for the landmark album, saying:
��the engineer Geoff Emerick - who is our Beatle engineer, did all the great sounds for us - was smoking cigarettes called Everest�they�re like a kind of menthol cigarette�and we kind of looked at that and said �Everest� � it�s kind of big, it�s heroic. That could be good for the album. So that was the working title. But the more we thought of it the more we [said]�no, this is not great. And just one day we were in Abbey Road working and I�said�Abbey Road. Because if we did that we could just run outside, there�s a level crossing as we call it�we could just stand there, get photographed, come back to work�it would take just two seconds�and I said �it�s not a bad title.�
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