Paul McCartney Live - Let It Be - Good Evening New York City Tour (HD)

Paul McCartney's Historic Citi Field Opening Show!

[djh]

"hero's get remembered, but legends never die"

[bollewillem]

Every minute of the day, somewhere in the world, this song is played on the radio.

[gorami]

Paul and Ringo’s passing will be felt across the world. I’m not ready.

[conanthedestroyer]

Paul is a master musician, and what a voice.

[josephl.]

49 years ago today this song was released.

[joeschmo]

Imagine being Paul McCartney. What a life.

[pokey]

Mother Mary is watching over him. Thanks for sharing your son with us.

[nycinstyle]

PAUL McCARTNEY:
"I was going through a really difficult time around the autumn of 1968. It was late in the Beatles’ career and we had begun making a new album, a follow-up to the “White Album.” As a group we were starting to have problems. I think I was sensing the Beatles were breaking up, so I was staying up late at night, drinking, doing drugs, clubbing, the way a lot of people were at the time. I was really living and playing hard.
The other guys were all living out in the country with their partners, but I was still a bachelor in London with my own house in St. John’s Wood. And that was kind of at the back of my mind also, that maybe it was about time I found someone, because it was before I got together with Linda.
So, I was exhausted! Some nights I’d go to bed and my head would just flop on the pillow; and when I’d wake up I’d have difficulty pulling it off, thinking, “Good job I woke up just then or I might have suffocated":
Then one night, somewhere between deep sleep and insomnia, I had the most comforting dream about my mother, who died when I was only 14. She had been a nurse, my mum, and very hardworking, because she wanted the best for us. We weren’t a well-off family- we didn’t have a car, we just about had a television – so both of my parents went out to work, and Mum contributed a good half to the family income. At night when she came home, she would cook, so we didn’t have a lot of time with each other. But she was just a very comforting presence in my life. And when she died, one of the difficulties I had, as the years went by, was that I couldn’t recall her face so easily. That’s how it is for everyone, I think. As each day goes by, you just can’t bring their face into your mind, you have to use photographs and reminders like that.
So in this dream twelve years later, my mother appeared, and there was her face, completely clear, particularly her eyes, and she said to me very gently, very reassuringly: “LET IT BE.”
It was lovely. I woke up with a great feeling. It was really like she had visited me at this very difficult point in my life and gave me this message: Be gentle, don’t fight things, just try and go with the flow and it will all work out.
So, being a musician, I went right over to the piano and started writing a song: “When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me”… Mary was my mother’s name… “Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.” There will be an answer, let it be.” It didn’t take long. I wrote the main body of it in one go, and then the subsequent verses developed from there: “When all the broken-hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be.”
I thought it was special, so I played it to the guys and ’round a lot of people, and later it also became the title of the album, because it had so much value to me, and because it just seemed definitive, those three little syllables. Plus, when something happens like that, as if by magic, I think it has a resonance that other people notice too.
Not very long after the dream, I got together with Linda, which was the saving of me. And it was as if my mum had sent her, you could say".

[grumpychuchu]

Paul lost his mother 1956
Their band disbanded 1969 or 1970
His longtime friend john lennon died 1980
His longtime wife linda died 1998
His Former Band Member George Harrison died 2001
Separated and divorced from heather mills 2006
But if paul and ringo die that is the saddest day ever to me 😭😭😭
Now paul have a good and wonderful life❤️❤️❤️

[emmanuelvazquez]

Paul's Voice and the Piano combine so well that this song became a worldwide hit.

[febryle]

exactly 51 years ago today, this legendary song was released

[janssensbaskoro]

he actually cares about the music he sings and treats it with respect

[dancing_on_the_valentine_]

John and George are watching over him ❤️

[Vtxfurio]

I Gotta Say At A Old Age He Still Has A Better Voice Than The Modern age singers.

[forest_railway]

I was already born in this world when this song was released.
I'm grateful to have found this song

[noodledoodles]

It makes me cry that John and George are dead, yet Paul's still going strong along with Ringo. And this song just makes my crying worse. God the Beatles are good at making sad, but great songs.

[samirmokdad]

Let It Be : an immortal song by the amazing Paul McCartney...

[howardmiller]

We lost a dear friend last weekend, whom we've known and loved for 4 decades. This song almost seems a tribute to her -"Mother Mary" - with loving husband, 2 sons and a growing army of grandbabies to her resume of teacher and nurse ... let it be, indeed

[MrPanda-kerf]

Can we apprieciete him more when he still alive?

[LightningMcMemed]

That opening line

“When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me.”

His mother was named Mary, but she passed away when he was young.

Kind of heavy when you think about it like that.