Paul McCartney & Justin

Metis Hon & Others

27 September 2013

Metis Hon: OMG!! Paul McCartney is performing live free for tonight's Jimmy Kimmel show at 6pm at Hollywood Boulevard, just round the corner from the hotel (Holiday Inn Express) I'm staying!!! Going there soon to grab a place, wish me luck!

Well, what a wonderful surprise bonus! I got to see two free concerts organized by ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live last night and this evening.

Last night it was Paul McCartney & Justin Timberlake together performing for an hour singing a number of famous & popular Beatles tunes - It's just another day, Back in the USSR, Day Trippers, Hey Jude, lady Madonna and Let it be etc. A quarter-mile of the Hollywood Boulevard was shut down to allow for the stage and the audience enclosure. You need tickets from ABC to get in so I only get to see Justin jumping around and hear McCartney (sitting at the piano) from the side walk. The atmosphere was electrifying and the audience surprisingly polite and orderly, a massive sing-in of nostalgic Beatles songs.

This evening the same huge audience attended Justin Timberlake's 30 min gig in which he performed a number of songs from his new album. 

I went all the way to Venice and Santa Monica today and came back with a nice suntan, flying home tomorrow!

Stella Tse: Metis, wish I was there listening to McCartney.

Have a safe trip home.

Metis Hon: Correction! Justin Timberlake didn't perform with McCartney on Monday! I was quite far away and I saw a slim guy jumping up and down, the people around said that was Justin, in fact it's Mecca himself!!

I need new glasses! If I had my camera, I wouldn't have mistook him as Justin.

Sue Tang: Wow, we are so envious. Have a nice and safe trip home. 

Peter Wu: Well isn’t he is legend and a living treasure?

No, not Justin but Sir Paul.

One measure of his greatness is his post-Beatles work. While most artists simply disintegrate when the group disintegrates, he has kept up with the play, and kept producing songs after songs while going solo, or with a newly formed group.

For his financial well-being, he does not have to perform in public at all but he obviously chooses to – for free.

I suppose that’s probably what gives him a kick out of this and keeps him active.

I think the world is a sadder place when he passes away.