# Carpool Karaoke with Paul McCartney **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 23, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640 "2018-06-23T21:57:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/1 "2018-06-23T21:57:42Z")
I didn’t see anyone else mention this, so I thought I should. On The Late, Late Show with James Corden, one of the regular segments is “Carpool Karaoke”, in which James picks up a celebrity guest and they drive around Los Angeles singing the celebrity’s songs. Well this week, he was presenting the show from London and on Thursday, the guest for the segment was Paul McCartney and James and Paul drove around Liverpool, singing Beatles songs while Paul pointed out places that were mentioned in his songs, or with which he had a personal connection. “That’s the church where I sang in the choir.” “This is the barbershop mentioned in Penny Lane.” And he told the story of how he came to write Let It Be. It was really great. [Here’s a link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjvzCTqkBDQ) to the YouTube video. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/2 "2018-06-23T22:02:28Z")
Thanks for the heads up–I’ve got it bookmarked to watch later tonight. Interesting (in a good way) that we’ve got a Ringo thread and a Paul thread going today. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/3 "2018-06-23T22:54:14Z")
The gig in the pub is really sweet. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/4 "2018-06-23T23:57:37Z")
Paul McCartney with stringy grandfather hair is ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/5 "2018-06-24T00:39:56Z")
Fantastic video. Too bring Paul back to his childhood home is incredible. Paul’s comments about his life’s journey since those days in Liverpool were very interesting. I got the impression he’s rarely been back to his hometown. I’m grateful James helped make this happen for Paul’s fans. ---
**Author:** ![Rough\_Draft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rough\_Draft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rough_Draft)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/6 "2018-06-24T01:44:36Z")
Thanks for that link! I’ve never had much of an opinion about James Corden one way or the other, but that was just excellent. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/7 "2018-06-24T02:20:32Z")
10.2 million views. Not too shabby! And 25K comments. Like many of the them, watching that video made me both smile and cry. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/8 "2018-06-24T02:23:57Z")
He’s worth north of a billion dollars. Easy to express fake emotions over where he grew up. He wouldn’t trade it. That said, good to hear him sing real songs for a change. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/9 "2018-06-24T02:24:02Z")
It was great, glad I watched it. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/10 "2018-06-24T04:07:08Z")
Wow, what a thoroughly enjoyable video! It hit me with a wave of nostalgia and brought tears to my eye. Thanks for posting the link. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/11 "2018-06-24T12:14:43Z")
That pub scene was amazing. Especially the very early looks on the faces of the audience when they heard that first Hard Day’s Night chord and realized who was behind the curtain. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shinna_Minna_Ma)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/12 "2018-06-24T13:23:53Z")
My wife watches these segments regularly, and she said this one is the best Corden has done by far. I thought it was great, especially the bar scene at the end. I wonder if that Penny Lane sign is still there? ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/13 "2018-06-24T21:29:51Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > He’s worth north of a billion dollars. Easy to express fake emotions over where he grew up. He wouldn’t trade it. Paul lost his mother when he was 14. Of course he has emotions over the place he grew up–how in God’s name would money have anything to do with a longing for childhood and the love he knew at that time? It’s literally impossible to discount how much nostalgia has been a major part of Paul’s makeup–consider Paul’s output as both musician and lyricist, which has reflected influences from his parents’ generation (even as he also looked to the future via his innovative use of technology in, for example, _Tomorrow Never Knows_). Just as not-quite-as-wealthy-but-not-exactly-skint Sting more and more finds himself composing music that shows him emotionally processing his younger days in Newcastle-upon-Tyne–even though they weren’t happy ones–Paul likely feels the same about the Liverpool of his youth. And, most likely of all: he misses his mum. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/14 "2018-06-24T22:23:00Z")
Lovely little sequence, especially watching the reactions of people recognizing him. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/15 "2018-06-25T02:12:54Z")
At a moment when I could do with a bit of cheering up, that came through in spades. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/16 "2018-06-25T06:25:07Z")
The part I didn’t like was the part that nothing can be done about. it’s the times… Everyone who sees him has to video it on their phones. No one can just enjoy the moment. And you know the reason there was a huge crowd outside his childhood home was social media. (and no one cared about James Cordon! 🙂 ) Was his house a museum? because it seems unlived in. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/17 "2018-06-25T07:53:03Z")
I kept meaning to watch this as it showed up in my YouTube feed. (I love Carpool Karaoke.) But I’d somehow not watched it before seeing this post. So thanks. I liked it. Though it did bug me a bit that they had James up a bit loud–until they got to the bar where I could really hear Paul sing, and he can still sing. And I’m fine with videoing things, and find it weird that people care. I’m fine if you want to just enjoy the moment. But I very much enjoy the times when I have captured the moment, and find it’s easier to enjoy later if I at least film a little bit of it, so I can refresh my memory–just like you do when you see an old photo. And, well, it doesn’t really take me out of the moment–knowing I have nothing to remember it by does. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/18 "2018-06-25T08:55:28Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Was his house a museum? because it seems unlived in. Yeah, the woman who answered the door is the custodian. ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/19 "2018-06-25T11:04:08Z")
> [@Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](#): > > I wonder if that Penny Lane sign is still there? It’s a painted sign on a pretty substantial brick wall. Difficult to nick, though I’m sure that there have been previous attempts. (It’s also at the “wrong” end of the street. The street is fairly long and all the references in the song are from the other, northern, end.) There’s a whole extra level to it if you’ve lived in Liverpool and know the city, of trying to spot the locations outside the car. For the record, the pub is [The Philharmonic](https://www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk/restaurants/northwest/thephilharmonicdiningroomsliverpool), which is simply one of the great hostelries in the land. Famously has to do an annual open day so that women can inspect the grandeur of the mens’ bogs. Not necessarily the pub in the area with the strongest Beatles association - John and Paul went to the Art School nearby, so everything in the neighbourhood is thick with claims to them. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640/20 "2018-06-25T13:53:50Z")
That was a GREAT video - thanks. I especially loved everyone’s surprise at the pub when the curtains parted and Paul and the band were revealed. Why the big laugh at 4:41 with the comment about not having a hat? > [@bonzer](#): > > …Famously has to do an annual open day so that women can inspect the grandeur of the mens’ bogs… Translation, please? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpool-karaoke-with-paul-mccartney/816640.md?page=2)