Paul McCartney - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-26-2004

I recently stumbled across this Paul McCartney BBC concert the big yearly Glastonbury Festival in 2004. I wanted to post it, but I'd already posted BBC concerts by him that took place in 2005 and 2007. This is the second one, since I also posted on from 1990. So the 2005 one got renamed to "Volume 3" and the 2007 got renamed to "Volume 4." Here are the links to those, if you want to get the updated cover art and mp3 tags and so forth.

Volume 3:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2018/07/paul-mccartney-chaos-and-creation-at.html

Volume 4:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/06/paul-mccartney-bbc-sessions-volume-3.html

Although this is only one year apart from that 2005 BBC concert I just mentioned, their set lists are very different. The key is that in 2005, McCartney would be promoting his new album "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard," and he'd play a lot of songs from that. Plus, he generally played more deep cuts from his vast back catalog. Whereas for this concert he didn't have a new album to promote, and he had a huge audience of over 150,000 people to entertain. So this is much more a greatest hits type concert. Virtually every song is a classic, and most were big hits.

What is contained here sounds great, as you'd expect from the BBC. It's also a decent length for a concert. But unfortunately, many songs were not broadcast, so they don't appear here:

Got to Get You into My Life
All My Loving
She's a Woman
Maybe I'm Amazed
The Long and Winding Road
In Spite of All the Danger
We Can Work It Out
Here Today
All Things Must Pass
Yellow Submarine
I'll Follow the Sun
Calico Skies
Eleanor Rigby
I've Got a Feeling

Woe be the BBC employee given the task of cutting this concert down to a reasonable length, because those are some great songs that got the axe. That could have been a great concert all by itself, with about five number one hits included. Basically, what actually was broadcast was the first four songs selected from the first half of the concert, and then the entire second half of the concert in the correct order, starting with "Drive My Car," with only "I've Got a Feeling" cut from the second half. 

Let's hope that someday the full concert recording emerges. And what's crazy is there are so many more classic original songs that even a full version of this concert wouldn't include.

Anyway, as far as I know, this concert is entirely unreleased. In fact, I had a very hard time finding this one on the Internet at all. It took me a few weeks to track down, with the assistance of musical friend Mike Solof, who is a Beatlemaniac and knows more sources than I do. I hope this post will help bring back this recording from obscurity.

This concert is an hour and 17 minutes long.

01 Jet (Paul McCartney)
02 Flaming Pie (Paul McCartney)
03 Let Me Roll It (Paul McCartney)
04 talk (Paul McCartney)
05 Blackbird (Paul McCartney)
06 Drive My Car (Paul McCartney)
07 Penny Lane (Paul McCartney)
08 Get Back (Paul McCartney)
09 talk (Paul McCartney)
10 Band on the Run (Paul McCartney)
11 Back in the U.S.S.R. (Paul McCartney)
12 talk (Paul McCartney)
13 Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney)
14 Lady Madonna (Paul McCartney)
15 talk (Paul McCartney)
16 Hey Jude (Paul McCartney)
17 talk (Paul McCartney)
18 Yesterday (Paul McCartney)
19 talk (Paul McCartney)
20 Follow Me (Paul McCartney)
21 Let It Be (Paul McCartney)
22 talk (Paul McCartney)
23 I Saw Her Standing There (Paul McCartney)
24 Helter Skelter (Paul McCartney)
25 talk (Paul McCartney)
26 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [Reprise] (Paul McCartney)
27 The End (Paul McCartney)

Unfortunately, the download link had to be removed due to a copyright issue. Sorry.

The cover photo comes from this exact concert.