2Legs: A Paul McCartney Podcast

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Another Guest Author Interview! This week Tom and Andy were joined by Dr. Richard Driver, Author of the new book That Was Me: Paul McCartney's Career and Legacy Of The Beatles.

Richard's book analyses The Beatles' impact culturally in America, and then Paul's trajectory throughout the 60s. The majority of his book is all about Paul Solo (which we all love since so many books are not written that way). We contextualise s...

It's been a minute but we're back with a new show!

Just Tom and Andy this week after a very busy August (Fest, and 3 stellar author interviews) we kept this one light and simple.

We're going to do a 3 part show where we pick 15 songs from each era of McCartney's career that we think equal Beatle level compositions.

This month we focus on the 1970s. Future episodes will be 80s/90s and 00s/10s.

Hope you are all well and thanks fo...

We were honoured to have the esteemed author and journalist Mr. Peter Doggett join us for Episode 219! Peter penned the superb book You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After The Breakup (initially subtitled The Battle for the Beatles Soul which was stupidly rejected by the publisher) in 2009.

It is the best piece of writing that focuses on the relationships all 4 Beatles had throughout the 70s, 80s and through the time of pu...

Fresh Off from the Fest (although this was recorded prior) we welcome back Author John Blaney on this week's episode. John is the author of the now 5 part series of books titled The Songs He Was Singing, which is a complete and chronological review of McCartney's Discography. Later this year he will be publishing Volume 5 which we discuss on the show. Volume 5 covers the period of years 2010-2019. Only 2 new albums of original mate...

We are very happy to have Chip Madinger & Mark Easter back again this year for another deep dive for a Year In Review show. Chip and Mark published the epic Eight Arms To Hold You book in 2000. It is the must own book for fans of the Beatles Solo music. See link below to purchase the 2018 revision on Chip's site. This time we chose 1989. A very productive and busy year for Paul that centered around the release of Flowers In The...

"Hey Hey" (a "most" memorable song on Pipes of Peace right?) Everyone!

We're back and we did another documentary watch/review this week. And a very emotional/heartwarming one. 1997's In The World Tonight was produced to showcase the making of the now iconic 25 year old LP Flaming Pie.

A real return to form for Paul, made in the homespun affair just like 1970's homemade McCartney debut. It also highlights what else Paul was up to d...

Another multi series deep dive! We did a multi part series previously on John and Paul with Antony Rotunno (Glass Onion Podcast).

We felt the time was right to tackle the next one and for it we enlisted the help of Author/Journalist Eoghan Lyng (George Harrison In The 1970s U2 on Track), to join us for this first installment on the somewhat frosty relationship Macca and George had between the period of January 1969 thru the Spring...

This week on 2Legs, we were joined by longtime friend and follower of the show, Kyle Hand who had a great suggestion for a show he told us about at the NY Fest earlier this year.  

This week we picked our favourite 21 Paul songs from the 21st Century to create a fictional double LP. All albums standard/covers were fair game.

The albums we pulled from were Driving Rain (2001), Chaos and Creation in the Backyard (2005), Memory Almos...

A new month, and a brand new show to kick off July 2023! We had a fun time with 'This One' (pun intended!). This time we dived into the now obsolete and forgotten BBC Documentary titled The Paul McCartney Special.

Originally recorded in July of 1986 and broadcast in August 1986 on the BBC and released on Home Video (1987). It was presented and hosted by Richard Skinner of the BBC. It was a very important documentary at the time bec...

A surprise Bonus Episode! We were happy again to have Ms. Joan Borelli back on the show. Joan was with us last year when she went to the first GOT BACK show. Joan was fortunate enough to be one of the lucky attendees to the recent Paul discussion with Conan O'Brien for the launch of the "Eyes of the Storm" book. Her luck does not run out there! She then bought a copy of the book which was SIGNED BY PAUL. Only 175 and available from...

Finally got around to it folks. Sorry about the wait. We review the 7" Singles Box, show a few favs from it and discuss the new book "In The Eyes of the Storm", Paul's appearance with Conan O'Brien (which had real time updates as Paul was on with Conan in NYC while we were recording), as well as a few minutes on the "new" Beatles single (that DOESN'T include AI!) Happy Weekend All :)

We showed a lot of photos in this one so our apo...

We were honored this week to have the celebrated journalist and author Mr. Chris Welch join us!

Anyone who has followed Popular Music especially in the 1960s and 1970s will no doubt know this man who has been a staple of the Music Journalism scene since the 1960s. He has written over 40 books and thousands of articles.

He first joined the British weekly music magazine Melody Maker in 1964, staying on until 1979. Chris has intervi...