Foo Fighters and Paul McCartney played “Get Back” at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction
McCartney inducted Foo Fighters before lending vocals to the Beatles cover
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Though Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductions are largely meaningless, they do, on occasion, give us some nice speeches and performances that may never have happened otherwise. Saturday night’s ceremony, for instance, saw your local rock radio station’s favorite band Foo Fighters welcomed into the Hall’s loving embrace by Paul McCartney, who proceeded to help the group perform a cover of the Beatles’ “Get Back.”
A video taken from the audience shows the performance, which is a pretty straightforward take on the song that’s altered by Grohl singing back-up on the chorus and trading McCartney’s Little Richard-indebted falsetto “woo”s during a pause just before the final verse. Everyone seems to be having a good time.
We’d even bet any member of the Foos could still manage to get McCartney’s autograph if they tried hard enough.
Before the performance, McCartney inducted Foo Fighters with a speech comparing his own decision to compose and play every part on his first solo album following the Beatles break-up with Grohl’s similar debut as Foo Fighters on the 1995 self-titled record.
Grohl gave a short, unprepared acceptance speech where he called himself a guy who “talks too much” and thanked his family, actual and Foo Fighters-related, for sticking together for so many decades. Other members of the band made similar speeches, with drummer Taylor Hawkins noting at the end of his that he’d like to see George Michael, Jane’s Addiction, and Soundgarden inducted whenever the Hall Of Fame can get around to it.
HBO is set to release the ceremony properly with an official video on November 20th, a few days before Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back documentary series kicks off on November 25th.
[via Stereogum]
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20 Comments
Did Saint Paul sign Dave’s album?
Only 25 days until The Beatles: Get Back is released and I cannot wait. That’s why I’m breaking into the Disney Vault this weekend. Let me know if you guys want anything else while I’m in there.
Walt’s head, of course.
If you’re going anyway, can you pick up the Star Wars Holiday Special?And Song of the South. It’s for a friend, I swear.
I have a few versions of the Holiday Special…I recommend the Rifftrax version with original commercials Sir.
Why would they let bands from the 89’s and 90’s in when there’s still more Boomer bands out there to induct?
The really old old white guys are dying off and the newly minted old white guys want the shit they listened to in their teens/early 20’s to get in too.
That is such an accurate and sad way to remind me how old I am. I’ll be in the bathroom crying if anyone needs.
Yes. There’s a whole bunch of late 80’s early 90’a bands that I don’t think have even be nominated ost if them) while somehow the Hollies or some other unimportant Boomer band gets in
This old white guy REALLY wants the Replacements to get in, but would also kind of not want that to happen…
Paul sounded very rough…this song is very much not in his vocal range at his age.
OoofLove ya Paul, but you’re not sounding good these days. Time to hang up the singing and just make appearances.Please, don’t let it end like Chuck Berry, Sinatra, etc.
At least we don’t have to worry about Paul having video cameras in the ladies’ rooms at the amusement park he built on his farm. Right?
I’m not saying Paul had a spy camera set up, but how else would he have known that She Came In Through The Bathroom Window?
And “Golden Slumbers” was originally titled “Golden Showers”!
It’s in Revelations, people!!!
Hot take: Get Back kinda sucks.
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Don’t disagreeBut they celebrate any way they want
I dig what you did there.
At last, the truth comes out: Dave Grohl broke up the Beatles!