Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road

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Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road
Directed by Simon Hilton
Produced by James Chads
Starring Paul McCartney
Music by Paul McCartney
Distributed by Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Release date(s) January 27, 2006
Running time 60 min.
Language English

Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road, recorded on July 28, 2005, was a live concert given by Paul McCartney at Abbey Road Studios, specifically Studio 2, where many of The Beatles recordings were made. It was meant as a promotion for McCartney's album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. As the audience was of close friends and selected fans, the concert was intimate in nature and was littered with monologues and song fragments. McCartney also plays left-handed and right-handed guitars, drums, harmonium, double bass, Mellotron, and even wine glasses in a reworking of Wings song "Band on the Run". He also reworks the Beatles track "Lady Madonna", which he calls "Old Lady in New Clothes", with a much slower tempo and a swung melody line. His performance of the Lennon-McCartney song "I've Got a Feeling", which originally appeared on The Beatles' 1970 album Let It Be, is notable as he omits the section ("Everbody Had A Hard Year") sung by John Lennon on the original recording.

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All songs by Paul McCartney, except where noted.