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the show - "Baby you can drive my...swoon, THUD...yes, I'm gonna be a... THUD.... baby you can... THUD... my car and baby I... THUD, THUD."
            Then there's the weepies. How many rock shows do you know that make you cry? This one does. And when I say "you", I'm not talking about you cuties down the front row who - I've oddly enough noticed - are now taking to turning up in your black underwear. Nothing else, just underwear. Nope, I'm talking about the big boys; grown" men of 40s and 50s. Big Boys Blubbering. And I know exactly when you guys start to lose it - when 'Penny Lane' throws you back to a time of thicker hair and thinner waistlines and THAT SHOT during 'C'mon People.'
            THAT SHOT is Messianic. THAT SHOT is in fact THOSE SHOTS. They are Linda shots. Linda Pictures that for the entirety of 'C'mon People' leap off the pages of Sixties: Portrait Of An Era and Sun Prints and higgledy-piggledy fill up the giant screens with an array of images. Anyway, as Paul sings the final "and it's charging in", the images dissolve until the giant screens stage left and right are just filled with one shot each. One is an 80ft x 80ft Paul McCartney. The other hugeness is John Lennon.
            God, they weep when they see that. But that's alright, guys, we all do it. Something gets you in the end; ask a certain person about the glinting in his eye at Parramatta Stadium, Sydney, when he sang 'Mull Of Kintyre' with a full pipe band. That wasn't glycerine.
            What else? God, I've forgotten the film. You've probably read about The Film in the press. It's usually described as a "SHOCKING", film on account of it being clips of animals being humanised - by which I mean hanged, cut up, tortured, electrocuted to death, de-beaked, harpooned, eaten, vivisected and viscerated. It's there, at the front of the show, to make a point that nobody else will make. The point is obvious but what's not obvious and what is really "shocking" is that we're shocked. Because this ain't ho Stephen King imagination - what you see in that film is what goes on minute by minute in every country on this planet and we'd rather let it a happen than see it happen. That's shocking.

Club Sandwich 66