Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as always for clicking and listening along. I have a good one for you today, but good's not the word. I have a great one for you. I have an iconic one for you. That's a vastly overused term in our culture

today, but this is an honest-to-goodness icon. He is one of the four lads from Liverpool who make up

the most famous band in human history. They arrived, did the Fab Four in New York City, February

of 1964. Two days later, they played the Ed Sullivan show, and

Beatlemania officially erupted across the United States. He is, sir, Paul McCartney. I can't believe I'm

saying it out loud. We got McCartney on the Sunday Sit Down podcast. Paul has a new album coming out called

The Boys of Dungeon Lane.

It's a solo album that takes him actually back to those early days in Liverpool, where he met John Lennon in the summer of 1957.

He brought his friend George Harrison, a schoolmate of Paul's, to meet Lennon.

Okay, he's the guitar player a few years later.

They bring in Ringo Star and the Beatles

are born. So we're talking about his new album, just to give you a visual, we gathered in a

record shop in New York City called Rough Trade. So there we are sitting in chairs, me across

from McCartney, surrounded by albums, Beatles albums, yes, but so many, and we talk a little bit about this, of the records that

surround us, inspired by the Beatles, ranging from Springsteen and Billy Joel and even

Nirvana, Kurt Cobain used to talk about how he's inspired by the Beatles.

That's just the tip of the iceberg.

The Beatles influences everywhere you look in music even to this day. So talk about the new album, talk about some memories from Liverpool with John and the boys, talk about his impact on music. And he had just come, we can say now, and we do talk about this, from his rehearsal for the final show of Stephen Colbert's late show.

As you know by now, it was McCartney who shut down the place in a poetic way, given the fact that he

came there in 64, played the Ed Sullivan Theater, and then ended Stephen Colbert's run there

all these decades later. So I will give you no further introduction because my goodness,

this is Paul McCartney. If there ever was a man who needed no introduction, it is him.

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