I Saw Her Standing There

I watched the 51st Grammy Awards yesterday and all the performances by various artistes were beyond reproach. The only exception being that I did not like the version done by Neil Diamond on Sweet Caroline. However, I was particularly drawn to Paul McCartney doing "I Saw Her Standing There" with Dave Grohl playing the drums.

You may recognise Dave Grohl currently with the Foo Fighters and previously with the late legendary Kurt Corbain in the group Nirvana.

It is too early to find an upload of that performance on youtube. However, I find this concert by him in Kiev, last year June to be really good.



Incidentally, Paul McCartney played in front of 350,000 then and the songs performed by him include:

'Drive My Car' 'Jet' 'All My Loving' 'Only Mama Knows' 'Flaming Pie' 'Got To Get You Into My Life' 'Let Me Roll It' 'C Moon' 'My Love' 'Let 'Em In' 'The Long And Winding Road' 'Dance Tonight' 'Blackbird' 'Calico Skies' 'I'll Follow The Sun' 'Mrs Vanderbilt' 'Eleanor Rigby' 'Something' 'Good Day Sunshine' 'Penny Lane' 'Band On The Run' 'Birthday' 'Back In The USSR' 'I Got A Feeling' 'Live And Let Die' 'Let It Be''Hey Jude''A Day In The Life/Give Peace A Chance' 'Lady Madonna' 'Get Back''I Saw Her Standing There' 'Yesterday' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'

I think all mentioned songs performed then are available on youtube if you care to look.

You would probably not be interested. But Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, has a population of 2.7 million people. And can you imagine 350,000 of these turning up to watch Paul McCartney! (granted, there were out of towners and other foreigners.)



Meanwhile, back to the 51st Grammy Awards:

Jason Mraz should have won the Song of the Year yesterday, according to a relative of mine. Go listen to "I'm Yours" again and you may agree.












My favorite person there was LeAnn Rimes. I did not like her outfit though. This lady won her first Grammy at the age of 13. The youngest winner ever. Remember her song "Can't Fight the Moonlight"?

I was surprised to see Robert Plant garnering 5 Grammies together with Alison Krauss. Robert, as you know was the rocker singer with Led Zeppelin. I thought he has ridden off into the sunset whilst his partner Jimmy Page was still being a bit active. Beijing Olympics? King Kong soundtrack?