2Legs: A Paul McCartney Podcast

2025 Year In Review!

Hello 2Legs Faithful!
2025 was another stellar year for Paul McCartney fans! Touring, Wings-related releases, books you name it - we recap the year that was for Paul and give our opinions on our favourite things we saw from Paul in 2025!
Wishing you all a blessed holiday season and a very Happy New Year!
Roll On 2026!
Peace
Andy & Tom

Episode 291: "Lyric Pics | Volume 1"

Hi All, In this final regularly scheduled show before the start of the Fall 2025 GOT BACK tour Andy and Tom discuss the recently dropped video of the Bowery Tour Diary (which featured Andy, MVP and Joan) in spots on Night 2!! We discuss more merch shipping woes, and finally we took a dive back into The Lyrics book and chose two songs to read pieces from and give our thoughts on what those songs mean to us! This is a series we may revisit!
Let us know!
And we'll see you on the road!
Andy & Tom

"Wings & GOT BACK Tour Rolls On!"

Hi All!
For E290 Andy & Tom catch up on last week's announcement of the new WINGS compilation dropping in November, discuss what we're happy with and not, tracks that should've been included, 3rd party ticketing nonsense, more merch and yet another date added to the GOT BACK tour kicking off in Santa Barbara! The 4th Quarter is in full swing!
Let us know in the comments what you're getting, if you're going for the show in CA and if you have experienced issues with Ticketmaster/AXS about any of the shows that do not honour 3rd party tickets and what have you been able to do to resolve it?
We'll see ya next time!
Andy & Tom

Episode 289: "Movin On" | 1993 Docu-Rewatch

Hi Gang! Freshly rested from the FEST and kicking off a new month we're back with a new episode where we revisit a documentary. This time it's 1993's "Movin' On" directed by Aubrey Powell, which chronicles the making of Paul's album Off The Ground and ensuing "Live In The New World" Tour. We found Paul to be a bit more upbeat and comedic in this one contrasted against the previous "making of" doc "Put It There." I think we can tell the success of the 1989-90 tour gave him a sense of pride and accomplishment. It's evident in his demeanor in this. Other guest stars in the doc, Richard Lester, (Director) Brian Clarke (Tour Designer), Kevin Godley (Director/10CC), Robbie Mcintosh, Hamish Stuart, Blair Cunningham. This doc is notable for the 30 seconds or so of the McCartney-Stuart collaboration "Is It Raining In London?" Andy hadn't seen this in full before viewing it here in the episode. Tom gave it a review before we recorded. What say you about this doc. Do let us know in the comments!
Till next time, Andy & Tom
Article Referenced regarding the Amazon Deal:
 

Episode 287: "Flowers In The Ground"

Welcome Back 2Legs Faithful! As we close out another month, this week we are happy to share this episode with you, which we've called "Flowers In The Ground"!
We've discussed how these albums pair up against each other and if we had to make one album out of the two what would that album look like. Using the Beatles 14 songs per album approach we widdled Flowers and Off The Ground down and titled it "Flowers In The Ground"!"
We did this once with Tug of War/Pipes of Peace and we felt this would be a fun exercise to do. Many of our viewers/listeners feel strongly about this period in Paul's touring career, one that given his touring since 2002 has kind of fallen by the wayside despite having a really talented backing band with Hamish Stuart, Robbie McIntosh, Chris Witten, Blair Cunningham and of course the ever present Wix Wickens! What would your "Flowers In The Ground" look like? Let us know in the comments! This will be our final show until the Chicago FEST! See you there!
Peace! Andy & Tom
Interview with Robbie McIntosh

Episode 286: Macca Ticket Buying Saga!

This past week Paul's Pre-Sale for the 2025 Fall North American Tour was announced and on Tuesday diehard fans like us all tried with a myriad of mixed results! Ticketmaster and their "Dynamic Pricing" was a hot bed issue. For this special episode we invited members of the 2Legs Family to join us and share their experiences.
Thank You to MVP, Joan, Beatley Tone, Boyan, James, Jeremy and Ted for sharing your ticketing saga! We also pointed out the fact that several content creators incorrectly are blaming Paul for 3rd party exorbitant pricing.
Are you all in got the GOT BACK North American Tour? We are! Let us know!

Episode 285: "One Album: One Word"

A fun one this week! For Episode 285 Andy and Tom play a fun little exercise called "One Album, One Word", where we go through Paul's discography (Main canon albums + Electric Arguments) and describe it using an adjective! We open with tour rumours (we recorded this before the announcement on Thursday) and then get to it! What word would you use to describe these same albums? Let us know in the comments below! See you "Out There!" Peace Andy & Tom

"Ding Dang" | A Tribute To Brian Wilson | Andy & Friends

Hello 2Legs Family,
We have a very special one-off non Macca episode to share with you. As most of you know Brian Wilson, of the Beach Boys recently passed away in June 2025 at the age of 82. His music has had a profound effect in the development of Andy's musical education along the way. For this episode, Andy paired up with Jonathan Petrus (Ranking The Beatles) and vinylbenjy (of Instagram fame) as all three of us have a shared love and passion of Brian and The Beach Boys music. We share our Beach Boys origins, some deep cut favourites, and lastly our Top 10 Fav's! In the comments, let us know your Top 10! Thanks to Jonathan and Benjy for hopping on for this special tribute. You both brought back many memories! We are a Paul channel, and we know his love of Pet Sounds we feel this was a worthy special episode to drop here because of the significance, love, joy and creativity that Brian Wilson brought us.
Love and Mercy
Andy -
Links:
https://rankingthebeatles.com/
https://www.instagram.com/vinylbenjy/
 

Episode 284: Interview Archive Series | 1987 German Interview

Welcome Back 2Legs Fam!
This week we present another Interview Archive Series with Macca. When we do this we try to cherry pick rare and not often seen/discussed interviews. It's late 1987. Paul is riding the wave of success of his 2nd career spanning compilation "All The Best!". He has also been making the rounds on TV shows in Europe to promote his top selling single 'Once Upon A Long Ago' (also included on the UK "All The Best!" only). In the (audio only) interview conducted by Stefan Schlabritz & Slizzy Bob we hear Paul joke about his skills in the german language, the tracks chosen for All The Best!, working with Elvis Costello and Chris Witten to start a new band, and Once Upon A Long Ago. He also discusses his Sgt. Pepper nostalgic pastiche "Return To Pepperland" and compares it with George's 'When We Was Fab'. Something not heard again much from Macca. He also outlines the vision for what will become "The Beatles Anthology" documentary was was only a few years away from happening.
We close out the episode with an alternate mimed performance of 'Once Upon A Long Ago' from the German TV Programme Wetten Das.
See you guys after the 4th of July!
Peace Andy & Tom

Episode 283: "Press To Play: That Unmistakable 80s Sound" | With Luca Perasi

Hello Everyone!
Joining us this week is our friend, author and journalist Luca Perasi! As he celebrates the publication of his latest work "Press To Play | That Unmistakable 80s Sound" chronicling the "hot take" "Love It or Hate It" record that divides McCartney fans nearly 40 years later! One of the more significant people Luca was able to interview for the book was esteemed 1980s Producer Hugh Padgham (Genesis/The Police/Phil Collins) among many others. We know the relationship and direction over the album took many turns and misunderstandings, especially where Eric Stewart comes into the picture. Luca brings up many hypothesis' for these missteps.
The book also takes a very detailed technical approach with the album including detail on instruments used as well as the key people that worked on the album (Arrangers, Other Musicians etc). Luca also does a fine job of contextualising the 1980s Pop Culture zeitgeist through the mediums of video games and technology. Congrats again to Luca on his latest book! Let us know in the comments below if you've bought it and are reading it!
https://www.lily-publishing.com/
https://www.mccartney-musicisideas.it/
https://www.amazon.com/Paul-McCartney-Press-Unmistakable-Milestones/dp/B0FC2Y11JZ
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Luca-Perasi/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ALuca%2BPerasi