Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Paul McCartney 1989-08-24 Lyceum Theater Pre-Show and Press Conference(PMWT-004)

 Paul McCartney
 1989-90 Tour
 004-PMWT-Lyceum Theater Pre-Show and Press Conf
 August 24, 1989

On this date Paul and the band took up residence at the historic Lyceum Theater in New York City for the day. A short pre-show for the press, followed by a press conference and then a rehearsal performance lat er that evening. The Pre-Show and Press Conference were captured here as broadcast on WNEW-FM in New York. Resident DJ at WNEW Scott Muni (who refers to the album as "Flowers in the Dust")had a regular afternoon show which always launced with a Beatles track or two. This day Scott was broadcasting from the theater to provide us with a glimps of what took place inside. While the Press Conference was apparently broadcast nation-wide on the Westwood One radio Network, the balance of what is contained here was a WNEW exclusive. The Press Conference does end short on this broadcast but I have never been able to confirm if more was included on the Westwood One broadcast. So if anyone knows please speak up. There is also a bootleg release of this material on Phantom Records but it is not as complete.

The final track in this collection is a Capital Records promo interview which was also recorded from the theater this day.


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 01 Scott Muni and Pat St. John (tuning in background)
 02 Blue Suede Shoes (Live)
 03 Matchbox (Live)
 04 Pat St John and Scott Muni
 05 Scott Muni
 06 I Saw Her Standing There (studio snippit)
 07 Hey Jude (studio snippit)
 08 Venus and Mars/Rock Show (studio snippit)
 09 Scott Muni
 10 Scott from The Balcony
 11 Figure Of Eight (Live)
 12 This One (Live)
 13 Coming Up (Live)
 14 Scott Muni
 15 Press Conference Intro
 16 Press Conference (ends abruptly)
 17 Scott Muni
 18 Dennis Elsas and Scott Muni
 19 Scott Muni Interview with Hamish Stuart
 20 Scott Muni interview with Robbie McIntosh and Paul "Wix" Wickens
 21 Scott Muni interview with Chris Whitten
 22 Scott Mini and Pat St John with Max Weinberg
 23 Wrap Up

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 24 Capital Radio Pomo 8-24-89

A few hours after the Press Conference a 90-minute rehearsal show took place but a recording of it has never surfaced. There was a fake floating around for a while but the actual show has yet to appear. So if anyone can shake that out of the trees I would be eternally grateful.
 

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