Saturday, August 29, 2009

English Tea by Paul McCartney – ***

First released: 2005

McCartney covers The Rutles! Or does he? Certainly seems so. It seems like an outtake from The Rutles reunion album "Archeology", but it is indeed McCartney. Despite all this, it is one of the better tunes from the boring "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard" album. Not released as a single, it was performed live on the accompanying tour, most memorably as a literal wake up call for some astronauts. I bet they wanted to say, “Where’s "Hey Jude", or "Back in the USSR"?” or something. “We got woke up for this? Let us sleep!”

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