Paul McCartneys sweet gesture as he paid tribute to | UK News

Music icon Paul McCartney made a sweet gesture to legendary pop group Sparks after he impersonated one of the members, Ron Mael, in his 1980 video for his track Coming Up. The star ensured the group had a very particular memento of the event. Paul performed all the devices on the monitor and the video noticed him singing the track on stage as he and spouse Linda adopted a vary of disguises to make up the members of the fictional band The Plastic Macs including an homage to Ron, whose toothbrush moustache and slicked back hair created an immediately memorable visible when Sparks broke though in 1974.

The group comprised of brothers Russell and Ron Mael, are large Beatles followers but despite Paul paying tribute to songwriter Ron they still have not met him. However they revealed they’ve a very particular signed picture of the star dressed as Ron hanging in their studio.

“We never met, Paul McCartney but we know the guitar player Paul has in his band now. And he we were talking to him one day, and there was a poster of, I think it was a Linda McCartney photo of Paul dressed as Ron in that video.

“So we requested our good friend who’s in the band ‘I ponder if you possibly can get Paul to signal this’. So we do have a signed Paul McCartney taken by Linda McCartney picture in our studio,” Russell revealed.

Asked how he felt about Paul impersonating him Ron said: “He performs a lot of totally different different people. And I used to be honoured just to be imitated, the keyboard participant imitated for that video.”

Alongside Ron in the clip Paul also paid tribute to many other influential musicians including Buddy Holly, Andy Mackay of Roxy Music and even the Beatle-mania version of himself.

Ron and Russell were so obsessed with The Beatles their mother drove them from their home in LA to Las Vegas to see the band twice when they were teenagers, something they recalled in Edgar Wrights 2021 documentary about their lives and career.

Speaking to Gavin and Stacey‘s Rob Brydon in an event in London to mark the release of their 28th album Mad! the brothers were asked what it was about UK bands that struck a chord with them. “It was so alien for us from Los Angeles, (where) what was going on at the time, just like the Laurel Canyon sort of acts – they’re all positive but it wasn’t our factor,” Russell said.

“There was a sure sensibility that what they had been doing just sporting blue denims and an acoustic guitar, that right here was sort of honesty in the music. And if you cared about having a character and having more character that by some means wasn’t being trustworthy.

“We never subscribed to that. So all the bands that came from the UK, we really responded to (them) where there was real personality and they cared about why they were doing. And it was so contrary to what going on in the world and torn blue jeans and all that.”