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Guitar World
Guitar World
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Matt Owen

“There was one bit I used to play at a bit of a stretch. He told me, ‘Oh, no, I play it like this’”: Paul McCartney gave Robbie McIntosh a guitar lesson on their first meeting – and showed him how to play a Beatles classic properly

Robbie McIntosh, Paul McCartney, Hamish Stuart perform on stage during a Paul McCartney concert at Ahoy on October 9th 1993 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

In 1989, Robbie McIntosh formally joined Paul McCartney’s live band, having worked on a number of sessions for the Beatle’s solo record, Flowers in the Dirt.

Though that first session would have been memorable by the very nature of the fact McIntosh was playing with one of the Fab Four, it was made even more special when McCartney ended up giving him a guitar lesson.

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