{"id":2445,"date":"2026-05-17T16:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/paul-mccartney-performs-on-snl-season-51-finale\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T16:41:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:41:20","slug":"paul-mccartney-performs-on-snl-season-51-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/paul-mccartney-performs-on-snl-season-51-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney performs on &#8216;SNL&#8217; Season 51 finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/128035359.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Paul McCartney closed out the 51st season of \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d with a surprise third performance.<\/p>\n<p>During the cast goodbyes, the Beatles musician, 83, made his way back to the band and corralled them for a final encore, performing \u201cComing Up,\u201d the bouncy opening track off his 1980 album, \u201cMcCartney II.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NBC comedy sketch show\u2019s cast could be seen dancing to the song.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Paul McCartney was the musical guest for the season finale of \u201cSNL\u201d (as seen above). <span class=\"credit\">SNL<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The Beatles musician (seen above on \u201cSNL\u201d) performed three times. <span class=\"credit\">NBCU Photo Bank\/NBCUniversal via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>McCartney\u2019s first performance was of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BxHS7_YdEt0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cDays We Left Behind\u201d<\/a> from his upcoming album, \u201cThe Boys of Dungeon Lane,\u201d which reflects on childhood memories growing up in Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>The second song he performed was \u201cBand on the Run,\u201d the title track from his 1973 album.<\/p>\n<p>It was his first performance on the show\u2019s regular season in almost 14 years. The last time McCartney appeared as a musical guest on a regular season episode of \u201cSNL\u201d was in December 2012, when Martin Short hosted.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>McCartney (seen performing above) sang a song from his upcoming album. <span class=\"credit\">SNL<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The last time the \u201cBlackbird\u201d singer (seen above) appeared as a musical guest on a regular season episode of \u201cSNL\u201d was in December 2012. <span class=\"credit\">SNL<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>McCartney also appeared in the opening sketch with host Will Ferrell and the actor\u2019s look-alike, Red Hot Chili Peppers\u2019 drummer Chad Smith. The bassist later showed up in a sketch titled \u201cWhat it feels like talking to a mechanic\u201d alongside Ferrell, Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez, Mikey Day and Ashley Padilla.<\/p>\n<p>McCartney played the chief mechanic named Nigel, who told the couple (portrayed by Day and Padilla): \u201cYour tipsy-wipsy\u2019s all dangly-doodly, and the spiggly-wiggly\u2019s gone crumpet. The whole car is knackered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the legendary singer <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/02\/16\/photos\/celebrities-at-snl-50-anniversary-special\/\">closed out the \u201cSNL\u201d 50th anniversary special<\/a> with an \u201cAbbey Road\u201d medley.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>He also appeared in the opener with Will Ferrell and Chad Smith (as seen above). <span class=\"credit\">SNL<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>It was McCartney\u2019s musical appearance on \u201cSNL\u201d in almost 14 years. (Pictured: McCartney, Ferrell and the \u201cSNL\u201d cast.) <span class=\"credit\">SNL<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In an interview with Rolling Stone earlier this year, McCartney reflected on how his upbringing affected the songwriting for this new project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was thinking just that, about the days I left behind and I do often wonder if I\u2019m just writing about the past, but then I think how can you write about anything else?\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a lot of memories of Liverpool\u2026We didn\u2019t have much at all, but it didn\u2019t matter because all the people were great and you didn\u2019t notice you didn\u2019t have much,\u201d the keyboardist added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/17\/celebrity-news\/paul-mccartney-performs-on-snl-season-51-finale\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul McCartney closed out the 51st season of \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d with a surprise third<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/128035359.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}