Grad Rock

Paul McCartney loves to talk about his Liverpool School of Music, and as per my bff ChatGPT says he seems to genuinely love showing up every year for graduation:

Paul McCartney co-founded the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) in 1996 on the site of his former school, the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, which had closed in the 1980s. Determined to preserve the historic building and create opportunities for future musicians, he partnered with educator Mark Featherstone-Witty to establish a world-class performing arts academy. McCartney has remained its patron and guiding presence, regularly visiting students and supporting its growth. LIPA has since become one of the UK’s leading performing arts institutions, blending music, theatre, and dance training with McCartney’s legacy of creativity and accessibility.

But now that I see this:

and I'm like shouldn't each student get to choose what McCartney song's playing when they shake Macca's hand, like a baseball batter's walk-up music? Even just a snippet, for those few seconds? (Otherwise every kid would pick Hey Jude so they could stand there talking with him for 8 minutes and these things would take about 10 hours to complete, ironically enough the exact length of time it legendarily took The Beatles to record their debut album, Please Please Me funk you people very much). I mean what if you just so happened to graduate in 2004 and he was playing whatever shitty single off the Egypt Station album he was pushing at the time that was immediately forgotten forever? And yes of course every year some smart-ass right on cue will think he’s Che Guevara & pick a John Lennon song but Paul will just cheerfully laugh as he shakes the kid’s hand and the guy will be crushed for the rest of his life...

...anyway, my song would be this based both on its explosive opening that highlights McCartney's unbelievable new bass sound and its dream of a future vocation I would've wished for myself.