{"id":28485,"date":"2024-01-25T18:02:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-january-25-1991-paul-mccartney-records-an-episode-of-mtv-unplugged\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T18:02:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T18:02:09","slug":"on-this-day-january-25-1991-paul-mccartney-records-an-episode-of-mtv-unplugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-january-25-1991-paul-mccartney-records-an-episode-of-mtv-unplugged\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, January 25, 1991: Paul McCartney records an episode of &#8216;MTV Unplugged&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag-17.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, January 25, 1991\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong>\u00a0recorded an episode of\u00a0<em>MTV Unplugged<\/em>\u00a0at Limehouse Studios in Wembley, London.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary\u00a0<strong>Beatle<\/strong>\u00a0took the name of the show literally, performing each song completely unplugged, unlike other artists who used acoustic instruments plugged into amplifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The set list featured such songs as \u201cBlackbird,\u201d \u201cWe Can Work it Out,\u201d \u201cAnd I Love Her,\u201d \u201cHere, There and Everywhere\u201d and more.<\/p>\n<p>McCartney\u2019s appearance\u00a0on\u00a0<em>MTV Unplugged<\/em>\u2019s second season proved to be pivotal for the show. As one of the first A-list artists to do the show, he influenced other big name\u00a0stars, including\u00a0<strong>R.E.M<\/strong>.,\u00a0<strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Rod Stewart<\/strong>,\u00a0to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>The episode aired on April 3, 1991, and a live album of McCartney\u2019s performance,\u00a0<em>Unplugged (The Official Bootleg)<\/em>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>was released a month later, including three songs that were not featured on the program. He was the first artist to release a live album of the show.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, January 25, 1991\u2026 Paul McCartney\u00a0recorded an episode of\u00a0MTV Unplugged\u00a0at Limehouse Studios in Wembley, London. The legendary\u00a0Beatle\u00a0took the name of the show literally, performing each song completely unplugged, unlike other artists who used acoustic instruments plugged into amplifiers. The set list featured such songs as \u201cBlackbird,\u201d \u201cWe Can<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-january-25-1991-paul-mccartney-records-an-episode-of-mtv-unplugged\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}