Episode 2 The Graham Norton Show

On tonight's show, we have got Beatlemania!

Let's start the show! This is it, ladies and gentlemen!

This is it! Hello! Good evening! Oh, what a

line-up we have for you tonight. THE most famous pop sunger of all-time,

Paul McCartney is here! Can you believe that?

Yes, he's going to be here. Als Chris Hemsworth is here. The Oscar

winning Natalie Portman is on the show! There's more! Comedy Superstar

James Corden is here! And, and, if that wasn't enough,

global singing sensation, the beautiful Katy Perry is here! I

know! Well, that's all we've got time for,

I'll see you next week? ! Can you believe it? The music legend

that is Paul McCartney on the show, ladies and gentlemen.

The Beatles officially the biggest band of all-time and everywhere they

went, there was Beatlemania. Look at them there. The fans even

had to be kept behind barriers. Do you know, even nowadays they need

barriers toer mad groupies for lands like One Direction. Yeah.

Harry, Harry, remember me? ! Of The Beatles had the famous mop top

hair styles when they first came out. That hair style's still copied.

Here is Natalie Portman. Rihanna and Tiddles.

Not amused! But of course they produce some of

the most iconic album covers ever, like Abbey Road.

Took hours getting that shot just right. Mind you, this is the view

looking the other way. Bloody hippies!

Although they let the traffic go in the end, yeah!

Back of the album! The titles of Paul's songs have

predicted many other future singing stars which is spooky. Like for

instance, there's lady Madonna, yeah, the Froing Corus, Help! And of

course, I Am the Walrus. Cuckoo kerchoo!

I'll be talking to Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth later on. But

first, he's in a League of His own, it's Mr James Corden.

Hello. Nice to see you. Come in. Sit down,

sit down. Get ready to welcome Katy Perry!

Get ready to roar! So nice to see you, darling. Have a

seat. And it's going to be a night to

remember. It is Sir Paul McCartney! Hello. You are so welcome. Paul

McCartney! I'm loving this couch. You guys all

Noel each other, don't you? We hung out backstage, having a laugh,

whatever. Katy, you have sung Paul's songs,

haven't you? I sung hey Jude at a benefit. I sing all of his songs,

I've sang 'em all my life. I'm sitting next to him, oh, my God. I'm

sitting next to Katy! Guys, I'm right here!

I mean... CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

But you returned the favour with Katy's songs? You were telling me

that? Yes, I have a ten-year-old daughter and we love "firework! "

It's a great song. It's a fantastic song. I love it. Here is the other

odd thing about the sofa tonight. Two pop stars, James Corden and yet

they've all had a number one single. Yes.

Katy, have you had eight or ten here? A handful, yes. James?... One?

Let's not get carried away. It was a terrible song for charity. Paul

McCartney, do you want to guess, have a guess how many, Katy and

James, how many number ones? Are we talking solo? Not albums, this is

number one singles. I think 55. I think 42. Disappointing now OK,

it's... Try again lower, yeah. I've only been going five years and I've

already had luke ten. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I've had one, I'm not even a singer. It's not difficult, Graham, that's

what we are trying to get across. Is it more than ten? Yes!

Yes! I think 21. That's a good guess. 20. 24. Yes!

It is 24. But this is the kicker though. 24 singles, but he has spent

98 weeks at number one. Wow. 98 weeks, two years. That is a long

time. You know, I love that song Ramon, it's one of my favourite

songs of yours that you've ever done. Thank you, it's a little song.

Sounds like a ukulele, so sweet. I listen to it with my boyfriend all

the time, we love it. Lovely. We do enjoy it when we

listen to it together! So much has happened backstage!

Stars of Thor will be joining us later but a lot of music to talk

about. Your new album is out, Katy. James's new film about the Singapore

Pots, but we'll begin with Paul's new album called New.

It's out now. . This is your 16th solo album, but the response to this

and the reviews have been phenomenal. You must be thrilled? It

really has. When you release an album luke this, you kind of hold

your breath and don't say anything too soon, but it's really starting

to get a lot of very good feedback. Do you think when you are writing

these songs, did you, because you are in a very happy place, you are

all loved up, it's all good in your life, do you think that's the reason

why it's a good album? I think it helps, yes. I mean, I had a thing

when I was writing this, Nancy would be in our early days, she'd be in

New York, five hours back. So I would drop my little girl, the

fireworks fan, off at school and I'd come home and I'd have a few hours

where I didn't have anything on, so I would write a song and then I'd

ring her "good morning, would you like to hear a song? " She said

"no". Hung up and that was it. No, so she'd say yeah, so I would play

her the song. It became a really great motivation. Have you ever had

writers block? Reading about you, it sounds like you have always found

the process of song-writing easy? I've been amazingly lucky and I was

looking the other day at all the songs John and I wrote together,

it's luke nearly 300. Wow. Yeah. I'm not showing off here, but I

remembered that I would go to his house or he'd come to mine and we'd

sit down for approximately three hours and try to write a song. I

realised we never came away without a song.

Wow. We got very close one day because I brought in a song called

Golden Rings and it was a "I can buy you golden rings" and stuff and we

couldn't get anywhere with this. We had a cup of tea, came back to it

and I said we should change it to something like drive my car or

something, so we changed it. The audience go "oo", like "we know

that one! " We nearly got unlucky with that one, but we had a-cum-of

tea and what was in the tea? A?! -- a cup of tea. It was the tea that

did it. No. No.

You must have drunk the whole pot. Pot!

So you did 300 with John. Do you ever write a song and go, have I

ever written that before? Yes, you have to check it out with people,

you know. You get an antennae, you know, have you heard this song

before? You wrote it, they'd say. James down the end there, the last

time you were here, you told us about your boy band beginnings.

LAUGHTER They didn't do covers. Come on. You

can't sit me... Shut up. You wrote a song. You cannot make a genuine leap

from Paul McCartney going "of course your boy band days". It's

ridiculous. Have you given up the song writing?

What are you talking about? ! It's a gift, James.

You shouldn't walk away fla! Shut up! It was so bad. We had songs like

girlie, ready and time can't stop us now. Sounds nice. And then a big

song actually about these golden rings. We couldn't find a way to put

it together. That process though, like ringing um

Nancy, that must be the nicest feeling in the world, having

someone, particularly Paul McCartney write you a song. Because you have

used lots of names. There's Eleanor, Jude, Lizzie, Sadie, lots and I

guess some names are better for songs than others. We have got three

creative minds on the sofa, all song-writers, I don't care what you

say! This is so ridiculous.

All song-writers. So does anyone in the audience think they have a name

that they can't think of a rhyme for? Obviously everyone in the

audience has a name. A lady is putting her hand up, does anyone

have a name and she's like "yes, me, I do! " Lady over there in the

Corner. Can we get the thing all the way over there. What is your name?

Shisamiso. Do you want to share a miso? ! You

should be so... Lucky! Yes. Shisamiso, you should be so lucky to

come with me and share a miso. See!

See. Let's try another one. Anyone else?

There's a lady there with her hand up by the wall. Summer.

Bit of a bummer. That tends to be the problem. And

dumber. Come on, James. Summer, we'd listen

to Joe Strummer, but I had to leave her cos she wouldn't let me bum her.

Top song writer! Do you want a pen? Do you want to

write some of these ideas down. This is gold. Paul McCartney and

Katy Perry, bummer - no! A lady with short... Let's do the glittery lady,

actually. Lorna Jean. No, let's not do that. Lady with the glasses. Ula.

What is it? Ula. Where are you from? Finland. Ula from Finland. Come on,

James. What are you saying, come on James, for? Don't trust in my

lyrics. Come on, guys? Kickedn't fool her. -- you couldn't fool her.

She's much cooler. Be Nice. You missed that. She's cooler

than a plastic ruler. Well done. Thank you, very good.

Very good. I look it. Not the only new album in town, no.

Yours is in shops now, but on the 21st October, is the release of

Prism! You have said in interviews that

this is a slight change of direction, is it slightly less pop

Princess, more personal? Yes. I think the last record was very

highly conaccept Schulz and cartoony and over the top and this one, I

guess I'll still be over the top in some ways, especially visually, but

this is more vulnerable and raw and a lot more present. I think I'm OK

with accepting the information that I'm finally a grown-up and I think

that that is represented on the record.

The first single Roar, I think it's the best thing you've ever done.

It's great. Thank you.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE The only thing I don't like about it

is it's very hard to sing, you know when you are driving. I can't enjoy

it because I know I'm so sheet. To do the roar bit is hard.

We have got a clip of the video which I also love. Jane of the

jungle. Very. Have a look. # I got the eye of the tiger

# Fire # Dancing through the fire

# Cos I am a champion # And you are gonna hear me roar...

# CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# And you're gonna hear me roar... # # You're gonna hear me roar... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Love it. Love it.

Very nice backing vocals. The Katy fans were in fine voice there, very

good! He's had fans like that all of his

life, they probably don't stop screaming. Could have sleep? I did a

show recently in New York which was at a school. We just wanted to do an

offbeat thing, we were there for the week and this was the Frank Sinatra

School which was started by Tony Benn forget, and the great thing

was, it was 13-18-year-olds, it was a high school. A lot of them were

girls. We came on, they showed their enthusiasm and it was just like The

Beatles, like "argh... .." I said "I know that sound". It was very cool.

That video, because you know that thing about working with animals.

That monkey liked you a lot? Oh, my gosh, he did this one thing called

self-anointing, so when you meet the monkey...

LAUGHTER Ist it's not just monkeys that do

that! No, no, but his name was... That

reminds me, I haven't self-anointed today.

His name was Ripley and basically you hold it and it burrows into your

skin. I loved to smell nice because I'm a girl. Good, I'm glad. I

smelled pretty good and the monkey's like that, so it basically caresses

my whole body and puts it all over, licks its hands and puts it all over

its skin and calls itself anointing. It's really trying to get it

everywhere, you know. You have said somewhere that you

think your image has to be more demure from now on? Well, I didn't

say that, I think maybe that the question was is if I was going to...

I don't know, I mean I just like clothes to stay on for right now

until... I already took my clothes off in Teenage Dream. My point was

that you are not wearing a lot in that.

Actually, what's funny is that, you don't wear much in the jungle if you

are the only human. Of course, it's like a document write. Yes.

No, but that costume, speaking of Halloween, is actually available, we

remade it and you can be in that Roar costume if you want to.

Talking about dressing up for Halloween, because you love it? I've

never been truck or treating. Do you do that here? Yes. Never been trick

or treating once in my life. I wasn't allowed to celebrate it

because we came from a very religious househol Me too, I came

from the same background. And we turned out all right, right? Yes. In

Halloween, we'd shut the door and blinds and bring the dog in so he

wouldn't be sacrificed. All crazy stuff goes down on Halloween. I

still yet have to find time to go to trick or treat. You sat in the dark?

We had a prayer meeting. To be fair, we didn't do that. To be fair, mine

are probably more interesting. Here is the thing, Katy Perry, I mean you

must be the hottest female artist in the world right now. Are you

enjoying the moment? Are you along for the ride or do you look at

someone like Paul and think, I would like that legacy, people to be

singing my songs in the next 40 years? Of course. I think that's the

correct answer. I'm in it for the long haul. I hope to have half the

career that you have. I would be so grateful. I think you have been

doing this for longer, you know, that I've even before alive and you

have been doing it so incredibly well. The fact that you are still

here today in 2013... LAUGHTER

No! Hold on, hold on, hold on. Bring it

back, Katy, bring it back. Hold on, the fact that you are still here

today and you are... You said that! The fact that you're not dead. I'm

not talking in that sense, I'm talking as a performer, he's about

to be on this stage, just released an incredible record. Not everybody

does that. There's a handful of people that still can do that well.

Yeah. It's true. You brought it back, you brought it back.

Here is the thing though. Talking of legacy, famously, Paul, you don't

own a big chunk of your own legacy in that you don't have the rights to

a lot of your songs? No. The early Beatles stuff, it was a carve-up, we

didn't know anything about any of that, so we got ripped off, but hey,

what the heck. What we all remember reading in the papers about Michael

Jackson buying The Beatles catalogue, but that was kind of your

fault? It was a strange one, yes. I was working with Michael at that

time. Why, because he just rang me up. It was over Christmas and I just

heard this little voice say "hi". I thought "oh, my God, don't recognise

this voice, who's got my private number" at home. So I said "yeah,

hello" and it was like "hi, it's Michael" and he goes "wanna make

some hits" and I goes "yeah" so we got together and Michael said, "have

you got any advice" and I said yes, "you are really hot, it's just

starting" he'd just had Off the Wall and I said "you have to make great

videos" so he went off and made Thriller. I told him he needed a

good manager, I said it will all be coming in and it could all go out. I

said, you ought to think about getting into song publishing. He

said "I'm gonna buy yours". And I was laughing. Until he did!

So when you do a concert or a show, sometimes you have to pay people to

play your own songs? I have to pay. That must be a knife in your

stomach? You know what, it used to be very annoying, but after a while,

you just think, you know, what are you gonna do? You are fine. You are

doing all right: . I'm all right. In your new movie, James, the Paul

Potts thing, we think we know the story, but actually, my God, that

man had like such terrible luck his whole life. I felt exactly the same

as I think everybody else does when they hear it's a film which is where

you go, really, sounds lake a terrible idea. And then I read it

and I met the director called David Frankel who made the Devil Wears

Prada and Hope Springs and he asked me to read it because he said I

think you will see that we are not making a film about Britain's Got

Talent, we are making a film about a boy from an industrial steel town

who dreams of being an opera singer in a world where no-one even listens

to opera and through endless setbacks and adversity, you know,

never gives up. He achieves his dream. Once I read it, I was like oh

yeah, because that film sort of stops at the very moment he audition

ed for Britain's Got Talent. There's no actor like Sa Simon Cowell

saying, I'll make you a star, you know. It's a very sweet, uplifting

story. We have a clip. Again, it's him coming out of one setback. I

think we told you the clip story? OK, so he had a terrible operation.

He had appendicitis and couldn't perform in an opera and then says,

no, I'm a local amateur opera and it's the day before and he says, no,

I absolutely want to and he does it and the stitches burst on stage.

When he gets into the hospital, they find an abscess on his adrenaline

gland which means he probably won't be able to sing again and this is

sort of around that moment I think. Yes, six months down the line.

LAUGHTER I don't really know what the clip

is, Graham, to be honest! It's qha he said. It's what he said.

Yes. So he's been told he'll never sing again. Yes, he's been told he's

never going to sing again. Six months down the line. So he's gone

back to his job in the Carphone Warehouse. Did you do this film? I'm

in it! Goes back to Carphone Warehouse and then this happens.

It's out on the 25th October. Roll the clip there.

Our little shop's had the highest sales in all of Wales. The highest

sales in all of Wales. Amazing. In the six months since I got back from

my surgery in which times I've kept the shop open 10-6 and I put the ad

in the paper and online. I'm trying to tell you you are getting a raise

as well. Am I? A couple of quid an hour. The highest sales in all of

Wales. Oh, my God. Oh, my God I can sing. I

can sing. You can sing. The highest hills in all of Wales.

The highest sales in all of Wales. I can sing. Mrs Evans, I can sing.

Jolly good. Tell your mam I'll see her at bingo. Will do. All of Wales.

Jules, I can sing. What? I can sing. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very quickly, Britain's Got Talent, big show on TV, huge all over the

world, but talent shows, The Beatles used to enter them? Yes. Did you

ever win one? No. Serious Loye? We didn't. There was

one in Liverpool. The first one we ever entered, there was this woman

who could play the spoons. It was an old lady. She always beat us.

LAUGHTER She was bloody good though, you

know. She's still around. Guess what els is exciting. That.

It's my Thorhamer, yes. -- ThorHammer. Stop now. It went off

in my hand. What? !

Please welcome, Chris Hemsworth. We are about to meet the stars of Thor,

The Dark World, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Natalie

Portman and Chris Hemsworth. Hello. Hi.

Hello. Come in, sit down. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Sit yourselves down. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

It's good tonight, right, it's good. This is good, this is good.

You, Natalie, you've been in videos, I was going to say in Paul, but that

would be wrong. You've been in Paul's videos? We

worked together, yes, she was very lovely.

He was my director too in one of them.

Chris, that's Paul McCartney, that's cool, right? Pretty awesome, right.

I just keep touching you. There you go.

Are you friends? No, but we were just saying, they are so pretty.

Mutual, mutual. Don't lie.

We were just talking backstage and my daughter recently has started

dancing and I swear to God in the last two weeks, the TV would be on

and all of a sudden she'd break out into a little dance and we are like,

what is she listening to and your song, Roar, is on the TV and you've

kicked off a whole dance career for her. Get 'em while they are young.

Now now she wants a monkey. You are here to tell us about Thor,

The Dark World. Yes. It opens on 30th October and it's the follow-up,

so this is the bit where I go, and then you tell us things about it And

act out a scene. You can do that if you want to. It's a continuation

from all the films that have blended into one another. As far as our

relationship picks up, Thor has some work to do and some patching up of

the relationship where it was left which was basically he exit and

didn't call her, didn't write, didn't Tweet and text, Facebook,

nothing. Men! I know. I like that the Avengers movie happened. Your

character knows what went on in New York. She saw him on TV and that was

further evidence that he was around and didn't think to call.

"Up to my eyes with hammer work, I can't! " It's weird for me because

where we are shooting our film now at Shepperton Studios because there

is a lot of famous people in our film, my room might not be the best

and - it's nice, but, you know - and from Shepperton, did you shoot your

film there because there's a huge bill board of you with a hammer but

from my window I'm very close to it and it's just your crutch. From my

one doe. Every day I sort of open the blind and it's like right there

and I'm like, is that the hammer or... Oh, no.

It's delicious. Now, we are going to see a clip.

This is the two of you, harking back to what you were talking about, her

not being happy. . She's kissed. Where were you? I was right here

where you left me, waiting and then I was crying and then I went out

looking for you. You said you were coming back. I know. There was

chaos, wars with were raging. I had to put an end to the slaughter. As

excuses go, it's not terrible. I saw you on TV, you were in New York.

Jane, I fought to protect you from the dangers of my world, but I was

wrong, I was a fool. I believe that fate brought us together.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE That bit at the end where you are

doing that lovely thing looking into each other's eyes, were you on a box

or something? Thanks! Or were you in a hole? I was mainly

cast because I can make anyone look huge. Extraordinarily short. They

usually had some sort of ramp that I could like walk up and somewhere

near his face. Shall we stand up and show it. I had

very high heels on and I do right now.

That's quite a high ramp! Yes.

A steep incline. Yes. Listen, of course, with great

action heroes come great action figures, ladies and gentlemen.

We have got some here. Have you seen this yet? Not that particular one.

But it's the likeness which is incredible.

It's uncanny isn't it, ladies and gentlemen? !

Slightly sedated version. You press here and you talks. Lightning shall

strike you down. He's angry. There's you and we'll get Natalie's action

figure. They are almost... LAUGHTER

Children will have hours of fun playing with those.

They are going to have a great time. What are you doing with those doll

That's not a hammer. You look a bit distraught.

You are not the only two people to be dolls. No. It's not an action

figure but it is... LAUGHTER

Oh, my God. All the work we did to the face, not so much into the

outfit. . It's him on an off day. Like care in

the community really. We have dressed him. Paull just

pottering around Homebase. And packaging not great. It's in a

zip lock. There's a nice sensible shoe. If you are driving a long

distance, you know. It's soft. Is it a for sale doll? You think we bought

it, didn't we? It's a lady who makes them? It's a sideline of my Auntie

Valerie. We are thrilled you are here with us

and very excited because you are going to perform live for us. So,

Paul, if you would like to go and join your band.

I would. There he goes. ?

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE So, in a moment, we'll have some

more stories from the famous red chair, but first, performing New,

it's Paul McCartney! # Don't look at me

# It's way too soon to see # What's gonna be

# Don't look at me # All my life

# I never knew # What I could be

# What I could do # Then we were new

# You came along # And made my life a song

# One lucky day # You came along

# Just in time # Well I was searching for a rock

# You came along # Then we were new

# We can do what we want # We can live as we choose

# You can see there's no guarantee # We got nothing to lose

# Don't # Don't look at me

# I can't deny the truth # It's plain to see

# Don't look at me # All my life

# I never ew # What I could be

# What I could do # Then we were new

# # We can do qha we want

# We can live as we choose # You see there's no guarantee

# We got nothing to lose # Don't look at me

# It's way too soon # To see

# Don't look at me # All my life

# I never knew what I could be # What I could do

# Then we were new Ooh-ooh

# Then we were new # We were new

# Ooh-ooh...

# CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you. Paul McCartney, everybody!

Come back and join us. How cool is that? Paul McCartney,

live. You can downin with the red chair

bit at the end there. There you go. You sit in there.

That did sound different. We have had lots of live bands in, but that

was like a wall of sound. Sounded brilliant. Just fantastic. Oh, good,

thank you. It's good.

Hey, tonight, just time for a story in the red chair. Who there?

Hello, Sir? Hello, I'm Robert: . I'm tempted to do it immediately. Be of-

Of all the clothing choices to wear, when you are going to be flipped

backwards. This has got to be the worst!

This story better be good. Robert, are you Scottish?

I'm from Glasgow. Do you live down here? I've lived here for 42 years.

Still haven't got new clothes. OK. What do you do down here, Robert?

I'm a musician. Like traditional? No, no. What sort of music? '70s,

60s, bits of The Beatles. Are we more more offing into a

story? It begins in Germany -- morphing into a story. I'm coming

home from the pub, slightly enekeryiated, I decided I needed a

wee. I stopped, started to have a wee, then found out that they've got

electric fencing in Germany. And it threw me back two metres.

To land on my bottom. I weed down my leg so it was a very uncomfortable

walk home and it made me completely sober.sober.

- We have to flip him though. We have to flip you. We have to flip

you. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I've done that, it's really sore. Have you ever done that? No, but if

I ever get drunk enough and I want to sober up, I'm going to. Have you

done it? No. Is it just me and Robert? I think it's pretty much

just you two. At school it used to be a thing. What school did you go

to where they had electric fences? It's quite a rough area, James.

APPLAUSE If you would like to join us on the

show or have a go on the red chair, you can, contact us on the website.

Thank you to all my guests tonight, what a line-up. Please thank James

Corden. Katy Perry.

Natalie Portman. Chris Hemsworth.

And, Sir Paul McCartney. Wow.

Downme next week with Hollywood actors Michelle Pfeiffer, Jennifer

Saunders, Robert de Niro and the one and only Cher. Good night.