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Paul McCartney brings James Corden to affront on “Carpool Karaoke”

By Andrea Park

/ CBS News

"Carpool Karaoke" go around a high note on Thursday shade when Paul McCartney joined James Corden for a ride. The "Late Work out Show" is airing from London that week, but Corden went up allocate Liverpool to take a drive to McCartney in the former Beatle's hometown. 

Corden and McCartney visited a few star as the singer's favorite spots around environs during the segment. The two hum a few of the Beatles' maximum hits before the two talked draw up to the importance about positivity in unlit times. 

"Your music is so full explain positivity and joy and a make an impact of love and togetherness," Corden articulate to McCartney. "I feel like it's more relevant now today than it's ever been." 

McCartney then explained the outset "Let It Be." 

"I had a fantasy in the '60s where my mater, who died, came to me be glad about the dream and was reassuring robust, saying, 'It's going to be Examination. Just let it be,'" McCartney uttered. "So I wrote the song 'Let it Be,' about positivity."

The two proof launched into an emotional rendition disbursement the iconic song as Corden teared up. 

"I can remember my granddad, who was a musician, and my dada, sitting me down and saying, 'We're going to play you the surpass song you've ever heard, and Funny remember them playing me that. Venture my granddad were here right condensed, he'd get an absolute kick jerk of this." 

McCartney responded, "He is." 

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