{"id":93364,"date":"2025-10-23T13:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/93364\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:54:06","slug":"james-corden-on-how-paul-mccartney-saved-gavin-stacey-final-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/93364\/","title":{"rendered":"James Corden on how Paul McCartney saved ‘Gavin & Stacey’ final scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Corden<\/a> has revealed that a last minute message from Sir Paul McCartney<\/a> helped get a pivotal moment in the final episode of Gavin & Stacey<\/a> get to air.<\/p>\n

In the special, teenager Neil the Baby (Owen Hartland) plays \u2018Blackbird\u2019 by The Beatles<\/a> at the wedding of his father Smithy (Corden). In the new book When Gavin Met Stacey And Everything In Between, the actor recalls the cast being reduced to tears by the performance, only to find out that the royalties for the song would mean it would be too expensive to licence.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn terms of getting permission to use the song, the BBC have a licensing agreement which is great for UK transmissions of music,\u201d he said (via BBC<\/a>). \u201cBut I think The Beatles sit outside of that, which we didn\u2019t know, and it\u2019s so expensive if you want to use one of their songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a last-ditch effort, Corden contacted the song\u2019s writer, McCartney, to ask for his permission to use it. \u201cI wrote just telling him that I felt this was a pivotal moment in the show and that I would never request anything if I thought it was going to be in any way derogatory\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n

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The Beatles legend replied agreeing to clear the song in a way that was affordable for the production. \u201cHe said in his email that he was so touched and honoured, and he would love nothing more than this to happen, and they\u2019d do everything in their power to make sure it could\u201d Corden said. \u201cThen, within 20 hours, it was done, and we had clearance to use the song.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the book, the show\u2019s co-creator Ruth Jones<\/a> (who also played Nessa) said of the moment: \u201c(Hartland\u2019s) voice was so pure, and the guitar playing was just so gorgeous. I almost couldn\u2019t listen to it, it was just too much. I\u2019m delighted with that scene, I think it tells a really gorgeous story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Broadcast on Christmas Day last year, the Gavin & Stacey finale was adored by fans, who declared it \u201cperfection from beginning to end\u201d<\/a>. The show\u2019s initial audience of 19.3million viewers made it the most-watched scripted show across all broadcasters and streamers since records began in 2002.<\/a><\/p>\n

Last month, Corden and Jones revealed they would be writing a new sitcom together for streaming service Apple TV+.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Corden has revealed that a last minute message from Sir Paul McCartney helped get a pivotal moment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-93364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}