Paul McCartney Got Turned Away From a Grammys Party. He Found Another One.

Paul McCartney, Woody Harrelson and Beck could not get into a Grammys party. McCartney remembered the rejected group during his October 2 visit with Jimmy Kimmel, after Kimmel brought out old footage of him at the door. McCartney did not turn the memory into a complaint about the staff or the host. He said they went somewhere else.

“We found another party.”

The exchange arrives near the end of their conversation, at around 12:03 in the official video included here. Kimmel shows the older footage before McCartney recalls who was with him. It is not a report that McCartney was refused entry at a new event this week, and the conversation does not establish the party’s host or the reason the group was turned away.

Even that guest list did not get them through the door

Kimmel introduces the incident as something that happened quite some time ago. After the footage, McCartney names Harrelson and Beck and explains that they thought they would get in. The answer was still no. His follow-up about finding another party gets a laugh without him needing to name or insult the person who made the decision.

The full exchange is more useful than treating the old door footage as a fresh celebrity feud. You can see Kimmel set up the memory, the archival moment and McCartney’s response together. Neither man says that the Grammys themselves rejected him; they are discussing a party associated with the awards, not admission to the ceremony.

There is also no claim that this is how McCartney is usually treated. Kimmel jokes about how unusual the experience must have been for him. McCartney answers by remembering the group and what they did next. The story stays that small: three famous guests, a door they could not get through, and a different place to spend the night.

Larry David would not sing along, either

The party was not the only time someone failed to do what Kimmel expected around McCartney. Earlier, Kimmel recalls seeing him perform an intimate Los Angeles concert in March at the Fonda Theater, which he describes as a 1,200-seat venue. Larry David was there too.

Kimmel says he joined the audience singalong during Hey Jude, while David sat without singing. McCartney had already asked David about it, and his explanation was direct:

“I didn’t want to do it.”

McCartney then jokes that David will never be invited to another show. It is a laugh between the two men, not an announced ban on David buying concert tickets. The funny part is how little explanation David apparently felt he owed anyone. A room full of people could be singing with McCartney, and he could still decide to sit that part out.

Kimmel was nervous about the bathroom

Kimmel’s own story from the concert’s afterparty is more embarrassing for him than for his host. He says he was waiting for a bathroom at McCartney’s house when McCartney’s wife, Nancy, offered the bathroom attached to their bedroom. Kimmel initially wanted to stay in the line rather than go into that private room.

Once he used it, he came out to find McCartney there. Kimmel remembers washing his hands, apologizing and wanting to leave quickly. McCartney instead stayed to chat. When Kimmel asks whether he was hiding from someone at the party, McCartney gives him a much kinder answer:

“No, I like you, Jimmy.”

Kimmel is the one who keeps describing the situation as awkward. McCartney does not suggest that he was an unwanted guest or that Nancy had made a mistake inviting him to use the room. The story ends with Kimmel saying how excited he was to be in McCartney’s bathroom, which is an unusual compliment even for a talk-show guest.

The Ringo duet started with an unused drum recording

Their conversation also explains how a new duet with Ringo Starr happened. McCartney says Starr went to work with producer Andrew Watt after McCartney had left and recorded some drums. Starr expected that session to become a track. When it did not, he was disappointed.

Later, while working with Watt again, McCartney asked whether the drum recording still existed. Watt had kept it, so they brought it back and made the track Starr had hoped for. McCartney also says he pitches ideas to Starr, rather than describing every collaboration as something that automatically happens without a conversation.

Kimmel asks whether they have done a duet before, and McCartney says they have not. That is a statement about this being a first duet, not a claim that the two former Beatles had never worked together since their band days. The interview does not supply a title for the new track, so the recording story is more specific than any guessed song name.

Wings was Kimmel’s introduction to McCartney

Kimmel tells McCartney that Wings, rather than the Beatles, was the music he first fell in love with. He knew the Beatles’ songs, but says he went back later to learn and appreciate them more fully. For him, Wings is not an afterthought to the earlier band.

McCartney recalls making life harder for himself by deciding not to perform Beatles material or write songs that sounded like it. He also jokes about how strange some of his songs from that period were. It gives Kimmel a chance to talk as a fan who discovered the music in his own order, rather than ask for another recap of the Beatles’ career.

An album date—and one wedding performance

The visit promotes The Boys of Dungeon Lane: Special Edition, introduced on the show with an October 7 release date and added tracks, including the Starr duet. That Wednesday release is still upcoming at the time of this conversation.

Near the end, Kimmel also asks about McCartney singing at Taylor Swift’s wedding. McCartney says she asked him to perform and names I Want to Hold Your Hand. He recalls encouraging Swift, who was onstage, to sing along to her partner. He does not give a wedding date, venue or detailed guest list in this exchange.

That is quite a range for one visit: a refused party entrance, a reluctant concert singalong, Kimmel worrying about a bathroom, and a drum recording finally becoming a duet. The official interview lets each story play out in McCartney’s own telling, including the short answer that ends the party rejection: he simply found another one.