The former Beatle was not content to let it be, mixing new songs with the classics at an emotionally charged show at Allianz Stadium.
This was one of those shows where seemingly everybody, including many in multi-generation family groups, were walking around beaming before it even began.
A Beatle in ’23? How lucky were we that 81-year-old Sir Paul McCartney, recipient of eight-figure annual royalty cheques, was still prepared to travel across the world and share his era-defining songs with us?From the moment the Liverpudlian shouldered his Höfner bass and counted his rhythm section in to the first downstroke of, grinning himself as 45,000 people went ape, the pure joy McCartney gets from music-making was obvious.
For this was no mere nostalgia-fest. Yes, sentimentality played its part - the songs of the Beatles, and to a lesser extent those of McCartney’s next group Wings, are so ingrained in our lives that the emotional energy in this stadium was palpable.But McCartney remains a vital, seeking musician who was determined to play us stuff from this century. Even if, as he told us, the “galaxy” of smartphone cameras that greeted every Beatles hit became a “black hole” when he did so.
Yet age has also brought a grain to that choirboy tone of the Beatles era. It added layers of feeling to the ever-prescient civil rights pleawritten in the aftermath of bandmate John Lennon’s murder and tonight tenderly marinated in four decades of reflection and ongoing grief, stunned the stadium into silence., conducted with schoolboy enthusiasm by the man who wrote and recorded it, was truly a bucket list moment. Come back again, Paul.writes on entrepreneurship and the arts.
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