During his previous international tour, Paul McCartney filled the Paris La Défense Arena, close to the Hauts-de-Seine business district, on November 28, 2018. Back on tour from the end of April 2022, this time there are two nights, Wednesday, December 4 and Thursday, December 5, which were sold out in this space, the largest performance and sports event hall in Europe (40,000 capacity). A sign of the continued great popularity of the British bassist, singer, pianist, guitarist and songwriter with an audience on this first night of mainly people in their fifties and sixties, or even older, with a number of teenagers and young. adults.
Standing ovation for McCartney, who begins with an energetic I can’t buy loveby the Beatles. In the program, almost forty titles in more than two and a half hours. Not bad at 82 for someone whose career began in the summer of 1957 with The Quarrymen, a group fronted by future Beatles John Lennon (1940-1980). During an acoustic part, McCartney looks back at his first steps in the game Despite all the dangerco-written with the other future Beatles George Harrison (1943-2001)in 1958, who had just joined The Quarrymen.
In French, McCartney announces, after Junior’s farm, Letting Goboth composed for his post-Beatles group Wings, active from 1971 to 1981, and I drive my car (Beatles), that there will be “old songs, new songs and something in between”. No surprise, The Beatles dominate (around twenty), Wings deserves a mention, especially with five outtakes from the album Band on the Run (1973). McCartney’s solo career is evoked by five interpretations, of which we will remember the most Maybe I’m amazedfrom his first album under his own name in 1970. It’s been that way for years, and McCartney knows his audience doesn’t expect anything else.
Original tones
With McCartney, an unchanged group for more than twenty years. On keyboards, Paul “Wix” Wickens, on electric and acoustic guitars Rusty Anderson and Brian Ray, the latter on bass when McCartney takes to guitar or piano, and on drums Abe Laboriel Jr, whose heavy playing is far from inventive his. Beatles Ringo Starr or the subtleties of Denny Seiwell, the first drummer of Wings. Everyone is in chorus. A brass trio (trumpet, trombone and sax), the Hot City Horns, is there several times.
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