Sir Paul McCartney plays a surprise concert in a small place in New York – Irvine Times

His previous show in the area was held at the Metlife Stadium with a capacity of 82,500. The surprising appearance on Tuesday in the Bowry Ball Hall was the highest ahead of 575.

It was probably less than that, since McCartney’s sound board and equipment – too much to fit behind the scenes – occupied part of the floor space in the city center.

McCartney announced the show just hours before going on stage, sending New Yorkers to sprint on Delanci Street for a chance to hit one of the few tickets at Bowry. Most present, including McCartney himself, could hardly believe it was happening.

“So here,” said McCartney, grinning. – Some small concert. New York. Why not? “

Later, he added before he started, let me hug him, “I can’t believe we’re here, we’re doing it. But we are here, we do this. “

The Beatles known at the top of the roof of the Apple Corps headquarters in 3 Savile Row in London in 1969.

In 2009, McCartney returned to the Ed Sullivan theater, a site of the Beatles’ renowned US debut and appeared on Marquee. In 2018, he jumped into the Grand Central Terminal to promote the release of his album Egyptian station.

McCartney, 82 -year -old, this time chose an intimate, indoor show. Tickets are sold only physically in place, one per person and all were clicked within about 30 minutes.

69 -year -old Amy Jaff was home at about 30 blocks north when he saw the Instagram message.

“I thought: I can do this,” she said before the show. “I put on jeans, caught a coat called Lyft.”

She saw McCartney many times before, including with the Beatles in 1964, but she was still distrustful, smiling and shaking her head, “I don’t really believe it.”

The 31 -year -old Filo Sokoloff was about to work nearby when he saw the news. He rushed and told his colleague Matt Fuller and they rushed to Bauri’s ballroom.

“We were just lucky,” he said. “I always study for these things on the day after.”

McCartney took the stage at about 6:30 pm with his regular group, along with a three -member horn section. They were rehearsed only once, the previous day, McCartney said. Someone called out, “You don’t have to rehearse!”

If the location was undressed, the former Beatt did not come with a minimized show, packing a bubble tour throughout its catalog, from “Beatles Classics” to Wings hits. He started with a hard night during the day and also introduced herself to get you into my life, maybe I’m amazed, Lady Madonna, Jet, returned, O-la-di, ob-la, let’s be Judh.

Blackbird was an independent acoustic guitar number, and then McCartney thought about how he wrote it about the civil rights movement, a memory that returned his first trips to the United States.

“We were just kids,” McCartney said. “I have grandchildren older than now.”

In the early days, he said, he and John Lennon always write about the audience, and the songs were to reach the fact that I wanted to hold you a hand from me to you.

“In fact, it had everything to do with fans,” he said.

Before playing the Wings Mrs song. Vanderbilt, McCartney talks about playing her in front of 350,000 people in Kiev when Ukraine was lush with new freedom.

“Let’s hope he comes back to it soon,” he said.

McCartney also performed the so-called Last Beatles song, occasionally, a ballad written by Lennon in the late 1970s, but released only in 2023 with the help of some of the technology used in Peter Jackson’s documentary, Beatles: Get Back. The song was made by McCartney Wistful for his songwriting partner, whom he noted loved New York.

“Let’s hear it about John,” he said.

McCartney, who was spotted on Sunday at Super Bowl in New Orleans, talking to Adam Sandler, was in New York for the coming Saturday night live live. He should be a guest on the television special stars on Sunday.

So far, however, this was an event for only one night. A member of the crowd asked McCartney if he could go all night.

“Some of us have to sleep, you know,” he replied.

McCartney is still back, bouncing on the encore for the encore. He closed with the shaking path of the abbey sent from carrying this weight and end.