More than seven years after Paul McCartney last performed here, Montreal is getting ready for another round of lung-shredding singalongs, tearful embraces and life-affirming memories.
Local news reports have said that McCartney’s crew will start arriving in Quebec on Sept 5th and that the boss himself should be there a few days later. Officials at the Videotron Centre, the arena where the concert will take place, confirmed that the arena has been booked from Sept 5 to Sept 17 but declined to give further details.
Not to deny the fun of Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band shows, but Sir Paul provides the last true emotional connection to a cultural and social phenomenon few seem inclined to let go of — including music lovers who were born long after the Beatles officially broke up in 1970.
Paul McCartney achieves his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart in over 36 years, as his new studio effort, Egypt Station, bows atop the list.
The new Sept. 22-dated chart, where Egypt Station debuts at No. 1, will be posted in full on Billboard‘s websites on Tuesday, Sept. 18.(Source Billboard By Keith Caulfield)
Paul McCartney achieves his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart in over 36 years, as his new studio effort, Egypt Station, bows atop the list.
Below Paul’s reaction in an interview appeared on Billboard. To read the full interview click here
“With James Corden, at first I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do it, to tell you the truth,” Paul tells Billboard.
” Then when I eventually agreed to do it and got into it, and then James’ ideas started to come out, like, ‘OK, we’ll do it in Liverpool and we’ll do this…’ I started to think, particularly when I got in the car with him, ‘You know, this is fun!’
“I love driving around Liverpool. I love showing off my hometown and saying, ‘Oh, you know, that’s where we did our first gig, and that’s where my brother got married…’ I love that. I do that with people even when we’re not on a show.”
Paul also performed intimate ‘secret’ gigs at Abbey Road in London, the Cavern Club in Liverpool, and Grand Union Station in New York to promote his new album, which became his first U.S. number one since Tug of War in 1982 on Sunday (16Sep18).
“I said to my guys, ‘I wanna just do a little gig somewhere before we go out on the big tour. Let’s do a few little gigs’,” he recalls. “So we started thinking, ‘Well, where would we want to go, ideally…?’ instead of just saying, ‘Oh, we’ll go anywhere, it doesn’t matter, they’re all the same’.on
“(We said), ‘Let’s go to Abbey Road, that’ll be fun’, ’cause I’ll be able to tell stories about having a smoke in the backroom there, you know, and all the little kind of tales you can tell…
And then we went to the Cavern in Liverpool. That particular time was quite nostalgic for me. I was going to all these places I loved, playing little gigs, and oh, incidentally, they were promotion.”
