The singer will perform at Paris La Défense Arena on December 4 and 5.
The ex-Beatles will present his show “Got Back”, launched in 2022.
The ticket office will open on Friday June 21.
It’s a nice surprise. After six years of absence, Paul McCartney announced that he will be in concert in France on December 4 and 5 at Paris La Défense Arena, where he last played in France in 2018. “Hello beautiful France! It’s Paul here, Paul McCartney, we’re coming to play in France. We had a great time the last time we came, it’s always great in France. So, come on, let’s to party”launched the former Beatles in a video message, as reported by AFP.
In November 2018, Paul McCartney and his group performed in front of 40,000 people at Paris La Défense Arena, the largest closed venue in Europe, where Taylor Swift recently visited. The Liverpool native had promised to return.
The artist, who will celebrate his 82nd birthday this June 18, is performing as part of his “Got Back” world tour. A nod to “Get back”, the original name of the project for which the Beatles entered the studio in London in January 1969. The “Got back” tour was launched in the United States in 2022 then moved to 2023 by Australia, Mexico and Brazil. For this singing tour, Sir Paul and his musicians draw on the repertoire of the Beatles, Wings – another McCartney project – and the solo albums of the ex-Beatles. Tickets go on sale June 21.
A new album
Last Friday, One hand clappingthe Wings album recorded live in 1974 and never exhumed, has finally been published. “Fifty years ago, Wings went to Abbey Road Studios in London to film a documentary and record an eventual live studio album. Packaged in four days, with Wings mega-hits and bits of Wings classics. Beatles reworked, these recordings had never been officially released”revealed Paul McCartney on his Instagram account.
Ultra-fans of Paul McCartney already know this album, pirated versions of which have been circulating. A DVD was released in 2010, as a bonus to the reissue of the Wings album Band on the runbut not with all of the pieces captured. One hand clapping contains 26, 27 even, counting the piano solo medley of “Macca” merging “The long and winding road” and “Lady Madonna”.
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We also hear on this album a surprising and short version of Let it be. There are also Wings standards like “Live and let die”, used for the James Bond theme song. Live and Let Die (1973). When One hand clapping was recorded, Paul McCartney, then aged 32, and his Wings were at the top, for the seventh consecutive week, topping the charts in the United Kingdom with Band on the runalbum recorded partly in Lagos, Nigeria and carried by the title track.
