It's Christmas before time for a resident of Rully in Saône-et-Loire. Frédéric Mommée, a recently retired schoolteacher, is living a daydream: this Thursday evening, December 5, he will be in the front row of Paul McCartney's concert, the second Parisian concert of the ex-Beatles, at the Défense Arena. In front of him, in the front row, will be Frédéric, 64 years old and a fan since he was 10 years old. He has already seen his idol half a dozen times in concert, but this time, his family and loved ones decided to offer him a place in the VIP room. Frédéric therefore took the train to Chagny Wednesday December 4, to go to Paris, with his wife Véronique.
He will have the privilege of entering in the room two hours before everyone elseto attend rehearsals. On the station platform, his heart beats much faster. “I’m getting more and more feverish, I slept very little last night” confides Frédéric before boarding his train. “I'm going to see someone who means a lot to me. So I'm in a state of bliss, and there's even a little tension. It's the great privilege of the place that I was offered because we have this closeness with the artist so there is the T-shirt from the previous tour, there are the badges and we will find ourselves between diehards, but that also has a very nice side. we always have lots of anecdotes to exchange And then our God arrives on stage, and there we are in ecstasy..
“It’s a real, beautiful fairy tale”
Frédéric Mommée assures that he never made fun of “groupie side that teenagers can have”. “Because I’m still here!” he admits with a burst of laughter. Frédéric is ready in any case to experience a unique moment, with an artist he has admired for over 50 years. “McCartney, I discovered him at ten years old with the Beatles and since then, everything he has done has fascinated me. There is nothing that has disappointed me and he has always surprised me, is precisely one of his strengths. He could have stopped at the end of the Beatles. He wanted to continue because he needed to create. He is 82 years old, he is still happy to be here. happy he's here, of course. It's a real, beautiful fairy tale.”.
Olivier Estran
This concert a few meters from his idol, it's a dream come true. “It was unthinkable for me. When I was taken aback by McCartney's personality, I never imagined I could one day be so close to him. Even if I don't know how close I could get to him.”. A unique moment, a three-hour concert, during which McCartney covers legendary pieces by the Beatles and Wings. A concert all the more unique for Frédéric as we don't know if there will be others in France one day.
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