NARRATIVE – On December 4 and 5, the former Beatle will perform at Paris La Défense Arena. But first, McCartney comments on the genesis of his songs in a new edition of a book, and a documentary by Martin Scorsese goes behind the scenes of the group's first American campaign.
It is a short sentence caught on the fly, in the collective hysteria triggered by the Beatles' first visit to New York in the winter of 1964. Captured by the camera of a television crew who came to witness the power of what we will call the British invasion, Paul McCartney, 21, brushes aside the journalist's question in front of him with a scathing response. « From culture, we ? What a good joke ! » The young man, embarked on an extraordinary adventure, does not display false modesty. It is far from imagining that he will become an institution, this Sir Paul McCartney whom we come to applaud with the family as we visit a historical monument.
The most decorated man in the history of popular music, just after Bob Dylan, returns to play in Paris on December 4 and 5, at Paris La Défense Arena. This is the second time that he has taken over this enormous facility in western Paris, six years after an acclaimed performance, and…
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