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Paul McCartney rocks Sydney with three-hour set packed with Beatles classics and more
ROCK icon Paul McCartney has wowed Sydney with a three-hour show packed with Beatles classics, and a few new tunes, leaving fans in an absolute frenzy.
Kathy McCabe
DECEMBER 12, 2017
LOVE, three chords and the truth are all you need when in the presence of the rock greatness of Paul McCartney.
After winning hundreds of thousands of hearts and minds as his One on One tour wound around the country, he finally arrived in Sydney for his two final Australian concerts at Qudos Bank Arena.
It was impossible not to marvel that after a very long 23-year wait for the Maccalytes, that here he was, a Beatle for crying out loud.
Paul McCartney had fans in raptures. Picture: David Swift.Source:News Limited
This was the man who managed to transcend the weight of that legend to maintain a profound influence on pop culture for five decades, with Wings, his vast solo work and who most recently shared chart glory with Kanye and Rihanna and the Foo Fighters.
McCartney traversed all those chapters in a show which stretched to almost three hours with plenty to sing about love, that perennial pop song obsession.
There was his great romantic loves. My Valentine was inspired by and dedicated to his wife Nancy in the audience.
And a couple of songs later, Maybe I’m Amazed which he wrote for his late wife Linda got a false start of wrong notes and words before this rock god decided to embrace his fallibility and declare it a trainwreck.
Paul McCartney brought the hits in Sydney. Picture: David Swift.Source:News Corp Australia
Paul McCartney rocked Sydney. Picture: David Swift.Source:News Corp Australia
“I could consider it was a rewrite but I’m going to start again,” he said to huge cheers.
Can’t Buy Me Love, Love Me Do, All My Loving, And I Love Her underscored the theme.
The enduring beauty of Something, for George Harrison, and Yesterday, the poignancy of Hey Jude and Eleanor Rigby and rock’n’roll grandeur of Live And Let Die and Back In The USSR, he was superb whether plucking heart strings or rocking out.
Blackbird was a sublime moment, just McCartney on acoustic guitar, deftly plucked its distinctive melody as the sold out crowd of 15,000 DisciPauls sang along to this song of solidarity.
And the epic majesty of A Day In The Life, mashed up with Give Peace A Chance, followed soon after by the three songs in one Band On The Run served as a reminder of the ambition of his songwriting and musical vision through the Beatles and beyond.
Paul McCartney in Sydney. Picture: David Swift.Source:News Corp Australia
The show wasn’t just one classic song after another.
The perennial performer knows the value of a great story and he has a lifetime of them. The time Jimi Hendrix played Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band to open his own show just two nights after the album came out.
The story behind In Spite Of All The Danger, the first song they recorded as the Quarrymen.
The musical conversation of Here Today, written for his mate John Lennon after his death.
Or singing Strangers In The Night to dolphins frolicking with McCartney and his family in Perth.
Often watching the crowd was almost as hypnotic as witnessing McCartney sing and play with effortless agility and unmistakeable joy.
Paul McCartney’s set was packed with Beatles songs. Picture: David Swift.Source:News Limited
Although it was tough to summon the love for Mull of Kintyre, even with a local piper band joining McCartney on stage during the encore.
From nine-year-old Harry, who got a birthday shout out from the Beatle legend, to those well into their 70s and 80s, there were beaming faces, bemused faces (during the Kanye and Rihanna number) and others stretched by the effort of singing along at the top of their lungs.
There are many fans who would have seen the 75-year-old rock great on this long-awaited tour thinking it might be his last here.
Let’s hope he takes Bruce Springsteen’s lead and books another run next year.
In the meantime, try to get a ticket for the final Sydney show tonight. It is the show of a lifetime.
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