beatlz
Apr 10, 2003, 04:03 PM
Macca is Manc-nificent Apr 10 2003
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0800beatles/0050news/page.cfm?objectid=12832692&method=full&siteid=50061
by Peter Grant, Liverpool Echo
MACCA-nificent.
The sell-out audience at Manchester MEN Arena gave Sir Paul McCartney a standing ovation after last night's stunning three-hour show.
Fully recovered after cancelling a show in Sheffield due to a throat infection, Paul told the ECHO before the show: "I feel fine. I have had to change the set a bit but I'm up for it.
"I'm looking forward to playing and I sure am looking ahead to going down the road and playing Liverpool."
The show opened with a dance and mime piece of theatre reminiscent of the famous Venice carnivals before Paul and his four-piece band took to the stage to a backdrop of Beatle footage and multi-coloured lighting.
He sang more than 20 Beatle numbers, some, he stressed, for the first time on the tour, including Things We said Today and I've Just Seen A Face.
He covered his 40-year-career of Fab Four hits, Wings classics and his own vast back-catalogue of solo material as he stood in a red T-shirt and trademark trainers giving numerous thumbs up.
Eleanor Rigby, Here There and Everywhere and She's Leaving Home were just a few of the Beatle numbers performed to perfection as he stood in a red t-shirt and trademark trainers giving numerous thumbs ups.
He dedicated Here Today to his pal John and sang a moving tribute to George on the ukelele with the ballad Something.
Paul told anecdotes about life on the road as the hits kept on coming: Let 'Em In, Band On The Run, Live and Let Die - complete with explosions. He also dedicated My Love to Linda.
He sang a song from his Driving Rain album especially for his wife Heather who was cheering her husband on from the front rows.
But it was the Beatle songs that received the loudest applause including Hey Jude,(voted the favourite Beatles song in a poll this week), I Saw Her Standing There, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and We Can Work it Out.
He returned for an encore carrying a Union flag and sporting a land mines T-shirt.
Yesterday and a medley from Abbey Road sealed another successful show on this Back to the World Tour.
Paula Sweetman, 18, from Allerton, said: "I was too young to see him last time. So it's unforgettable for me - a Beatle singing so many Beatle songs.
"I have tickets for Earls Court next week and I'll be there when he plays his home town - it will be extra special and emotional."
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0800beatles/0050news/page.cfm?objectid=12832692&method=full&siteid=50061
by Peter Grant, Liverpool Echo
MACCA-nificent.
The sell-out audience at Manchester MEN Arena gave Sir Paul McCartney a standing ovation after last night's stunning three-hour show.
Fully recovered after cancelling a show in Sheffield due to a throat infection, Paul told the ECHO before the show: "I feel fine. I have had to change the set a bit but I'm up for it.
"I'm looking forward to playing and I sure am looking ahead to going down the road and playing Liverpool."
The show opened with a dance and mime piece of theatre reminiscent of the famous Venice carnivals before Paul and his four-piece band took to the stage to a backdrop of Beatle footage and multi-coloured lighting.
He sang more than 20 Beatle numbers, some, he stressed, for the first time on the tour, including Things We said Today and I've Just Seen A Face.
He covered his 40-year-career of Fab Four hits, Wings classics and his own vast back-catalogue of solo material as he stood in a red T-shirt and trademark trainers giving numerous thumbs up.
Eleanor Rigby, Here There and Everywhere and She's Leaving Home were just a few of the Beatle numbers performed to perfection as he stood in a red t-shirt and trademark trainers giving numerous thumbs ups.
He dedicated Here Today to his pal John and sang a moving tribute to George on the ukelele with the ballad Something.
Paul told anecdotes about life on the road as the hits kept on coming: Let 'Em In, Band On The Run, Live and Let Die - complete with explosions. He also dedicated My Love to Linda.
He sang a song from his Driving Rain album especially for his wife Heather who was cheering her husband on from the front rows.
But it was the Beatle songs that received the loudest applause including Hey Jude,(voted the favourite Beatles song in a poll this week), I Saw Her Standing There, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and We Can Work it Out.
He returned for an encore carrying a Union flag and sporting a land mines T-shirt.
Yesterday and a medley from Abbey Road sealed another successful show on this Back to the World Tour.
Paula Sweetman, 18, from Allerton, said: "I was too young to see him last time. So it's unforgettable for me - a Beatle singing so many Beatle songs.
"I have tickets for Earls Court next week and I'll be there when he plays his home town - it will be extra special and emotional."