Paul McCartney certainly hit it out of the park in Fenway. The 67 year old McCartney treated the Boston crowd to over 30 songs from the Beatles, Wings, his solo career and even his latest project called the Fireman.

McCartney’s Buddha-like drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. told the Boston Globe that Sir Paul somehow manages to play as if he were still that teenager with the mop top haircut back in Liverpool. McCartney’s Drummer adds that Sir Paul does not need to tour but he is playing live because he wants to. According to Laboriel, Paul loves to tour and it keeps him young, every time he sits down he’s reborn, he’s like a seventeen year old who is thrilled to be there in the moment.

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A few songs into the Fenway Park set McCartney removed his Beatle-ish jacket to reveal Larry-King-ish red suspenders. Later in the show he joked about having a weak heart and not being able to continue with the stadium-shaking Live and Let Die firework explosions. All kidding aside the ex-Beatle still goes out on tour with the enthusiasm of a much younger man. Few aging rock stars show this much freshness in their performances. McCartney obviously loves his chosen profession.

In addition to “Live and Let Die”, McCartney rocked out his Les Paul to the Wings classic “Let Me Roll It”. He ended the hard rocker with a bit of Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady”. After the song Paul retold the story of how the Sgt. Pepper album had come out on a Friday and by Sunday he had seen Hendrix play in a club. Hendrix surprised the Beatle with his own Hendrix rendition of the Sgt. Pepper Reprise.

The Paul McCartney Fenway Park show also had quieter moments when the band left McCartney to do his solo acoustic guitar finger picking. McCartney introduced the White Album classic “Blackbird” as a tribute he had written in the sixties to the American Civil Rights Movement. He also performed the touching “Here Today” which he described as an imaginary conversation with his late friend John Lennon. George Harrison also had his moment when McCartney performed George’s “Something” on a Ukelele that the late Beatle had given Paul. I guess Ringo will have to wait until he passes for McCartney to dedicate a song to him in concert. :-)

- Beatles Geek Pete
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