Paul McCartney reportedly performed the Beatles classic “I Want to Hold Your Hand” live for the first time since 1964 at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Madison Square Garden wedding reception.
McCartney, like Stevie Nicks, was among the A-list performers at the couple’s wedding, and People reports that McCartney used the special occasion to play a song he hadn’t performed live since the Beatles’ early days, and a hit he never touched live as a solo artist.
“After the ceremony, Taylor’s mom Andrea invited everyone into the reception room where the stage was set up,” a source told People.
According to setlist.fm, the last time McCartney performed “I Want to Hold Your Hand” live was on September 20, 1964 at the Beatles’ concert at New York’s Paramount Theatre. The track remained unplayed by him for 62 years, until the Swift wedding.
McCartney and Swift, who appeared together on the cover of Rolling Stone’s Musicians on Musicians issue in 2020, have long praised each other’s work, with McCartney saying the weeks leading up to the wedding that Swift’s fame rivals that of the Beatles’.
“You do see the parallel, you know the fame and the amount of fame,” McCartney told the BBC. “The worldwide fame that Taylor Swift has and that we had, but I don’t think she needs any advice to tell you the truth.”
Swift also called McCartney an “eternally exceptional artist” on social media upon the release of his new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane.
This story was originally published on rollingstone.com.
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Paul McCartney reportedly performed the Beatles classic “I Want to Hold Your Hand” at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Madison Square Garden wedding reception. According to People, it was a song he hadn’t played live since the Beatles’ early days and had never performed as a solo artist.
According to setlist.fm, McCartney last performed “I Want to Hold Your Hand” live on September 20, 1964, at the Beatles’ concert at New York’s Paramount Theatre. That means the song went unplayed by him for 62 years before the Swift wedding reception.
Paul McCartney was among the A-list performers at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding, alongside Stevie Nicks. Per a source cited by People, guests were invited into a reception room with a stage set up, where the star-studded performances took place after the ceremony.
Yes. Paul McCartney and Taylor Swift have long praised each other and appeared together on the cover of Rolling Stone’s Musicians on Musicians issue in 2020. McCartney has compared Swift’s worldwide fame to the Beatles’, while Swift has called him an “eternally exceptional artist.”
The performance was notable because “I Want to Hold Your Hand” was one of the Beatles’ signature early hits, and McCartney had not played it live in 62 years. Performing it as a solo artist for the first time made the Swift wedding a rare musical moment.
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