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Playful as the first day, Paul McCartney has revisited 60 years of history of pop music which he wrote among the most beautiful pages with the Beatles, during a concert started on a senator's train but finished in beauty on Wednesday.
In October 2017, La Défense Arena in Nanterre was spectacularly inaugurated by three Rolling Stones concerts. In June, Roger Waters revived the magic of Pink Floyd. This time, it was Macca's turn to complete this legendary hunt, on the occasion of his "Freshen Up Tour" following the release of his excellent last album "Egypt Station".
And, coquetry of chance, while Mick Jagger saw other "lads" (guys) of Liverpool being beaten by the Paris SG (2-1) in the Champions League at Parc des Princes, the former Beatles launched his show with "A Hard Day's Night".
Prophetic for the Reds, but not for the public, certainly cottony in this starts a little plan-plan, but so happy to finally see or see again his idol, who, despite his 76 years, seems to have aged less than his fans and remains the most humble of stars, like his entry into scene without firefighter effect, just followed by a beam of light.
Soberly dressed in a black denim jacket, on a gray shirt, McCartney chained a little too mechanically his titles in his first half-hour, even if "Letting Go", one of the seven occasions of the Wings on the menu, has soul hints welcome with a copper section that makes its appearance.
"Who Cares" and "Come on to me" follow shortly and we say that other pieces of "Egypt Station" would have deserved to be defended, but the problem with Paul McCartney is the shovel of timeless hits and expected that he has to deliver.
This does not prevent him from surprising with an electric version of "Let me Roll it", another title of the Wings (his second group after the Beatles) that he plays with an immoderate pleasure as if he found himself post- teenager to make his first oxen in the pubs of Liverpool.
– Suspended instant –
McCartney, who has already dropped the jacket, then goes to the piano for a handful of more refined pieces where the emotion is exposed. He dedicates "My Valentine" to his third wife Nancy, continues with "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five", another pearl of the Wings, and marvels with "Maybe I'm Amazed" written for his first wife Linda.
After that, Macca goes back 60 years to "Despite of All Danger", the very first song recorded in 1958 with John Lennon, in the Quarrymen.
A clever way to go back in time with the Beatles hits: "From Me to You", "Michelle", "Love Me Do", the first published by the Beatles on October 5, 1962, not forgetting "Blackbird" that its creator interpreter perched on a stage elevation. Suspended moment if any.
The magic works even more on "Eleanor Rigby", a masterpiece from the album "Revolver" and "Something", started on the ukulele and finished on the dry guitar. Whatever the rope, she is ultra-sensitive for this "homage to the brother" (in French in the text) George Harrison.
If a kermesse atmosphere accompanies "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", it has the merit of waking up again the 40,000 spectators, then carried away by the hits "Back in the USSR", "Let It Be" and an explosive and pyrotechnic "Live and Let Die". More James Bond ("Live and let die") than "The hour of truth", so.
After "Hey Jude" and his "Nananananana" resumed in chorus, McCartney returns for a reminder in Beatles period blue mode, of which "Helter Skelter" is the great thrill rock before a sublime conclusion with "Golden Slumbers", "Carry that Weight" and "The End", the famous medley looping "Abbey Road". We had worse end …
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