Sir Paul Rocks Midtown
- Posted by AGM -
In a city that never sleeps, it takes rock’n’roll royalty to be that cream of the crop of the top of the heap. On Wednesday afternoon, Sir Paul McCartney was just that.
Forty five years after the Beatles invaded the US on the Ed Sullivan Show, McCartney was back at the Ed Sullivan theatre – this time to rock the rooftop. A guest of David Letterman on The Late Show, McCartney performed on top of the Ed Sullivan theatre marquee overlooking Broadway in Midtown Manhattan.
After a two segment interview on set, McCartney was shown climbing the stairs up to the roof. At street level, Letterman introduced the former Beatle and his band who blasted into the Beatles hit “Get Back” and a new song (under his Fireman alias) “Sing the Changes.”
Not to disappoint, McCartney stuck around after Letterman signed off with an encore including “Band on the Run”, “Helter Skelter” and “Back in the USSR” – “a song about a place that doesn’t exist anymore.”
Sir Paul, who is back in NYC to christen the newly opened Citi Field (home of the Mets) with three shows this weekend, gave the Broadway audience quite the performance.
Thousands crowded the corner of Broadway and 53rd street hoping to get a glimpse of the lefty playing his hits. Many a midtowner ran onto rooftops, leaned out of office windows or simply pressed their faces against the glass of their buildings to catch a view.
Around 6 pm, Macca signed off and the city picked up where it left off – businessman back to their buildings, commuters to their trains and tourists back down to Times Square.
Only in New York…
Performance on Letterman
Encore
