Bringing It All Mac Home

Paul McCartney, never one to shy from his glorious past, is bringing it all back home to the Big Apple this week.

Beginning Friday, he is playing the first concerts at the Mets’ Citi Field, nicely echoing the shows The Beatles played at Shea Stadium in 1965 - the first stadium shows ever played by a recording artist.


Tomorrow night, Macca will make his first-ever appearance on Late Show with David Letterman. As you may know, Late Show is filmed on Broadway in the Ed Sullivan Theatre, where the Beatles made their U.S. debut 45½ (!) years ago.


McCartney is the sole guest on Dave's show and will be sitting down for an interview in addition to playing live (on the rooftop perhaps?). Dave is sure to ask Paul for his thoughts on Michael Jackson, his former chum who snagged the rights to the Beatles publishing empire when Macca wasn’t looking and brought an end to their personal and professional relationship.


McCartney is not the first Beatle to appear on Dave’s show. Ringo has been on several times, and more interestingly, so has their original drummer Pete Best, who sat for a fascinating interview on Dave’s NBC show on this day in 1982.

While it is easy to feel bad for Pete Best - who paid his dues with the lads in Liverpool and Hamburg, only to be fired mere weeks before they hit it big - he did receive a seven-figure financial windfall in the 1990s due to the release of early Beatles recordings featuring Best as part of the Beatles Anthology project.
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