Macca in Quebec 400e

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Quebec
The voice is perhaps what it was, but the charm of "Melody Maker" is intact. Yesterday evening, on the Plains of Abraham, Paul McCartney gave a performance which Quebec will remember for a long time.
Paul McCartney (89%) Shortly after 21:30, the lower front of his four musicians, the ex-Beatles began with Jet, not the easiest to sing, then he gave instructions to the sound stage. By showing his voice. Then he launched, all smiles: "Good Quebecers! Good whole gang! "Paul McCartney had done his homework politico-linguistic, he could devote himself to what he does best: music. Drive my Car, Only Mama Knows ...
After adding: "I parlay only a little french. So I will be speaking in English. "And the crowd laughed and applauded. It was party for two and a half hours ... Spectacle living in a "living legend" of 66 years who was swimming after three songs, living, yes - Drive my Car, Good Day, Sunshine, Let me Roll it - where the dead have been raised without cumbersome: My Love, "Dedicated to Linda, his first wife died in 1998; Something, started the ukulele given to him by George Harrison," a wonderful boy, died in 2002. Then A Day in a Life and Give Peace a Chance, dedicated, "he said in french" my friend John, "Lennon murdered in New York in 1980. And that was no longer his friend at this moment ... The appropriations tubes Beatles read Lennon-but Sir Paul McCartney has reversed a few years ago ...
Well ... Paul McCartney could align hits for three days and it would not tip his repertoire: The Long and Winding Road, Black Bird, Michelle - "It is for you," said "Macca", which seemed much s' fun with the fact french. " Penny Lane, Band on the Run, Back in the USSR which we recalled that he had sung in Kiev last month ... Let it Be, Hey Jude and Lady Madonna burst: who can accoter that?
"This song is for a lady who was 400 years. Happy birthday! "And he sang Birthday: We're Gonna Have a Good Time. For the summer party, Quebec is already champion; imagine with a show of this magnitude ... With fireworks for Live and Let Die. Quebec has shone yesterday evening. "Your lights are my energy," said Sir Paul.
The musical evening began with the Montreal rock quintet The Stills, a group under the influence of Arcade Fire, which also has a certain reputation outside Quebec. Belle energy but when it "opens" for Paul McCartney ... The crowd Quebec has been polite if not warm, which applauded when the leader - in the air time - stressed that "for the 400th anniversary of founding of Quebec City, was found very important to sing a song in french ". "Thank you. We will spend a beautiful evening. It is the Stills! "
In the middle of the main parterre, someone agitait a Union Jack. To welcome "Paul" or perhaps a provocation or because he knew tolerance - and humor - of Quebecers. The only "response" came from a small Fleurdelisé format on the left. There was no battle flags yesterday on the Plains ...
Pascale Picard, a daughter of Quebec who also sings in English, was fine with his Pascale Picard Band whose Me, Myself & Us strong march here and in France. "It plays on Sunday and before Paul McCartney. I do not know what to say ... "So Pascale Mathieu Cantin sang and played guitar, and well, for 45 minutes while the sun was descending over the blackened ruins of the armoury of the Grande-Allée. Montreal and Quebec have in common is that they watch the sun go to bed north ...
He had disappeared when Paul McCartney arrived on scene. As far as the facilitator of CFOM described as "the greatest show presented on the Plains of Abraham since Wolfe and Montcalm ..."
Yesterday, there were more people - 200 000 persons perhaps - and all have returned home after the ... How many have realized their dream of seeing the sole survivor "artistic" Beatles, a group that has marked the youth of 40 years ago past? Not to mention the folk music of generations ... Yesterday evening on the Plains of Abraham, a knight British conquered Quebec without sing Gens du pays.
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