Sir.Paul McCartney wows Kyiv !

Sir Paul McCartney played a free concert on Sunday 15th June in Kyiv, intended to promote unity in Ukraine.

Crowds of this size have not been seen in Kyiv since the Orange Revolution. Some estimates say 300,000 people turned up to watch Sir.Paul in the heavy rain.

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The setting was the magnificent Independence Square in Central Kyiv.
It poured all night with thunder and lightning, but Kyiv and Sir.Paul kept rocking all night.

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This was the first time Sir.Paul or any Beatle has performed in Ukraine.It was organised by the billionaire businessman Victor Pinchuk. The same number again watched live broadcasts of Saturday’s performance on big screens in five cities around the country.

Yes, ‘Back In the USSR’ was performed to a great reception, meant as very tongue in cheek no doubt.

Paul and his band played 33 songs including some of the world’s most popular hits that have become the soundtrack to so many people’s lives. Paul played hits by The Beatles including ‘All My Loving’, ‘The Long And Winding Road’, ‘Good Day Sunshine’ and ‘Hey Jude’. He played Wings hits such as ‘Jet’, ‘My Love’ and ‘Band On The Run’ and solo songs including ‘Flaming Pie’ and his most recent hit single ‘Dance Tonight’. Show highlights included a version of the Wings track ‘Mrs. Vanderbilt’, which fans had petitioned for Paul to play and of course a storming version of ‘Back In The USSR’. The audience spanned generations and sang along with every word, the massive crowd made an overwhelming sound when they joined in with Paul on ‘Hey Jude’ and the elaborate stage featured some of the biggest screens ever used for an outdoor show as well as lasers and fireworks.

After the audience had thought the show was over, Paul returned to the stage waving a Ukrainian flag before ending the night with an emotional performance of ‘Yesterday’ and rocked up ‘Sgt. Peppers’.

Throughout the day Paul spent time meeting locals and fans that had waited over 40 years for their hero to come to this part of the world.

He was given a special performance by a choir of children that perform Beatles songs and presented with a traditional Ukrainian stringed instrument, the kobza, by the Ukrainian Beatles fanclub.

Here ‘Macca’ meets ‘Viktor’ in Kyiv. I think the two big guys got on really well. Paul is pictured with his present from the President, a traditional Ukrainian shirt.

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