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Concerts by artists who have already become legends are more than musical moments emotional experiences. No one (or almost no one) in that great wave of audiences watching the stage in astonishment expects how surprised they will be when the lights go out; Rather, he expects an experience: how much the evocation of those songs will influence his feelings. And that’s exactly what starts to happen as soon as the first of the two demonstrates it Paul McCartney scheduled in Buenos Aires for his tour Return tour.
Around 9.20pm, Him great living rock hero He began to perform, without haste or pause, a repertoire of about three dozen pieces, during the more than two and a half hours of music that awaited him. In what he stages there are essential elements and others that perhaps aren’t there, but which are nevertheless his best allies. You don’t have to carry a bass over your right shoulder, but it’s something you can’t help but do. It’s an extension of your body. Luckily for his bones, he still chooses the lightest electric bass created in the last 69 years. Neither by contract nor by public request does he have to play and sing for almost three hours, but who knows why he needs to spend that time there, accompanied by songs that function like a photo album that begins in his adolescence, with a few postcards that he brings with him . from the prehistory of its success, The men of the quarry. And with all that nostalgia, obviously, which embellishes the memories.
On the vertical screens guarding the ends of the stage was the image of the iconic Hofner 500/1 bass disintegrating in the explosion of a big bang, seconds before Sir Paul and his band entered and took their seats. Then there was the first sign of what was to come. It definitely wasn’t a musical journey but an absolutely emotional one, with “Can’t Buy Me Love” sounding powerful, like a vertigo of sensations that makes the audience burst into screams and everything becomes emotional. flashback at the heart of the Beatles.
After the second song, “Junior’s farm” (another oldie, though not that old, from his band Wings), he offered his first words to the audience: “Hello Argentina, good evening Buenos Aires. Oh yes!“was his laconic presentation, so as not to interrupt the rock atmosphere of his powerful beginning.
From then on many songs by The Beatlesof McCartney’s solo stage and until the last premiere, created with Artificial Intelligence, which allowed a recording of John Lennon’s piano to be included in a version of the song “Now and then”.
While it may go unnoticed, Paul McCartney is not the alien some believe him to be. He is a man of flesh and blood, 82 years old and with vocal cords worthy of his age. Except that his professionalism allows the aging of his throat to become a simple fact of the passing of the years. Anyone who has seen him in previous shows will have noticed how significant the changes in his voice can be over the last two decades. Yet it has not lost its peculiar characteristics at all. A few tricks are enough to distract him as the years go by. Set some traps. Use another diaphragmatic volume and phrasing that allows you to round off notes that you didn’t need to round off with effort before. It is difficult to explain otherwise the fact that he manages to arrive, thirty songs later, with nuance and singing strength, at classics like “Helter Skelter”, which is one of those he saves for the final part of the concert.
The rest is planned as a great parade of postcards and emotions: “Let It Be”, “Love Me Do”, “Blackbird”, “Get Back”, “Let It Be”, “Hey Jude” and “Live and Let Die ”. ” , among thirty others. Even if since his first visit to Argentina, in the early nineties, the number of times he has returned to our country can be counted on the fingers of one hand, there is something ritual in his presentations. They are a sort of ceremony with the respective missal. In fact, except for the replacement of four or five songs, he reported the list of songs performed in his previous visit, in March 2019, to the Campo Argentino de Polo, almost in the same order.
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