McCartney experiments with new styles
NEW YORK—Former Beatle Paul McCartney performed a surprise miniconcert with his band in New York’s Times Square last Thursday.
McCartney, 71, sang tracks from his upcoming album, “New,” which is due to be released in the United States tomorrow.
“Wow! Really excited to be playing New York Times Square at 1 this afternoon,” McCartney tweeted about an hour before the packed miniconcert.
“Come on down to Times Square. It’s all going to be happening there!” he added.
Secret
Security guards at the site said the 15-minute lunchtime show was kept a secret until shortly before its start.
The performance delighted passersby and fans. “I loved it. They just make perfect music every time they hit a stage,” said Hamdan, 51, a teacher who learned about the concert through Twitter.
A security guard also described the show as “awesome.”
“New,” which features 12 tracks including “New” and “Queenie Eye,” is McCartney’s first album of new material in six years.
“A lot of the tracks are quite var- ied and not necessarily in a style you’d recognize as mine,” the singer and bassist said on hiswebsite. “But I didn’twant it to all sound the same. We had a lot of fun.”
On Wednesday, the singer did a special show and master class for 400 teenagers at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in the New York borough of Queens. The school was founded by singer Tony Bennett, who attended the performance.
McCartney and drummer Ringo Starr are the only surviving members of the British rock group Beatles, which also included guitarists John Lennon and George Harrison.