Paul McCartney Blazes Through Career-Spanning Set at Apple Park for 50th Anniversary Celebrations

Paul McCartney performed a performance for Apple employees astatine Apple Park successful Cupertino past night, capping the company's 50th day celebrations with a career-spanning acceptable that included songs from The Beatles, Wings, and his solo career.


Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced McCartney to the crowd, calling him "a songwriter, a pioneer and 1 of the astir influential artists of each time" and adding that helium has "been a lifelong instrumentality of his euphony and truthful person billions of radical each implicit the planet." The amusement took spot nether ‌Apple Park‌'s rainbow arches, which had been transformed into a afloat performance signifier with lighting rigs and ample screens connected either side.

McCartney's setlist spanned his full career. Beatles classics including "Help," "Got To Get You Into My Life," "Blackbird," "Lady Madonna," "Something," "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," "From Me To You," "Let It Be," and "Hey Jude" featured alongside Wings cuts "Coming Up," "Let Me Roll It," "Getting Better," "Let 'Em In," "Band On The Run," and solo favorites "Maybe I'm Amazed" and "Every Night." The amusement closed with "Golden Slumbers." McCartney besides staged his celebrated "Live and Let Die" pyrotechnics segment.



Bloomberg's Mark Gurman had hinted astatine McCartney arsenic the headliner days earlier the show, saying "he's inactive going strong, was portion of the British Invasion and Jobs would've been ecstatic." McCartney's ‌Apple Park‌ quality was confirmed erstwhile images of his soundcheck circulated connected societal media, showing the 83-year-old creator and his set connected the illuminated rainbow signifier wrong the ring.

The performance came conscionable days aft McCartney played 2 intimate, phone-free shows astatine the Fonda Theatre successful Los Angeles, wherever the 1,200-seat venue attracted a singular cross-section of Hollywood: Attendees included Ringo Starr, Stevie Nicks, Margot Robbie, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Elton John, Jon Hamm, Harrison Ford, Reese Witherspoon, Anthony Kiedis, Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, Tate McCrae, Laura Dern, Emma Watson, Steve Carell, Dakota Johnson, and more. McCartney's 19th workplace album, "The Boys of Dungeon Lane," is acceptable to beryllium released adjacent month.



The prime of McCartney carries peculiar humanities resonance. The Beatles founded Apple Corps, their ain grounds statement and holding company, successful 1968, 8 years earlier Steve Jobs started Apple Computer. Jobs was a lifelong Beatles instrumentality who erstwhile said "my exemplary for concern is The Beatles," describing them arsenic 4 radical who balanced each different and produced thing greater than the sum of their parts.

The shared sanction was a root of costly ineligible friction betwixt the 2 companies for astir 3 decades, resolved lone successful 2007 erstwhile Apple Inc. purchased each trademarks related to "Apple" and licensed immoderate of them backmost to Apple Corps. The Beatles' catalogue didn't get connected iTunes until 2010, and has been connected Apple Music ever since, making McCartney's quality astatine ‌Apple Park‌ thing of a full-circle moment.

The ‌Apple Park‌ amusement brings to a adjacent weeks of day events that besides included performances by Alicia Keys at Apple Grand Central successful New York City and Mumford & Sons at Apple Battersea successful London, on with special day acquisition bags for employees including a commemorative t-shirt, enamel pin, and limited-edition poster.
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