Semi-Impromptu McCartney Rooftop Performance: +1 NYC

Don't look worried Paul, it's only New York!

After all, this city was home to your most beloved first wife.

Granted, this city was proclaimed "the new center of the world after Rome" by your songwriting partner, a city where it's possible that "Life Begins at 40," yet where it may also come to a sudden end.

For all these reasons, it makes it all the more bad ass and all the more rock n' roll that you decided it would be cool to give a seven song set in midtown Manhattan.

Maybe the entire crowd was generated by text messages and blog posts, and maybe that's why no one knew the words.

But in reality, it didn't matter what songs were played. There has never been a better reason to leave work early. I couldn't help but think I felt a tinge of what those puzzled Liverpudlians experienced over 40 years ago on Savile row.

In fact I've dreamed of such a scenario in the past, so it isn't any wonder that afterwards when I had a few beers and slept on the whole experience I had to ask myself If I hadn't just dreamt the whole thing over again.

And yet on that midsummer's evening, I couldn't help but think that all the words sung and all the winks exchanged were just for me...

(well and maybe lauren & dan too...)



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