UK: PAUL MCCARTNEY PERFORMS AT THE CAVERN CLUB
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Sir Paul McCartney, one time singer, guitarist and song writer with The Beatles, will once again take to the stage of Liverpool's famous Cavern Club, the venue where the "Fab Four" played their first concert in 1961.
Three hundred tickets to the concert were raffled across the globe and those adoring Beatles fans lucky enough to have been selected for this exclusive event will fill the dark underground club in Liverpool on Tuesday night.
While McCartney hasn't played there since 1963, he made a total of 281 appearances at the club while under the management of their late manager and confidante Brian Epstein.
The concert on Tuesday will mark the first time that McCartney has played the legendary Liverpool nightspot since 1963.
It was while at the Cavern Club that The Beatles were first spotted by their future manager Brian Epstein who helped them become arguably the most famous band in the history of popular music.
Although there were only three hundred tickets up for grabs, response from fans all over the world has been staggering.
Many of those who failed to get tickets have travelled thousands of miles to be in Liverpool on Tuesday night.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"I'm getting calls from Russia....Russia !...and people from Australia, somebody called from Argentina and said they were going to come, we said you haven't got a ticket, because we knew they didn't have a ticket, but they said we don't care we're coming anyway, and from Buenos Aires and from America, some couples are flying in from California, and another couple are coming from Tokyo........this is world music, this is rock and roll as world music today because rock and roll is drawing the world to this little place (the Cavern Club)"
SUPER CAPTION: Geoff Baker, spokesman for Paul McCartney
McCartney will be playing material from his newest album, "Run Devil Run," as well as other songs from the likes of Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, and Little Richard.
Also scheduled to join McCartney for the Cavern Club show is Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, who played on several tracks on "Run Devil Run."
McCartney first played at The Cavern Club with The Beatles at a lunchtime show in February 1961.
Their total fee was five pounds sterling (8 U-S dollars).
This will be his 281st appearance at the club.
McCartney first played the Cavern Club back in 1958 as part of The Quarrymen, forerunners to The Beatles, a group that also included both John Lennon and George Harrison.
Despite the fact that The Beatles split up in 1970, their loyal fan-base has, if anything, increased.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"My official letter came through on Friday or Saturday I think and I'm going in, and I can't wait, it will be the gig of the millennium."
SUPER CAPTION: Ben Lomas, aka John Ono Lennon, Beatles fan
SOUNDBITE: (Japanese)
"I came here with my friend, because he got the tickets, we don't really have any time in the UK, just a three day trip to see Paul McCartney."
SUPER CAPTION: Sumiyo Omori, Beatles fan
The original Cavern was located in the basement of a building that was bulldozed in 1973, filling the club with rubble.
A new club of the same name opened nearby later that year, but it failed and its name was changed.
In 1982, spurred by the fatal shooting of John Lennon in 1980, the city of Liverpool excavated the basement of the original site of the club.
The building's original bricks were either sold off for charity or used in the reconstruction of a larger Cavern Club on the same site as the original venue.
For Dave Jones, the owner of the current Cavern Club, the whole event has been a magical experience.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"It's amazing when you think there must be 30 (m) million Beatles fans in the world and there were 300 tickets and they were free, just the whole thing is a fairy story, but it isn't, it's true."
SUPER CAPTION: Dave Jones, owner of Cavern Club
The Beatles, who hold the record for the most successful group ever, have sold an estimated one (b) billion records and audio tapes, and their popularity shows no sign of waning.
For McCartney himself, fans are always a welcome sight and he insists that Liverpool will always be his real home.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Hello...yes, well I'm here..oh my God they're all here, I'm just here to say that it's fantastic to be back here at the Cavern, I've come back because I've done a rock and roll album called "Run Devil Run", and we're plugging it, plug, plug, but what better way to rock out the century, it's where it all began and this is where the century will end, playing rock and roll, which if you remember the Beatles before the Beatles, was a fabulous little rock and roll band and was what held us together for so long and what made us so good I think, he said modestly, I'm back here because I love Liverpool and no more fantastic place to rock out the century, thank you very much for coming, God bless everybody."
SUPER CAPTION: Sir Paul McCartney, musician
Just 300 people will witness the unique event inside the club, but up to 15-thousand will be able to see it on a giant video screen in Liverpool's Chavasse Park and a global audience of (m) millions will be able to see it on the Internet.
SHOTLIST: XFA Liverpool, UK, December 14th 1999
1. Red neon sign advertising the Cavern Club
2. Wide shot Matthew Street, home to the cavern
3. Sign reading \"Welcome to the Birthplace of The Beatles\"
4. Woman tourist being photographed beside a statue of John Lennon
5. Various of Cavern Club signs
6. Japanese TV crew in street
7. Television satellite trucks in street
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Geoff Baker, spokesman for Paul McCartney
9. Footage of Paul McCartney performing in studio
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ben Lomas (aka John Ono Lennon), Beatles fan
11. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Sumiyo Omori, Beatles fan
12. Various of interior of Cavern Club being prepared for this evenings concert
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dave Jones, owner of the Cavern Club
14. Various black and white stills of The Beatles in the 1960's
15. Paul McCartney arrives in limousine at the Cavern Club and is applauded by fans
16. Paul McCartney walks onto stage at Cavern Club to speak to press
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sir Paul McCartney, musician
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