let it be

Yesterday (aside from vile behaved students) was a magical day of goodness.  Dashed home to change for the McCartney concert and found that the California Shoe Fairy had delivered these fun summer flats to my door.

Stepped out onto the balcony to check the dryness of my garden and found my first tomato!!!!! Took it proudly to share at dinner.  Forgot to take a snap of it gracing the top of the salad.

And then.  Then!  Time for three hours of non-stop singing from a legend.  Sir Paul McCartney opened with 'Eight Days a Week'.  What a thrill to be singing at the top of my lungs with one of the Beatles.

'She Loves Me'

His tribute to his good friend, John Lennon.

Wonder how many thousands of hours he has played his guitar?  Several of his instruments are the original ones that he played when he was just learning to play.

I SO want to do this to a piano--zany painting.

'Back in the USSR'

'Let It Be'

They must have disabled the smoke detectors for this pyrotechnic whoosh.  We could feel the heat from the flames in our balcony seats.

Side shot of the paint job.

Part of the crowd.

After a huge ovation, he came out with the Texas flag; my ears are still hurting from the screams over that.

Such a Les Mis moment.

One of his encores was 'Yesterday'.  While I've always thought the Beatles were fun pop music, I was impressed by both his stamina and by the wide range of his musical styles--from quiet ballad to pounding rock and back.  The man turns 71 in June.  Amazing.  I was impressed last month by the 50-year-old Bon Jovi singing/playing/dancing for three hours.  Nice to see such longevity and vitality in the musical field.

One of the highlights in my musical memories~such a great concert.   Completely worth trying to function at work today with only 4 hours of sleep.