Wednesday, October 13, 1993
Concert • By Paul McCartney • Part of the The New World Tour
Last updated on March 28, 2025
Concert Oct 09, 1993 • Netherlands • Rotterdam
Concert Oct 10, 1993 • Netherlands • Rotterdam
Concert Oct 13, 1993 • France • Paris
Concert Oct 14, 1993 • France • Paris
Concert Oct 17, 1993 • Belgium • Ghent
What was the last big mistake you made onstage?
I don’t remember the last one. But I had a show in Paris where I started off with the second verse of “Penny Lane” instead of the first. It should have been “a barber showing photographs.” So I thought, “I’ll swap the verses – do verse two, then verse one and we’ll go into the middle bit.” But the band correctly thought, “He skipped verse one – we’ll go into the middle.”
It was a car crash in Penny Lane. I had to go, “Stop, stop. We’ve totally screwed it up. We’re gonna start again.” The audience went wild. A friend, Cilla Black, who just passed away, came to me after the show: “I loved that bit. Do you do it every night?”
Paul McCartney – Interview with RollingStone, August 10, 2016
Just before I did the very first show [around 2014?], so I have to name-drop here, heavily, I had a phone call from Paul McCartney and he wanted me to come in and work with him, and I said “yeah but I think I wanted to go and do this show, go and play with my band, but I have really bad stage fright, so you might be just saving me here by offering me, you know, a project I can’t say no to.” He said, “Oh stage fright, I had terrible stage fright, you know.” He didn’t play for three years or so and then he did a show in Paris, and I don’t know which song it was, but he was playing the bridge when he was supposed to play the second verse, but he knew that his band was going to be knowing that he was making a mistake and they were going to go to the bridge when it was supposed to be the bridge as opposed to going to the chorus, but, no, they went to the chorus, so he just went “stop, stop, stop, stop” and the audience went wild and they just loved it, and afterward Cilla Black said to him, “Paul, that was amazing, do you do that every night?” and he said, “you know, that’s the thing, you know, they’re on your side”. So he really sort of helped me by going “they’re on your side, just talk to them.” Show your vulnerability, show who you are. And I think that was the best advice I got and that wasn’t a bad chap to get good advice from.
Hans Zimmer – Interview with Rick Beato, March 14, 2025
This was the 1st concert played at Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy.
A total of 3 concerts have been played there • 1993 • Oct 13• Oct 14 • 2009 • Dec 10
Written by Paul McCartney
Album Available on Welcome To Soundcheck 1993
Album Available on Paris Bercy 1993
Album Available on Paul Is Live - Ultimate Archive Collection
Jam
Jam
Written by Richard Penniman / Little Richard, Albert Collins
Album Available on Paris Bercy 1993
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Album Available on Paris Bercy 1993
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Album Available on Paris Bercy 1993
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Album Available on Paris Bercy 1993
Encore
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Album Available on Paris Bercy 1993
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