“Hello, dudes!”

Sir Paul flooded the "Olympic" with happiness

"Olympic" was flooded with Beatles. Starting from schoolchildren in T-shirts with portraits of the "Liverpool Four" and in sneakers with the British flag. And ending with sedate people in their 40s (or even 60s) who, in their youth, danced at parties to the Beatles recorded on x-rays.

"Olympic" was flooded with Beatles. Starting from schoolchildren in T-shirts with portraits of the "Liverpool Four" and in sneakers with the British flag. And ending with sedate people over 40 (or even over 60) who, in their youth, danced at parties to the “Beatles” recorded on x-rays. Some, judging by the T-shirts and badges, were in 2003 on Red Square - McCartney's first concert in Russia took place there. On December 14, everyone gathered for whom the music of The Beatles means something. A gray-haired man with a mustache in a formal suit was dancing on the edge of the fan zone even before the concert. A woman of about 70 years old told her husband: “I tell her - if you want, go instead of me. Her: I don't want to. Think about it, because for us the Beatles are a whole era ... But they didn’t have this at all!

I have had. As a child, I did not listen to either Zemfira or the Mumiy Troll group, whose songs in the 90s my peers knew by heart. We spoke different languages ​​​​with classmates - I listened to the holes on the CD-player disc "Let it Be" and a collection of albums by The Beatles on MP3. When McCartney, accompanied by his musicians, took the stage, the screens on the sides of the stage did not immediately work - and from afar it seemed for a second that this was the old, young Paul, as he was depicted in the film Hard Day's Night. I felt a little disappointed when the image of the 69-year-old musician appeared on the screens. However, age did not add seriousness to him.

Hello dude! said Sir Paul. The hall exploded with laughter and cheers. Throughout the concert, the musician tried to speak Russian with the audience, peeping into the sheet. He uttered Russian phrases like charades, amused himself with them, listening with curiosity to the sound of incomprehensible words, and then asking the audience if he made a mistake in pronunciation. “I want to check the translators. So, we really like being here in Russia! - said Sir Paul already in English, listening to the reaction of the audience. - The red monkey is walking through the jungle. Oh, it works! Close-up screens of the musicians showed McCartney's translation, although it was late and at times illiterate ("Thank you for your kindness"). However, the audience understood Sir Paul even without translation. Due to the frantic adoration of the hall, the musician became more and more cheerful - and amused the audience. McCartney has 40 years of musical career behind him, he wrote, in addition to many rock songs, an oratorio and a ballet, and he fools around, moves his fingers funny, putting them in his suspenders, jumps off his chair at the piano and runs to the forefront, putting on his guitar on the go. The musicians were all the more artistic because they performed for foreign audiences, and they often had to do without words.

As a child, I was in love with them - all four. I never could choose. And she regretted to tears that in our days it was impossible to go to the concert of The Beatles. It turned out that it was almost possible. Yes, now, along with McCartney, a hefty bald Abe Laboriel Jr. on drums, a blond guitarist Brian Rey in a polka dot blouse and others (all, by the way, Americans) are doing a show on stage. But good old Paul is still with us. And his friends, in fact, too: in honor of John Lennon, the soul-grabbing "Here today" was performed. For the deceased George Harrison, McCartney played the song "Something", on a ukulele (Hawaiian mini-guitar), which he owned well. Sir Paul himself changed guitars all the time, sometimes sat down at the piano and piano to perform lyric songs. There seemed to be no instrument he could not play. On the song “Blackbird”, the group left him alone with the audience - the lights on the stage went out, and only the guitar and the musician’s voice sounded throughout the “Olympic” one. The parterre began to chant "We love you", but it came out so slurred that McCartney at first couldn't make out the words. “Thank you, no matter what you say! It sounds good! he remarked. - Oh, we love you! And as a token of gratitude, he funny put his hands to his head, pretending to be a heart: they say, I do you too.

A woman in her 50s next to me was shaking her head as if she could not believe what was happening, and silently repeated the words "All the Lonely People." On “Hey Jude”, the musicians fell silent, passing the initiative to the audience, and the chorus hummed harmoniously and enthusiastically. And without "Back in the USSR", of course, could not do. On the screen behind the speakers were shown black-and-white recordings of Soviet amateur performances - the dances of the peoples of the USSR. And in the hall they waved the British flag and stretched their hands to the stage. “Years ago The Beatles were banned in Russia and we couldn't come,” McCartney said. - How great it is to come to Russia and sing this song!