Paul McCartney would return to Argentina towards the end of this year, according to increasingly growing rumors among national production companies. Some of them even transcended offices and hallways to crystallize as enigmatic publications on networks. Such was the case of the one displayed on the @ArgentinaShows account, which shows a Höfner bass standing on its base and next to his case.
Of course, the first thing that the average rocker’s mind associates with that image is Paul McCartney, who, as far as he could tell The voice Unofficially, he is considering playing again at the Mario Alberto Kempes, where he already did on Sunday, May 15, 2016.
Yes, in the same stadium in which he greeted with “Hello, culiados!”
The sources consulted by this newspaper, those who could be involved in the making of the show, do not give a word and remain hermetic. The funny thing is that they don’t throw anything away either. And at the same time, other more peripheral people made it known that an offer was made to the former member of The Beatles.
A year of expectation
This return of McCartney to Córdoba is something that has been talked about since the beginning of last year and that was heated up towards the middle by Macca’s announcement of the resumption of the Got Back Tour, his post-pandemic tour that at that time had as its last act the 2022 edition of the British Glastonbury festival.
The thing is, at the end of July, the musician was enigmatic about an upcoming artistic movement; And already in August, he revealed that this was about his return “live” with the confirmation of some dates in Australia.
As the logic of some international music tours puts Oceania on the same axis with South America, expectations grew about a return to our country.
And this grew exponentially when Paul reported that the aforementioned Got Back Tour would have stadium-scale performances in Brazil between the end of November and mid-December.
Brazil is close to everything, including the international music entertainment business. That is as true as the neighboring country contains an unfathomable market that may make an excursion to Argentina unnecessary.
So it was.
There are recent examples of artists who reasoned in these terms: Lana del Rey (performed in Rio de Janeiro in May 2023) and Foo Fighters (performed on 9/9 at the São Paulo festival The Town).
On the other hand, McCartney is a star with a gravitation outside of everything; and just as he defies the commandments of the biological clock at 81 years old, he also disrupts industrial conventions.
So, for him the proximity between Brazil and Argentina was not relevant either.
In his visits to the country in the new century, he only arrived from that country in 2010. It was within the framework of the Up and Coming Tour, when he did two Rivers (10 and 11/11) after performing in Porto Alegre (7/11).
In 2016, during the One On One Tour, he arrived in Córdoba (on 5/15) directly from Minneapolis (United States), where he had performed at the Target Center in that city on 5/4 and 5/5. And in 2019, he performed at the Polo Field in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (3/23) a few days after passing through Santiago de Chile (3/20).
This last visit occurred within the framework of the Freshen Up Tour, whose South American leg had as a preview a show in London at the close of the previous year, more precisely the one held at The 02 Arena on 12/16.
It is clear that there is no logic with Paul McCartney. You can get out of nowhere, you can look for alternative locations to the central ones…
If Paul’s new show at the Kempes is confirmed, the legendary rocker would arrive with the anabolic of a tremendous new album to present. Is about McCartney IIIwhich in 2020 closed the trilogy started by McCartney (1970) and McCartney II (1980).
That work meant the exchange of an umpteenth global tour interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic for a home recording, as vital as it was experimental.
“But if the first two albums of the trilogy reacted in their own way against the separations of The Beatles (he opposed the grandiloquence and duel of egos with pastoral intimacy) and Wings (he opposed the loving-creative symbiosis with Linda with touches of avant-garde bordering on electronics), this McCartney III “It has an open spirit that seeks to scrutinize the world (its own, the one that bustles out there) alternating certainties with doubts,” said the critic of YOU when the album came out.
“Or philosophizing about plenitude, fear and the foundations of love until reaching the conclusion that there is no choice but to enjoy the present, as stated in Seize the Day”, added the survey of the album that McCartney published at the age of 78.
McCartney III was recorded in early 2020 during lockdown in Sussex, and “is constructed primarily from live takes of Paul on vocals and guitar or piano; On that basis, the bass, drums, etc. were recorded,” according to the promotion that Universal Music made at the time.
It only remains to add that to recreate this repertoire and the timeless classics live, Paul will have the guitarists Brian Ray and Rusty Anderson, the keyboardist Paul “Wix” Wickens and the drummer Abe Laboriel Jr.. Just as he has done for 20 years.
