Paul McCartney sells out tickets in Madrid despite criticism: “It’s a scam”

Paul McCartney sells out tickets in Madrid despite criticism: “It’s a scam”
Paul McCartney sells out tickets in Madrid despite criticism: “It’s a scam”

Esther Pinilla J./EFE Agency 06/21/2024 1:52 p.m.

Paul McCartney, in an archive image.Cord Press

Paul MCCARTNEY ha exhausted in just two hours tickets of the two concerts that will be offered on December 9 and 10, 2024 at the Wizink Center in Madridmanaging to bring together more than 30,000 people.

This has been confirmed by the promoter of these shows in a press release this June 21. He has assured that in this Madrid enclave, the British artist will play his greatest hits of his last 50 years of music, both his solo stage and his albums with Wings and, of course, some of the anthems of the Beatles.

Criticism on social networks due to prices

The truth is that the singer has managed to fill this venue in Record time despite the numerous criticisms that he has received for high cost of the entries.

The cheapest ones are around 50 euros while the most expensive ones reach almost 500 eurostaking into account management costs and depending on the chosen area.

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Enigmatic posters in Madrid point to a possible Paul McCartney concert in the capital

McCartney has also made other prices available to his fans, such as 100, 160, 280 or 340 euros. An amount that has not sat well with his followers, who have reacted through social networks. “Outrageous“It’s crazy for any normal person”, “Scammers“, “A scam“, is observed in X -formerly Twitter-.

Paul McCartney tour information

On his tour Got Back Tour there will also be your band “of a lifetime“: Paul “Wix” Wickens (keyboards), Brian Ray (bass/guitar), Rusty Anderson (guitar) and Abe Laboriel Jr (drums). They will also be accompanied by the Hot City Horns, a wind ensemble made up of Mike Davis (trumpet ), Kemji Fenton (saxes) and Paul Burton (trombone).

This is the same tour as the former member of the Beatles It began in 2022 with 16 major concerts in the United States and had its peak with a historic performance as part of the British Glastonbury festival that same year, before touring Australia, Mexico and Brazil in 2023.

Paul McCartney in a file image.Cord Press

The last time Paul McCartney performed in Spain was in 2016also in Madrid, then in a single concert held in the now defunct Vicente Calderón stadium.

Precisely these days it has arrived on the market with Universal One Hand Clappingthe album that McCartney and Wings recorded in 1974 with live versions of their songs in the studios of Abbey Road and that, due to the lack of its version on disc – it was only released as a documentary -, it was “one of the most pirated live albums in history.”

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