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Photos: Paul McCartney at Fenway

Paul McCartney, live at Fenway Park on August 5, 2009

By DAVID F. NICHOLSON | August 11, 2009

Photo: David F. Nicholson

Paul McCartney | Fenway Park | August 5, 2009

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VIDEO: Watch Paul McCartney at Fenway
Watch Paul McCartney in concert at Fenway Park
From Sir, with love
However people go about justifying an expensive rock experience — whether laundering it through nostalgia, taking it as a sound investment in one’s pop-culture equity, or writing it off as a de facto co-pay toward rock’s fast-failing status quo — a Paul McCartney show just seems . . . different, excusable, maybe even compulsory.
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VIDEO: Watch Paul McCartney at Fenway
Watch Paul McCartney in concert at Fenway Park
From Sir, with love
However people go about justifying an expensive rock experience — whether laundering it through nostalgia, taking it as a sound investment in one’s pop-culture equity, or writing it off as a de facto co-pay toward rock’s fast-failing status quo — a Paul McCartney show just seems . . . different, excusable, maybe even compulsory.
The Straight Dope: Michael Jackson and the Beatles
You think an overdubbed Beatles tune could be any weirder than a new Beatles song with John Lennon? Then again, "I Want to Hold You Hand" overdubbed by a guy with a hand on his crotch and his hair on fire would be pretty hard to top. But don't worry, it won't happen, or anyway, it won't happen as a result of Jackson owning the Beatles library.
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Heaven and hell
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