Tickets for Macca gig in Dublin sell out in under 20 minutes

ALMOST 40 years after The Beatles made their last album, people still can’t get enough of Paul McCartney.

Following the announcement that one half of the most famous songwriting partnership in history was to play Dublin for the first time in six years, it perhaps came as no surprise that tickets for Macca sold out yesterday in just under 20 minutes.

Following a sell out stadium tour of the US this summer, McCartney’s latest European tour is his first since Good Evening Europe in 2004.

On December 20, his legion of loyal Irish fans will get to see the Beatles legend at the O2.

It will be his first visit to these shores since his Back In The World tour of 2003.

As part of a European leg that will see him play eight special arena shows across Europe, Irish fans will get the chance to see a living icon perform many of the greatest songs of the last half-century.

For the really hard-core fans out there, Macca’s other shows will see him take in Hamburg, Berlin, Arnhem, Paris, Cologne and London where he will finish his tour with his only British show of the year at the O2 Arena on December 22.

Speaking about his latest series of stadium gigs, McCartney said he was planning on taking in many of the cities where The Beatles first started on the road to superstardom.

“This is my chance to bring our current show home to where it all began. Starting in Hamburg, ending in London and rocking everywhere in between. I’m very much looking forward to ending the year on a high,” he said.

It has been an extremely successful year for the Liverpool legend, even by his remarkable standards.

He was nominated for two Grammys earlier this year. He also headlined the US Coachella rock festival, at the tender age of 67.

Macca also performed to mark the opening of The New Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, a gig that sold out in a staggering seven seconds, setting a new sales record with tickets being snapped up at a phenomenal rate of 600 per second.

McCartney also embarked on a five-week tour of the US last summer, which included an inaugural run of shows at New York’s Citi Field stadium, the site of the former Shea Stadium where The Beatles made history in 1965, playing a gig that set the precedent for the modern day stadium rock show.