Paul McCartney has over 60 years worth of stage experience under his belt. He’s performed in the pouring rain, he made his bones playing six-hours shows — he’s even played entire gigs for nobody. During his recent chat with Britain’s Radio X, he spoke about one particularly embarrassing gig not too long ago, recalling, “We played the Apollo in New York, the great, great Apollo and we were so chuffed because it’s like a sacred place to us. We were doing a tribute, a song called ‘Hitch Hike,’ which is a Marvin Gaye song. It’s going great — all these famous people in the audience — there’s Keith Richards, there’s Howard Stern, there’s Tony Bennett. . . Chris Rock. . . there’s like millions of people there and suddenly there’s this almighty noise! The guy on the monitors was panicking. At this great gig that we really wanted to go well, there’s this unholy noise so I had to cover. And I was just chatting to the audience ‘Hey, good to see Tony Bennett’s here, come on up here Tony — you can sing!’”
