MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Beatle Paul will be back in Chile and Argentina next November

In 1967 Paul composed “When I’m Sixty Four”

Beatle Paul McCartney will be visiting Peru, Chile, Argentina and Chile as part of his “Up and Coming Tour” next November according to reports in the Argentine and Chilean press.

Two shows are scheduled in Buenos Aires, November 14 and 15 and one in Santiago de Chile on November 7. It will be Paul’s first return to Chile since his only performance back in 1993.

According to the local pop magazine “Humo Negro” Paul, 68, will be playing at the same place than on 16 December 1993, when he was 51. At the time he was promoting his last recording “Off the Ground”, including pieces such as “Hope of Deliverance”.

The South American press points out that Paul who in 1967 composed with the Beatles “When I’m Sixty four” has more than proved his “sixties” talents with such folk and rock songs as “Chaos and Creation in the Backyard” (2005) and the latest (2007) “Memory almost full”, considered by US music critics as an “inflection” point for what seems an endless path of creativity.

In 1993 Paul attracted 50.000 admirers and fans at the Santiago National Stadium. It was a time when Chile was opening to the world after the long years of the Pinochet dictatorship: a long procession of some of the world’s leading rock artists and groups played in the country.