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The penultimate gig of Paul McCartney's critically acclaimed massive global 'comeback' tour was held against all the odds and despite a nasty cold and several cancelled gigs – at Sheffield's Hallam FM Arena.
After several long years of relative inactivity following the death of his beloved cheapest international airline tickets wife Linda in 1998, Paul hit the road in style, embarking upon an epic multi legged tour that consisted of 91 concerts spanning 14 months and grossed upwards of $220,000,000USD (£120,000,000GBP).
The Driving USA leg of the tour kicked off in Oakland, CA on the 4 th April 2002 and ran until the 18 th May. This was followed by the Back in the US leg which began on the 21 st September in Milwaukee, WI, and ran until the 28 th October. Up next was the Driving cheapest international airline tickets Mexico leg that began on the 2 nd November, and was closely followed by the Driving Japan leg which began on the 11 th . A Driving Oz leg of the tour was planned to follow, however due to unforeseen circumstances it was postponed until further notice.
Paul then took several months off in order celebrate Christmas cheapest international airline tickets and spend time with his family and then-wife Heather Mills. However he returned to the road in the New Year with his European based Back in the World leg of the tour. This began with a show in Paris on the 25 th March 2003 and would finish cheapest international airline tickets on June 1 st with a massive open air concert in his home town of Liverpool.
Close to two months before this concert Paul had already played at the Hallam FM arena as part of the tour. The plan was to play two night back to back, however throughout the first night Paul was battling a cold which started to affect his voice and singing. When it came to soundchecking cheapest international airline tickets for the second show, despite his best efforts Paul could only manage two songs before doctors advised cheapest international airline tickets him to pull the plug on the concert. This left the thousands of fans waiting outside – some from as far away as Japan and America – with no choice but to obtain a refund.
Later that evening Paul issued a statement apologising for having to cancel the show, but a make-up show would be fitted into the tour schedule if possible. And as luck had it (and at the expense of a show at Glasgow's Celtic Park) it became cheapest international airline tickets possible. cheapest international airline tickets The day of the make-up concert came less than a week after the headline-making historic concert at Russia's Red Square and a mere 2 days before the epic tour finale on the banks of the Mersey in Liverpool.
Within minutes of the band leaving the stage, the audience were allowed to start entering cheapest international airline tickets the arena. They were welcomed by a distinctly exotic aroma of incense sticks and a towering stage bathed in an ominous blue light. This set the eerily exciting mood for the concert preshow: a Cirque Du Soleil-esque set of characters mingled throughout the audience accompanied by atmospheric, trance like remixes of Pauls music echoed through the arena.
The music picked up and became more beat driven and frantic and the characters made their way to the stage, running, jumping, flailing, dancing, the lights were flashing and the music became faster and faster and louder and louder before an almighty cheapest international airline tickets electric guitar chord ripped out and the main screen in the centre of the stage burst to life, displaying a huge silhouette of Pauls iconic Hofner Bass. The audience roared as the silhouette of Paul McCartney himself entered – complete with bass – and the screen lifted to reveal Paul and the band bouncing into a hard edged rendition of The Beatles' cheapest international airline tickets Hello Goodbye followed by a storming version cheapest international airline tickets of the Wings rocker Jet .
The former Beatle and Wings front man was accompanied by his brand new touring band consisting ofguitarists Rusty Anderson and Brian Ray , drummer Abe Laboriel Jr, and keyboardist Paul 'Wix' Wickens (the sole remnant of the old touring band!), who gave the songs a fresh life and an energy that previous live versions had lacked.
The show was filled with many highlights, including songs from his latest album Driving Rain , songs that had never been performed live before this tour, and an intimate cheapest international airline tickets part of the show in which the band leaves and Paul gives some heartfelt and moving renditions of classic songs including Something, We Can Work It Out and Every Night.
Once the band returned to the stage it was action packed, energised song after action packed, energised song. Paul brought main segment was brought to a roaring close with the inevitable but much loved Hey Jude.  Despite a small portion of the audience thinking it couldn't cheapest international airline tickets get any better and that Hey Jude must have been the conclusion of the concert, Paul ran back out on stage to perform a fast paced three song encore rounded off with the first song from the first Beatles cheapest international airline tickets album: I Saw Her Standing There. And once again he left the stage but he was still not finished with Sheffield! He soon returned – on his own this time – to perform the classic tearjerker Yesterday.
As the final strains of Yesterday sounded the band returned to the stage and finally closed the concert in style with a medley of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band from the Beatles album of the same name, and The End from the seminal album Abbey Road. Paul, Rusty and Brian traded solos for what seemed like an eternity before the song came to a screaming close leaving no room for any doubt that Paul McCartney really was back in the world.