By the way, Sir Paul McCartney is a space flight enthusiast. The last time he played a show in DC (MCI Center, Oct 8, 2005) was a couple of months after the space shuttle's "Return to Flight" following the Columbia disaster. That flight of shuttle Discovery was commanded by Lt Col Eileen Collins (previously the first-ever woman space-mission commander, during a 1999 Columbia flight), a Beatles fan who requested that the astronauts' wake-up song on their final day in orbit be "Good Day Sunshine."
McCartney mentioned this and talked a bit about the flight before he and his band started into their rendition. Meanwhile the elaborate HD screens behind them showed video from the mission...an extremely well-edited/produced visual. Kind of thrilling to experience.
This is a good excuse for me to salute my older sister Nancy, who was at that concert with me. She got me hooked on Beatles music from the very start. They're still my favorite band.
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