Mac Gets Back On the Road: Paul Driving Tour Across the USA

Business Wire, Feb 4, 2002

Entertainment Editors

NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Feb. 4, 2002

Paul McCartney is getting back on the road for a rare run of concerts.

Today he announced his first tour in almost ten years. Paul's DRIVIN' USA tour will truck through principal cities coast-to-coast, revving up to start at the beginning of April.

DRIVIN' USA will be Paul McCartney's first concert tour of America since his New World Tour of 1993, and organizers say the concerts, launched to promote Paul McCartney's acclaimed latest album Driving Rain, will be unlike anything he has staged before. Said Paul: "I'm very excited to be getting back on the road, playing with a new band and including in the show some songs that I haven't played live before." The DRIVIN' USA tour will start in California at the beginning of April and will climax in New York at the end of the month. The tour will total 14 concerts in the USA, plus one show in Canada. Ticket details, venues and dates will be announced shortly. Immediately following DRIVIN' USA, Paul McCartney will motor on with a May tour of Europe, performing in at least five countries. The European dates will be announced in coming weeks.

DRIVIN' USA will take Paul McCartney's lifelong tally of live concerts to more than 1,700, approximately 1,400 with The Beatles, 142 with Wings and 195 as a solo artist, the most recent being The Concert For New York at Madison Square Garden last October.

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