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This Saturday on The GIG: Paul McCartney in Red Square.
Saturday, 5-7 PM

Back when McCartney was a Beatle, his music was considered very dangerous in the former Soviet Union.

The Beatles, it seems, were seen as the epitome of
Western debauchery, proof positive that too much capitalism and freedom leads to a meltdown in values.

Things were different in 2003.

Thousands of Russians packed Red Square to see the rock legend Sir Paul McCartney perform his first-ever concert in the former Soviet republic. McCartney told the audience, "We have come here tonight to rock Red Square", before kicking off the show with the Beatles' classic All My Loving.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who earlier gave Sir Paul a personally-guided tour of the Kremlin, was among the audience.

The BBC's Nikolai Gorshkov in Moscow says people in the audience wept and hugged each other and many called their less lucky friends on mobile phones to let them hear the concert.

McCartney, he says, mastered some Russian to tell the audience how great it
was and how happy it made him.

Fans felt the same.

Don't miss this concert for the world. Only on Zee Cafe.