{"id":534383,"date":"2026-07-05T15:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/534383\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:41:08","slug":"at-taylor-swifts-wedding-paul-mccartney-performs-i-want-to-hold-your-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/534383\/","title":{"rendered":"At Taylor Swift&#8217;s Wedding, Paul McCartney Performs &#8220;I Want to Hold Your Hand&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/paul-mccartney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Paul McCartney<\/a> reportedly gave <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/taylor-swift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Taylor Swift<\/a> and Travis Kelce one hell of a <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/live-coverage\/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-wedding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wedding gift<\/a>: the first live performance of \u201cI Want to Hold Your Hand\u201d by a member of The Beatles in 62 years.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/paul-mccartney-performs-taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-wedding-12011888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">People<\/a>, McCartney sang the song during the couple\u2019s wedding reception at Madison Square Garden on Friday night. Prior to that, the last time McCartney performed \u201cI Want to Hold Your Hand\u201d live was as a member of The Beatles during a concert at New York\u2019s Paramount Theatre in September 1964.<\/p>\n<p>The couple\u2019s wedding reception also reportedly featured a performance from Stevie Nicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney reportedly gave Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce one hell of a wedding gift: the first live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-534383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}