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Most artists spend their lives reaching creative and commercial high points that Paul McCartney<\/a> had surmounted more than once before he even hit 30.<\/p>\n With a mix of their unprecedented creative dynamism and the countercultural shifts in the 1960s air, The Beatles were whisked from local lads done good in Liverpool\u2019s Merseybeat scene to global musical institute across several short years.<\/p>\n In the meantime, the Fab Four were thrust into the dizzying goddamn peaks of Beatlemania, ushering in the British invasion and overseeing an unfolding body of work that told music\u2019s tumultuous tapestry across that heady decade.<\/p>\n What towering summit does McCartney cast his mind back to when grappling with The Beatles\u2019 legacy? Was it first playing The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 when American conquest was in their sights? Perhaps capturing the Summer of Love\u2019s psychedelic idyll with the seminal Sgt Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/a>? Or does \u2018Yesterday\u2019s eternal hymn trigger the greatest satisfaction at his work entering the immortal song canon decades after he\u2019s gone?<\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to argue with the power of a live show, as embedded in McCartney\u2019s mind as the most immediate internal relic of The Beatles\u2019 rollercoaster. When asked by Time Out during the run-up to his Abu Dhabi gig in 2011, McCartney was quizzed on his most memorable gig, prompting an answer which highlighted a fever pitch in his career he never saw again, Fab Four or solo.<\/p>\n \u201cThe truth is there are so many that it\u2019s difficult to pick a winner,\u201d McCartney confessed. \u201cBut the one that popped was when The Beatles first played Shea Stadium in New York. That was really the first big stadium gig for music. No one had ever done that before, but we were able to draw that many people. I think there were 56,000. It was hysterical from our point of view because the fans were so crazy, we couldn\u2019t really hear anything we were doing. It was a first, and was a forerunner of all the big stadium shows that have happened since.\u201d<\/p>\n