With the tragic images of Russia's invasion of Ukraine being beamed around the world, there is an effort to get Paul McCartney to commercially release his Saturday, June 14, 2008 concert staged in Kyiv, Ukraine as a fundraising effort for the people of the beleaguered European nation.
I am hopeful that McCartney and Universal Music Group will issue this concert as a DVD/Blu-ray/audio title quickly so I am featuring this effort as well. More than 350,000 music fans gathered in the wake of a rain-soaked Saturday on June 14, 2008, to watch as Paul McCartney played the biggest concert in Ukraine's history.
The event was staged in Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine at the invitation of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. The event was aptly-titled the "Independence Concert." There are plenty of great reasons to release this concert, including how McCartney resurrected the Band on the Run cut "Mrs. Vandebilt," which was a popular radio track on the radio in the region back in the 1970s (the song was released as a single in Continental Europe in January 1974). The concert was originally broadcast live on Novy TV. In addition to the event being shown all around Kyiv on screens that were specially put up for the show, the performance was also beamed live to six major cities around the county where an additional 195,000 people came to watch the show.
Along with the TV broadcast, it is believed that a total of 10 million in the Ukraine saw Sir Paul in concert! Learn more about this incredible concert via the Paul McCartney Project website HERE.
Robert Kinsler
