{"id":30579,"date":"2024-10-10T18:02:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T18:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-oct-10-2013-paul-mccartney-plays-surprise-free-show-in-times-square\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T18:02:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T18:02:34","slug":"on-this-day-oct-10-2013-paul-mccartney-plays-surprise-free-show-in-times-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-oct-10-2013-paul-mccartney-plays-surprise-free-show-in-times-square\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Oct. 10, 2013: Paul McCartney plays surprise free show in Times Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-10\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Oct. 10, 2013 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Paul McCartney\u00a0<\/strong>surprised fans in New York City with an impromptu free concert in Times Square, announcing the show on social media about one hour before it occurred.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The rocker was promoting his 16th studio album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">New<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">,<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">and treated fans to four songs off the record: \u201cSave Us,\u201d \u201cEverybody Out There,\u201d \u201cQueenie Eye\u201d and the title track.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Fans who could not make it to the Big Apple were able to enjoy the concert at home thanks to a Times Square webcam.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">New<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which at the time was McCartney\u2019s first album of new material in six years, was released one day later on Oct. 11.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">McCartney is currently on the latest leg of his Got Back tour. He plays Santiago, Chile, on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Oct. 10, 2013 &#8230; Paul McCartney\u00a0surprised fans in New York City with an impromptu free concert in Times Square, announcing the show on social media about one hour before it occurred. The rocker was promoting his 16th studio album,\u00a0New,\u00a0and treated fans to four songs off the record:<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-oct-10-2013-paul-mccartney-plays-surprise-free-show-in-times-square\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}