It was 32 years ago tonight (November 23rd, 1989) that after a 13-year-stretch, Paul McCartney returned to the North American concert stage for the first of a five-night stand at the L.A. Forum. McCartney's band featured wife Linda McCartney on keyboards, Average White Band co-founder Hamish Stuart on guitar and bass, Former Pretenders lead guitarist Robbie McIntosh, keyboardist Paul "Wix" Wickens, and drummer Chris Whitten. McCartney's last North American trek had been the blockbuster 1976 Wings Over America tour, and Wings' 1979/1980 tour was canceled after only 20 UK shows following his infamous January 1980 pot bust in Tokyo. Following the Japan debacle and John Lennon's murder the following December, McCartney continued to record and wrote and starred in the big budget, big screen flop Give My Regards To Broad Street, which was universally panned. By the time of the 1989 tour, McCartney had released four studio albums Pipes Of Peace (1983, #15); Giv
44 shares That feeling when your album goes to Number One on the US @billboard Top Album Sales Chart! #McCartneyIII, he captioned the post.
The Billboard Top Albums Sales chart records the top selling albums of the week in the US based on pure sales alone.
Getting his groove on: In the clip, the legendary musician, 78, can be seen grooving about and waving his hands to the music
Good news: Paul s 18th studio effort, McCartney III, has entered the music chart at number one, marking his first album to top this chart since Flowers In The Dirt, which was released in 1989