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Article: Sir Paul takes a lap through great songs; Paul McCartney showcased his deep and rich catalog of songs in the 2-hour and 40-minute show. It made for a fun, if a bit uneven, concert.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 27, 2005
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Byline: Jon Bream; Staff Writer
In 1965, Bob Dylan went electric with "Like a Rolling Stone." The Rolling Stones sang about getting no satisfaction. And the Beatles made their only Minnesota appearance at Met Stadium in Bloomington.
Forty years later, Dylan, the Stones and Paul McCartney, the most important surviving Beatle, all performed in the Twin Cities - the first year that has ever happened.
"All three of them in the same year, it's pretty remarkable," Bob Pratt, 51, a Minneapolis grade-school teacher who attended all three shows, said before McCartney's show Wednesday at Xcel Energy Center. "In 1965 when I saw the Beatles at Met Stadium ...