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Article: Another Brit invasion on Plains of Abraham
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- Winnipeg Free Press
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- July 21, 2008
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By Andy Blatchford
QUEBEC -- Music icon Paul McCartney exploded onto an old battleground Sunday, churning out a song list laden with Beatles tunes to a pumped up crowd on the historic Plains of Abraham.
"Bon soir les Québécois, bon soir toute le gang," the ex-Beatle shouted to his Quebec City faithful after he opened the show by belting out the Wings song Jet.
The crowd erupted and the band turned it up a notch by ripping into Beatles' 1965 classic Drive My Car, Only Mama Knows, and All My Loving.
"I only speak a little bit of French," he said in French before switching languages. "So, I will be speaking in English."
Organizers expected some 200,000 people at the free outdoor concert ...