Article: Another Brit invasion on Plains of Abraham

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 ...

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