Meeting Paul McCartney: An unexpected pleasure backstage at the United Center

Friday, April 9, 2021
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Imagine getting to meet your musical idol. Not only meet him, but interview him, and the brand-new band he's just starting out with.

That's what happened in 2002 to then-ABC 7 Associate Producer David Fell, now a Media Manager at the station.
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Here's his first-person account of how it happened and what it was like.

These are some of the first-ever interviews given by the band, which is still with McCartney all these years later. And for the most part, have never been heard before.
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