The legendary 84-year-old musician performed the Fab Four’s “I Want to Hold Your Hand” live for the first time since 1964 during the pop superstar and Kansas City Chiefs tight end’s wedding celebration at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Friday (July 3), according to People.
“After the ceremony, Taylor’s mom Andrea invited everyone into the reception room where the stage was set up,” a source told the publication.
The reception space was also where Stevie Nicks performed, the source said. Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts confirmed on Saturday’s (July 4) broadcast that the legendary Fleetwood Mac singer also took the stage during the celebration.
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Prior to the Swift-Kelce wedding, McCartney had not performed “I Saw Her Standing There” live since the Beatles’ September 1964 concert at New York’s Paramount Theatre, according to setlist.fm. The song peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 that same year.
Swift recently showed her admiration for McCartney by sharing an Instagram post from the former Beatle promoting his newly released solo album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane. “Never not inspired by this eternally exceptional artist,” Swift wrote on her Instagram Stories.
The two music icons have crossed paths on several occasions over the years. In addition to performing “Shake It Off” together at the Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary afterparty in 2015, they interviewed each other about songwriting for Rolling Stone in 2020.
McCartney also attended one of Swift’s Eras Tour shows at London’s Wembley Stadium in 2024 as a VIP guest, where fan-captured video showed him dancing along to The Tortured Poets Department track “But Daddy I Love Him.”
