Sir Paul McCartney helped a Chilean couple get engaged on Friday night ahead of his sold-out show at the Monumental Stadium in Santiago, Chile.
During the soundcheck for his show, the Beatles star, 82, spotted Yamil Álamo and Leonora Pereira in the audience dressed as 1970s versions of himself and his late wife Linda McCartney.
The couple also held up a sign that read, “Paul: Give us a handshake and we’ll get married,” and when he saw them, he kindly invited them both up on stage.
Once they were on stage, Yamil got down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend of six years, Leonora.
Yamil spoke about the heartwarming moment they’ll never forget, saying, “This was a very special moment for us”
Sir Paul McCartney helped a Chilean couple get engaged on Friday night ahead of his sold-out show at the Monumental Stadium in Santiago, Chile
During the soundcheck, the Beatles star spotted Yamil Álamo and Leonora Pereira in the audience, dressed as Paul and Linda McCartney from the 1970s, and invited them both up on stage.
‘Because we’ve been trying to meet him for years and today is the day! I have no words to describe the experience.’
The couple, from the city of La Serena, have previously travelled internationally to attend his concerts.
They plan to tie the knot to the soundtrack of McCartney’s classic Maybe I’m Amazed.
Sir Paul, who is currently on the South American leg of his Got Back tour, will perform in Brazil after his show in Santiago.
The tour kicked off in Uruguay earlier this month and the artist played the last unfinished Beatles song Now and Then for the first time.
It comes after Sir Paul paid a heartfelt tribute to the late John Lennon on what would have been his 84th birthday.
The singer shared a photo on Instagram on Wednesday from a 2022 performance of himself onstage with projected footage of John playing guitar behind him.
The footage comes from Peter Jackson’s Disney+ documentary The Beatles: Get Back, which aired in November 2021 and followed the making of the band’s 1970 album Let It Be.
It comes after Sir Paul paid a heartfelt tribute to the late John Lennon on what would have been his 84th birthday, sharing a photo of himself performing to a video of the late star
The sweet tribute comes after Sir Paul revealed he would have been wracked with guilt if he hadn’t repaired his friendship with John before he was tragically murdered in 1980 (pictured in 1963).
Sir Paul captioned the sweet photo: ‘Congratulations John. Thanks for being there.’
The sweet tribute comes after Sir Paul revealed he would have been wracked with guilt if he hadn’t repaired his friendship with John before he was tragically murdered in 1980.
John was shot dead by crazed fan Mark Chapman outside his New York City home at the age of 40.
He left The Beatles in 1969 and became embroiled in legal battles over the band’s back catalogue, leading to tensions between him and his former songwriting partner Sir Paul.
The feud between the two was well-documented by the press at the time and in a 1971 interview John stated that he could not foresee himself ever working with Sir Paul again.
The pair rekindled their friendship in the mid-1970s, however, and Sir Paul spent time at the New York home John shared with his second wife, Yoko Ono.
Reflecting on the rebuilding of their friendship, Sir Paul said on the McCartney: A Life in Lyrics podcast: ‘Ultimately, when he was murdered, I was very glad that I had had some really good times with him before. That happened.’
‘It would have been the worst thing in the world if he had just been murdered and we were still in a bad relationship. That would have been a big guilt trip for me.’
‘Luckily we were friends, we talked about baking bread.’
‘You have to remember that I took him to court, and his friends from Liverpool, lifelong friends, to court. There’s still a lot to be done.’
In 2022, Sir Paul said he ‘couldn’t talk about’ John’s death after his murder in 1980.
He told how he came home from the studio on the day his friend died and turned on the TV to see people reflecting on ‘what John meant to them.’
The Beatles were formed in Liverpool in 1960 and had a string of hits together (from left: Ringo Starr, John, Sir Paul, George Harrison in 1964)
He said: ‘When John died, it was so hard. It affected me so much that I couldn’t really talk about it.’
“I remember coming home from the studio the day we heard the news that he had died. I turned on the TV and saw people saying, ‘Well, John Lennon was this’ and ‘What he was, was this’ and ‘I remember meeting him.’
“I thought, ‘I can’t be one of those people. I can’t say on TV what John meant to me.’ It was just too deep. I couldn’t put it into words.’
Sir Paul added how he managed to express his grief over the loss of John in his 1982 song Here Today.
The artist revealed that he “sat in the corner with my guitar on the wooden floor” and came up with the opening chords for the song.