A Magical History Tour

SHOW: PAUL MCCARTNEY UP CLOSE

TIME: FEB. 3, 10 P.M. E.S.T., MTV

THE BOTTOM LINE: In a TV concert and a new album, McCartney finds fresh inspiration in his Beatles past.

There is a jolt of deja vu right at the opening of Paul McCartney Up Close. It comes when the boyish ex-Beatle walks onstage and waves to the throng of cheering fans at New York City's Ed Sullivan Theater -- the same theater where ! the Beatles made their American TV debut on Feb. 9, 1964. "We didn't even know who Ed Sullivan was when we got here," McCartney recalls...

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