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Paul McCartney Closes Apple’s 50th With Apple Park Employee Concert

The booking signaled a full-circle moment given Apple’s past trademark battles with The BeatlesApple Corps.

Overview

  • McCartney headlined a private Apple Park concert for employees Tuesday night, which Tim Cook opened by calling him a pioneer and one of the most influential artists of all time.
  • Performing under the campus rainbow stage, he delivered a career-spanning set of Beatles, Wings and solo songs, and Apple has not announced any public release of the show.
  • Employees marked the milestone with limited-edition gifts that included a T-shirt, a poster and an enamel pin featuring the 50th logo.
  • The Apple appearance followed two phone-free Fonda Theatre shows in Los Angeles over the weekend, where a brief joke about President Trump’s dance moves drew boos and a celebrity crowd looked on.
  • After sharing a Dropbox link of Fonda photos, McCartney’s Reddit account briefly appeared banned, which Reddit later said was a technical bug.