It's official, Paul McCartney is hitting the road in America in 2019. The GRAMMY winner has released a list of a handful of cities where he will kick off the U.S. leg of his Freshen Up Tour.
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The tour is in support of his latest album, Egypt Station, out Sept. 9, which features all new music—the first album to do so since 2013's NEW. So far he will make stops in Raleigh, N.C., Greenville, S.C., Lexington, Ky., Madison, Wis. and Moline, Ill., beginning May 27. The U.S. dates will follow a trek across Canada, Europe and Japan. Last time, the GRAMMY winner toured the U.S. was in 2017 for his One On One Tour.
McCartney has been busy lately, dropping his latest single, "Fuh You," and speaking about the process behind the single on his website:
"We were just thinking of ideas and little pieces of melody and chords and the song just came together bit by bit," he says. "And then I would try and make some kind of sense of the story. So it was like ‘Come on baby now. Talk about yourself. Tell the truth, let me get to know you’ and basically I wanna know how you feel, you make me wanna go out and steal. I just want it for you. So that was the basic idea and it developed from there… sort of a love song, but a raunchy love song. There you go – fuh you."
McCartney has 78 GRAMMY nominations under his belt, the last GRAMMY win was at the 56th GRAMMY Awards in which he won Best Rock Song and Best Music Film. Will his latest release bring more awards? We'll have to wait and see. Until then, you can hear "Fuh You" and his all new music live. Tickets for the tour go on sale Sept 4. For more information on how to get tickets you can go here.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Paul adds first U.S. dates to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FreshenUpTour?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FreshenUpTour</a> Full details HERE: <a href="https://t.co/ANqrnFQe8S">https://t.co/ANqrnFQe8S</a> <a href="https://t.co/SondsuUlJV">pic.twitter.com/SondsuUlJV</a></p>— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) <a
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