Four girls from Newcastle had the time of their lives at the Paul McCartney gig in Sydney on Tuesday night.
They had tickets in the nosebleed section, but fate intervened.
“Sometimes crazy things happen. Tonight was one of those nights,” Jade Green said.
A magic ticket fairy appeared and presented them with four tickets in the second row.
“Singing along and making eye contact with the guy who wrote Hey Jude and Yesterday … I don’t think I will ever believe that really happened. Thank you Paul,” Jade said on Facebook.
Frances Dolan, who was handed the tickets, added: “I was walking to the seats screaming. This was not in my wildest dreams a possibility!”.
Another of the foursome, Helen Gregory, said: “When it happened, Jade and I were in tears. It was more than we could have ever imagined. We felt incredibly lucky”.
She also said on Facebook: “Thank you Sir Paul and your ticket fairy for picking us out of the thousands! This will always be such a surreal but cherished memory!”
Helen, a Newcastle Herald journalist, is a massive Beatles fan.
She’s visited Liverpool and Abbey Road in London. She even went to the Beatles Cirque du Soleil show in Las Vegas.
“I was doing all those things thinking I’d never get the chance to see him [Paul McCartney] live,” she said.
Jade said the foursome had paid $120 each for their nosebleed tickets, but the upgraded tickets were worth $2000 each.
Given that the crowd contained 25,000 people, Jade felt like she’d won the lotto.
“It was a golden ticket,” she said.
Helen said it was “way better than anything Willy Wonka could deliver”.
Turns out it was Sir Paul himself who organised this lovely gesture.
Apparently he reserved 24 tickets in the front and second rows, dead centre to the stage, for random fans.
During the show, Paul was deliberately making eye contact with this lucky lot.
The four Newcastle girls responded, screaming his name in delight like teens at a Beatles gig in the 1960s.
We always preferred John over Paul. Now we might reconsider.
