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The View From Inside Paul McCartney's 'Secret' Grand Central Station Show

The rock legend played hits, charmingly flubbed one classic and serenaded his wife in a release party for the record Egypt Station.
Paul McCartney, onstage at Grand Central Station in New York on Sept. 7, 2018. The rock legend released his newest album, <em>Egypt Station</em>, the same day.

Walking through the warm, vanilla hallway of Grand Central Station, I tried to enter a barricade when an army sentry — helmet, muted green-and-sand uniform, a pistol and a big machine gun — said it was the wrong entrance. "This is for the artist — go down, take a left and stick to the wall."

Around the corner to the right, a small island's worth of people stood smiling, pushed up against a barricade with their phones out, asking if it was

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