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Performance 'Flaming Pie' Paul McCartneyAPTN, Gijon, Spain - 25 May 2004 2. SOT PAUL McCARTNEY (English) on playing 3,000th gig: \"I love it, it's great. It's like people say 'oh it's 40 years to the day...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003ePool\u003cbr/\u003eGijon, Spain - 25 May 2004\u003cbr/\u003e1. Performance 'Flaming Pie' Paul McCartney\u003cbr/\u003eAPTN, Gijon, Spain - 25 May 2004 \u003cbr/\u003e2. SOT PAUL McCARTNEY (English) on playing 3,000th gig: \"I love it, it's great. It's like people say 'oh it's 40 years to the day since The Beatles first played..' I go 'is it?' I never know it's coming up, as I say I don't keep count but I think it's great, I like it,  bloody  '40 years, you know, what?'  and so three thousandth, yeah (laughs).\"\u003cbr/\u003ePool\u003cbr/\u003eGijon, Spain - 25 May 2004\u003cbr/\u003e3. Performance 'Flaming Pie' Paul McCartney\u003cbr/\u003eAPTN, Gijon, Spain - 25 May 2004 \u003cbr/\u003e4. SOT PAUL McCARTNEY (English) on being told about hitting 3,000th gig:  \"I enjoy it but it doesn't freak me or go 'wow' I suppose I'm not as amazed as someone in the street. Three thousand gigs? But that's mainly cause they havn't done three thousand. Once you've done two thousand and nine, nine hundred, you're pretty used to it. But I love it, I love all these records, I'm not setting out to create records but it's nice, it's like having birthdays, someone just says 'it's that today' you go 'is it? wow.'\"\u003cbr/\u003ePool\u003cbr/\u003eGijon, Spain - 25 May 2004\u003cbr/\u003e5. Performance 'All My Loving' Paul McCartney\u003cbr/\u003eAPTN, Gijon, Spain - 25 May 2004 \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOT PAUL McCARTNEY (English) on earliest gigs: \"So no, the early gigs were quite nerve wracking, you know as The Beatles we have people throwing pennies at us an stuff. Teds, big Teddy boys 'get off' chucking stuff at us, and you know, we played to plenty to empty halls. But it was OK, we learned how to get over it, we picked the money up, 'Thank you.' They soon stopped throwing it.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePool\u003cbr/\u003eGijon, Spain - 25 May 2004\u003cbr/\u003e7. Performance 'All My Loving' Paul McCartney\u003cbr/\u003eAPTN, Gijon, Spain - 25 May 2004 \u003cbr/\u003e8. SOT PAUL McCARTNEY (English) on not thinking of retirement: \"We're talking about a tour next year. The truth is I'm enjoying making music at this point, I'm feeling good and I've got a  nice band. That's half the battle, if you've got a lousy band and you're hating what you're doing and you can't write songs then it's probably a good time to retire but I'm enjoying it and as long as people like coming, and these ticket sales seem to be pretty good so I'll do it as long as they like it and I like it. \"\u003cbr/\u003ePool\u003cbr/\u003eGijon, Spain - 25 May 2004\u003cbr/\u003e9. Performance 'All My Loving' Paul McCartney\u003cbr/\u003ePAUL McCARTNEY TO PLAY 3,000TH GIG TONIGHT\u003cbr/\u003eFormer Beatle Sir Paul McCartney will tonight take to the stage to perform his 3,000th live concert.\u003cbr/\u003eThe star, who turned 62 yesterday, will perform the landmark gig in St Petersburg - the first time he has ever played in the Russian city.  100,000 people will be watching him, at the Palace Square outside the Hermitage Museum. \u003cbr/\u003eAs his latest tour began, the star told APTN his feelings approaching his 3,000th show.\u003cbr/\u003e \"I love it, it's great. It's like people say 'oh it's 40 years to the day since The Beatles first played..' I go 'is it?' I never know it's coming up, as I say I don't keep count but I think it's great, I like it,  bloody  '40 years, you know, what?'  and so three thousandth, yeah (laughs).\"\u003cbr/\u003eSince McCartney joined The Quarry Men when he was 15, and played his very first gig at Liverpool's New Clubmoor Hall on October 18, 1957, he has played everywhere from the front lawn of Buckingham Palace to the Coliseum in Rome.\u003cbr/\u003eThe star holds the Guinness World Record for the biggest stadium audience - 184,000 in Rio de Janeiro in 1990.\u003cbr/\u003eSir Paul is believed to have performed with the Beatles 2,523 times.\u003cbr/\u003eIt is thought he gave another 140 concerts with his band Wings, 285 gigs as a solo artist before his current tour, and 40 post-Beatles performances, ranging from Live Aid and Adopt-A-Minefield fundraisers to the Super Bowl.\u003cbr/\u003eBefore starting his current 14-date Summer tour, he had built up a tally of 2,988 performances.\u003cbr/\u003eThe exact tally of early live shows was in fact never kept, but tonight's performance is believed to be number 3,000 - as close as can be ascertained.\u003cbr/\u003eThe welcome is likely to be a far cry from the reaction of his earliest audiences:\u003cbr/\u003e\"..the early gigs were quite nerve wracking, you know as The Beatles we have people throwing pennies at us an stuff. Teds, big Teddy boys 'get off,' chucking stuff at us, and you know, we played to plenty to empty halls. But it was OK, we learned how to get over it, we picked the money up, 'Thank you.' They soon stopped throwing it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe legendary singer ends his current tour on 26 June, with a climactic performance to 120,000 fans at Glastonbury. He is the Saturday night headline act of the three day outdoor extravaganza billed as the largest music festival in the world.\u003cbr/\u003eThe ex-Beatle is a global star who has played on every continent but he has never before played the enormous music festival in his own country. \u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile, the pop veteran is brushing aside expectations that retirement must be looming. A new concert tour is planned for next year as well as a new album.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We're talking about a tour next year. The truth is I'm enjoying making music at this point, I'm feeling good and I've got a  nice band. That's half the battle, if you've got a lousy band and you're hating what you're doing and you can't write songs then it's probably a good time to retire but I'm enjoying it and as long as people like coming, and these ticket sales seem to be pretty good so I'll do it as long as they like it and I like it. \"\u003cbr/\u003eBy they end of McCartney's 04 Summer' Stadium tour, he will have played dates in Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Scandinavia. 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