Sir Paul McCartney helped a Chilean couple get engaged on Friday evening before his sold-out show at the Monumental Stadium in Santiago, Chile.
During soundcheck for his show, the Beatles star, 82, spotted Yamil Álamo and Leonora Pereira in the crowd dressed as 1970s versions of himself and his late wife Linda McCartney.
The couple also held up a sign which read ‘Paul: Give us a handshake and we’ll get married’, and upon noticing them, he sweetly invited them both on stage.
Once they were on stage, Yamil got down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend of six years, Leonora.
Discussing the heartwarming moment that they will never forget, Yamil said: ‘This was a very special moment for us,’
Sir Paul McCartney helped a Chilean couple get engaged on Friday evening before his sold-out show at the Monumental Stadium in Santiago, Chile
During soundcheck, the Beatles star spotted Yamil Álamo and Leonora Pereira in the crowd dressed as 1970 versions of Paul and Linda McCartney and invited them both on stage
The couple, who are from the city of La Serena, have previously travelled internationally to attend his concerts.
They plan to tie the knot to the soundtrack of the McCartney classic Maybe I’m Amazed’.
Sir Paul, who is currently on the South American leg of his Got Back tour, is set to perform in Brazil after his show in Santiago.
The tour kicked off in Uruguay at the beginning of the month and saw the artist perform the last unfinished Beatles song Now and Then for the first time.
It comes after Sir Paul paid a heartfelt tribute to the late John Lennon on what would have been his 84th birthday.
The singer took to Instagram on Wednesday to share a snap from a 2022 performance of himself on stage with projected footage of John playing the guitar behind him.
The footage was taken from Peter Jackson’s Disney+ documentary The Beatles: Get Back, which aired in November 2021 and followed the making of the band’s 1970 album Let It Be.
It comes after Sir Paul paid a heartfelt tribute to the late John Lennon on what would have been his 84th birthday, sharing a snap of himself performing in front of a video of the late star
The sweet tribute comes after Sir Paul revealed he would have been wracked with guilt if he had not repaired his friendship with John before he was tragically murdered in 1980 (pictured in 1963)
Sir Paul captioned the sweet snap: ‘Happy Birthday John. Thanks for being there.’
The sweet tribute comes after Sir Paul revealed he would have been wracked with guilt if he had not repaired his friendship with John before he was tragically murdered in 1980.
John was shot dead at the age of 40 by crazed fan Mark Chapman outside his home in New York City.
He left The Beatles in 1969 and became embroiled in legal battles over the band’s back catalogue which caused tension between him and his former songwriting partner Sir Paul.
The feud between the two was well documented by the press at the time and, in a 1971 interview, John stated that he could not foresee working with Sir Paul again.
However, the pair managed to get their friendship back on track in the mid-1970s and Sir Paul spent time at the home John shared in New York with his second wife Yoko Ono.
Reflecting on mending their friendship, Sir Paul said on the McCartney: A Life in Lyrics podcast: ‘In the end, it was something I was very glad of, when he got murdered, that I’d had some really good times with him before that happened.’
‘It would have been the worst thing in the world had he just been killed and we still had a bad relationship. That would have been a big guilt trip for me.’
‘Luckily, we were friendly, we talked about how to bake bread.’
‘You’ve got to remember I sued him in court, I sued his friends from Liverpool, life-long friends, in court. There’s a lot of getting over that has to be done.’
In 2022, Sir Paul said he ‘couldn’t talk about’ John’s death after his murder in 1980.
He detailed how he returned home from the studio the day of his friend’s death and turned on the TV to see people reflecting on ‘what John meant’ to them.
The Beatles formed in Liverpool in 1960 and went on to have a string of hits together (L-R: Ringo Starr, John, Sir Paul, George Harrison in 1964)
He said: ‘When John died it was so difficult. It had hit me so much that I couldn’t really talk about it.’
‘I remember getting home from the studio on the day that we’d heard the news he died. Turning the TV on and seeing people say, “Well, John Lennon was this” and “What he was, was this” and “I remember meeting him”.
‘I was like, “I can’t be one of those people. I can’t go on TV and say what John meant to me.” It was just too deep. I couldn’t put it into words.’
Sir Paul added how he managed to express his grief about losing John in his 1982 song Here Today.
The artist revealed he ‘sat on the wooden floor in the corner with my guitar’ and came up with the opening chords to the track.
