Paul McCartney put on a concert in Israel celebrating that country's 60th anniversary, despite the death threats Thursday. Billing his concert "Friendship First," Paul gave the Israelites and Palestinians a message about peace and even sang "Give Peace a Chance" in memory of his fellow Beatle, John Lennon. He also played other Beatles songs as well as songs from his 70s band, Wings.
It took 43 years for Paul to get his chance to do a concert in Tel Aviv. Back in the 1960s, the Beatles were scheduled to do a concert, but they were told that they were banned from performing. It has been revealed that the two feuding concert promoters concocted that story. The son of the Israeli official who allegedly banned the band, newspaper columnist Yossi Sarid, went on a campaign to clear his father's name this year and exposed the truth.
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