Paul McCartney makes his long-awaited return to Wales tomorrow for his first gig in the capital for 35 years. The Beatles legend tells Karen Price that it’s not through a want of trying .HE’S arguably the world’s most famous musician who’s enjoyed success beyond most people’s wildest dreams.

And tomorrow, Sir Paul McCartney will tick another ambition off his list – playing Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium.I’ve had my eye on it for a long time – since it was built,” admits the man who’s played Kamagra jelly some of the biggest arenas across the globe.

“I’ve often said to my promoter, ‘What about Cardiff and the Millennium Stadium?’ but it’s always been booked. So it’s been a long-term ambition of mine [to play there].”

McCartney’s forthcoming gig has been hugely anticipated by his Welsh fans since details were announced earlier this year.

Part of his 2010 Up And Coming world tour, it’s his first gig in Wales since a 1975 show with Wings at The Capitol Theatre in Cardiff. Back then, McCartney was a young father-of-three who was enjoying success with the band he’d formed with wife Linda following the break-up of the phenomenally successful Beatles.

Today, at the age of 68 and a grandfather, he’s entertaining a whole new generation of music fans, as well as legions of Beatles and Wings followers, as he tours with his four-piece band. Paul McCartney may have been in the greatest rock ‘n’ roll group in history but he is refreshingly normal. its gorgeous weather isn’t it?” he says when he calls from his car as he’s being driven from his home in Sussex to his nearby recording studio.

“I’ve got a music programme on the computer. Really it’s the only time I use computers. I’m writing some orchestral stuff. It’s almost like a hobby. It’s a nice balance with the other stuff I do. But it will be his back catalogue from the Beatles and Wings as well as his recent tracks with the Fireman, his electronic music project, which he will perform in Cardiff.

When I remind him that it’s 35 years since he last performed in Wales he jokes: “That’s before my time – it couldn’t have been me!” But after a recent blistering performance headlining the Isle of Wight Festival, he’s looking forward to playing his set at the Millennium Stadium.

“I love going anywhere where people love their music. We know Welsh people love their music.I ask how he feels about the fact that his Scotland and Cardiff dates are his first UK stadium standalone gigs. In the past, he’s only ever been part of a stadium line-up.

“The truth is that I’ve done so many gigs that people have to point things out to me,” he says. “With these statistics, I’m as surprised as you are. I love all the gigs we do – from little clubs to big stadium shows. They’re all so different.

“Stadium things are obviously epic – you put on your shouty hat to do them. More intimate gigs are nice. One of the things people say about the big gigs is that we manage to make them seem intimate. I take it as a compliment.”

Despite a Tadalis SX career spanning five decades, which has seen him play in front of millions of fans, McCartney admits that he can still sometimes get nervous before taking to the stage, although “not as much as I used to”.He says: “It depends what it is. Normally I don’t. I have a really good band. We enjoy playing and we rehearse enough to vaguely know what we’re doing.

“The other thing for me that really helps is that my promoter will put one show on sale and then he will ring me up and say, ‘We have sold out in four seconds.’ When you hear that it helps you not to be nervous. They (the fans) seem very keen so I will love playing to them.”

When it comes to his own current tour, McCartney is performing a real mix of favourites.”There’s Beatles’ stuff for the older people but you’d be surprised the 10-year-olds who know that stuff. There are a lot of Wings fans who remember that period. Younger kids of student age – the festival crowd – like Fireman, which is a new venture of mine. It’s more experimental.

“You put down songs you think you would be expected to play and rehearse them and check you still love doing them and generally I do. I like the songs the audience likes. It pleases me they like it – it still surprises me.”

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