Paul McCartney to perform on 'Colbert Report'
British musician Paul McCartney performs during his "Up And Coming Tour" at the Morumbi Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Nov. 21, 2010) Credit: AP
Paul McCartney will perform and be interviewed Wednesday on a special one-hour episode of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," the network announced Wednesday.
The show will feature songs from the former Beatle's ongoing "Out There" tour as well as from the new reissue of the classic 1976 album, "Wings Over America."
McCartney will also perform a song that will be exclusively available at ColbertNation.com.
"I think this McCartney kid's got something special and I'm gonna put him on the map!" Colbert said in a statement.
McCartney, 70, first appeared on "The Colbert Report" in January 2009 during the satirical show's "Better Know a Beatle" segment, but Wednesday's show will be his first musical performance. The long-running show has aired one other hourlong music special, which featured Radiohead in September 2011.
McCartney is scheduled to perform Saturday and Monday at Brooklyn's Barclays Center.
In July 2009, in one of his most memorable New York TV appearances, McCartney performed on the marquee of the Ed Sullivan Theater, home of "The Late Show with David Letterman."
Thousands of fans gathered below on Broadway to watch him perform "Get Back" and "Sing the Changes." The theater, of course, was where The Beatles performed in February 1964 on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
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