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10-06-2008 13:14 Ukraine's Beatles fans ready to call June 14 national holiday
The Ukrainian capital is preparing to June 14, to a concert by Paul McCartney before a multi-thousand audience on Maydan Nezalezhnosti.
Sir Paul arrives in Kyiv by an invitation from Viktor Pinchuk Foundation. It is a special performance named "Independence Concert". The concert will be free for the public and it will be broadcasted in live air on the TV Novyi Channel. "The very fact of Paul McCartney's arrival is unique for Ukraine. A show and the largest stage that was ever constructed in Ukraine, 1,100 square meters, are being prepared on the main square of the capital for the performance of the legendary musician", Viktor Pinchuk Foundation's Communication Adviser Mykyta Poturayev told a press conference today. By calculations of the concert organizers, about 500 thousand of the Beatles fans will be able to hear his live performance. On the square and in Khreshchatyk Street eight monitors of 6x4 meters will be set up. Live broadcasting of the performance will be watched on the squares of Lviv, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa. M.Poturayev informed that by results of an interactive voting a list of songs that the Ukrainians want to hear was sent to Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney arrives in Ukraine on June 13 by his personal plane, and he will leave on June 15. On the arrival day he will open an exhibition of his artistic works in the PinchukArtCentre. In June 2007, Viktor Pinchuk Foundation has already organized a charitable concert of the world star Sir Elton John.
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