Friday, November 21st, and Hamilton, a city just over 70 kilometers from Toronto, is celebrating: not only will its largest pavilion be reopened – after works that cost more than 300 million Canadian dollars (if you do the math, it’s more than 180 million euros!) and which led to the former FirstOntario Center being renamed TD Coliseum – but it will receive what is probably the most important living legend in the history of music (the capital H is not used for nothing). “Who here is from Hamilton?”, he asks when the concert is already over. A few hundred respond. “Who isn’t from Hamilton?” he asks then, anticipating a voracious response. “Then welcome.” This is Paul McCartney, the Beatle, the Sir, the man who doesn’t seem human because the gods don’t usually privilege humans with their presence.
