The Irish summer has just become even more star-studded with Paul McCartney announcing his first appearance here since The Beatles played Dublin's Adelphi Theatre in 1965.
Yup, everybody's favourite thumbs-aloft merchant brings his Back In The World tour to the RDS on May 27, with tickets priced €75 (general admission) and €105 (seated) available from February 27.
Enthuses Sir Paul: "Playing Dublin is going to mean a lot because Ireland is such a special place for me – my mother originally hailed from Ireland, it's where Heather and I chose to be married and I've a lot of ties with the land and the people."
As for the content of the two-and-a-half-hour show, McCartney continues: "When I was thinking of what songs to play I just imagined myself as one of the audience and thought, 'What would I like to hear him play?' So that means we'll be doing some of my Beatles stuff – rather a lot of Beatles stuff, actually! – some Wings stuff and some more recent stuff. So basically the show spans my whole career."
There's more good news for Fab Four fans with anti-piracy police recovering 500 lost Beatles masters during twin raids in England and Holland last month. The reel-to-reels are believed to include the unedited Get Back sessions which went missing in the early '70s, and several unreleased tracks that are likely to form the backbone of a third Beatles Anthology.