The crowd was heavily peppered with entertainment industry heavies, including former Disney chief Michael Eisner, and musicians, from Alanis Morissette and Joe Walsh to producer Rick Rubin. The extended Beatles family was well-represented with Ringo Starr and wife Barbara Bach, George Harrison's widow, Olivia, Traveling Wilburys member Jeff Lynne and Barbara Orbison, widow of the Wilburys' Roy Orbison. Also spotted: Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Cybill Shepherd, Twiggy, Rosanna Arquette and Victoria Tennant.
Gazing at the cavernous store and its massive CD racks and poster-lined walls, McCartney said at one point, "It's so surreal playing a gig in a place like this." He compared the experience to a scene from 1960 sci-fi movie Village of the Damned and instructed fans to assume the roles of the cult film's stone-faced villagers. By example, he gamely offered a vacant stare and catatonic pose, but fans crumbled and grins blossomed across the crowd.
They just couldn't help it. The crowd was heavily peppered with entertainment industry heavies, including former Disney chief Michael Eisner, and musicians, from Alanis Morissette and Joe Walsh to producer Rick Rubin.
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