McCartney salute to Lennon an emotional concert highlight

NEW YORK - Paul McCartney says the emotional highlight of his current tour is a little-known song called ``Here Today.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> He wrote it for his former Beatle bandmate John Lennon shortly after Lennon&#39;s murder in 1980. Until now, he&#39;s performed it mostly as a poem. <br> <br> McCartney is in the middle of a 20-date U-S tour, his first in ten years. <br> <br> It came about as an indirect result of the September eleventh terror attacks. <br> <br> He was in New York that day, on an airport runway in fact, for a concert in Russia. Instead, he stayed in the city and performed in last fall&#39;s Concert for New York. <br> <br> He says that was the gig that persuaded him it would be a good idea to go on an American tour.

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