Touring the park with the Chicago Tribune’s Phil Hersh on Tuesday, I stopped outside the gigantic venue and openly wondered.
Why would the Olympic folks be blaring the most iconic Beatles song in the middle of a weekday afternoon? Or was some cover band actually in the stadium singing it?
We walked up to an Olympic worker and asked, "Where is that song coming from?"
The guy shrugged and said, "Sir Paul is in there training."
Yes, he was talking about Paul McCartney. And, yes, as we discovered moments later when we entered the mostly empty stadium, Paul McCartney and his band were on an end-zone stage rehearsing "Hey, Jude."
The scene was surreal. My sweat became chills. We stood and swayed with a couple of hundred workers listening to McCartney booming one of the most memorable refrains in music history.
"Na na na, na-na na na…"
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