Paul McCartney reportedly surprised guests at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding reception by performing the Beatles classic “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” This marks the first time McCartney has played the song live since 1964, making the event a notable occasion for music history enthusiasts.

The reception, held at Madison Square Garden, featured a lineup of A-list performers, including Stevie Nicks.

People magazine reported that McCartney chose this special event to revive a song he had not performed live since the early days of The Beatles and had never played as a solo artist.

A source told People that after the ceremony, Taylor Swift’s mother, Andrea, invited attendees into the reception room where a stage had been set up for the performances.

The last recorded live performance of “I Want to Hold Your Hand” by McCartney was on September 20, 1964, during a Beatles concert at New York’s Paramount Theatre, according to setlist.fm.

This means the song remained unplayed by him for 62 years until the recent wedding.

McCartney and Swift have a history of mutual admiration, having appeared together on the cover of Rolling Stone’s Musicians on Musicians issue in 2020.

Weeks before the wedding, McCartney drew parallels between Swift’s fame and that of The Beatles, telling the BBC, “You do see the parallel, you know the fame and the amount of fame.

The worldwide fame that Taylor Swift has and that we had, but I don’t think she needs any advice to tell you the truth.” Swift has also publicly praised McCartney, calling him an “eternally exceptional artist” on social media following the release of his album, *The Boys of Dungeon Lane*.