Taylor Swift gets Paul McCartney to do something truly rare for wedding

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding guests got to bear witness to something truly unheard of.

The pop star and Kansas City Chiefs tight end enlisted Paul McCartney as one of the night's performers at their grand reception inside Madison Square Garden on July 3, and managed to get him to perform a Beatles classic that he hasn't touched in decades.

The iconic singer and songwriter performed the band's No. 1 hit "I Want to Hold Your Hand," a source confirmed to USA TODAY.

The song helped launch Beatlemania in America and McCartney last played the song for an audience with The Beatles at Paramount Theatre in New York on Sept. 20, 1964, according to Setlist.fm.

The relationship between Swift and the "eternally exceptional" Beatle, as she recently called him while lauding his new album, "The Boys of Dungeon Lane," goes back more than a decade.

The legendary McCartney shared the stage with Swift at the 40th anniversary celebration for "Saturday Night Live" in 2015. Five years later, they teamed for Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians issue, interviewing each other about life and music.

After Swift donned her creative "Stevie Knicks" shirt while attending the NBA Finals last month at MSG, there was little doubt that the enchanting Fleetwood Mac maven would attend the nuptials. Stevie Nicks also performed at the wedding, a source told USA TODAY. It's unclear what Nicks performed.

Nicks and Swift's history stretches back to the 2010 Grammy Awards, where they performed the pop star's hit "You Belong With Me" and the Fleetwood Mac classic "Rhiannon." In 2024, Nicks penned a very Stevie-like poem for the liner notes of Swift's "The Tortured Poets Department" album, and last year, Swift elaborated on their relationship during an appearance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."

Source: usatoday.com/Melissa Ruggieri, Taijuan Moorman

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