Paul McCartney, Beyonce to host TV specials on Thanksgiving

Posted Nov 12, 2009 by Walt Belcher

Updated Nov 12, 2009 at 05:07 PM

ABC has a double bill of musical talent on Thanksgiving night when Beyonce Knowles and Paul McCartney are featured in back-to-back one-hour specials at 9 and 10 p.m. The specials will include interviews and exclusive concert footage.

The McCartney special will include McCartney’s July performance at Citi Field, in Queens, N.Y., the new home of the New York Mets. The special will also feature footage from the original 1965 Beatles concert at Shea Stadium in New York. In an interview, McCartney talks about his emotional journey from the early days in the Beatles to returning 45 years later to the stage where the group made its mark at the height of Beatlemania.

Singer-songwriter Beyonce Knowles performs her biggest hits in a never-before-seen performance made during her “I Am… Tour” tour this summer at the Encore Theater at the Wynn Las Vegas.

Beyonce also shares how she started as a 9-year-old singer and went on to join the girl group Destiny’s Child. She is a seven-time Grammy award-winning singer now who heads a business empire.