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Paul McCartney finally heads Back to the USSR
AFP

LONDON March 20 - It'll be Paul McCartney's turn to make Moscow girls ``sing and shout'' when he plays Russia for the first time, and 35 years after cutting the Beatles classic ``Back In The USSR''.

Some 100,000 fans are set to fill Red Square for the May 24 concert, in which Sir Paul will get his revenge at Soviet apparatchiks who had banned the Fab Four for years.

``I'm delighted that at last I can play there,'' said McCartney as he revealed his Russian shows during an Internet chat session.

Like his recent US and forthcoming European shows, the show will include more than 20 Beatles hits, together with solo and Wings tracks.

``I've never even visited Russia as a tourist, so it's exciting for me now to be getting to perform there with a band and finally be singing `Back In The USSR' and all these other songs for people who, I've got a feeling, might just be ready for it,'' the musician said.

``Back In The USSR,'' co-written by John Lennon and McCartney, was recorded in August 1968 for the Beatles' ``White Album.''

It included the lines: ``Well, the Ukraine girls really knock me out/They leave the West behind/And Moscow girls make me sing and shout/That Georgia's always on my mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mind.''

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