Can They Work It Out? Paul McCartney Visit To Yale Crashes Ticket Site

NEW HAVEN, CT — "Thank you for your patience," Yale asks as it sorts out the shutdown of its ticketing system for the appearance of Paul McCartney at the University's Schwartzman Center next week.

"The extraordinarily high demand for tickets to “The Lyrics: Paul McCartney in Conversation” resulted in our ticketing system, Yale Connect, shutting down shortly after 10am, Wednesday 2/8. To those attempting to register, we extend our sincere apologies for the frustration this issue has caused," the message on the Schwarzman Center site reads.

"To ensure equity in the ticketing process, the Schwarzman Center has suspended access to all public tickets for this event until our technical team has resolved the issue.We will soon set a new date and time when members of the public can obtain tickets. We will post those details on the Yale Schwarzman Center website and on social media."

Patch reached out to Schwarzman Center Communications Director Maurice Harris for comment on the status of the tech fix, and to ask if Yale prepared for a rush and demand for tickets. This post will be updated is a response is received.

The event is a celebration of McCartney's new book, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, in conversation with editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and the Neil Gray Jr. Professor of English at Yale Langdon Hammer.

The Lyrics encompasses McCartney's earliest boyhood compositions through the legendary decade of The Beatles, to Wings and his solo albums to the present. Arranged alphabetically to provide a kaleidoscopic rather than chronological account, it establishes definitive texts of the songs’ lyrics for the first time and describes the circumstances in which they were written, the people and places that inspired them, and what he thinks of them now.