The sweet moment Paul McCartney, 82, helps a couple get engaged at his concert in Chile, as they enjoyed it lavishly, was ‘a very special moment for them’

Sir Paul McCartney helped a Chilean couple get engaged on Friday evening, ahead of his sold-out show at the Monumental Stadium in Santiago, Chile.

During the soundcheck before his show, the Beatles star, 82, spotted Yamil Álamo and Leonora Pereira in the crowd, dressed as 1970s versions of himself and his late wife Linda McCartney.

The couple also held up a sign that read, “Paul: Give us a handshake and we’ll get married,” and when he noticed them, he graciously invited them both onto the stage.

Once they were on stage, Yamil got down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend of six years, Leonora.

Discussing the heartwarming moment they will never forget, Yamil said: ‘This was a very special moment for us’

Sir Paul McCartney helped a Chilean couple get engaged on Friday evening, ahead of his sold-out show at the Monumental Stadium in Santiago, Chile

During soundcheck, the Beatles star spotted Yamil Álamo and Leonora Pereira in the crowd dressed as 1970s versions of Paul and Linda McCartney and invited them both on stage.

‘Because we’ve been trying to meet him for years and today is the day! I have no words to describe the experience.”

The couple, who hail from the city of La Serena, previously traveled internationally to attend his concerts.

They plan to tie the knot to the soundtrack of the McCartney classic Maybe I’m Amazed’.

Sir Paul, who is currently on the South American leg of his Got Back tour, will perform in Brazil after his Santiago show.

The tour kicked off in Uruguay earlier this month and saw the artist perform the final unfinished Beatles song Now and Then for the first time.

It comes after Sir Paul paid a heartfelt tribute to the late John Lennon on what would have been his 84th birthday.

The singer shared on Instagram on Wednesday a photo of a 2022 performance of himself on stage with projected images of John playing guitar behind him.

The footage comes from Peter Jackson’s Disney+ documentary The Beatles: Get Back, which aired in November 2021 and followed the making of the 1970 album Let It Be.

It comes after Sir Paul paid a heartfelt tribute to the late John Lennon on what would have been his 84th birthday, sharing a photo of himself performing for a video of the late star

The sweet tribute comes after Sir Paul revealed he would have been wracked with guilt if he had not mended his friendship with John before he was tragically murdered in 1980 (pictured in 1963).

Sir Paul captioned the sweet photo: ‘Happy birthday John. Thanks for being there.”

The sweet tribute comes after Sir Paul revealed he would have been wracked with guilt if he had not mended his friendship with John before he was tragically murdered in 1980.

John was shot dead at the age of 40 by crazed fan Mark Chapman outside his home in New York City.

He left The Beatles in 1969 and became embroiled in legal battles over the band’s back catalogue, causing tension between him and his former songwriting partner Sir Paul.

The feud between the two was well documented by the press at the time and in a 1971 interview John stated that he could not foresee working with Sir Paul again.

However, the pair managed to rekindle their friendship in the mid-1970s and Sir Paul spent time at the house John shared in New York with his second wife Yoko Ono.

Reflecting on rebuilding their friendship, Sir Paul said on the McCartney: A Life in Lyrics podcast: ‘In the end it was something I was really happy about, when he was killed, that I had had some really good times with him before. that happened.’

“It would have been the worst thing in the world if he had just been murdered and we were still in a bad relationship. That would have been a big guilt trip for me.”

“Luckily we were friendly, we talked about baking bread.”

‘You have to remember that I took him to court, and his friends from Liverpool, friends for life, to court. There is still a lot to be done.’

In 2022, Sir Paul said he ‘couldn’t talk about’ John’s death after his murder in 1980.

He told how on the day of his friend’s death he came home from the studio and turned on the TV to see people thinking about “what John meant to them.”

The Beatles formed in Liverpool in 1960 and had a string of hits together (L-R: Ringo Starr, John, Sir Paul, George Harrison in 1964)

He said: ‘When John died it was so hard. It affected me so much that I couldn’t really talk about it.’

“I remember coming home from the studio the day we heard the news that he died. Turning on the TV and seeing people say, “Well, John Lennon was this” and “What he was was this” and “I remember meeting him.”

“I was like, ‘I can’t be one of those people. I can’t go on TV and say what John meant to me.’ It was just too deep. I couldn’t put it into words.’

Sir Paul added how he managed to express his grief over the loss of John in his 1982 song Here Today.

The artist revealed that he “sat on the wooden floor in the corner with my guitar” and came up with the opening chords for the song.