Paul McCartney knows when he's not wanted.
He's shucked plans to perform at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn., in July, bowing to residents who feared a concert would disrupt the neighborhood too much."I have decided that the strength of local opposition was formidable enough to have us reconsider the proposed New Haven show," McCartney's manager, Ogdan Nash, said in a statement. "Paul is very sensitive to community concerns of this sort and has no desire to be the catalyst for such a deep and divisive controversy within the city."
Alderman Jonathan J. Einhorn said, "It wasn't Paul McCartney. It was the concept of opening the Yale Bowl for these kinds of commercial concerts."
The concert was to have been the finale of McCartney's international tour and was expected to pull in $325,000 in profits for the city, which is facing a $10.7 million deficit in the current fiscal year.