Sir Paul McCartney told to turn down a rendition of `Live And Let Die` for fear of waking the Pope

Sir Paul McCartney may be forced to turn down the volume when his European tour reaches Rome - in case he wakes the Pope.

Organisers are considering dropping some of his loudest rock numbers, including the Bond theme "Live And Let Die", for fear of disturbing the Pope.

They are worried that the frail 82-year-old pontiff will be kept awake by the noise drifting over to the Vatican.

The former Beatle is due to perform a free three-hour show outside the Coliseum in May and crowds of more than 300,000 are expected.



"We have been advised by Italian contacts that the show could keep His Holiness the Pope up all night," said tour promoter Barrie Marshall.

"Obviously we do not want to cause any offence or sleeplessness to His Holiness and, because of the closeness of The Vatican to the show at the Coliseum, we are now considering our position on performing loud rock songs."

If organisers do decide to tone things down, the fmaous 007 song may have to be added to his acoustic set instead.

A spokesman for Sir Paul said: "We don`t want to tone down the rock and roll element in the set - we reckon the Pope may actually enjoy a boogie. But we don`t want problems with the neighbours."

Sir Paul`s European tour kicked off in Paris last week and reaches the UK this weekend.

Thanks to Zao for the alert.

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