LONDON — A hint of autumnal Beatlemania was in the air Sunday as Paul McCartney, for the second time in his improbable life, climbed the steps of venerable Old Marylebone Town Hall to get married.
True, thousands of heartbroken female fans crowded the columned building in 1969 when he married Linda Eastman, and only a few hundred showed up Sunday as he wed another American, Nancy Shevell at the very same registry office.
The 69-year-old former Beatle raised his bride’s hand in triumph as he walked down the steps after a simple civil ceremony attended by close family and friends, including drummer Ringo Starr and Barbara Walters, a second cousin of the bride.
“I feel absolutely wonderful,” McCartney told fans as he arrived at his home after the ceremony. He was expected to sing a new song he had composed for his bride at the reception.
Shevell, 51, serves on the board of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and is a vice president of a lucrative New Jersey-based trucking company owned by her father.
The couple met in the Hamptons. Some reports say that Walters played matchmaker.
