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By MICHAEL BRODEUR | August 10, 2009

When I darted out onto Van Ness during the second encore to catch my commuter rail, the sidewalks were teeming with ticketless listeners — kids with brown bags, couples in cars — softly singing along to “Yesterday.” A street full of strangers singing in unison can count as a musical or a miracle — and I’m leaning toward the latter. As easy as it is to grouse over ticket prices, parking prices, pretzel prices, and whatever else, it’s worth considering that as much as Macca’s given the world for free, we might owe him one. (Or 200.)

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