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Got Back
Tour by Paul McCartney
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Official poster for the first North American leg
Location
  • Europe
  • North America
  • Oceania
  • South America
Start date28 April 2022
End date19 December 2024
Legs7
No. of shows59
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Paul McCartney concert chronology

Got Back was a concert tour by English musician Paul McCartney. The tour started on 28 April 2022 at the Spokane Arena in Spokane, United States, and ended on 19 December 2024 at the O2 Arena in London, England. [1] The tour was McCartney's first following the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in the cancellation of a planned European leg of his Freshen Up tour in 2020, [2] which included a planned performance at Glastonbury Festival. [3] McCartney performed at Glastonbury on 25 June 2022, as a conclusion to the first leg of the Got Back tour. [4]

Contents

The setlist for Got Back, as with McCartney's other concert tours as a solo artist, included songs by his former bands the Beatles and Wings, as well as songs from his solo career. In addition to McCartney, the tour band included Rusty Anderson on guitar, Brian Ray on guitar and bass, Paul "Wix" Wickens on keyboards, and Abe Laboriel Jr. on drums, along with the brass trio Hot City Horns. Originally planned for fourteen stops on the tour, a second date in both Oakland, California, and Boston were later added, [5] [6] for a total of sixteen concerts across the United States. On July 31, 2023, McCartney announced he would resume the Got Back tour, beginning with seven shows in Australia, followed by a Latin American leg. A second Latin American leg, with shows in cities where the tour had not previously visited, was announced in June 2024, [7] followed by a second European leg. [8] On June 20, 2024, McCartney announced two more concerts in Mexico. [9]

Background

North America and Europe

Got Back was McCartney's first series of live shows since 2019. [10] The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the cancellation of the final European leg of his previous tour in 2020, [2] which included a planned performance at Glastonbury Festival as the final show. [3] During the pandemic in 2020, McCartney recorded and released his 18th solo album, McCartney III . [2] In 2021, the three-part documentary series The Beatles: Get Back , directed and produced by Peter Jackson, was released on Disney+. The series covers the making of the album Let It Be by McCartney's former band the Beatles, utilizing footage and audio captured for a 1970 documentary film of the same name.

The dates for the Got Back tour were announced on 18 February 2022. [10] [11] The tour was originally planned to have fourteen stops. On 25 February 2022, it was announced that a second concert would be held at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, on 8 June, in addition to the already-announced concert on 7 June. [5] On 11 March, it was then announced that the concert planned for 6 May at Oakland Arena in Oakland, California, would be followed by a second concert in the same venue on 8 May (Mother's Day), [6] bringing the total number of planned stops on the tour to sixteen.

Following the conclusion of the North American leg of the tour, McCartney headlined at the Glastonbury Festival on 25 June 2022, in a 160-minute set, with special guests Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen. [12] [13]

Overview

McCartney at his upright piano at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida Paul McCartney at his upright "magic piano" on the Got Back tour at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida, 28 May 2022.jpg
McCartney at his upright piano at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida
McCartney performing "I've Got a Feeling" as a "video duet" with footage of John Lennon Paul McCartney performing "I've Got a Feeling" video duet with John Lennon on the Got Back tour at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida, 28 May 2022 (02) (cropped).png
McCartney performing "I've Got a Feeling" as a "video duet" with footage of John Lennon

The setlist for the Got Back tour consisted of over 30 songs, including songs by the Beatles and Wings, as well as songs from McCartney's solo career. Each concert ran for around 2 hours and 40 minutes. [14] [15] [16] The pre-show featured a scrolling video slide show of images of McCartney and the Beatles, [17] culminating in an animated image of McCartney's Höfner bass. [18]

The sixth song on the setlist was Wings' "Let Me Roll It", which segued into a snippet of "Foxy Lady" as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix. [15] [19] The ninth song on the setlist was "My Valentine", a song from McCartney's solo career, accompanied by a video of Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp gesturing in sign language. [15] The 16th song on the setlist, the Beatles' "Blackbird", featured McCartney singing while playing acoustic guitar, elevated about six metres (20 feet) in the air, in front of a large LED display. [19] [15] "Blackbird" was followed by another acoustic performance, "Here Today", a song which McCartney wrote about his former Beatles bandmate John Lennon after Lennon's murder in 1980. [20] [21] The 22nd song on the setlist, the George Harrison-penned "Something", began with McCartney playing a ukulele which Harrison gave to him. [19] The 28th song on the setlist, Wings' "Live and Let Die", involves the use of pyrotechnics, including flames and fireworks. [15]

The Spokesman-Review and The Dallas Morning News noted the absence of the Beatles song "Back in the U.S.S.R.", a usual staple of McCartney's live concerts, from the setlist, [22] [23] in light of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [23] Immediately preceding the encore at each stop on the tour, McCartney and his fellow band members left the stage and each returned with a flag: the flag of the United Kingdom, the flag of the country they were performing in, an LGBT pride flag, and, in 2022, the flag of Ukraine, [23] as well as the state flag of whichever US state the concert took place in (for example, the flag of Texas at the show in Fort Worth, Texas, [23] and the flag of Florida at the show in Hollywood, Florida [24] ).

The encore of the show was composed of the Beatles songs "I've Got a Feeling", "Birthday", "Helter Skelter", and "Golden Slumbers" / "Carry That Weight" / "The End". "I've Got a Feeling" was originally written and sung by McCartney and John Lennon and included on the Let It Be album. The performances of this song during the tour included a "video duet" between McCartney and Lennon, using footage restored for the Get Back documentary of Lennon performing the song with the Beatles during their 1969 rooftop concert. [25] Jackson had isolated the vocals of Lennon after conceiving the idea of having Lennon "sing" along with McCartney and his live band; he told McCartney, "We can extract John's voice, and he can sing with you," to which McCartney replied, "Oh, yeah!" [2]

On the final stop of the North American leg of the tour, on 16 June 2022 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, McCartney was joined on stage during the concert by New Jersey-born musicians Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi. [26] [27] Springsteen, with McCartney and McCartney's band, performed the Springsteen song "Glory Days", as well as the Beatles' "I Wanna Be Your Man". [26] [27] During the show's encore, Bon Jovi appeared on stage with balloons and sang "Happy Birthday" to McCartney, who should turned 80 years old two days later on 18 June 2022. [26] [27] Springsteen returned during the final song, "The End", playing guitar. [26] [27]

During the 2024 leg in Latin America, McCartney debuted "Now and Then" which was accompanied by clips of the song's music video.

McCartney also held meet and greet events for competition-winning fans for the first time since COVID. When interviewed about the encounters before his Buenos Aires shows in Argentina, he said "It’s great because they are always super pleased to see me, and they each have an interesting story. For example, one guy today told me he just got married, and another fan mentioned she is getting married to someone she met at my show soon which is so lovely to hear." [28] [29]

Reception

Reviewing the 13 May concert held at Inglewood, California's SoFi Stadium, Chris Willman of Variety commended McCartney's singing voice and made note of the show's structure: "a rocking opening stretch highly reliant on '70s rockers [...] a partially acoustic, 'Storytellers'-like magical history tour of the Beatles' rise as the backbone of Act 2, [...] and then, letting the third hour be birthday songs, na-na-na-na-na-na-na-ing and Abbey Road medley-izing. That structure indisputably works, and so, as part of a winning formula, does a band that has now been together for many more years than the Beatles ever were". [18]

The Charlotte Observer 's Théoden Janes, reviewing the 21 May concert at Truist Field at Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, praised the show, calling the setlist "thoughtfully curated" and writing that "the entire night was one big nonstop highlight". [15] However, Janes suggested that the production "skip the music video that plays during 'My Valentine,'" stating, "We want to think about someone we love during that song. Not about Depp and Amber Heard"; they also criticized the heavy traffic around the stadium and the management of it by stadium officials and local police. [15]

Grant Albert of the Miami New Times , in a review of the 25 May concert held at Hollywood, Florida's Hard Rock Live, wrote that McCartney "can't hit the high notes like he used to. Still, his 60-plus year discography, showmanship, and influence didn't stop the nearly 7,000 attendees from enjoying the rock polymath perform"; he added, "McCartney injected loads of humor, visuals, lasers, and a genuine intention to put on a good show". [24]

Reviewing the 7 June concert at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, Marc Hirsch of the Boston Herald noted "some small noticeable vulnerabilities from age" in McCartney's singing voice, "But it otherwise maintained its essential McCartneyness". [16] Hirsh also wrote, "Eleven days shy of turning 80, he was spry and up for the endurance challenge of playing upward of 30 songs over the course of two hours and 40 minutes at the first of two sold-out shows." [16]

Personnel

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Rusty Anderson (Backing vocals,
electric guitar, acoustic guitar)
Paul McCartney performing with guitar on the Got Back tour at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida, 28 May 2022 (cropped).jpg

Paul McCartney
(Lead vocals, bass,
acoustic guitar, piano,
electric guitar,
ukulele, mandolin)
Brian Ray - Paul McCartney - ON THE RUN - Uruguay, 2012-04-16.jpg

Brian Ray (Backing vocals, electric guitar,
acoustic guitar, bass, electric sitar)
Paul Wix Wickens.jpg

Paul "Wix" Wickens
(Backing vocals, keyboards,
electric guitar,
acoustic guitar,
bongos, percussion,
harmonica, accordion)
Abe Laboriel, Tel Aviv.jpg
Abe Laboriel Jr. (Backing vocals,
drums, percussion)

Additional musicians

Hot City Horns

Set lists

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McCartney performing at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California
McCartney performing "Blackbird" at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida Paul McCartney performing "Blackbird" on the Got Back tour at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida, 28 May 2022 (cropped).jpg
McCartney performing "Blackbird" at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida

2022

  1. "Can't Buy Me Love"
  2. "Junior's Farm"
  3. "Letting Go"
  4. "Got to Get You into My Life"
  5. "Come On to Me"
  6. "Let Me Roll It" (with "Foxy Lady" coda)
  7. "Getting Better"
  8. "Let 'Em In" or "Women and Wives"
  9. "My Valentine"
  10. "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five"
  11. "Maybe I'm Amazed"
  12. "I've Just Seen a Face" or "We Can Work It Out"
  13. "In Spite of All the Danger"
  14. "Love Me Do"
  15. "Dance Tonight"
  16. "Blackbird"
  17. "Here Today"
  18. "New" or "Queenie Eye"
  19. "Lady Madonna"
  20. "Fuh You"
  21. "Jet" (added from 8 June)
  22. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"
  23. "Something"
  24. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
  25. "You Never Give Me Your Money"
  26. "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window"
  27. "Get Back"
  28. "Band on the Run"
  29. "Let It Be"
  30. "Live and Let Die"
  31. "Hey Jude"
Encore
  1. "I've Got a Feeling" (virtual duet with John Lennon)
  2. "Birthday"
  3. "Helter Skelter"
  4. "Golden Slumbers"
  5. "Carry That Weight"
  6. "The End"

2023

  1. "Can't Buy Me Love" or "A Hard Day's Night"
  2. "Junior's Farm"
  3. "Letting Go"
  4. "She's A Woman" or "Drive My Car"
  5. "Got to Get You into My Life"
  6. "Come On to Me" or "Coming Up"
  7. "Let Me Roll It" (with "Foxy Lady" coda)
  8. "Getting Better"
  9. "Let 'Em In"
  10. "My Valentine"
  11. "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five"
  12. "Maybe I'm Amazed"
  13. "I've Just Seen a Face"
  14. "In Spite of All the Danger"
  15. "Love Me Do"
  16. "Dance Tonight"
  17. "Blackbird"
  18. "Here Today"
  19. "New" or "Queenie Eye"
  20. "Lady Madonna"
  21. "Fuh You" (Removed from 4 December)
  22. "You Never Give Me Your Money" (Removed from 4 December)
  23. "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window" (Removed from 4 December)
  24. "Jet"
  25. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"
  26. "Something"
  27. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
  28. "Band on the Run"
  29. "Get Back"
  30. "Let It Be"
  31. "Live and Let Die"
  32. "Hey Jude"
Encore
  1. "I've Got a Feeling" (virtual duet with John Lennon)
  2. "Birthday" or "I Saw Her Standing There" or "Day Tripper"
  3. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)"
  4. "Helter Skelter"
  5. "Golden Slumbers"
  6. "Carry That Weight"
  7. "The End"

2024

  1. "Can't Buy Me Love" or "A Hard Day's Night"
  2. "Junior's Farm"
  3. "Letting Go"
  4. "She's A Woman" or "Drive My Car"
  5. "Got to Get You into My Life"
  6. "Come On to Me"
  7. "Let Me Roll It" (with "Foxy Lady" coda)
  8. "Getting Better"
  9. "Let 'Em In"
  10. "My Valentine"
  11. "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five"
  12. "Maybe I'm Amazed"
  13. "I've Just Seen a Face"
  14. "In Spite of All the Danger"
  15. "Love Me Do"
  16. "Dance Tonight"
  17. "Blackbird"
  18. "Here Today"
  19. "Now and Then"
  20. "New"
  21. "Lady Madonna"
  22. "Jet"
  23. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"
  24. "Something"
  25. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
  26. "Band on the Run"
  27. "Get Back"
  28. "Let It Be"
  29. "Live and Let Die"
  30. "Hey Jude"
Encore
  1. "I've Got a Feeling" (virtual duet with John Lennon)
  2. "Birthday" or "Hi, Hi, Hi"
  3. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)"
  4. "Helter Skelter"
  5. "Golden Slumbers"
  6. "Carry That Weight"
  7. "The End"

Tour dates

List of 2022 concerts [17] [24] [31] [32]
DateCityCountryVenueAttendanceRevenue
28 April 2022 Spokane United States Spokane Arena 10,760 / 10,760$3,438,893
2 May 2022 Seattle Climate Pledge Arena 30,324 / 30,324$7,983,322
3 May 2022
6 May 2022 Oakland Oakland Arena 28,599 / 28,599$7,580,903
8 May 2022
13 May 2022 Inglewood [a] SoFi Stadium 43,658 / 43,658$12,046,695
17 May 2022 Fort Worth Dickies Arena 12,093 / 12,093$3,985,850
21 May 2022 Winston-Salem Truist Field at Wake Forest 33,222 / 33,222$7,256,101
25 May 2022 Hollywood Hard Rock Live 6,720 / 6,720$3,347,447
28 May 2022 Orlando Camping World Stadium 42,662 / 42,662$8,848,665
31 May 2022 Knoxville Thompson–Boling Arena 16,037 / 16,037$4,651,316
4 June 2022 Syracuse JMA Wireless Dome 35,599 / 35,599$7,815,181
7 June 2022 Boston Fenway Park 71,380 / 71,380$15,305,355
8 June 2022
12 June 2022 Baltimore Oriole Park at Camden Yards 40,733 / 40,733$9,806,025
16 June 2022 East Rutherford MetLife Stadium 51,872 / 51,872$13,012,034
24 June 2022 [b] Frome EnglandCheese & Grain——
25 June 2022 [c] Pilton Worthy Farm ——
List of 2023 concerts
DateCityCountryVenueAttendanceRevenue
18 October 2023 Adelaide Australia Adelaide Entertainment Centre 8,490 / 8,490$1,801,112
21 October 2023 Melbourne Marvel Stadium 52,152 / 52,152$8,945,988
24 October 2023 Newcastle McDonald Jones Stadium 25,631 / 25,631$4,287,589
27 October 2023 Sydney Allianz Stadium 69,402 / 69,402$11,770,049
28 October 2023
1 November 2023 Brisbane Suncorp Stadium 38,688 / 38,688$6,215,622
4 November 2023 Gold Coast Heritage Bank Stadium 26,108 / 26,108$4,039,435
14 November 2023 Mexico City Mexico Foro Sol 118,088 / 118,088$16,429,326
16 November 2023
28 November 2023 [d] Brasília BrazilClube do Choro——
30 November 2023 Arena BRB Mané Garrincha 53,578 / 53,578$4,225,330
3 December 2023 Belo Horizonte Arena MRV 81,001 / 81,001$5,955,622
4 December 2023
7 December 2023 São Paulo Allianz Parque 149,226 / 149,226$16,233,151
9 December 2023
10 December 2023
13 December 2023 Curitiba Estádio Couto Pereira 43,633 / 43,633$4,301,288
16 December 2023 Rio de Janeiro Maracanã Stadium 62,305 / 62,305$5,360,278
List of 2024 concerts
DateCityCountryVenueAttendanceRevenue
1 October 2024 Montevideo Uruguay Estadio Centenario ——
5 October 2024 Buenos Aires Argentina River Plate Stadium ——
6 October 2024——
11 October 2024 Santiago Chile Estadio Monumental ——
15 October 2024São PauloBrazilAllianz Parque——
16 October 2024
19 October 2024 Florianópolis Estádio da Ressacada ——
23 October 2024 Córdoba Argentina Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes ——
27 October 2024 Lima Peru Estadio Nacional ——
1 November 2024 Bogotá Colombia Estadio El Campín ——
5 November 2024 San José Costa Rica Estadio Nacional ——
8 November 2024 Guadalupe [e] Mexico Estadio BBVA ——
12 November 2024Mexico City Estadio GNP Seguros ——
14 November 2024
17 November 2024 [f] Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez ——
4 December 2024 Paris France La Défense Arena ——
5 December 2024
9 December 2024 Madrid Spain WiZink Center ——
10 December 2024
14 December 2024 Manchester England Co-op Live ——
15 December 2024
18 December 2024 London The O2 Arena ——
19 December 2024
Total1,151,961 / 1,151,961$194,642,577
  1. ↑ Labelled as Los Angeles in promotional material.
  2. ↑ The concert on 24 June 2022 in Frome, part of the Frome Festival, was a secret warm-up show for the performance at the Glastonbury Festival. [33]
  3. ↑ The concert on 25 June 2022 in Pilton was part of the Glastonbury Festival. [4]
  4. ↑ The concert on 28 November 2023 in Brasília was a secret warm-up show for the performance at the Arena BRB Mané Garrincha. The show, limited to 300 assistants, was announced the same morning. [34]
  5. ↑ Labelled as Monterrey in promotional material.
  6. ↑ The concert on 17 November 2024 in Mexico City is part of the Corona Capital music festival. [35]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Freshen Up (tour)</span> 2018–2019 concert tour by Paul McCartney

Freshen Up was a concert tour by English musician Paul McCartney that commenced on 17 September 2018 with a four-concert leg in Canada. The tour was McCartney's first tour after the release of his album Egypt Station, which was released on 7 September. As with McCartney's other concert tours as a solo artist, the setlist for the Freshen Up tour was composed of songs by his former bands the Beatles and Wings, as well as songs from his solo career.

<i>The Beatles: Get Back</i> 2021 documentary series by Peter Jackson

The Beatles: Get Back is a documentary television series directed and produced by Peter Jackson. It covers the making of the Beatles' 1970 album Let It Be and draws largely from unused footage and audio material originally captured for and recycled original footage from the 1970 documentary of the album by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. The docuseries has a total runtime of nearly eight hours, consisting of three episodes, each of duration between two and three hours covering about one week each, together covering 21 days of studio time.

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