Got Back

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For the Beatles song, see Get Back.
Got Back
Tour by Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney Got Back.jpg
Start date28 April 2022
End date16 June 2022
Legs1
No. of shows16
Websitepaulmccartneygotback.com Edit this at Wikidata
Paul McCartney concert chronology

Got Back is an ongoing North American concert tour by English musician Paul McCartney, that started on 28 April 2022 and is slated to end on 16 June 2022.[1] The tour is McCartney's first following the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in the cancellation of a planned European tour in 2022,[2] and a planned performance at Glastonbury Festival.[3] McCartney will perform at Glastonbury in 2022, following the conclusion of the Got Back tour.[4]

The setlist for Got Back, as with McCartney's other concert tours as a solo artist, includes songs by his former bands the Beatles and Wings, as well as songs from his solo career. In addition to McCartney, the tour band includes Rusty Anderson on guitar, Brian Ray on 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.

Background[edit]

The Got Back tour is McCartney's series of live shows since 2019.[7] The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the cancellation of a planned European tour in 2020,[2] as well as a planned performance at Glastonbury Festival.[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.[7][8] 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 Got Back tour, McCartney is scheduled to perform at Glastonbury Festival on 25 June.[4]

Overview[edit]

McCartney at his upright piano at at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida

The setlist for the Got Back tour consists of over 30 songs, including songs by the Beatles and Wings, as well as songs from McCartney's solo career. Each concert runs for around 2 hours and 40 minutes in length.[9][10] The pre-show features a scrolling video slide show of images of McCartney and the Beatles,[11] culminating in an animated image of McCartney's Höfner bass.[12]

The sixth song on the setlist is Wings' "Let Me Roll It", which segues into a snippet of "Foxy Lady" as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix.[10][13] The 16th song on the setlist, the Beatles' "Blackbird", features McCartney singing while playing acoustic guitar, elevated about six metres (20 feet) in the air, in front of a large LED display.[13][10] "Blackbird" is 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.[14] The 22nd song on the setlist, the George Harrison-penned "Something", begins with McCartney playing a ukulele which Harrison gave to him.[13] The 28th song on the setlist, Wings' "Live and Let Die", involves the use of pyrotechnics, including flames and fireworks.[10]

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,[15][16] in light of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[16] Immediately preceding the encore at each stop on the tour, McCartney and his fellow band members leave the stage and each return with a flag: the flag of Ukraine, the flag of the United Kingdom, the flag of the United States, and an LGBT pride flag,[16] as well as the state flag of whichever state the concert is taking place in (for example, the flag of Texas at the show in Fort Worth, Texas,[16] and the flag of Florida at the show in Hollywood, Florida[17]).

The encore of the show is 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 have 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.[18] Jackson had isolated the vocals of Lennon after conceiving the idea of having Lennon "sing" along with McCartney and a live band; he told McCartney, "We can extract John's voice, and he can sing with you," to which McCartney replied, "Oh, yeah!"[2]

Reception[edit]

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".[12]

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".[17]

Tour band[edit]

Paul McCartney - Out There Concert - Rusty Anderson 2014(cropped).jpg

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)
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[edit]

Hot City Horns
  • Mike Davis – trumpet[19]
  • Kenji Fenton – saxophone[19]
  • Paul Burton – trombone[19]

Tour dates[edit]

Date City Country Venue Attendance Revenue
North America
28 April 2022 Spokane, WA United States Spokane Arena
2 May 2022 Seattle, WA Climate Pledge Arena
3 May 2022 about 18,000[9]
6 May 2022 Oakland, CA Oakland Arena
8 May 2022
13 May 2022 Inglewood, CA SoFi Stadium about 50,000[11]
17 May 2022 Fort Worth, TX Dickies Arena
21 May 2022 Winston-Salem, NC Truist Field at Wake Forest about 40,000[10]
25 May 2022 Hollywood, FL Hard Rock Live about 7,000[17]
28 May 2022 Orlando, FL Camping World Stadium
31 May 2022 Knoxville, TN Thompson-Boling Arena
4 June 2022 Syracuse, NY Carrier Dome
7 June 2022 Boston, MA Fenway Park
8 June 2022
12 June 2022 Baltimore, MD Oriole Park at Camden Yards
16 June 2022 East Rutherford, NJ MetLife Stadium

Setlist[edit]

Standard setlist[edit]

From show in Spokane:[20]

McCartney performing at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California
McCartney performing "Blackbird" at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida
  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. "Women and Wives" or "Let 'Em In"
  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. "Queenie Eye" or "New"
  19. "Lady Madonna"
  20. "Fuh You"
  21. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"
  22. "Something"
  23. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
  24. "You Never Give Me Your Money"/"She Came In Through the Bathroom Window"
  25. "Get Back"
  26. "Band on the Run"
  27. "Let It Be"
  28. "Live and Let Die"
  29. "Hey Jude"
    • Encore
  30. "I've Got a Feeling" (duet with John Lennon)
  31. "Birthday"
  32. "Helter Skelter"
  33. "Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight"/"The End"

Image gallery[edit]

  • McCartney, Laboriel Jr., Anderson, and Ray performing at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida

  • McCartney playing bass at Camping World Stadium

  • McCartney performing "Live and Let Die" at Camping World Stadium

  • McCartney performing "I've Got a Feeling" as a "video duet" with footage of John Lennon

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Blistein, Jon (18 February 2022). "Paul McCartney Will Get Back to the Road on 'Got Back' Tour". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d Garcia, Thania; Aswad, Jem (29 April 2022). "Paul McCartney 'Duets' With John Lennon on Opening Night of 'Got Back' Tour". Variety. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
  3. ^ a b Zemler, Emily (18 March 2020). "Glastonbury Festival 2020 Canceled Due to Coronavirus". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  4. ^ a b Minelle, Bethany (4 March 2022). "Glastonbury Festival 2022: Sir Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar to headline alongside Billie Eilish". Sky News. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Paul McCartney adds second concert at Boston's Fenway Park in June". WCVB. 25 February 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  6. ^ a b Harrington, Jim (11 March 2022). "Paul McCartney adds Mother's Day show at Oakland Arena". Mercury News. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  7. ^ a b Kaufman, Gil (18 February 2022). "Paul McCartney Announces Dates For 2022 'Got Back' Tour". Billboard. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
  8. ^ Blistein, Jon (18 February 2022). "Paul McCartney Will Get Back to the Road on 'Got Back' Tour". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
  9. ^ a b Condran, Ed (8 May 2022). "Face-off: Comparing Paul McCartney's concerts in Spokane and Seattle". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  10. ^ a b c d e Janes, Théoden (23 May 2022). "Review: Getting to Paul McCartney's concert was a nightmare. The show itself? A dream". The Charlotte Observer. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  11. ^ a b Wood, Mikael (14 May 2022). "On the cusp of 80, Paul McCartney is still our most charming rock god". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  12. ^ a b Willman, Chris (14 May 2022). "Paul McCartney's 'Got Back' Tour Scores a Touchdown With Marathon SoFi Stadium Show: Concert Review". Variety. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  13. ^ a b c Rietmulder, Michael (2 May 2022). "Review: Paul McCartney treats Seattle fans to 60 years of rock history during Climate Pledge Arena concert". Seattle Times. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  14. ^ Connolly, Patrick (29 May 2022). "Paul McCartney showed rock 'n' roll isn't dead in 3-hour set at Camping World Stadium". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  15. ^ Condran, Ed (2 May 2022). "'Thank you, Spokane': Paul McCartney rocks a packed Arena with Beatles classics, solo tunes and a hilarious fan interaction". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  16. ^ a b c d Christensen, Tom (18 May 2022). "Paul McCartney's first Fort Worth show in four decades was joyful and wistful all at once". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  17. ^ a b c Albert, Grant (26 May 2022). "Paul McCartney Was Unstoppable at Hard Rock Live". Miami New Times. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  18. ^ Skinner, Tom (29 April 2022). "Watch Paul McCartney 'duet' with John Lennon as he kicks off 'Got Back' North American tour". NME. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
  19. ^ a b c Simon, Richard B. (29 April 2022). "Paul McCartney Duets With John Lennon, Honors George Harrison at Joyous Tour Kickoff". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
  20. ^ Condran, Ed (28 April 2022). "Paul McCartney Got Back in Spokane: full concert set list". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved 29 April 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

External links[edit]

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