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Paul McCartney’s ‘Got Back’ Tour Scores a Touchdown With Marathon SoFi Stadium Show: Concert Review

Coming up on the cusp of 80, does he "feel like letting go" of his high-energy touring regimen? Apparently not.

By Chris Willman

Chris Willman

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Paul McCartney has something to prove. What that is is between him and his shrink, although maybe a desire to seem and feel undiminished is not as mysterious as all that. What we do know for certain is that, in the year of our lord 2022, McCartney is doing two-hour-and-40-minute sets that encompass 36 songs. If this seems at all slacker-ish, consider also that the singer is keeping with his touring custom of recent years and doing more informal, hour-long, 8-to-13-song “soundchecks” before the doors open for fans who buy VIP packages, something that puts him stage close to four hours each show day.

Unspoken at Friday night’s SoFi Stadium show in L.A., and un-alluded to in even the slightest way — even though Beatlemaniacs have it marked on their calendars for next month — is that he turns 80 next month, two days after the tour wraps up. It may be unfair to compare the ways in which different performers age, but it’s worth pointing out that McCartney is doing these fairly marathon shows at a point in his life that is past the point at which Frank Sinatra did his final concert, following a few years of publicly noted erraticism. And yet here we are at a point where, for him anyway, 80 seems to be the new July-or-August of his years. No one would begrudge McCartney, or very few would, if he cut a few corners: cutting the set length to a reasonable two hours here, lowering the keys a little there, or dropping some of the vocal ad libs to save his voice for Syracuse. But McCartney is not about to use impending octogenarianism as a rationale to finally half-ass it. In fact, he’s not even going to three-quarters-ass it.

Of course, SoFi Stadium was filled with repeat customers — veterans of “Wings Over America” at the Forum in ’76 if not the Beatles at the Bowl in ’64 — but you didn’t have to look too far to see the sight of a 20-ish kid attending with a 75-ish grandfather, or even groups of proactive Gen-Z-ers that didn’t need boomer chaperones to see the value in coming. Whatever else might motivate McCartney to prove it all night, he’s surely aware that the “Got Back” tour is the only live experience of his or the Beatles’ music that these younger attendees will have in their lifetimes, and they’re not going to be grading it on a curve. That’s up to the oldsters: Were there enough deep ’70s cuts in the setlist? Is his voice what it was on the 2003 tour? But it’s hard to imagine too many people who were experiencing this as their first or only McCartney show not walking away with some deep feels they may feel compelled to tell their own grandkids about.

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The show here largely follows the template established by the 2019 tour, so anyone who caught the tour finale at Dodger Stadium in July of that year but missed SoFi doesn’t have to worry they missed out on too major a variation on the previous iteration. But McCartney didn’t really design the show with double-dippers in mind; L.A. is one of very few markets he hit in ’19 that he’s coming back to in ’22, whereas several other cities, he hasn’t played in decades (Baltimore) or at all (Spokane). Since three years ago, a number of songs have come out (gone this time are “A Hard Day’s Night,” the “Sgt. Pepper” reprise, “Eleanor Rigby,” “From Me to You,” “I’ve Just Seen a Face” and — bet you saw this one coming, or going — “Back in the U.S.S.R.”). Other have been reinserted from years and tours past (including “Getting Better,” “We Can Work It Out,” “New” and — hey, what’s this buried nugget?  — “Get Back”).

Somewhat surprisingly, “Women and Wives” is the only song from his most recent album, “McCartney III,” to be plugged into the tour, and even that was absent from the setlist at SoFi, for some reason. But maybe the reasons for underplaying “III” generally are obvious; it was a pandemic album, scaled down and clearly not designed with stadiums in mind, unlike its predecessor, “Egypt Station.” McCartney half-joked that when he plays a Beatles song it’s like a galaxy of cell-phone lights, and when he does contemporary material he peers out into a black hole. But there were no bathroom stampedes during the 21st century picks, not even for “Fuh You,” the Ryan Tedder co-write that McCartney continues to seem to love beyond all reason, despite the better recent choices available to him. (Would he take a request for “Deep, Deep Feeling” instead? No, he probably wouldn’t.)

As for older songs that haven’t been tried on tour before, McCartney isn’t doing so much of that rediscovery this go-round, although fans are getting “You Never Give Me Your Money” (last played on tour in 2003) and “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window” (only ever toured in 2005) as a medley for the first time. Maybe the true newbie in the lineup is the idea of “I’ve Got a Feeling” as a Lennon-and-McCartney encore duet, with footage and isolated audio of his late partner snipped out of the “Get Back” film by Peter Jackson for the tour’s purposes.

The loose structure of the show will also raise some deja vu for those returning from 2019: a rocking opening stretch highly reliant on ’70s rockers like “Junior’s Farm” and “Letting Go” as Act 1; a partially acoustic, “Storytellers”-like magical history tour of the Beatles’ rise as the backbone of Act 2, going all the way back to the Quarrymen’s “In Spite of All the Danger” and leading up the Lennon tribute “Here Today” and the Harrison cover “Something”; and then, letting the third hour be birthday sons, 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, guitarist Rusty Anderson, guitarist-bassist Brian Ray, keyboard player Paul “Wix” Wickens and drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. The latter player also doubles as the tour’s sole dancer, mugging up a storm behind the kit during “Dance Tonight” before finally being forced to sit down and help kick out an acoustic jam midway through the tune. Anderson and Ray do an eternally expert job of recreating parts McCartney largely did on his own on his own on his DIY records, and get to step into the shoes of Lennon and Harrison in joining in for the triplicate guitar solos of “The End.” Horns have sometimes been replicated as keyboard parts on past tours, so the sight of a real three-man horn section on selections like “Letting Go” and “Got to Get You Into My Life” was a welcome one. The real star of the show, in some ways: the Hofner bass, which McCartney not only plays for a substantial part of the show, but which has been animated for the pre-show countdown, descending on the big screen like some version of the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball, and landing like a giant version of the “2001” monolith before attendees see it in the wooden flesh.

And what of McCartney as a singer… at age 79-and-11/12ths? He has been, by some almost objective measures, the best all-around singer as well as most accomplished mainstream songwriter of the rock ‘n’ roll era — and how convenient it was during the 20th century to have both of those in one package. The catalog is set in stone, but his ability to ape Little Richard’s scream, or to navigate the eternally tricky twists of “Maybe I’m Amazed,” eternally is not something we can assume or expect. It’s just assumed that rockers can sing their classics forever, until we’re jolted awake to the fact that they cannot, as with the recent instance of videos being circulated of a certain ’80s icon who is not coming within a prayer of hitting the notes on his band’s most enduring hit anymore. Any fears that this would happen with McCartney are fortunately unfounded, so far. Which is not to say that attentive fans will not take note of and discuss inevitable balladic passages in which you will hear an interesting combination of vigor and time-wisened fragility in his voice. But make no mistake — he’s going for the notes he’s always gone for, and hitting them, without the usual accommodations powerhouse singers have to make as they reach an advanced age. He still howls . And if you listen carefully, it’s maybe a softer, less throat-ravaging version of the howl than he used to do. That’s more of a technical adjustment than anything that is going to stand in the way of anyone enjoying a balls-out resurrection of “Helter Skelter,” anyway

Yes, “Helter Skelter” is still in the set, and still as gratifying as it ever was, with McCartney maintaining his king-of-the-heap status on the precipice of an age where we used to think Chuck Berry going through the motions with a pickup band in front of a few hundred people was as good as grandfather-statesman rocking got. As much as McCartney made history with the Beatles 60 years ago, it feels like he’s making history again in pushing the envelope of how long you can keep doing this kind of a massive, demanding show (as opposed to a Dylan or a Willie, who also are out there and doing it, but with lower expectations of heightened stadium energy). Being on stage in front of 60,000 people being able to confidently coo and bellow songs that you wrote 60 years prior is not something that God wrote into the human contract, but McCartney (like the Stones and Who and not too many others) is are out to prove nature and the Almighty wrong. McCartney’s only nod to the passage of time was a final promise that “we’ll see you next time.” Do we get this privilege, at this high a performing level, again in two or three years? In six? Who knows, but for now, there’s reason to be grateful that he just can’t stop going back to the top of the slide.

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From Wikipedia :

Got Back was a North American concert tour by English musician Paul McCartney, that started on 28 April 2022 and ended on 16 June 2022. 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, which included a planned performance at Glastonbury Festival. McCartney performed at Glastonbury on Saturday 25 June 2022, following the conclusion of the Got Back tour. 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, for a total of sixteen concerts across the United States. Background The Got Back tour was McCartney’s first series of live shows since 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the cancellation of the final European leg of his previous tour in 2020, which included a planned performance at Glastonbury Festival as the final show. During the pandemic in 2020, McCartney recorded and released his 18th solo album, McCartney III . 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. 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. 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), bringing the total number of planned stops on the tour to sixteen. Following the conclusion of the tour, McCartney headlined on Saturday night at the Glastonbury Festival on 25 June, in a 160-minute set, with special guests Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Overview 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 runs for around 2 hours and 40 minutes in length. The pre-show featured a scrolling video slide show of images of McCartney and the Beatles, culminating in an animated image of McCartney’s Höfner bass. 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. The ninth song on the setlist was “ My Valentine “, a song from McCartney’s solo career, which was accompanied by a video of Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp gesturing in sign language. 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. “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. The 22nd song on the setlist, the George Harrison-penned “ Something “, began with McCartney playing a ukulele which Harrison gave to him. The 28th song on the setlist, Wings’ “ Live and Let Die “, involved the use of pyrotechnics, including flames and fireworks. 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, in light of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. 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 Ukraine, the flag of the United Kingdom, the flag of the United States, and an LGBT pride flag, as well as the state flag of whichever state the concert took place in (for example, the flag of Texas at the show in Fort Worth, Texas, and the flag of Florida at the show in Hollywood, Florida). 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. 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!” On the final stop of the tour, on 16 June 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. Springsteen, with McCartney and McCartney’s band, performed the Springsteen song “ Glory Days “, as well as the Beatles’ “ I Wanna Be Your Man “. During the show’s encore, Bon Jovi appeared on stage with balloons and sang “Happy Birthday” to McCartney, who turned 80 years old on 18 June. Springsteen returned during the final song, “The End”, playing guitar. 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”. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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”. However, they 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. 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”. 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”. 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.” […]

McCartney also wants to go back on the road, a life that he finds invigorating. “ I’ve been doing this for a long time, ” he said. “ So another me takes over: Professional Performing Paul—the triple ‘P’! ” If the question is “ Why do you keep at it?, ” the answer is plain: “ I plan to continue living. That’s the central idea. ” From Paul McCartney Doesn’t Really Want to Stop the Show  | The New Yorker , October 11, 2021

W hen you come back after three years you get a bit more nervous than you normally would, because you’re just thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, have I forgotten how it goes?’ It takes a little while until you start to think, ‘Oh yeah, I’ve got this!’ and then your nerves go away. Paul McCartney – From paulmccartney.com , May 31, 2022

From PaulMcCartney.com , February 18, 2022:

PAUL ANNOUNCES  GOT BACK  NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 2022 FIRST LIVE SHOWS SINCE 2019 […] Following more than a year of speculation, Paul McCartney today announces the GOT BACK Tour,  a 13-city return to U.S. stages, kicking off April 28 with Paul’s first ever show in Spokane WA and running through to June 16 in East Rutherford NJ, where Paul will play MetLife Stadium for the first time since 2016. GOT BACK will see Paul’s live debuts in Hollywood FL, Knoxville TN and Winston-Salem NC, his first Fort Worth TX and Baltimore MD shows since 1976 with Wings and 1964 with The Beatles, respectively, and his first Oakland CA date in 20 years. The tour will also include stops in cities where Paul has put in more recent yet no less unforgettable performances, including Boston MA, Los Angeles CA, Orlando FL, Seattle WA, and Syracuse NY.  GOT BACK  marks Paul’s first series of live shows since his  FRESHEN UP   Tour wrapped in July 2019–its 39-date 12-country odyssey concluding with a triumphant sold-out show at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles—a performance that instantly attained legendary status, generating rave reviews and Best of 2019 notices including: “… Wow. After several decades now of writing about music and facing the perpetual challenge of translating what is beyond words into understandable language, that’s the best I can muster. Here in the heady aftermath of Paul McCartney’s final show of his Freshen Up tour at Dodger Stadium along with 50,000 of my fellow Angelenos on July 13, 2019 — Wow.” —AMERICAN SONGWRITER “The perfect display of the philosophy McCartney has embodied over his 60-year career in music… the perfect bow to tie up the perfect show, with the final lyric of the night an ever-appropriate one: ‘And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.’” —BILLBOARD “Macca continues to put artists half his age and younger to shame with epic shows featuring his crackerjack band and a jukebox of hits” —ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Best Live Music Performances of 2019 “The best thing about a McCartney show is how many generations of people leave with the broadest smile upon their face. Whether it’s the first time they’ve seen him or the tenth, he never, ever, disappoints.” —FLAUNT “McCartney was in top form, his voice effortlessly climbing to the heights it always hit so easily back in the day…”  —THE LOS ANGELES TIMES “The total and complete immersion into MaccaLand was colorful and loud, rocking and rolling, nostalgic and present, and, above all, in the truest sense, marvelous… And, in the end, the love McCartney has taken for 60 years was equal to the love he’s made for generations.” —RELIX “Definitely We’re Amazed by Paul McCartney’s Blowout Dodger Stadium Show… McCartney remains a show-stopping entertainer of the highest order.” —VARIETY With songs like ‘Hey Jude’, ‘Live and Let Die’, ‘Band on the Run’,  ‘Let It Be’ and so many more, the Paul McCartney live experience is everything any music lover could ever want from a rock show: Hours of the greatest moments from the last 60 years of music — dozens of songs from Paul’s solo, Wings and of course Beatles catalogues that have formed the soundtracks of our lives.  Paul and his band have performed in an unparalleled range of venues and locations throughout the Americas, the UK, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and all points between: outside the Coliseum in Rome, Moscow’s Red Square, Buckingham Palace, The White House, a free show in Mexico for over 400,000 people, the last ever show at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park where The Beatles played their final concert in 1966, a 2016 week in the California desert that included two headline sets at the historic Desert Trip festival and a jam-packed club gig  for a few hundred lucky fans at Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace, and even one performance broadcast live into Space! Featuring Paul’s longtime band – Paul “Wix” Wickens (keyboards), Brian Ray (bass/guitar), Rusty Anderson (guitar) and Abe Laboriel Jr (drums) – and constantly upgraded state of the art audio and video technology that ensures an unforgettable experience from every seat in the house, a Paul McCartney concert is never anything short of life-changing.

The highlight of this new tour is a virtual duet Paul McCartney has with his old mate John Lennon, singing “ I’ve Got A Feeling “, using footage from the rooftop concert.

How does it feel to know that as recently as a few days ago, Paul McCartney was using footage from the documentary on his Got Back tour? Jabez Olssen: We helped them with that and we put that together for him. That’s fantastic. We’ve been watching some clips on YouTube and it’s just amazing to see Paul being able to sing “I’ve Got A Feeling” with John Lennon. That was possible because of the machine learning and artificial intelligence software that had been developed down here by the team to clean up the audio. We had a lot of audio that was otherwise going to be unusable because there was no clarity to the dialogue. You couldn’t hear what was being said because of all the guitars playing over the top of it or tuning or background noise. This new software has been developed — this artificial intelligence software — that’s able to recognize the different Beatles voices and instruments and separate them out into their own standalone tracks, and thus we could get a lot more usable audio for the documentary. The same software is now being used for Paul’s concert to remove all the other Beatles off the audio so it’s only John Lennon live singing, and then that can be played on the screen behind Paul as he sings his part live. That’s just a thrill to see that it’s all come together and it’s working. From The Beatles: Get Back Editor Jabez Olssen on Cutting the Band’s Improvised Gems, Syncing Old Audio, and Working With Peter Jackson – Below the Line (btlnews.com)

Last updated on October 18, 2023

35 concerts • 5 countries

Brazilian leg.

Brazil • Rio De Janeiro • Maracanã Stadium

Dec 16, 2023

Brazil • Curitiba • Estádio Couto Pereira

Dec 13, 2023

Brazil • São Paulo • Allianz Parque

Dec 10, 2023

Dec 09, 2023

Dec 07, 2023

Brazil • Belo Horizonte • Mrv Arena

Dec 04, 2023

Dec 03, 2023

Brazil • Brasília • Mané Garrincha Stadium

Nov 30, 2023

Brasil • Brasilia • Clube Do Choro

Nov 28, 2023

Mexico • Mexico City • Foro Sol

Nov 16, 2023

Nov 14, 2023

Australian leg

Australia • Gold Coast • Heritage Bank Stadium

Nov 04, 2023

Australia • Brisbane • Suncorp Stadium

Nov 01, 2023

Australia • Sydney • Allianz Stadium

Oct 28, 2023

Oct 27, 2023

Australia • Newcastle • McDonald Jones Stadium

Oct 24, 2023

Australia • Melbourne • Marvel Stadium

Oct 21, 2023

Australia • Adelaide • Entertainment Centre

Oct 18, 2023

Oct 17, 2023

USA • East Rutherford • Met Life Stadium

Jun 16, 2022

USA • Baltimore • Oriole Park

Jun 12, 2022

USA • Boston • Fenway Park

Jun 08, 2022

Jun 07, 2022

USA • Syracuse • JMA Wireless Dome

Jun 04, 2022

USA • Knoxville • Thompson Boling Arena

May 31, 2022

USA • Orlando • Camping World Stadium

May 28, 2022

USA • Hollywood • Hard Rock Live

May 25, 2022

USA • Winston-Salem • Truist Field

May 21, 2022

USA • Fort Worth • Dickies Arena

May 17, 2022

USA • Inglewood • SoFi Stadium

May 13, 2022

USA • Oakland • Oakland Arena

May 08, 2022

May 06, 2022

USA • Seattle • Seattle Climate Pledge Arena

May 03, 2022

May 02, 2022

USA • Spokane • Spokane Arena

Apr 28, 2022

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Spokane Setlist: 1-Can't Buy Me Love 2-Letting Go 3-Got to Get You Into My Life 4-Come On to Me 5-Let Me Roll It 6-Getting Better 7-Women and Wives 8-My Valentine 9-1985 10-Maybe I'm Amazed 11-I've Just Seen a Face 12-In Spite of All the Danger 13-Love Me Do 14-Dance Tonight 15-Blackbird 16-Here Today 17-Queenie Eye 18-Lady Madonna 19-Fuh You 20-Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! 21-Something 22-Ob La Di Ob La Da 23-You Never Give Me Your Money 24-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

Spokane (Soundcheck) Setlist: I Wanna Be Your Man Drive My car One After 909 Let 'Em In C Moon Women And Wives San Francisco Bay Blues Every Night Leaning On A Lamppost Midnight Special New Queenie Eye Lady Madonna

Thanks a lot ! Wil complete the page ASAP

Just an fyi, you need to add a show to Mexico on 11/16/23...thank you.

Thanks for noticing, Tom. I've just added it at https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/concert/2023-11-16/

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Paul McCartney Invites Bruce Springsteen, Jon Boni Jovi Onstage for Tour Finale

By Emily Zemler

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Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi joined Paul McCartney onstage during his performance at Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. last night. Springsteen took the mic for a rendition of his 1984 hit “Glory Days” and the Beatles ’ classic “I Wanna Be Your Man.”

Bon Jovi, meanwhile, appeared on stage for sing “Happy Birthday” to McCartney, who turns 80 on June 18.

Macca brought out Springsteen!!! pic.twitter.com/uA2nEBpU8C — Brenna Ehrlich (@BrennaEhrlich) June 17, 2022

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA pic.twitter.com/AwTt7R5LLs — Mike Duquette (@Sir__Duque) June 17, 2022

Jon Bon Jovi singing “Happy Birthday” to Paul McCartney at Paul’s MetLife stadium concert, June 16, 2022: pic.twitter.com/lJxUOTJzZL — The Beatles (@BeatlesEarth) June 17, 2022

Both artists came back out for the show’s encore, with Springsteen picking up the guitar for a performance of the Beatles’ “The End,” a fitting track to close out McCartney’s tour. Springsteen previously performed “I Saw Her Standing There” with McCartney at the musician’s show at London’s Hyde Park in 2013.

Bruce and Bon Jovi came back for the encore. The audience is wrung out. Paul hasn’t even stopped for a sip of water. pic.twitter.com/aM1IlWKJQh — Brenna Ehrlich (@BrennaEhrlich) June 17, 2022

The Met Life Stadium concert marks the end of McCartney’s current North American headlining tour, which kicked off in April. The musician will return to the stage on June 25 for a performance at U.K. festival Glastonbury.

McCartney last toured in 2019 as a 2020 Europe run was squashed by the pandemic. In the meantime, he recorded the solo LP McCartney III , playing nearly all the parts himself, in the tradition of 1970’s McCartney  and 1980’s  McCartney II .

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Paul McCartney Got Back in Spokane: the full concert setlist Thursday night at the Arena

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Apr. 30—Sir Paul McCartney kicked off his 2022 Got Back tour, which is stopping in 13 cities for 15 dates, at Spokane Arena on Thursday night, and the Beatles legend performed 36 songs in a concert that clocked in at 2 hours and 42 minutes. The classic "Can't Buy Me Love" kicked off the evening.

Start time: 8:09 p.m.

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"

7. "Getting Better"

8. "Women and Wives" (first song at piano)

9. "My Valentine" (with video featuring Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp)

10. "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five"

11. "Maybe I'm Amazed"

12. "I've Just Seen a Face"

13. "In Spite of All the Danger"

14. "Love Me Do"

15. "Dance Tonight"

16. "Blackbird"

17. "Here Today" (tribute to John Lennon)

18. "Queenie Eye" (the 2013 star-studded video includes Depp, as well)

19. "Lady Madonna"

20. "Fuh You"

21. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"

22. "Something" (tribute to George Harrison)

23. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"

24. "You Never Give Me Your Money"

25. "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window"

26. "Get Back"

27. "Band on the Run"

28. "Let It Be"

29. "Live and Let Die"

30. "Hey Jude"

31. Encore at 10:30 p.m. after Washington state, Ukraine, U.S. and British flags are waved onstage. "I've Got a Feeling" video duet with Lennon orchestrated by Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson.

32. "Birthday"

33. "Helter Skelter"

34. "Golden Slumbers"

35. "Carry That Weight"

36. "The End"

End time: 10:51 p.m.

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Paul McCartney closes Candlestick Park, home of final Beatles concert, with one last show

Paul McCartney took the stage at San Francisco's Candlestick Park Thursday night to give the final public performance in the legendary stadium, which is dousing its flame after 54 years of serving as home field to the city's sports teams and hosting live acts.

It was a historically significant stop for McCartney: The Beatles played their last official live concert at Candlestick in 1966, as the musician reminded fans in a YouTube video he posted Wednesday. 

"I have some very special memories — as you know — of (playing) Candlestick Park," he said in the video.

In preparing the set list for the special close-out show, McCartney clearly had a lot of yesterdays in mind. He launched into the last song the Beatles performed in full at that historic concert (Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally"). And as he played, several previously unreleased photographs taken at the 1966 performance flashed on the screen behind him.

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McCartney certainly knows how to get back from a setback. After postponing several live dates on his "Out There" tour due to a viral illness, he returned to the road in May and has been making headlines ever since: He helped a New York couple get engaged mid-show , delighted residents of Omaha, Nebraska, by hanging out on a sidewalk bench with Warren Buffett , and even "married" a couple during a stop in Phoenix Wednesday (the musician is not ordained, as the bride believed, but it was a nice symbolic gesture). 

The park known to locals as The Stick will be torn down and replaced by a 1.1 million-square-foot development project, said the Bay City News . But McCartney will go on: He has dates scheduled through October.

The photos by Jim Marshall that appeared behind McCartney during the show will appear in "The Haight: Love, Rock and Revolutions," in bookstores Oct. 14 and now available for pre-order at Amazon . 

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Paul McCartney Got Back 2023

Paul McCartney Plays His Last Show of his Australian Tour

by Paul Cashmere on November 5, 2023

A wise old man once said, “And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make”. Sir Paul McCartney has completed his Australian tour with the final show in Queensland on the Gold Coast on Saturday night.

There were seven Australian shows on the Got Back tour with only one modification to the setlist at the second Sydney show where the opener ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ was replaced with ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, ‘Come On To Me’ from ‘Egypt Station’ was changed for ‘Coming Up’ from ‘McCartney 2’ and ‘Queenie Eye’ from the ‘New’ album replaced ‘New’.

The next show on the Got Back tour is November 14 in Mexico.

Paul McCartney setlist, 4 November 2023, Gold Coast Queensland

Can’t Buy Me Love (from The Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night, 1964) Junior’s Farm (single, 1974) Letting Go (from Venus and Mars, 1975) She’s a Woman (The Beatles, I Feel Fine b-side, 1964) Got to Get You Into My Life (from The Beatles, Revolver, 1966) Come On to Me (from Egypt Station, 2018) Let Me Roll It (from Band On the Run, 1973) Getting Better (from The Beatles, Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967) Let ‘Em In (from Wings At The Speed of Sound, 1976) My Valentine (from Kisses On The Bottom, 2012) Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five (from Band On the Run, 1973) Maybe I’m Amazed (from McCartney, 1970) I’ve Just Seen a Face (from The Beatles, Help, 1965) In Spite of All The Danger (recorded as The Quarrymen, 1958, first released on The Beatles, Anthology 1, 1995) Love Me Do (from The Beatles, Please Please Me, 1963) Dance Tonight (from Memory Almost Full, 2007) Blackbird (from The Beatles, The Beatles, 1968) Here Today (from Tug of War, 1982) New (from New, 2013) Lady Madonna (The Beatles single, 1968) Fuh You (from Egypt Station, 2018) Jet (from Band On the Run, 1973) Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite (from The Beatles, Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967) Something (from The Beatles, Abbey Road, 1969) Ob-La-Do, Ob-La-Da (from The Beatles, The Beatles, 1968) You Never Give Me Your Money (from The Beatles, Abbey Road, 1969) She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (from The Beatles, Abbey Road, 1969) Band On The Run (from Band On the Run, 1973) Get Back (from The Beatles, Let It Be, 1970) Let It Be (from The Beatles, Let It Be, 1970) Live and Let Die (from James Bond’s Live and Let Die soundtrack, 1973) Hey Jude (The Beatles single, 1968)

ENCORE: I’ve Got A Feeling (from The Beatles, Let It Be, 1970) (with John Lennon virtual from the Peter Jackson Get Back documentary) Birthday (from The Beatles, The Beatles, 1968) Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (from The Beatles, Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967) Helter Skelter (from The Beatles, The Beatles, 1968) Golden Slumbers (from The Beatles, Abbey Road, 1969) Carry That Weight (from The Beatles, Abbey Road, 1969) The End (from The Beatles, Abbey Road, 1969)

Paul McCartney’s Australian dates are:

Wednesday 18 October (COMPLETED) Adelaide Entertainment Centre | Adelaide, SA

Saturday 21 October (COMPLETED) Marvel Stadium, Melbourne, VIC

Tuesday 24 October (COMPLETED) McDonald Jones Stadium | Newcastle, NSW

Friday 27 October (COMPLETED) Allianz Stadium | Sydney, NSW

Saturday 28 October (COMPLETED) Allianz Stadium | Sydney, NSW

Wednesday 1 November (COMPLETED) Suncorp Stadium | Brisbane, QLD

Saturday 4 November (COMPLETED) Heritage Bank Stadium | Gold Coast, QLD

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Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones vs. Beatles and playing the hits in a 'different world'

Mick Jagger is speaking by phone from New Orleans.

Two days earlier, on Thursday, May 2, the Rolling Stones did “Time Is On My Side” with local soul queen Irma Thomas, whose 1964 recording of that classic inspired the British Invaders to cut their own rendition that same year, resulting in the Stones’ first Top 10 entry on the Billboard Hot 100.

Jagger and Thomas revisiting the song together as a deeply soulful duet turned out to be an aptly titled highlight of a set that was, remarkably enough, the Stones’ first time to take the stage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

Two days later, Jagger says he may go out and catch more music while he’s there — which he does, popping in on the festival’s Gospel Tent on Saturday afternoon — before he makes his way to Arizona for the Stones’ first metro Phoenix concert since the death of founding member Charlie Watts in 2021.

The Stones turned in a brilliant set at State Farm Stadium on Tuesday, May 7. It was the third date on the Hackney Diamonds Tour , named for the Stones’ first album of original material in nearly 20 years.

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Boasting guest appearances by Paul McCartney, Lady Gaga, Stevie Wonder, Elton John and founding bassist Bill Wyman, who left the group in 1993 , the album has been hailed as their best work since “Tattoo You” or “Some Girls,” depending on the individual music critic’s level of enthusiasm.

Before the interview gets underway, the singer has a question for the interviewer.

“How hot is it there?” he asks. “ I remember the last time , it was warning you not to go out. Of course we did.”

Jagger laughs, as he does easily and often in the course of a 15-minute conversation that despite the actual presence of a phone never feels like he's phoning it in.

The man is unerringly affable, endearingly self-aware, impressively candid and refreshingly down-to-earth for one of rock and roll’s defining icons, widely held to be its greatest front man, a master of phrasing and a criminally underrated lyricist to boot, all while still doing stadium tours at 80.

Here’s what else he had to say.

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The videos I've seen on social media from Jazz Fest and opening night have been amazing. Is the feeling you get from doing what you do on stage any different today than it was in the ‘60s or ‘70s?

Well, yeah, I mean, of course (laughs). You were younger and more crazy, more excited. And you were new. You weren't like treated like legends and all this. But you're the same person doing the same thing, even doing some of the same songs, so in some ways, it's the same. But it's a different time in the world, so there's a different vibe. It's the same, but only different, yeah.

How does it feel to have new music in the set?

Actually, really great. I love playing the old songs and all that. But it's great to be able to have something new, because you haven't done it before. It's a challenge to you to get it over to the audience and see if they like it, to see if they want to hear it.

It’s easier in a smaller place to play new songs. It's more difficult with a stadium crowd because they want to hear you know…. "Oh, I've come here to hear 'Paint It, Black'” “When are they gonna play 'Honky Tonk Women'?"

Are they gonna really like these songs? Are we gonna play them well enough? We haven’t played them that many times. We've only done “Angry,” like, three times, compared to “Paint It, Black.” (laughs) You go, 'Ugh, I made a mistake! Oh God.’ So yeah, it's challenging, but I enjoy it.

I would love to do more. We're doing three. I'm sort of changing them around, playing the three or four that are the most well-known. I'd love to put some others in, but there's only so much you can do, as I said, in a stadium. Red Hot Chili Peppers have got a new album. They're on tour and they're doing four songs. And I think we're on the same page here, when you're playing a big show. It's about all the audience can really take. (laughs)

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Mick Jagger on being back in the studio with the Rolling Stones

How did it feel to get back in the studio and work on new material?

Oh, I loved it. It was great. I mean, I had a lot of songs I'd done during lockdown. I had a lot of time to write. So I had a lot of different kinds of songs and was glad to get them finally down. I thought, “When are we gonna get these songs down?” And it actually was really quick and fun and quite enjoyable. I like being back in the studio doing new things.

How do you decide “All right, it's time. Let's get in there and make an album” ?

I told this story when the album came out so I don't want to repeat myself too much. But I said to Keith, you know, “We've just gotta go make an album.” I didn't say, “I don't want to tour unless we have a new album.” But I said, “It would be better to go out with a new album when we next go on tour. So let's go do an album.” Keith said “Yeah, absolutely.”

We always used to have a deadline, you know? Like you guys at newspapers. You gotta write that story. And it's gotta be in here by this time. So I said, “We have to have a deadline.” Because otherwise we just keep going in the studio but we don’t finish anything. So everyone was down for that. And then we did it and we made the deadline. It all happened according to plan.

That's great. Were there specific goals you wanted to achieve artistically with this record?

Well, I wanted it to sound like a record made in 2024. The temptation with an old band is to go in and rehash something you've done before. And of course, the band is still the band. That's why I always say, “It's still gonna sound like the Rolling Stones, no matter what happens.”

But I said, “When you hear it, it's gotta sound like a record that's made by a rock band in this era,” you know? That crispness. If you listen to, say, a 1970s Rolling Stones record compared to this, you might love it because you've listened to it hundreds of times and that's the sound you like. But it's different, you know what I mean? It's a different period of sound.

It's much crisper and you can hear everything more clearly. But it's still got the energy level. To me, the energy level in a rock band is the most important thing. You've got to have that. You've got to feel the energy. That's a big part of it. And you've got to hear what everyone's playing.

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It's definitely got that energy. What was it like to work with Paul McCartney on this record?

Oh, it was great fun. We've all known Paul a long time. We worked in the '60s a little bit. He sang vocals with us and stuff. I've played with him in his house. Ronnie (Wood) has played with him a lot. And Andy Watt, the producer, was doing some work with him. So it was very fortuitous.

That's LA, you know. Next door there's Lady Gaga, Dolly Parton, Paul McCartney. It was great having him come by and he played great on "Bite Your Head Off."

Mick Jagger on losing Charlie Watts and recording with Bill Wyman

This is your first time in Phoenix since Charlie died. What was it like to sort of dust yourself off and get back to the music after losing someone that much at the core of who the Stones are?

Well it's very hard, you know, having Charlie since we first really started. I played with Charlie before the Rolling Stones existed. I played with Charlie as a singer in the Alexis Korner Band. He was playing the drums and I was the singer. Keith was sometimes playing with me. Sometimes he wasn't. So it was a difficult period to be without him.

But, you know, we decided to carry on. We had a tour planned. And Charlie said, 'You should go and do the tour,' you know? 'Go and do it.' So we did. That was tough, you know, doing it. Now, having done a tour with Steve (Jordan), we're kind of into that. But I miss Charlie. I look around and he's not there. But he is on the record. And we've got some other tracks he's on as well that we haven't released yet. So, you know, he's here.

One of the Charlie tracks has Bill Wyman on it. How did it feel to have him come in and kind of complete the circle ?

That was fun because we had this track with Charlie, and Andy and I said, “Well, let's marry up the old rhythm section.” It does sound a bit more like the old Stones, that particular track, “Live By the Sword.” It sounds slightly different from some of the others. But it's great. It's a different feeling.

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I love that you guys started doing “Out of Time” recently. I've always loved that song. What brought you back around to that?

I've always loved it. But the audience in America doesn't seem to know it as well as the European audience. So I think I'm going to give it a miss.

Uh oh. So we're not gonna hear that one in Phoenix?!

In Europe, they all sang along and everything. Here, they don't seem to know the song, you know? I mean, it's not a particularly well-known Stones song. It got a bit of popularity because it was in that (Quentin) Tarantino movie as a playout song. But they don't seem to know it. I put it in the front of the set, or near the front. And everyone's looking around like, “Ehh, what's this?” I don't know. I like to switch the set around. We've only done two shows. And I don't like doing the same set every night.

How do you go about putting a setlist together at this point?

Well, I have a list of all the numbers we rehearsed, right? We rehearsed for four weeks. So then, I go through all the ones I think we have to do, that people expect, that if we didn't do them, people would go, “Well, I came here to see ‘Honky Tonk Women' and they didn't do it.” And of course, I enjoy doing it. It's not a problem.

But then, the front half of the show, I kind of switch around a bit, just to keep everyone on their toes and interested with different ones on different nights. And now I've got to incorporate songs from the new album, which we rehearsed quite a few of them. And as I said before, we're only doing three so I'm switching it around a bit.

Are there other older songs you've never done live that you'd like to get around to someday?

I've tried to hit everything (laughs). I mean, I've been through the whole thing. And we do really weird ones. I mean, we did “I Wanna Be Your Man” (an early Stones single written by Lennon-McCartney) in Liverpool. That was really funny. We do that kind of thing from time to time out of the blue.

Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones, the Beatles and rock & roll vs. pop

Speaking of "I Wanna Be Your Man" and Paul being on this record, there's been this ongoing debate for decades where Stones fans argue that the Stones are proper rock and roll and the Beatles are a pop band. What's your take on that?

Well, we're both pop bands, really. In the ‘60s, if you listen to the Rolling Stones, of course we played more blues than the Beatles. And The Beatles used to play more Tamla/Motown covers. We were all cover bands. But we both play pop music. We play blues. The stuff we played in early '60s, it's all influenced. But it's pop music.

“Time Is on my Side,” that we did here, that’s a pop song, you know what I mean? "Let's Spend the Night Together" is a pop song. "Ruby Tuesday" is a pop song. "Angie" is a pop song. Of course, we play rock. The thing about the Rolling Stones, though, and the Beatles, is there are very wide musical influences. Both bands incorporated a lot of styles into their music. Country music, blues, R&B, English music. So we had a very broad range, both of us.

It's difficult to pigeonhole either band, in my opinion. But obviously, the Rolling Stones are the more blues band, right? But we always were a pop band.

You know, one of the things that was so great about the era you guys came up in and defined was that being in a rock and roll band could mean playing any of those types of songs that are on any of those albums either of your groups recorded in the '60s. It seemed as though the possibilities were limitless.

We played Elizabethan songs like "Lady Jane" and "She's a Rainbow." "Paint It, Black" is not really a rock song. It's our most popular streamed song and it's like a Middle East-influenced pop song.

At this point, Jagger is reminded that the interview was scheduled to conclude five minutes earlier.

"Hey listen, I've got to leave you; thank you so much," he says.

And with that, he's off to hear some gospel in New Orleans, time still very much on his side.

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When:  8 p.m. Tuesday, May 7.

Where:  State Farm Stadium, 1 Cardinals Way, Glendale.

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Ringo Starr is in full promotional mode at the moment. The rocker is touring North America this spring and summer, and he’s pushing a new EP he just released. In a recent interview meant to help promote this new chapter, the musician spoke about his past and even used a choice word to describe one of his past bandmates…but don’t expect any bad blood between them.

In a new interview with AXS TV , Starr talked about the pace at which The Beatles wrote and recorded music. He explained that there likely would have been far fewer records from the band had it not been for the work ethic of one of the four musicians.

“Because of Paul, who was the workaholic of our band, we made a lot more records than John and I would’ve made,” Starr shared with Dan Rather, who conducted the interview. “Workaholic” can sometimes be used derogatorily, but here, the Beatles drummer isn’t looking to jab his friend and colleague. Instead, he seems to see it as a good thing.

He added that, “We liked to sit around,” referring to himself and John Lennon. Starr then said that whenever they were being lazy, “Paul would call ‘Alright lads,’ and we’d go in.”

The Beatles are remembered not only as one of the best and bestselling musical acts of all time but also as one of the most prolific. They released more music in a relatively short span of time than most bands will throughout their lifetime. Their success is made even more impressive considering the fact that they essentially didn’t drop anything that failed commercially, as each full-length contained songs that people are still listening to regularly to this day.

The Fab Four released their first album in America, Introducing... The Beatles , in early 1964. By the time they stopped working together in mid-1970, when their final album Let It Be came out, they’d shared 17 complete collections. That’s more than one per year, and nearly all of them went right to No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

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Paul McCartney Is Auctioning Off the Iconic Beatles Boots He Wore at the 2012 London Olympics

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McCartney is selling the boots to raise money for Meat Free Monday. The Brit set up the nonprofit with his daughters Mary and Stella McCartney to encourage people to have a healthier diet and save animals by not eating meat at least one day a week.

“As it was time for me to get myself a new pair of boots, I thought this might be a good way to help our Meat Free Monday campaign celebrate its 15th anniversary,” McCartney said in a statement. “Me and my boots have great memories of that special evening at the Olympic opening ceremony in London. It was a high to be involved with such an awesome and spectacular event. Something I’ll remember forever.”

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Sir Paul McCartney is Britain's first musician billionaire

The Beatles icon Sir Paul McCartney's net worth is now more than £1billion

Sir Paul McCartney has been named as Britain's first musician billionaire.

According the The Sunday Times Rich List , The Beatles icon and his wife Nancy have a net worth of £1billion – an increase of £50million compared to last year.

The recent jump is down to the release of the last ever single by The Beatles – Now And Then as well as the Peter Jackson-directed documentary Get Back .

Now And Then was born from a  John Lennon  demo recorded in the late 1970s and features contributions from all four members of the band.

Now And Then  was originally recorded by Lennon at his home in New York’s Dakota Building. When the remaining Beatles were putting together their  Anthology  project in 1995, Yoko Ono supplied them with the demo, alongside rough versions of two others,  Real Love  and  Free As A Bird which were released as singles at the time.

But the technology available in the 90s wasn't advanced enough for Now And Then to be released. With recent advances in the technology, it was finally reworked and made available in 2023.

Jackson's Get Back came from 55 hours of unseen footage and 140 hours of unheard audio edited together over two years and packaged into three episodes.

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According to the Sunday Times, the McCartney fortune includes around $50million of Nancy's money.

Sir Paul McCartney owns a company called MPL Communications, founded in 1969 and which controls the rights to more than 25,000 songs.

MPL owns McCartney’s post-Beatles songs and also tracks by other icons such as Buddy Holly.

Another iconic and knighted British music star, Sir Elton John , also makes the list's top 350 – with a net worth of £470million.

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