On Thursday evening (April 28), ex-Beatle Paul McCartney opened his “Got Back” solo tour in Spokane, a city in Washington state. With encores, he played a total of 36 songs, including various Beatles classics, solo titles and those from his Wings days.
“We will have a great time”
“This is the first night of the tour and I think we’re going to have a really good time,” Macca told his audience, kicking off the night with the 1964 Beatles’ Can’t Buy Me Love. He stood in front of his audience in a blue blazer and blue jeans and proceeded to play two Wings titles, “Junior’s Farm” and “Letting Go”, which he created together with his wife Linda after the Beatles broke up in 1970.
Solo titles and Beatles tracks
McCartney performed “Got To Get You Into My Life” classically on his violin bass, which gained cult status through him. With “Come On To Me” he also performed a more recent solo track, which only appeared on his 17th record “Egypt Station” in 2018. He then performed another Wings track, throwing in a part of Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady” on “Let Me Roll It.”
The musician, who will be 80 years old in just under two weeks, caused a surprise with an interpretation of “Getting Better” by the Beatles. The title has not been played since November 2015. This was followed by the live debut of Women and Wives, a track McCartney recorded on an upright bass for 2020’s album III.
Cheered on by girls, Macca performed “Love Me Do”
Five more Beatles and Wings tracks later, the bassist transported himself back to the early days of the Beatles with “Love Me Do” from 1962 and even let his female fans scream at him: “C’mon, girls, give me a Beatles scream.”
He also took on quieter tones with “Blackbird” and “If You Were Here Today,” a song he wrote for John Lennon after his death.
“Back in the USSR” was of course not intoned, but McCartney is said to have waved a Ukrainian flag.
Performances of “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five”, “Maybe I’m Amazed”, a love song for Linda McCartney, “Band on the Run”, “Get Back”, “Birthday” and “Helter Skelter” rounded out the evening. McCartney shared a post on Instagram with a photo from the show, writing that he was “glad to be back.”
Most recently, McCartney’s handwritten lyrics for the 1968 Beatles track “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” surfaced and were set to sell for $450,000. The musician, meanwhile, shared his favorite moment with late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins on Instagram.
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