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Paul McCartney has embarked on his first full tour in over two years. The rock legend's last documented performance was on 2019's Freshen Up Tour at Dodger Stadium . McCartney's current run is set to run through June 16 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. For a complete list of upcoming tour dates and ticket info, visit his official website here .

Paul McCartney's Got Back Tour kickoff setlist at Spokane Arena in Washington kicked off with "Can't Buy Me Love." The career-spanning setlist included "Getting Better" and "You Never Give Me Your Money" performed for the first time since 2003. "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" from The Beatles' iconic eleventh studio album Abbey Road was performed by McCartney for the first time since 2008.

The performance included a 6-song encore of just Beatles songs that opened with "I've Got a Feeling." This was a special experience because John Lennon's vocals had been extracted from the Get Back concert film - so he was able to sing "with" Paul, live. See the performance (Lennon comes in at 2:10) and read more about it on JamBase .

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Paul McCartney Gets Back to Live Performing: Set List, Video

Paul McCartney  returned to the road last night in Spokane, Wash., where he launched his 2022 Got Back Tour . The concert marked the former Beatles star's first live performance in more than two years.

He began the show with 1964's "Can't Buy Me Love," kicking off an evening that included numerous other Beatles favorites. "Getting Better" and "You Never Give Me Your Money" had not been played live since 2003, according to Setlist.fm . McCartney also performed "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" for the first time since 2008, as well as a selection of Wings and solo material.

"Women and Wives" a track from his most recent album, 2020's  McCartney III , made its concert debut. Another highlight from the evening included McCartney's "duet" with John Lennon on "I Got a Feeling," utilizing footage from Peter Jackson 's  Get Back documentary.

A complete set list, as well as video from the show, can be viewed below.

Watch Paul McCartney Perform 'Can't Buy Me Love' and 'Junior's Farm' Live in Spokane

“Wow, is all I can say [is] you’ve been a fantastic audience for our opening night,” McCartney told the crowd. At the end of the show, he brought a Ukrainian flag on stage.

McCartney's most recent public performances took place in 2019 when he embarked on a 39-date world tour that finished with a sold-out show at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The concluding concert featured guest appearances from Ringo Starr and Joe Walsh .

McCartney then participated in Starr's virtual charity broadcast , organized in July 2020 to honor of Starr's 80th birthday, where other guest performers included  Gary Clark Jr. ,  Sheryl Crow ,  Jackson Browne ,  Elvis Costello ,  Peter Frampton  and others.

Watch Paul McCartney Perform "Getting Better" and "Women and Wives" Live in Spokane

McCartney III arrived in December 2020, marking his 18th studio LP and third self-titled one-man-band production. A separate version of the album, dubbed McCartney III Imagined , was released shortly after and featured covers and remixes by St. Vincent ,  Beck , Phoebe Bridgers and Josh Homme , among others.

“I was living lockdown life on my farm with my family and I would go to my studio every day," McCartney said at the time. "I had to do a little bit of work on some film music and that turned into the opening track, and then when it was done, I thought, 'What will I do next?' I had some stuff I’d worked on over the years, but sometimes time would run out and it would be left half-finished, so I started thinking about what I had."

McCartney's Got Back Tour will continue across the United States for the next several weeks before wrapping up on June 16 at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium.

Watch Paul McCartney Perform "I Got a Feeling" Live in Spokane

Paul McCartney, April 28, 2022, Spokane, Wash., Set List

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" (followed by "Foxy Lady" jam) 7. "Getting Better" (first time since 2003) 8. "Women and Wives" (live debut) 9. "My Valentine" 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" (Quarrymen song) 14. "Love Me Do" 15. "Dance Tonight" 16. "Blackbird" 17. "Here Today" 18. "Queenie Eye" 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" (first time since 2003) 25. "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" (first time since 2008) 26. "Get Back" 27. "Band on the Run" 28. "Let It Be" 29. "Live and Let Die" 30. "Hey Jude"

Encore: 31. "I've Got a Feeling" 32. "Birthday" 33. "Helter Skelter" 34. "Golden Slumbers" 35. "Carry That Weight" 36. "The End"

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

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.

Next up for Sir Paul: Two nights at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle on Monday and Tuesday.

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Paul McCartney's 'Got Back' Tour 2022 - Set List Revealed!

Paul McCartney is currently on tour and playing stadiums across the United States as we approach summer!

The legendary singer just played a show in Los Angles and Variety noted that he is performing a “marathon” of a set list that includes more than 30 songs. The show reportedly ran two hours and forty minutes, which is way longer than most acts half his age are doing.

Paul is performing up to four hours a night thanks to sound check experiences he is giving to fans who buy VIP packages. During those pre-show sets, he is performing 8 to 13 songs for about an hour.

The former The Beatles singer will be celebrating his 80th birthday in June, two days after the tour wraps.

Click inside to check out the set list…

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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”

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Paul McCartney Kicks Off The Got Back Tour In Spokane #SETLIST

by Paul Cashmere on April 29, 2022

Paul McCartney has resumed touring with the Got Back tour opening in Spokane, Washington.

Got Back is McCartney’s first tour since 2019’s Freshen Up tour.The setlist featured the Sgt Pepper track ‘Getting Better’ performed for the first time since 2003, ‘You Never Give Me Your Money’ for the first time since 2012 and for the first time ‘Women and Wives’ from the Japanese edition of 2021’s ‘McCartney III’.

Here is the 14 song setlist from today’s McCartney soundcheck at Spokane Arena.

Paul McCartney Got Back setlist, Spokane, 28 April 2022

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) 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 Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967) Women and Wives (from McCartney III, 2021) 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 Help, 1965) In Spite of All the Danger (1995 The Quarrymen song released on The Beatles Anthology, 1995) Love Me Do (from The Beatles, 1963) Dance Tonight (from Memory Almost Full, 2007) Blackbird (from The Beatles, The Beatles, 1968) Here Today (from New, 2013) Queenie Eye (from New, 2013) Lady Madonna (The Beatles single 1968) Fuh You (from Egypt Station, 2018) Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite (from The Beatles, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967) Something (from The Beatles, Abbey Road, 1969) Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (from The Beatles, The Beatles, 1968) You Never Give Me Your Money (from The Beatles, Abbey Road, 1969) Get Back (from Let It Be, 1970) Band On The Run (from Band On The Run, 1973) Let It Be (from Let It Be, 1970) Live and Let Die (from single 1972, from the Live and Let Die soundtrack) Hey Jude (The Beatles single 1968)

ENCORE: I’ve Got A Feeling (from Let It Be, 1970) (duet with John Lennon on screen) Birthday (from The Beatles, The Beatles, 1968) 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)

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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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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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Got Back Tour - 2023

Entertainment Centre, Adelaide

18 October 2023

98 Port Rd Hindmarsh SA 5007 Australia

Marvel Stadium, Melbourne

21 October 2023

740 Bourke St Docklands VIC 3008 Melbourne Australia

McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle

24 October 2023

294 Turton Rd Broadmeadow NSW 2292 Australia

Allianz Stadium, Sydney

27 October 2023

Driver Ave Moore Park NSW 2021 Australia

28 October 2023

Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane

1 November 2023

40 Castlemaine St Milton QLD 4064 Australia

Heritage Bank Stadium, Gold Coast

4 November 2023

Nerang Broadbeach Rd Carrara QLD 4211 Australia

Foro Sol, Mexico City

14 November 2023

Viad. Río de la Piedad S/N, Granjas México Iztacalco 08400 Ciudad de México CDMX Mexico

16 November 2023

Clube de Choro, Brasília

28 November 2023

SDC Bloco G Brasília, DF 70070-350 Brazil

Mané Garrincha Stadium, Brasília

30 November 2023

Portão 1 SRPN - Asa Norte Brasília - DF 70070-701 Brazil

Mrv Arena, Belo Horizonte

3 December 2023

Rua Cristina Maria de Assis 202 - Califórnia Belo Horizonte - MG 30855-440 Brazil

4 December 2023

Allianz Parque, São Paulo

7 December 2023

Avenida Francisco Matarazzo 1705, R. Palestra Itália 200 - Água Branca São Paulo - SP 05001-200 Brazil

9 December 2023

10 December 2023

Estádio Couto Pereira, Curitiba

13 December 2023

R. Ubaldino do Amaral 63 - Alto da Glória Curitiba - PR 80060-195 Brazil

Maracanã Stadium, Rio De Janeiro

16 December 2023

Av. Pres. Castelo Branco Portão 3 - Maracanã Rio de Janeiro - RJ 20271-130 Brazil

Tour Information

Paul took his *Got Back* Tour on a global jaunt that spans three continents. Dazzling fans in Australia with performances in iconic cities including Adelaide, where The Beatles left an indelible mark in 1964, and also make debut performances in Newcastle and the Gold Coast. Paul then performed two nights in Mexico City at the iconic Foro Sol, before getting 'Back in Brazil', where Paul holds a record for the best-selling international artist. Closing the 2023 *Got Back* tour with his return to the Maracanã, an emblematic stadium where he once made history by drawing a record-breaking audience of 184,000 in 1991.

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Paul McCartney toured Australia in October and November 2023. “Australia is very important to me,” McCartney said in a video released in advance of the tour . “When I was a kid, a lot of my relatives from Liverpool were leaving to go to Australia, and I have quite a few relatives in Australia – they’d been breeding while I wasn’t watching.”

The tour began with shows in Adelaide, Melbourne and Newcastle. McCartney and his band then played two shows in Sydney and finished with a gig each in Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Here are all the tour setlists.

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Heritage Bank Stadium, Gold Coast

Saturday, 4th November

• Can’t Buy Me Love
• Junior’s Farm
• She’s a Woman
• Got to Get You Into My Life
• Come On to Me
• Let Me Roll It
• Getting Better
• My Valentine
• Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five
• Maybe I’m Amazed
• I’ve Just Seen a Face
• In Spite of All the Danger
• Dance Tonight
• Lady Madonna
• You Never Give Me Your Money
• She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
• Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
• Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
• Band on the Run
• Live and Let Die
• I’ve Got a Feeling (w/ virtual John Lennon)
• Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
• Helter Skelter
• Golden Slumbers
• Carry That Weight

The Beatles songs: 24; Wings songs: 8

Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane

Wednesday, 1st November

Allianz Stadium, Sydney

Saturday, 28th October

• A Hard Day’s Night
• Queenie Eye

Friday, 27th October

McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle

Tuesday, 24th October

Marvel Stadium, Melbourne

Saturday, 21st October

Adelaide Entertainment Centre

Wednesday, 18th October

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Paul McCartney was the obvious headliner of the bill Thursday at the Hollywood Bowl. But it was Buffett-mania that was in full sway, as a cast of dozens of singers and celebrity presenters — from Jane Fonda to Snoop Dogg — saluted or parroted a fallen musical hero for the three-and-a-half-hour “Keep The Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett .”

Most of the night’s entertainers covered Buffett classics or obscurities, although McCartney, the Eagles and Snoop Dogg broke with that to regale the full Bowl house with their own material, while Zac Brown debuted a brand new song saluting Buffett.

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“Hollywood-fucking-Bowl, come on!” exhorted McCartney, no stranger to the venue. Settling down, the former Beatle said: “I had the great pleasure of knowing Jimmy, and like everyone else on the bill has said, this was one great man. He was generous; he was funny; he had done just about everything in his life. I say he was so generous: I was on holiday with him and I forgot to bring my guitar, so he had his own guitar strung left-handed for me. And then the next time I saw him, he had one custom-made, left-handed, for me.”

“In the last week of his life,” McCartney continued, “I was invited up to his house by Janey… to sing a couple of songs for Jimmy. And he was in a pretty bad way, but he still had that twinkle in his eye. So I thought I’d sing one of those songs I sang for him tonight.” After “Let It Be,” McCartney returned to the stage with the rest of the ensemble, conspicuously carrying a margarita.

If anyone was wondering what Buffett covers he, the Eagles or Snoop were going to work up for the evening, there were no rules about having to interpret his catalog. The Eagles did a mini-greatest-hits set, without speaking about Buffett (Joe Walsh’s “How ya doin'” was the sum total of their dialogue), although some meaning may have been intended in the choice of songs, if we can consider Buffett to have been a boy of summer who took it to the limit.

However, Timothy B. Schmit did get his own number earlier in the evening, recalling the three years that he spent as a member of the Coral Reefer Band at Buffett’s behest in the ’80s, after the Eagles broke up. He sang the cheerful potential-disaster anthem “Volcano,” after bragging to the crowd that it was during that run as a Buffett sideman that he coined the term “parrothead.”

As for Snoop, he was not about to work up his own version of “A Pirate Looks at 40,” but did pipe in with a shared love of recreational whatever. As Apatow said a little later, “I must’ve gotten stoned on Jimmy’s gummies backstage, because I swear to God, I thought I just saw Snoop Dogg sing ‘Gin and Juice’ with the Coral Reefer Band.”

Most of the rest of the night consisted of interpretations Buffett chestnuts. Befitting her status as rock’s perennial saluter-with-the-mostest, Carlile was the only performer of the night other than Coral Reefer Mac McAnally to sing two Buffett covers. She hit both his partying and contemplative modes with back-to-back renditions of “Come Monday” and “Tin Cup Chalice.”

But, she continued, “he was so good to me, and I feel like he was good to me mostly because he knew how much I loved his wife, Jane, who is one of my most precious, precious friends. He would text me and he’d say, ‘This is Jimmy, Jane’s husband, Brandi. I need a favor. I’ve got some lesbians that want to go fishing with you.”… Jane used to call him ‘dude.’ I just so deeply admired the beauty and timelessness and the power of their love story. Jimmy and Jane’s love story is one for the ages.”

Carlile was introduced by Jane Fonda as “a woman that I admire from the bottom of my heart, one of the great American singers who never ceases to surprise us with her style and range, it’s so vast.” But she mostly came to praise Buffett, saying, “Even now, Jimmy has the ability to, like Tinkerbell spread happiness all over. … He was such a generous man, generous of heart, generous of spirit. He loved people and that’s why we love him, because … even through his music, you could feel that.” On the lighter side, she insisted at the top of her speech that “I was actually the one that smoked a bowl with Jimmy on the roof of the Vatican,” and she comically ended it with: “Just remember that about the Vatican roof and everything.”

Harrison Ford got one of the most rousing receptions from the crowd, which led him to playfully snark, “Simmer down,” before getting into his own Buffett story. “Jimmy Buffett was a cool guy,” he said. “I remember one day I had a long, some might say boozy lunch with Jimmy and Ed Bradley for Bradley’s birthday. I saw both of ’em had earrings. So right after lunch, I got my ear pierced. That’s just how infectious Jimmy’s coolness was — infectious enough for a 40-year-old man to spontaneously get his fucking ear pierced.

“And,” Ford continued, “infectious enough to create an entire culture around his music. There is no other way to say it. There will never be another like Jimmy. Usually cool guys ae not that nice. Jimmy was more than nice: He was kind. He was beloved by his family, by his friends, by his crew and his collaborators, and he loved them all back.”

Don Johnson got a bit saltier still in his introduction of the Eagles. He recalled a special night “when Jimmy was cooking and he made some of the most delicious duck I’ve ever had. The flavors were so strong they were able to break through the insane amount of cocaine that we had done.” After a long laugh, he added, “Aspen in the ’80s.” With a bit more tenderness, Johnson noted, “Jimmy was a great host, but he was an even better friend. He always made sure that everyone was having the best possible time. He lit up the room with his stories. Some of ’em fact, and most of them fiction — and he turned those stories into bestselling books,” Johnson added, before getting emotional as he read an excerpt from a prose passage Buffett wrote at 50, in which he said, “I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening…”

“And I said, ‘Jimmy, where are you going?’ And he said, ‘I gotta go get certified for the takeoff and landing at the St. Barts airport.’ Now, the St. Barts airport is death-defying. It’s like a controlled crash, and it’s scary. And he said, ‘I gotta go and I gotta get certified; I gotta go do a bunch of takeoff and landings, like 30 of them… You want to go?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, of course I want to go!’ He said, ‘Great, I’ll just go get my stuff.’ And he left the room. And Jane turned to me and she said, ‘Dude, Jimmy has been in like three plane crashes. You’re not going with him.’ So I bailed.”

Later, Apatow got a dig in. “He and Jane, they’re the most generous, wonderful people ever,” said the comic/filmmaker. “I remember once we were in St. Barts and Jimmy said, ‘Do you wanna fly with me? I have to practice landing at the airport 30 times.’ And I said, yeah — and it was fine. He did a good job. The moral of the story is: Will Arnett is a pussy. Get in the plane, be a man.”

Jon Bon Jovi amplified the flying motif. “He’s the only guy I’ve ever met that used to show up to a picnic or a rock show dressed in the same clothes. And each one of us, you know, we walk around and we go, ‘No, I’m a rock star. I’m a rock star.’ Then Jimmy Buffett walks in the room — he flies his own plane to his own show. That’s a rock star.”

Bon Jovi was on hand to do a duet with Pitbull on the latter’s “Thank God and Jimmy Buffett,” a paean that beat the newly minted tribute songs by Matthews and Brown to the punch by decades. Pitbull told the story of how he let Buffett know he’d written a song about him. They ended up at the same event, and he recalls Buffett asking him, “‘What the fuck are you doing in Nascar?’ I said, ‘Jimmy, man, I’m just taking the page outta your book. But crazy enough, Jimmy, I got this song on my phone I’ve been working on for years at this point, which is called “Thank God and Jimmy Buffett.”‘ And Jimmy looked at me with that little shit-eating grin and he said, ‘Now you’re fucking with me.’ So I played it for him right there off of my phone, being one of the only people at that time to have a Blackberry in the whole world.”

Brown debuted his own “Pirates and Parrots,” which he said will be coming out April 19, in addition to performing a cover of “Knee Deep.”

Crow won the crowd interaction award of the night by performing “Fins,” and doing the overhead shark-fin motions that were a peculiar staple of Buffett shows. She did not have to do a lot of research for the routine: As she explained, she had been a member of the Coral Reefer Band for a spell in the 1980s, prior to signing her recording contract.

McAnally and the Coral Reefer Band still managed to be stars of the show, despite all the starpower on hand. Among the choices McAnally turned in were a song he said he had to keep convincing the boss to keep in the touring setlist, which surprised Buffett, since he considered McAnally to be “the Southern Baptist of the band”: “Why Don’t We Just Get Drunk and Screw.” But McAnally said he knew it to just be a great country song, morality aside, “and if he hadn’t become an icon, he could’ve played college frat gigs the rest of his life off that one song.” In honoring the even more irreverent path not quite taken, McAnally did his comrade proud.

“It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere” – Mac McAnally & Scotty Emerick “Grapefruit / Juicy Fruit” – Jake Owen “Pencil Thin Mustache” – Scotty Emerick “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes” – Kenny Chesney “Back Where I Come From” – Kenny Chesney & Mac McAnally “One Particular Harbour” – Angelique Kidjo “Pirates and Parrots” – Zac Brown  “Knee Deep” – Zac Brown “Son of a Son of a Sailor” – Eric Church “Volcano” – Timothy B. Schmidt “Tin Cup Chalice” – Brandi Carlile

“Come Monday” — Brandi Carlile “Cheeseburger in Paradise” – Scotty Emerick “He Went to Paris” – Jackson Browne “Bubbles Up” – Mac McAnally and Caroline Jones “Southern Cross” – J.D. Souther “Why Don’t We Get Drunk” – Mac McAnally “Gin and Juice” – Snoop Dogg “We Will Rock You/While My Guitar Gently Weeps” – Jake Shimabukuro “Don’t Stop the Party” – Pitbull “Thank God and Jimmy Buffett” – Pitbull and Jon Bon Jovi “Fins” – Sheryl Crow “A Pirate Looks at 40” – Jack Johnson and Caroline Jones “Brown Eyed Girl” – Zac Brown (Dave Grohl on drums) “Lovely Cruise” – Dave Matthews (video) “The Boys of Summer” – Eagles “Take it to the Limit” – Eagles “In the City” – Eagles “Let It Be” – Paul McCartney with the Eagles “Margaritaville” – Full cast

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Inside Jimmy Buffett’s Tribute Concert: McCartney, Margaritas, and One Hell of a Parrothead Party

By John Lonsdale

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“Good evening, Hollywood-fucking-Bowl!” Paul McCartney exclaimed to the flock of Parrotheads gathered before him. A sold-out crowd had assembled in the famed Los Angeles venue on Thursday to celebrate the legacy of Jimmy Buffett at “Keep the Party Going,” a laid-back, one-night-only tribute show full of eclectic guests.

“I had the great pleasure of knowing Jimmy , and like everyone else on the bill tonight, I said, ‘This is one great man.’ He was generous. He was funny. He’d done just about everything in his life,” McCartney said, before launching into “Let It Be .” It was a song that McCartney said he’d played for Buffett at his home during the final week of his life. Buffett died in Sept. 1, 2023, at 76 after a battle with Merkel cell skin cancer.

Along with the stacked musical lineup, “Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett” featured introductions — some via video, some in person —  from Dolly Parton, James Taylor, Woody Harrelson, Pat Riley, and Dave Matthews. Harrison Ford was there in the flesh.

“There is no other way to say it: There will never be another like Jimmy,” Ford told the crowd, before introducing the Zac Brown Band as “one of Jimmy’s favorite and most-frequent collaborators.” The group jammed through the new track “Pirates & Parrots,” out April 19, and their collab with Buffett “Knee Deep,” with Brown literally taking off his pants to play the song in shorts and a tee backed by Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band.

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“Jimmy enjoyed living life more than any person enjoyed living life,” the country star said. “I can remember we were hiking one day and we were heading up this vista and we started talking about music and songwriting and our careers and his life and my life, and death. And, ‘You know, Eric,’ [Jimmy] said, ‘Guys like us, we don’t really die.’ He said, ‘because the songs live forever.'”

“And this one will,” Church said, as the opening chords to “Son of a Son of a Sailor” rang out over the Bowl and an image of a sailboat drifting along the water was projected on a screen behind the musicians. Later, a projection of the Arc de Triopmhe appeared behind Jackson Browne as he sang his stirring rendition of “He Went to Paris,” one of Buffett’s greatest cuts from 1973’s A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean .

In the latter half, the set list shifted to songs that Buffett wasn’t exactly known for: Snoop Dogg took the stage for a performance of “Gin and Juice,” alongside psychedelic visuals of Buffett in the 2019 Matthew McConaughey film The Beach Bum . And Pitbull appeared to perform his own “Don’t Stop the Party” before being joined by Jon Bon Jovi for “Thank God & Jimmy Buffett.”

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“Jimmy Buffett, get a big kick out of this,” McAnally said. “Raise a glass, show ’em how to do it.”

Jimmy Buffett Tribute Show Set List

“It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” – Coral Reefer Band “Grapefruit – Juicy Fruit” – Jake Owen “Pencil Thin Moustache” – Coral Reefer Band “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes” – Kenny Chesney “Back Where I Come From” – Kenny Chesney “One Particular Harbour” – Angelique Kidjo “Pirates & Parrots” – Zac Brown “Knee Deep” – Zac Brown “Son of a Son of a Sailor” – Eric Church “Volcano” – Timothy B. Schmit “Tin Cup Chalice” – Brandi Carlile “Come Monday” – Brandi Carlile “Cheeseburger in Paradise” – Coral Reefer Band “He Went to Paris” – Jackson Browne “Bubbles Up” – Coral Reefer Band “Southern Cross” – JD Souther “Why Don’t We Get Drunk” – Coral Reefer Band “Gin and Juice” – Snoop Dogg “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” – Jake Shimabukuro “Don’t Stop the Party” – Pitbull “Thank God & Jimmy Buffett” – Pitbull and Jon Bon Jovi “Fins” – Sheryl Crow “A Pirate Looks at Forty” – Jack Johnson “Brown Eyed Girl” – Zac Brown and Dave Grohl “The Boys of Summer” – Eagles “Take It to the Limit” – Eagles “In the City” – Eagles “Let It Be” – Paul McCartney , Eagles “Margaritaville” – Coral Reefer Band and Company

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He did his bit of smuggling, he once sang , and he ran his share of grass. Now, the late, great Jimmy Buffett is being honored by an assortment of his many friends and admirers in an all-star tribute concert Thursday night at the Hollywood Bowl.

Keep the Party Going, as the show is billed, takes place seven months after Buffett died from skin cancer in September at age 76, leaving behind a lifestyle empire that reportedly made him a billionaire — and, of course, a deep catalog of wryly literate songs that blend country, pop, folk, rock and Caribbean music.

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3:20 p.m. April 12, 2024 In an earlier version of this article, a photo caption did not identify Jackson Browne and referred to him as a member of the Coral Reefer Band.

In the wake of his death came warm remembrances from the likes of former President Clinton, who said Buffett’s work “brought happiness to millions of people,” and Alan Jackson, with whom Buffett recorded the No. 1 country hit “ It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere .” Elton John called him “a unique and treasured entertainer”; LL Cool J said he was “glad we had time to vibe.”

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Among the many acts set to perform at the Bowl are Paul McCartney, the Eagles , Jon Bon Jovi, Jackson Browne, Brandi Carlile , Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Sheryl Crow , Zac Brown, Jack Johnson, Pitbull and members of Buffett’s longtime Coral Reefer Band.

7:11 p.m. Greetings from Margaritaville! (Sorry, I had no choice.) With a lineup long on boomer icons — and an audience full of the fans Buffett often compared to Deadheads with credit cards — tonight’s show promises to be like a stylishly graying Coachella, a prospect for which I’m all in. I’m Mikael Wood, The Times’ pop music critic, and I’m happy to be here with my colleagues August Brown and Erin Osmon to play-by-play this tribute to the man who did as much as anyone to bring fruity drinks and sandy desperation into the pop vernacular. — Mikael Wood

As the native Floridian on The Times team here, I am thrilled to see tonight as the beginning of a Buffett-sance among L.A.’s songwriter set. Parrothead wear is the look of the summer to come. — August Brown

And we’re off with a festive take on “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” by Buffett’s stalwart backup crew, the Coral Reefer Band. — M.W.

Introducing himself as a Florida boy, Jake Owen says he knows “a lot about citrus” — his way to queue up “Grapefruit — Juicy Fruit.” — M.W.

The Coral Reefer Band puts a brass-infused NOLA spin on “Pencil Thin Mustache,” opener of Buffett catalog highlight “Living and Dying in 3/4 Time.” This colorful crowd — the Bowl looks like a pastel kaleidoscope of leis and Hawaiian shirts — is on its feet and loving it. I wore my Hush Puppies for the occasion. Perhaps I’ll join them. — Erin Osmon

7:26 p.m. Woody Harrelson is here in a beat-up cowboy hat recalling the time he and Buffett smoked a joint on the roof of the Vatican. “That’s not true of course,” he adds, “but wouldn’t that be a great story?” As one of the night’s first celeb presenters, the actor goes on to extol Buffett’s creation of “a new genre of music — and hotels and restaurants and old folks’ homes.” — M.W.

7:32 p.m. Kenny Chesney takes “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes” — which, as bite-size philosophies go, is up there with the best. — M.W.

7:33 p.m. Chesney says that, when he was a kid growing up in east Tennessee, Jimmy Buffett was the first person who showed him that a person can paint pictures with words; a touching and fitting sentiment before he launched into “Where I Come From,” a song that evokes the powerful, everyday images of Buffett’s (and Chesney’s) rural upbringings. — E.O.

7:35 p.m. In a video tribute, Dolly Parton emphasizes Buffett’s multi-hyphenate brilliance — songwriter, author, mogul — and that he was more than just a dude in flip-flops. — E.O.

7:42 p.m. The Jimmy Buffett lifestyle crosses seas and transcends continents, as Angélique Kidjo proved on a regal take of “One Particular Harbour.” The two were old pals and collaborators on “Ti Punch Café,” from Buffett’s final album, “Equal Strain on All Parts,” and the respect and camaraderie between them is really delightful. — A.B.

7:58 p.m. Zac Brown debuts a tender new song, “Pirates and Parrots,” at the Bowl tonight, written about and dedicated to Buffett as Brown promises he is “picking up where you left off ... when the sun goes down we’ll raise our drinks.” Very sweet reminder that this music really meant a lot to a lot of songwriters who took it to new places. Another fitting tribute: Brown changing into shorts onstage. — A.B.

8:01 p.m. A sepia-tone Indiana Jones-style video, titled “Quest for the Shaker of Salt,” tees up the night’s next presenter: Harrison Ford. “Jimmy Buffett was a cool guy,” he says. Ford recalled a “boozy lunch” with Buffett and Ed Bradley that inspired him to get his ear pierced (because they both had earrings and he thought that was so cool). He clarifies that for a “cool guy” Buffett was also singularly kind and loyal. “There will never be anyone else like him.” — E.O.

8:04 p.m. Longtime Miami Heat coach Pat Riley recounting the time Buffett got ejected from a game for calling the referee a Parrothead.”That’s not an insult, that’s a compliment,” Riley recalled yelling back. Truly a crime against Florida to throw him out. — A.B.

8:08 p.m. Eric Church intros a lightly snarling “Son of a Son of a Sailor” with a remembrance of the many summers he and Buffett spent in California, where they’d hike, enjoy “afternoon wine” and then end the day drinking “tequila till there wasn’t anymore tequila.” — M.W.

8:11 p.m. The Eagles bassist Timothy B. Schmit, ex-member of Poco, and the Coral Reefer Band, leads the band and the Bowl in a spirited performance of “Volcano,” a tune custom-tailored for crowd participation. He’s also, apparently, the first person to say “Parrothead.” I didn’t know; I didn’t know. — E.O.

8:14 p.m. Jane Fonda wants to set the record straight, she says as she takes the stage to introduce Brandi Carlile: “I was actually the one that smoked a bowl with Jimmy on the roof of the Vatican.” Big laugh in the crowd. Fonda hails Buffett’s generosity of spirit and his “ability, like Tinkerbell, to sprinkle happiness” wherever he went. — M.W.

8:18 p.m. Reliable as always, Carlile does her tender-soulful ‘70s folk-rock thing in “Tin Cup Chalice,” then talks about her experiences fishing with Buffett, whom she says impressed many a lesbian fisherwoman by bragging that he was friends with Brandi Carlile. — M.W.

8:22 p.m. If I’m being completely honest, I had hoped that Jackson Browne would be the celeb pal to sing “Come Monday” this evening — refracting Buffett’s most tender composition through his soft-rock pedigree and “These Days” poignancy. Instead, it was Carlile, who led the Coral Reefer Band on acoustic guitar. She explained that Buffett’s widow, Jane, is one of her “most precious friends,” which makes it make more sense, as Buffett wrote the song for her. Carlile’s vocals were characteristically smooth and her love for Buffett evident. In other words, it was a job well done. — E.O.

8:28 p.m. “Exactly the person you expected to see,” said actor Will Arnett, an unlikely Parrothead. “I have so many awesome memories of Jimmy. I was staying with him in the Caribbean — he said, ‘I gotta get certified in takeoffs and landings at the St. Barts Airport, you wanna go? I gotta do like 30 of them.’ Jimmy has been in like three plane crashes. I bailed.” — A.B.

8:34 p.m. The Coral Reefer Band takes “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” Buffett’s hardest-rocking hit — at least until the classic bridge about how Buffett likes his burger, at which point the assembled Parrotheads threaten to drown out the pros onstage. — M.W.

8:39 p.m. Instead of “Come Monday,” Jackson Browne played “He Went to Paris” — after a little stumble with his in-ear monitors. “You know what?” he said with a laugh. “I can’t hear any levels because I forgot to put these in my ears.” After course correcting, he offered a mellow rendition of Bob Dylan’s favorite Buffett tune. It’s not always a good sign when folks sit down during a song, but here it read like a necessary vigil, a kind of reverence — with the twinkle of neon necklaces instead of the flicker of candles. — E.O.

8:42 p.m. J.D. Souther tells the crowd that, as Buffett often said, he’s got a sailing song for us, which turns out to be a rollicking take on “Southern Cross” by Crosby, Stills & Nash. — M.W.

8:47 p.m. “When Jimmy wrote this song, there hadn’t been a song like this in country music,” says Mac McAnally of the Coral Reefer Band — one way to describe the proudly raunchy “Why Don’t We Get Drunk.” (If you don’t know what comes next in the lyric, look it up.) — M.W.

8:52 p.m. Snoop Dogg in the house! After encouraging the crowd to smoke “sticky icky” (what else?) he threw down a spirited and incredibly well received performance of “Gin and Juice” to honor his “main man Jimmy.” — E.O

8:59 p.m. Anyone who doubts Snoop Dogg’s Parrothead bona fides should watch him in Harmony Korine’s “The Beach Bum.” Underrated movie! — A.B.

9:12 p.m. John McEnroe keeps the gag going as presenter with a memory of the time he and Buffett smoked a joint at center court at Wimbledon. — M.W.

9:18 p.m. And now we have Pitbull doing his “Don’t Stop the Party” — just one fun-loving Florida Man paying tribute to another fun-loving Florida Man. Says Pitbull of Buffett: “He’s the definition of what it means to unite, not divide.” — M.W.

9:22 p.m. And the award for Most Unexpected Collab goes to Pitbull and Jon Bon Jovi doing “Thank God and Jimmy Buffett.” — E.O.

9:23 p.m. “We all think we’re rock stars, but he flew his own plane to his own show. That’s a rock star,” Bon Jovi said of his late pal, before admitting his backstage edible was kicking in, a common theme of the night. Judd Apatow agreed. “I swear I just thought I saw Snoop Dogg do ‘Gin and Juice’ with the Coral Reefer Band,” the director said, before praising Buffett’s longevity and loyalty to his band. ”50 years, Jesus. It’s the band that made it all work. They got f— up together as a family.” — A.B.

9:27 p.m. Sheryl Crow instructs folks to put up their “land shark” fins before launching into Buffett’s tune of the same name. There were fins to the left, fins to the right and fins on the stage — Crow couldn’t resist joining in. — E.O.

9:35 p.m. After telling a story about the time a friend of his mistook Buffett for a plumber due at his house to fix a broken toilet, Jack Johnson sings “A Pirate Looks at Forty,” which he calls “the reason I kept playing music” after he learned the song at age 14. — M.W.

9:39 p.m. It wouldn’t be a classic rock tribute show without Dave Grohl showing up to play something or other, so of course he’s back manning the Coral Reefer drum kit for Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl” with Zac Brown, out for round two tonight. — A.B.

9:41 p.m. Dave Matthews describes his offering of “Lovely Cruise” — performed via video — as a “postcard.” Fittingly, his stripped-back acoustic rendition emanates the feeling of a beautifully chill day on an island beach, which is where he first met Buffett. — E.O.

9:45 p.m . Here to introduce the Eagles is Don Johnson, who recalls the time at Snowmass when Buffett cooked up a duck dish that smelled so good it cut through all the cocaine they were doing that night. “Aspen in the ‘80s,” he says. — M.W.

9:48 p.m. The Eagles open not with a Buffett tune but with one of Don Henley’s that catches something of Buffett’s perpetually sun-tanned vibe: “The Boys of Summer.” — M.W.

9:50 p.m. “The Boys of Summer” is a neat choice because it name-checks the only act that comes close to rivaling the unique world-building that Buffett achieved: the Grateful Dead. — E.O.

9:59 p.m. We’re all thinking about Buffett, of course, but Vince Gill’s precision-geared vocals in “Take It to the Limit” also feel like a warm tribute to the Eagles’ Randy Meisner, who originally sang the song and who died last year. — M.W.

10:05 p.m. No clue what “In the City” has to do with a guy whose whole deal was finding a (comfortable) way out of the rat race, but damn if the Eagles don’t sound great right now. Invite Joe Walsh to everything, is my idea. — M.W.

10:15 p.m. “Hollywood f—ing Bowl!” says Paul McCartney, who tells a story about being invited to one of Buffett’s places during “the last week of his life” to “sing a couple songs for Jimmy.” Buffett “was in a pretty bad way, but he still had that twinkle in his eye,” McCartney says. “Tonight I thought I’d sing one of those songs.” That’s his cue for a stately “Let It Be,” for which he brings out the Eagles — have these rock giants jammed together onstage before? — and which gets what looks like the entire place on its feet. — M.W.

10:20 p.m. If there is anything I learned tonight it is that Jimmy Buffett was a singularly unifying force. The ability to assemble Paul McCartney, Eric Church, Snoop Dogg and Pitbull on the same stage is a large enough feat, let alone calling each of them a friend. Tonight, the cast was diverse and the vibeage was off the charts. Turns out, Margaritaville is a special place. — E.O.

10:25 p.m. McCartney chugs a giant margarita onstage tonight to introduce the night’s sendoff. — A.B.

10:35 p.m. All the heavyweights are back onstage for a rousing, appropriately wobbly “Maragaritaville,” and there’s something very moving about the way this weird (and really very sad!) little party song has become the anthem it has to so many different types of people. And that’s a wrap for Buffett-palooza — except, perhaps, for Paul McCartney, who looks like his night is just getting started. — M.W.

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"Our main reason was, we worried about leaving the kids at home and then getting a nanny or somebody ringing up saying 'oh they’ve gone into hospital' or 'they’re very ill', and we’d be far away in Australia or something," Paul McCartney explained.

Bringing them on tour didn't mean they were neglectful, though. "When we decided to bring them along we tried to be very careful about the sensible stuff like their education. We did things like going to their school and asking the teachers what the class are going to be doing while we’re away, and then we had a tutor that came with us - the kids hated him! They did not like being told in the afternoon that it was 'school time!'. They’d protest: 'No, we wanna go to the beach!'" the Beatle recalled amused .

Paul McCartney and his kids now look back to that time fondly and have no regrets about sharing touring as a family.

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James McCartney’s acoustic ballad Primrose Hill, co-written with Sean Ono Lennon, was drawn from childhood vision in Scotland

The most famous songwriting credit in history, Lennon-McCartney, has been resurrected – though for a song written by the Beatles’ sons.

Primrose Hill, a single by Paul McCartney’s son James, has been co-written with Sean Ono Lennon: an acoustic ballad with a shuffling backbeat and ruminative guitar soloing.

McCartney explained the song in an Instagram post: “I had a vision as a child in Scotland, on what was a lovely summers day. Letting go, I saw my true love and saviour in my mind’s eye. Primrose Hill is about getting the ball rolling with me & finding this person.”

His father Paul promoted it on social media, sending “lots of love” to Ono Lennon.

McCartney, born to Paul and Linda McCartney in 1977, released two solo albums in 2013 and 2016, and said he was now “really getting the ball rolling and I am so excited to continue to share music with you”. Primrose Hill follows the release of a solo single earlier this year, Beautiful. He has previously co-written songs with his father and played with him on albums such as 1997’s acclaimed Flaming Pie.

“It’s hard to live up to the Beatles,” he said in a 2013 interview with the Daily Mail. “When Wings toured they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to the Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly. I had to serve my time as a musician and wait until I had a good body of songs and for a time when both myself and my music were ready. I don’t want to sit around. I want to earn my own living.”

Ono Lennon has also carved out his own musical career since early appearances on albums by his mother Yoko Ono. He joined the alt-rock band Cibo Matto, who then backed him – along with Ringo Starr’s son Zak Starkey – for his debut album Into the Sun in 1998. Lennon went on to collaborate with artists as varied as Albert Hammond Jr, Soulfly, Mark Ronson and Jurassic 5, and has released further solo work alongside film scoring.

Activity remains lively around the Beatles, meanwhile. Following the release of what was billed as the final new Beatles song, Now & Then – which topped the UK charts in November – and the three-part Peter Jackson-directed documentary Get Back, a reissue of the 1970 film Let It Be has been announced to air on Disney+ in May. Directed by Michael Lindsay Hogg, it charted the making of the album of the same name, and leftover footage from the shoot formed Jackson’s documentary series.

“I’m absolutely thrilled that … Let It Be has been restored and is finally being rereleased after being unavailable for decades,” Jackson said in a statement. “I’ve always thought that Let It Be is needed to complete the Get Back story.”

Fans can also get their hands on a unique piece of McCartney memorabilia – the open-top bus that he and Wings travelled in for their 1972 European tour.

“If we’re gonna be in Europe in the summer going to places like the south of France, it’s just silly to be in some little box all day gasping for air,” McCartney reasoned at the time. “So we came up with this idea to have an open deck, upper deck kind of thing. We’ve got some mattresses up there so we can just cruise along, fantastic, it’s great, just lie around and get the sun.”

Fully restored and in working order, the double-decker in Yellow Submarine-style livery is expected to sell for up to £200,000 at auction on 22 April.

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James mccartney’s acoustic ballad, co-written with sean ono lennon, draws from a childhood vision in scotland.

Sean Ono Lennon and James McCartney announced their new song Primrose Hill on social media. Photograph: Instagram

The most famous songwriting credit in history, Lennon-McCartney, has been resurrected – though for a song written by The Beatles ’ sons.

Primrose Hill, a single by Paul McCartney ’s son James, has been co-written with Sean Ono Lennon: an acoustic ballad with a shuffling backbeat and ruminative guitar soloing.

McCartney explained the song in an Instagram post: “I had a vision as a child in Scotland, on what was a lovely summers day. Letting go, I saw my true love and saviour in my mind’s eye. Primrose Hill is about getting the ball rolling with me & finding this person.”

His father Paul promoted it on social media, sending “lots of love” to Ono Lennon.

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McCartney, born to Paul and Linda McCartney in 1977, released two solo albums in 2013 and 2016, and said he was now “really getting the ball rolling and I am so excited to continue to share music with you”. Primrose Hill follows the release of a solo single earlier this year, Beautiful. He has previously co-written songs with his father and played with him on albums such as 1997’s acclaimed Flaming Pie.

“It’s hard to live up to The Beatles,” he said in a 2013 interview with the Daily Mail. “When Wings toured they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly. I had to serve my time as a musician and wait until I had a good body of songs and for a time when both myself and my music were ready. I don’t want to sit around. I want to earn my own living.”

Ono Lennon has also carved out his own musical career since early appearances on albums by his mother Yoko Ono. He joined the alt-rock band Cibo Matto, who then backed him – along with Ringo Starr ’s son Zak Starkey – for his debut album Into the Sun in 1998. Lennon went on to collaborate with artists as varied as Albert Hammond jnr, Soulfly, Mark Ronson and Jurassic 5, and has released further solo work alongside film scoring.

Activity remains lively around The Beatles, meanwhile. Following the release of what was billed as the final new Beatles song, Now & Then – which topped the UK charts in November – and the three-part Peter Jackson-directed documentary Get Back, a reissue of the 1970 film Let It Be has been announced to air on Disney+ in May. Directed by Michael Lindsay Hogg, it charted the making of the album of the same name, and leftover footage from the shoot formed Jackson’s documentary series.

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“I’m absolutely thrilled that . . . Let It Be has been restored and is finally being rereleased after being unavailable for decades,” Jackson said in a statement. “I’ve always thought that Let It Be is needed to complete the Get Back story.”

Fans can also get their hands on a unique piece of McCartney memorabilia – the open-top bus that he and Wings travelled in for their 1972 European tour.

“If we’re gonna be in Europe in the summer going to places like the south of France, it’s just silly to be in some little box all day gasping for air,” McCartney reasoned at the time. “So we came up with this idea to have an open deck, upper deck kind of thing. We’ve got some mattresses up there so we can just cruise along, fantastic, it’s great, just lie around and get the sun.”

Fully restored and in working order, the double-decker in Yellow Submarine-style livery is expected to sell for up to £200,000 (€234,000) at auction on April 22nd. – Guardian

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