A slight change to the setlist was spotted by fans attending Paul McCartney‘s recent Got Back show in Nashville.
The veteran performer will wrap up his Got Back tour later this month and has played almost the same setlist at each of the US tour dates so far. But a slight change to the setlist has been made which saw Here Today, a song McCartney would often dedicate to his Beatles bandmate John Lennon, dropped from the set. In its place was Every Night, a song which features on his self-titled debut. It marks one of the few changes McCartney has made to his setlist since starting the Got Back US tour, with some attendees noting both Help! and Coming Up were added to the start of the show and are now setlist staples. Both songs were absent from McCartney’s European and UK tour last year.
A full setlist for The Pinnacle show in Nashville, Tennessee, can be found below.
- Help!
- Coming Up
- Got to Get You Into My Life
- Drive My Car
- Letting Go
- Come On to Me
- Let Me Roll It
- Getting Better
- Let ‘Em In
- My Valentine
- Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five
- Maybe I’m Amazed
- I’ve Just Seen a Face
- In Spite of All the Danger
- Love Me Do
- Every Night
- Blackbird
- Now and Then
- Lady Madonna
- Jet
- Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
- Something
- Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
- Band on the Run
- Get Back
- Let It Be
- Live and Let Die
- Hey Jude
- I’ve Got a Feeling
- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Helter Skelter
- Golden Slumbers
- Carry That Weight
- The End
Also dropped from the setlist was Dance Tonight, a song which featured in McCartney’s show at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. Dance Tonight comes from McCartney’s Memory Almost Full album, and has been played consistently on this leg of the Got Back tour until the Nashville show, when it was dropped.
It comes after McCartney revealed there is “no meaning” behind one of his most-loved songs. There was nothing particular which had inspired the selection of words, with The Beatles member saying he just “ran into the words”. He would go on to liken the writing of the Ram classic to how Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland.
The “surrealist” nature of Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey was explained by McCartney, whose fondness for the bizarre has made its way into more than a handful of his best works. When in the mood for writing something a little “crazy”, McCartney opted for butter pies and hands across the sky.
Asked by a fan not only for an explanation of what a butter pie was but also if there was any meaning behind the butter not melting, thus being put into the pie, McCartney confirmed there was no deeper message. He shared: “No, there’s no meaning behind it. Because I like surrealist art, I also like surrealist words.
“A great example of this is Lewis Carroll writing Alice in Wonderland – it’s a crazy thing, you’ve got a cat sitting in a tree that grins and talks, and you’ve got Alice falling down a hole and meeting the red queen, and so on. That whole tradition was something that I loved, and when I met John [Lennon] I learned that he loved it to. So, it was something that became a bond between us.”
