A slight change to the setlist was made to Paul McCartney‘s performance at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
The Got Back US tour has seen very few changes to the setlist from show to show, but McCartney did drop Dance Tonight and Here Today from his performance at The Pinnacle in Nashville earlier this month. McCartney also changed the start of the setlist slightly for the US tour, with both Help! and Coming Up added to the start of the show. Also included in the set were hits like Let It Be, Band on the Run and Live and Let Die. It marks a minor change to the setlist for the Nationwide Arena show, with McCartney adding Dance Tonight and Here Today back into the setlist. They were dropped in favour of Every Night for the Nashville show. A full setlist for McCartney’s performance at the Nationwide Arena 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
- Dance Tonight
- Blackbird
- Here Today
- 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
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.”
