The Got Back US tour continues and Paul McCartney‘s setlist was filled with hits from The Beatles and Wings‘ discography.
Also featured were a handful of songs from his solo career in a massive thirty-five-song setlist at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 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. Slight changes were made to the setlist during McCartney’s show in Nashville, with the veteran songwriter opting to include his McCartney track, Every Night, instead of the John Lennon tribute Here Today and Dance Tonight. Both Here Today and Dance Tonight were featured in last night’s set.
A full setlist for McCartney’s show at the PPG Paints 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 as McCartney previously shared how he unwinds while touring, saying he watches films on his iPad and reads music biographies to pass the time on the road. In his You Gave Me the Answer Q&A post on his website, McCartney confirmed it was film and television which helped him pass the time best of all while travelling. He said: “I don’t knit, I imagine that would be quite cool, actually. Tom Daley knits and so does Michelle Obama, and I get why they do it; it must be a great release of tension.
“But I watch movies. So when I travel from London to New York, its normally a seven-hour journey so I end up watching about three movies, and in the middle of it all I try and have a meal. I just go to ‘New Releeases’ and unfortunately they’re not new – I’ve seen most of them!
“They don’t update them quick enough for me. I scan through and think ‘ah, I’ve been meaning to see that’.” When it came to being on a car journey, it was an iPad filled with films and television which kept McCartney occupied.
He continued: “On car journeys, I watch stuff on my iPad which can be films or series. I’m currently on Better Call Saul and it’s a good one. I don’t read on journeys so much, I read at home instead before going to bed.
“I get ready for bed and the last thing I do is read. Nancy will often look at a series at that time, but I think it’s not conducive to sleep because some of the things she’ll watch are a little too exciting, and the plot will keep you up all night! So I try to read biographies, which can be a little bit dry. After a few pages you start you yawn, the page goes fuzzy, so it’s light off and straight to sleep. I like that!”
