Paul McCartney’s Epic Three Hour, 41 Song Concert At 02, Last Night May 24th, 2015

When Bruce Springsteen performs a three hour set we get 30 songs, when Paul McCartney does the same length set we get 25% more as last nights truly epic 41 song set at London’s 02 proves unhesitatingly. Paul is the Ramones of 60s rockers!

It is a fine all over the place set list though, really, he co-wrote “Fourfiveseconds”, why not perform it? I’d rather that then “Save Us”, New’s opening track, a raucous if minor little rocker.  “Hope For The Future” is there, buried deep, his pretty good video game track.

And though not really a shocker, 41 songs and the man hasn’t skimmed his back pages, so many songs didn’t make it in you have to ask for a recount. Though “New” and “Queenie Eye” from his last album make an appearance. “New” is a really good one.

This is off David Lister’s The Telegraph review (here): “Besides, the predictable, even the pyrotechnics of Live and Let Die, or the audience sing-along with Hey Jude, are not the highlights of a McCartney show. The highlights are the surprises, those unexpected songs whose deceptive simplicity and infectious happiness immediately evoke an era. The opener was just such a one, 1964’s rarely performed Eight Days A Week.

“Those surprises included pure McCartney moments that heightened the already high emotions in the audience, I’ve Just Seen a Face,’ ‘We Can Work It Out,’ ‘And I Love Her,’ a rousing version of ‘All Together Now’, his children’s song from the Yellow Submarine film, to set alongside the better remembered ‘Eleanor Rigby,’ ‘Lady Madonna’ ‘Let It Be’, and ‘The Long and Winding Road’, the purity of his voice when he sat at the piano for those last two making a nonsense of claims that it has lost its lustre.”

Eight Days a Week
(The Beatles song)
Save Us
Got to Get You into My Life
(The Beatles song)
Listen to What the Man Said
(Wings song)
Temporary Secretary
Let Me Roll It
(Wings song)
Paperback Writer
(The Beatles song)
My Valentine
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five
(Wings song)
The Long and Winding Road
(The Beatles song)
Maybe I’m Amazed
I’m Looking Through You
(The Beatles song) (First time live since 2012)
We Can Work It Out
(The Beatles song)
Another Day
Hope for the Future
And I Love Her
(The Beatles song)
Blackbird
(The Beatles song)
Here Today
New
Queenie Eye
Lady Madonna
(The Beatles song)
All Together Now
(The Beatles song)
Lovely Rita
(The Beatles song)
Eleanor Rigby
(The Beatles song)
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
(The Beatles song)
Ram On
(Paul & Linda McCartney cover) (First time live since 2013)
Something
(The Beatles song)
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
(The Beatles song)
Band on the Run
(Wings song)
Back in the U.S.S.R.
(The Beatles song)
Let It Be
(The Beatles song)
Live and Let Die
(Wings song)
Hey Jude
(The Beatles song)
Encore:
Another Girl
(The Beatles song)
Hi, Hi, Hi
(Wings song)
Can’t Buy Me Love
(The Beatles song)
Encore 2:
Yesterday
(The Beatles song)
Helter Skelter
(The Beatles song)
Golden Slumbers
(The Beatles song)
Carry That Weight
(The Beatles song)
The End
(The Beatles song)