Paul McCartney’s Sydney setlist revealed - news.com.au

Sydney is hours away from going back in time with Sir Paul McCartney at Allianz Stadium on the latest stop of his Got Back Tour.

The 81-year-old singer-songwriter has already belted out three epic concerts for fans in Adelaide, Melbourne and Newcastle; and now it’s Sydney’s turn rock out with the music legend on Friday and Saturday night.

McCartney has achieved the near-impossible: to whittle decades of hits, personal favourites, and fan favourites into one bang-on almost three-hour set list.

But, blimey, he’s done it: 32 songs, 160-minutes plus a seven song encore later.

There’s plenty of footage of the concerts floating around online, and the set list has remained rock solid since the North American tour ended about 16 months ago.

It means fans coming to the Sydney shows can be fairly certain which songs from McCartney’s solo, Wings, or Beatles catalogues they can practice to sing along to live, with Sir Paul this weekend.

But if you don’t want to know what’s in store, consider this your final warning: we’re about to reveal the setlist.

The Got Back Tour has opened every night with The Beatles’ 1964 classic Can’t Buy Me Love and every show has ended with The End – which is perhaps the only appropriate curtain closer, given it was the last song recorded by the band.

Throughout the tour, he has sprinkled in new songs, even if they’re not the ones the crowd wants to hear.

McCartney has joked in the past that he can tell which songs are fan favourites to be performed live, because the crowd literally lights up.

“When we play an old Beatles song the place lights up with all your phones, it’s like a galaxy of stars,” he said.

“When we play a new song … it’s like a black hole. But we play ’em anyway!”

McCartney is joined on the massive stage by his longtime touring band: guitarist Rusty Anderson, bassist/guitarist Brian Ray, pianist Paul ‘Wix’ Wickens, and drummer Abe Laboriel Jr.

He is even joined onstage (via one of the four big screens behind him) by his former Beatles bandmate John Lennon to kick off the encore with a moving virtual duet of The Beatles hit I’ve Got A Feeling.

McCartney opened up about the poignant moment in an interview ahead of the Australian leg of his tour, calling it one of his favourite parts of the show.

“It’s kind of magic for me, because at one point I’m just backing John up,” he said.

“And that’s beautiful because that’s like it was when you played live, you know, to be conscious of the other person, and do your part right alongside him.

“So yeah, it’s very emotional for me. I love it.”

If footage of the last concerts – and history, broadly – is anything to go by, McCartney fans can be guaranteed a raucous trip through the decades and down memory lane in what is no doubt going to be a concert for the ages.

Below is the setlist that McCartney has stuck to for every single show of the Got Back Tour and that Sydney fans can be near certain he’ll rock again on Friday and Saturday night – unless he decides to dig out some deep cuts and hits from the rest of his stellar songbook (which, realistically, would be entirely possible)

1. Can’t Buy Me Love (The Beatles)

2. Junior’s Farm (Wings)

3. Letting Go (Wings)

4. She’s a Woman (The Beatles)

5. Got to Get You Into My Life (The Beatles)

6. Come On to Me

7. Let Me Roll It (Wings)

8. Getting Better (The Beatles)

9. Let ‘Em In (Wings)

10. My Valentine

11. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five (Wings)

12. Maybe I’m Amazed

13. I’ve Just Seen a Face (The Beatles)

14. In Spite of All the Danger (The Quarrymen song)

15. Love Me Do (The Beatles)

16. Dance Tonight

17. Blackbird (The Beatles)

18. Here Today

19. New

20. Lady Madonna (The Beatles)

21. Fuh You

22. Jet (Wings)

23. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (The Beatles)

24. Something (The Beatles)

25. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (The Beatles)

26. You Never Give Me Your Money (The Beatles)

27. She Came in Through the Bathroom Window (The Beatles)

28. Band on the Run (Wings)

29. Get Back (The Beatles)

30. Let It Be (The Beatles)

31. Live and Let Die (Wings)

32. Hey Jude (The Beatles)

Encore:

33. I’ve Got a Feeling (The Beatles) – virtual duet with John Lennon

34. Birthday (The Beatles)

35. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (The Beatles)

36. Helter Skelter (The Beatles)

37. Golden Slumbers (The Beatles)

38. Carry That Weight (The Beatles)

39. The End (The Beatles)

Some 70,000 people are expected to attend McCartney’s concerts across the two nights at Allianz Stadium, which is the cherry on top of a bumper event weekend in the city.

In typical Sydney fashion, ticketholders are being urged to “plan ahead, leave the car at home and catch public transport as on-site parking in Moore Park is very limited and heavy traffic is expected”.

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Tickets to the concerts include travel on public transport to and from Moore Park, with frequent light rail services from the city and southeast.

“If you must drive, you’ll need to arrive early to secure a parking space as parking is limited and will fill quickly,” Transport NSW said.
“Allow plenty of extra travel time and carpool with your group as traffic will be heavy, particularly on Friday night during the busy evening peak.”

The Australian leg of the Got Back Tour will finish in Queensland with one concert at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on Wednesday, November 1 and his curtain call at Heritage Bank Stadium on the Gold Coast on Saturday, November 4.

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