Paul McCartney Pays Tribute To John Lennon

Paul McCartney took the stage at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn over the weekend and wowed the crowd with his performances, his tributes, and his anecdotes about the iconic people who have passed thr...
Paul McCartney Pays Tribute To John Lennon
Written by Amanda Crum
  • Paul McCartney took the stage at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn over the weekend and wowed the crowd with his performances, his tributes, and his anecdotes about the iconic people who have passed through his life.

    The former Beatle played not just familiar songs, but some older numbers that have never been done on stage before, including “Eight Days A Week” and “Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!”. For that song, he was backed by looping samples of calliope music that harkened back to the days when The Beatles were experimenting with their sound in trippy ways. The songs were done to pay touching tribute to John Lennon, as well as “Here Today”.

    The 70-year old icon played a staggering 36-song set for an ecstatic crowd and is moving on through a hectic schedule for his “Out There” tour to Bonaroo. Here’s the setlist for Saturday’s show:

    Setlist:

    Eight Days a Week
    Junior’s Farm
    All My Loving
    Listen to What the Man Said
    Let Me Roll It/Foxy Lady (instrumental)
    Paperback Writer
    My Valentine
    Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five
    The Long and Winding Road
    Maybe I’m Amazed
    I’ve Just Seen a Face
    We Can Work It Out
    Another Day
    And I Love Her
    Blackbird
    Here Today
    Your Mother Should Know
    Lady Madonna
    All Together Now
    Lovely Rita
    Mrs. Vanderbilt
    Eleanor Rigby
    Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
    Something
    Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
    Band on the Run
    Back in the U.S.S.R.
    Let It Be
    Live and Let Die
    Hey Jude

    Encore:

    Day Tripper
    Hi Hi Hi
    Get Back

    Encore 2:
    Yesterday
    Helter Skelter
    Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End

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