Icon.
Legend.
Amazing gig.
When you're Paul McCartney, you can get the most talented musicians to play in your band. They need to be the best to match your ability. Tick.
When you're Paul McCartney, you can get Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp to perform sign language to the lyrics of one of your songs (on video). Tick.
When you're Paul McCartney, you can get a room full of proper stars to dance on video to another one of your songs. Tick.
When you're Paul McCartney, your Japanese fans will fly all the way to Glasgow to see you perform (and sit in the best seats). Saiko.Tick.
Because you're Paul McCartney, you can play the bass, the piano, the electric guitar, the acoustic guitar, the mandolin and the lute and play them brilliantly for nearly three hours without even needing to sip a bottled water. At seventy-six, you've been doing it so long, you know how it's done. And you can remember your lyrics without needing a crib sheet. Tick.
When you're Paul McCartney, you can surprise the shit out of the audience with a loud explosion with fire, smoke and pyros during "Live and Let Die". Boom.
I loved this gig.
The audience was multigenerational, from eight to eighty, and everyone enjoyed it. We felt included. The whole of the downstairs stood and danced for the entire show, a lot of them bringing signs they'd made for Paul to read out. He played forty songs and hardly broke a sweat.
On a personal level, It was fun to see the Paisley Grammar School choir accompanying him on "Wonderful Christmastime".
I wouldn't have called myself a Macca fan before tonight but this gig made my top 3 for 2018, pushing Steve Martin down to four (the others being Billy Joel at MSG and Queen at Glasgow Green).
Age is no barrier when you're Paul McCartney.
Setlist
A Hard Day's Night (The Beatles song)
Junior's Farm (Wings song)
Can't Buy Me Love (The Beatles song)
Letting Go (Wings song)
Who Cares
Got to Get You Into My Life (The Beatles song)
Come On to Me
Let Me Roll It (Wings song) (followed by "Foxy Lady" jam)
I've Got a Feeling (The Beatles song)
Let 'Em In (Wings song)
My Valentine
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five (Wings song)
Maybe I'm Amazed
We Can Work It Out (The Beatles song)
In Spite of All the Danger (The Quarrymen song)
From Me to You (The Beatles song)
Dance Tonight
Love Me Do (The Beatles song)
Blackbird (The Beatles song)
Here Today
Queenie Eye
Lady Madonna (The Beatles song)
Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles song)
Fuh You
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (The Beatles song)
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:
Wonderful Christmastime (with Paisley Grammar School Choir)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (The Beatles song)
Helter Skelter (The Beatles song)
Golden Slumbers (The Beatles song)
Carry That Weight (The Beatles song)
The End (The Beatles song)
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