The former Beatle delves deep into his songbook for three hours of humour, pyrotechnics and ‘sweet memories’
Paul McCartney plays the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on 18 October on the first night of his Got Back tour around Australia. His setlist included Beatles classics and newer songs.Paul McCartney plays the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on 18 October on the first night of his Got Back tour around Australia. His setlist included Beatles classics and newer songs.reflects midway through the first show of his Australian tour. “You tried to be hard, young guys. We never got around to it really.
It’s during Let ’Em In from 1976’s Wings at the Speed of Sound, that something happens that feels so surreal it provokes an almost physical response: McCartney throws his head back and wails,You know what I mean. It’s a sound ingrained in pop culture, tested out in Liverpool living rooms, shaped in noisy Hamburg nightclubs and belted over the screams of girls and maybe a few boys in stadiums whose public announcement systems were no match for the sheer volume of Beatlemania.
As he revealed in a fan event the day before, this “hobby” of songwriting – a bottomless lucky dip pitting “skill” against “magic” – will never get old to him. Later, a weathered ukulele signals another tribute. “This one was given to me by George,” he says, launching into a jaunty music hall take on Something. It’s lovely.
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