| World tour byPaul McCartney | |
 Official poster for the first North American leg | |
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| Start date | 28 April 2022 |
| End date | 25 November 2025 |
| Legs | 8 |
| No. of shows | 79 |
| Website | paulmccartneygotback |
| Paul McCartney concert chronology | |
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Got Back was a concert tour by English musicianPaul McCartney. The tour started on 28 April 2022 at theSpokane Arena inSpokane, Washington, and ended on 25 November 2025 atUnited Center inChicago, Illinois.[1] The tour was McCartney's first following theCOVID-19 pandemic that resulted in the cancellation of a planned European leg of hisFreshen Up tour in 2020,[2] which included a planned performance atGlastonbury Festival.[3] McCartney performed at Glastonbury on 25 June 2022, as a conclusion to the first leg of the Got Back tour.[4]
The setlist for Got Back, as with McCartney'sother concert tours as a solo artist, included songs by his former bandsthe Beatles andWings, as well as songs from his solo career. In addition to McCartney, thetour band includedRusty Anderson on guitar,Brian Ray on guitar and bass,Paul "Wix" Wickens on keyboards, andAbe Laboriel Jr. on drums, along with thebrass trio Hot City Horns. Originally planned for fourteen stops on the tour, a second date in bothOakland, California, andBoston were later added,[5][6] for a total of sixteen concerts across the United States. On July 31, 2023, McCartney announced he would resume the Got Back tour, beginning with seven shows in Australia, followed by a Latin American leg. A second Latin American leg, with shows in cities where the tour had not previously visited, was announced in June 2024,[7] followed by a second European leg.[8] On June 20, 2024, McCartney announced two more concerts in Mexico.[9] On July 10, 2025, McCartney announced a second North American leg of the tour beginning in September 2025 inPalm Springs, California.[10]
Got Back was McCartney's first series of live shows since 2019.[11] TheCOVID-19 pandemic resulted in the cancellation of the final European leg ofhis previous tour in 2020,[2] which included a planned performance atGlastonbury Festival as the final show.[3] During the pandemic in 2020, McCartney recorded and released his 18th solo album,McCartney III.[2] In 2021, the three-partdocumentary seriesThe Beatles: Get Back, directed and produced byPeter Jackson, was released onDisney+. The series covers the making of the albumLet It Be by McCartney's former bandthe Beatles, utilizing footage and audio captured for a1970 documentary film of the same name.
The dates for the Got Back tour were announced on 18 February 2022.[11][12] The tour was originally planned to have fourteen stops. On 25 February 2022, it was announced that a second concert would be held atFenway Park inBoston, Massachusetts, on 8 June, in addition to the already-announced concert on 7 June.[5] On 11 March, it was then announced that the concert planned for 6 May atOakland Arena inOakland, California, would be followed by a second concert in the same venue on 8 May (Mother's Day),[6] bringing the total number of planned stops on the tour to sixteen.
Following the conclusion of the North American leg of the tour, McCartney headlined at theGlastonbury Festival on 25 June 2022, in a 160-minute set, with special guestsDave Grohl andBruce Springsteen.[13][14]
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The setlist for the Got Back tour consisted of over 30 songs, including songs by the Beatles andWings, as well as songs from McCartney's solo career. Each concert ran for around 2 hours and 40 minutes.[15][16][17] The pre-show featured a scrolling videoslide show of images of McCartney and the Beatles,[18] culminating in an animated image of McCartney'sHöfner bass.[19]
The sixth song on the setlist was Wings' "Let Me Roll It", which segued into a snippet of "Foxy Lady" as a tribute toJimi Hendrix.[16][20] The ninth song on the setlist was "My Valentine", a song from McCartney's solo career, accompanied by a video ofNatalie Portman andJohnny Depp gesturing insign language.[16] The 16th song on the setlist, the Beatles' "Blackbird", featured McCartney singing while playingacoustic guitar, elevated about six metres (20 feet) in the air, in front of a largeLED display.[20][16] "Blackbird" was followed by another acoustic performance, "Here Today", a song which McCartney wrote about his former Beatles bandmateJohn Lennon after Lennon'smurder in 1980.[21][22] The 22nd song on the setlist, theGeorge Harrison-penned "Something", began with McCartney playing aukulele which Harrison gave to him.[20] The 28th song on the setlist, Wings' "Live and Let Die", involves the use ofpyrotechnics, including flames andfireworks.[16]
The Spokesman-Review andThe Dallas Morning News noted the absence of the Beatles song "Back in the U.S.S.R.", a usual staple of McCartney's live concerts, from the setlist,[23][24] in light of the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[24] Immediately preceding theencore at each stop on the tour, McCartney and his fellow band members left the stage and each returned with a flag: theflag of the United Kingdom, the flag of the country they were performing in, anLGBT pride flag, and, in 2022, theflag of Ukraine,[24] as well as thestate flag of whichever US state the concert took place in (for example, theflag of Texas at the show inFort Worth, Texas,[24] and theflag of Florida at the show inHollywood, Florida[25]).
The encore of the show was composed of the Beatles songs "I've Got a Feeling", "Birthday" / “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)",Helter Skelter", and "Golden Slumbers" / "Carry That Weight" / "The End". "I've Got a Feeling" was originally written and sung by McCartney andJohn Lennon and included on theLet It Be album. The performances of this song during the tour included a "video duet" between McCartney and Lennon, using footage restored for theGet Back documentary of Lennon performing the song with the Beatles duringtheir 1969 rooftop concert.[26] Jackson had isolated the vocals of Lennon after conceiving the idea of having Lennon "sing" along with McCartney and his live band; he told McCartney, "We can extract John's voice, and he can sing with you," to which McCartney replied, "Oh, yeah!"[2]
On the final stop of the North American leg of the tour, on 16 June 2022 atMetLife Stadium inEast Rutherford, New Jersey, McCartney was joined on stage during the concert by New Jersey-born musiciansBruce Springsteen andJon Bon Jovi.[27][28] Springsteen, with McCartney and McCartney's band, performed the Springsteen song "Glory Days", as well as the Beatles' "I Wanna Be Your Man".[27][28] During the show's encore, Bon Jovi appeared on stage with balloons and sang "Happy Birthday" to McCartney, who turned 80 years old two days later on 18 June.[27][28] Springsteen returned during the final song, "The End", playing guitar.[27][28]
During the 2024 leg inLatin America, McCartney debuted "Now and Then" which was accompanied by clips of the song's music video.
McCartney also held meet and greet events for competition-winning fans for the first time sinceCOVID. When interviewed about the encounters before hisBuenos Aires shows inArgentina, he said "It’s great because they are always super pleased to see me, and they each have an interesting story. For example, one guy today told me he just got married, and another fan mentioned she is getting married to someone she met at my show soon which is so lovely to hear."[29][30]
Reviewing the 13 May concert held atInglewood, California'sSoFi Stadium, Chris Willman ofVariety commended McCartney's singing voice and made note of the show's structure: "a rocking opening stretch highly reliant on '70s rockers [...] a partially acoustic, 'Storytellers'-like magical history tour of the Beatles' rise as the backbone of Act 2, [...] and then, letting the third hour be birthday songs, na-na-na-na-na-na-na-ing andAbbey Road medley-izing. That structure indisputably works, and so, as part of a winning formula, does a band that has now been together for many more years than the Beatles ever were".[19]
The Charlotte Observer's Théoden Janes, reviewing the 21 May concert atTruist Field at Wake Forest inWinston-Salem, North Carolina, praised the show, calling the setlist "thoughtfully curated" and writing that "the entire night was one big nonstop highlight".[16] However, Janes suggested that the production "skip the music video that plays during 'My Valentine,'" stating, "We want to think about someone we love during that song. Not aboutDepp and Amber Heard"; they also criticized the heavy traffic around the stadium and the management of it by stadium officials and local police.[16]
Grant Albert of theMiami New Times, in a review of the 25 May concert held at Hollywood, Florida'sHard Rock Live, wrote that McCartney "can't hit the high notes like he used to. Still, his 60-plus year discography, showmanship, and influence didn't stop the nearly 7,000 attendees from enjoying the rock polymath perform"; he added, "McCartney injected loads of humor, visuals, lasers, and a genuine intention to put on a good show".[25]
Reviewing the 7 June concert atFenway Park inBoston, Marc Hirsh of theBoston Globe noted "some small noticeable vulnerabilities from age" in McCartney's singing voice, "But it otherwise maintained its essential McCartneyness".[17] Hirsh also wrote, "Eleven days shy of turning 80, he was spry and up for the endurance challenge of playing upward of 30 songs over the course of two hours and 40 minutes at the first of two sold-out shows."[17]
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| Date | City | Country | Venue | Attendance | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 April | Spokane | United States | Spokane Arena | 10,760 / 10,760 | $3,438,893 |
| 2 May | Seattle | Climate Pledge Arena | 30,324 / 30,324 | $7,983,322 | |
| 3 May | |||||
| 6 May | Oakland | Oakland Arena | 28,599 / 28,599 | $7,580,903 | |
| 8 May | |||||
| 13 May | Inglewood[a] | SoFi Stadium | 43,658 / 43,658 | $12,046,695 | |
| 17 May | Fort Worth | Dickies Arena | 12,093 / 12,093 | $3,985,850 | |
| 21 May | Winston-Salem | Truist Field at Wake Forest | 33,222 / 33,222 | $7,256,101 | |
| 25 May | Hollywood | Hard Rock Live | 6,720 / 6,720 | $3,347,447 | |
| 28 May | Orlando | Camping World Stadium | 42,662 / 42,662 | $8,848,665 | |
| 31 May | Knoxville | Thompson–Boling Arena | 16,037 / 16,037 | $4,651,316 | |
| 4 June | Syracuse | JMA Wireless Dome | 35,599 / 35,599 | $7,815,181 | |
| 7 June | Boston | Fenway Park | 71,380 / 71,380 | $15,305,355 | |
| 8 June | |||||
| 12 June | Baltimore | Oriole Park at Camden Yards | 40,733 / 40,733 | $9,806,025 | |
| 16 June | East Rutherford | MetLife Stadium | 51,872 / 51,872 | $13,012,034 | |
| 24 June[b] | Frome | England | Cheese & Grain | — | — |
| 25 June[c] | Pilton | Worthy Farm | — | — |
| Date | City | Country | Venue | Attendance | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 October | Adelaide | Australia | Adelaide Entertainment Centre | 8,490 / 8,490 | $1,801,112 |
| 21 October | Melbourne | Marvel Stadium | 52,152 / 52,152 | $8,945,988 | |
| 24 October | Newcastle | McDonald Jones Stadium | 25,631 / 25,631 | $4,287,589 | |
| 27 October | Sydney | Allianz Stadium | 69,402 / 69,402 | $11,770,049 | |
| 28 October | |||||
| 1 November | Brisbane | Suncorp Stadium | 38,688 / 38,688 | $6,215,622 | |
| 4 November | Gold Coast | Heritage Bank Stadium | 26,108 / 26,108 | $4,039,435 | |
| 14 November | Mexico City | Mexico | Foro Sol | 118,088 / 118,088 | $16,429,326 |
| 16 November | |||||
| 28 November[d] | Brasília | Brazil | Clube do Choro de Brasília | — | — |
| 30 November | Arena BRB Mané Garrincha | 53,578 / 53,578 | $4,225,330 | ||
| 3 December | Belo Horizonte | Arena MRV | 81,001 / 81,001 | $5,955,622 | |
| 4 December | |||||
| 7 December | São Paulo | Allianz Parque | 149,226 / 149,226 | $16,233,151 | |
| 9 December | |||||
| 10 December | |||||
| 13 December | Curitiba | Estádio Couto Pereira | 43,633 / 43,633 | $4,301,288 | |
| 16 December | Rio de Janeiro | Maracanã Stadium | 62,305 / 62,305 | $5,360,278 |
| Date | City | Country | Venue | Attendance | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 October | Montevideo | Uruguay | Estadio Centenario | — | — |
| 5 October | Buenos Aires | Argentina | River Plate Stadium | — | — |
| 6 October | — | — | |||
| 11 October | Santiago | Chile | Estadio Monumental | — | — |
| 15 October | São Paulo | Brazil | Allianz Parque | — | — |
| 16 October | |||||
| 19 October | Florianópolis | Estádio da Ressacada | — | — | |
| 23 October | Córdoba | Argentina | Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes | — | — |
| 27 October | Lima | Peru | Estadio Nacional | — | — |
| 1 November | Bogotá | Colombia | Estadio El Campín | — | — |
| 5 November | San José | Costa Rica | Estadio Nacional | — | — |
| 8 November | Guadalupe[e] | Mexico | Estadio BBVA | — | — |
| 12 November | Mexico City | Estadio GNP Seguros | — | — | |
| 14 November | |||||
| 17 November[f] | Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez | — | — | ||
| 4 December | Paris | France | La Défense Arena | — | — |
| 5 December | |||||
| 9 December | Madrid | Spain | WiZink Center | — | — |
| 10 December | |||||
| 14 December | Manchester | England | Co-op Live | — | — |
| 15 December | |||||
| 18 December | London | The O2 Arena | — | — | |
| 19 December |
| Date | City | Country | Venue | Attendance | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September | Palm Desert | United States | Acrisure Arena | — | — |
| 4 October | Paradise | Allegiant Stadium | — | — | |
| 7 October | Albuquerque | Isleta Amphitheater | — | — | |
| 11 October | Denver | Coors Field | — | — | |
| 14 October | Des Moines | Casey’s Center | — | — | |
| 17 October | Minneapolis | U.S. Bank Stadium | — | — | |
| 22 October | Tulsa | BOK Center | — | — | |
| 25 October | San Antonio | Alamodome | — | — | |
| 29 October | New Orleans | Smoothie King Center | — | — | |
| 2 November | Atlanta | State Farm Arena | — | — | |
| 3 November | |||||
| 6 November | Nashville | The Pinnacle | — | — | |
| 8 November | Columbus | Nationwide Arena | — | — | |
| 11 November | Pittsburgh | PPG Paints Arena | — | — | |
| 14 November | Buffalo | KeyBank Center | — | — | |
| 17 November | Montréal | Canada | Bell Centre | — | — |
| 18 November | |||||
| 21 November | Hamilton | TD Coliseum | — | — | |
| 24 November | Chicago | United States | United Center | — | — |
| 25 November | |||||
| Total | 1,151,961 / 1,151,961 | $194,642,577 | |||
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