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Home > Beatles diary > Live > Paul McCartney live at Citi Field, New York

Paul McCartney live at Citi Field, New York

8.00pm, Friday 17 July 2009 (2 years ago)

Sir Paul McCartney has played the first concert at the Citi Field stadium, New York, home to the New York Mets.

Citi Field is the successor to Shea Stadium, where The Beatles gave two triumphant concerts in 1965 and 1966.

McCartney performed more than 30 songs, including I'm Down, the song which closed the group's 1965 concert. He also dedicated My Love to his first wife Linda, "a New York girl", and invited Billy Joel to the stage for I Saw Her Standing There.

The concert was also filmed. The setlist ran as follows:

Drive My Car
Jet
Only Mama Knows
Flaming Pie
Got To Get You Into My Life
Let Me Roll It/Foxy Lady
Highway
The Long And Winding Road
My Love
Blackbird
Here Today
Dance Tonight
Calico Skies
Mrs Vandebilt
Eleanor Rigby
Sing The Changes
Band On The Run
Back In The USSR
I'm Down
Something
I've Got A Feeling
Paperback Writer
A Day In The Life/Give Peace A Chance
Let It Be
Live And Let Die
Hey Jude

First encore:

Day Tripper
Lady Madonna
I Saw Her Standing There

Second encore:

Yesterday
Helter Skelter
Get Back
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)/The End

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