Paul McCartney live: Yankee Stadium, New York

Billy Joel was a surprise guest at the second of Sir Paul McCartney’s two consecutive nights at the Yankee Stadium in New York City.

Joel played piano during the version of The Beatles’ ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ in the first encore section. He had previously guested at McCartney’s opening show at New York’s Citi Field stadium, and McCartney had played at Joel’s show at the final Shea Stadium concert.

McCartney’s band was Paul ‘Wix’ Wickens (vocals, keyboards, guitar, percussion, harmonica), Brian Ray (vocals, guitar, bass), Rusty Anderson (vocals, guitar) and Abe Laboriel Jr (vocals, drums).

The setlist

• ‘Magical Mystery Tour’
• ‘Jet’
• ‘All My Loving’
• ‘Junior’s Farm’
• ‘Drive My Car’
• ‘Sing The Changes’
• ‘The Night Before’
• ‘Let Me Roll It’
• ‘Paperback Writer’
• ‘The Long And Winding Road’
• Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five
• ‘Let ’Em In’
• ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’
• ‘I’m Looking Through You’
• ‘I Will’
• ‘Blackbird’
• ‘Here Today’
• ‘Dance Tonight’
• ‘Mrs Vandebilt’
• ‘Eleanor Rigby’
• ‘Something’
• ‘Band On The Run’
• ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’
• ‘Back In The USSR’
• ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’
• ‘A Day In The Life’/‘Give Peace A Chance’
• ‘Let It Be’
• ‘Live And Let Die’
• ‘Hey Jude’

• ‘Lady Madonna’
• ‘I Saw Her Standing There’
• ‘Get Back’

• ‘Yesterday’
• ‘Helter Skelter’
• ‘Golden Slumbers’
• ‘Carry That Weight’
• ‘The End’

Forthcoming dates in the On The Run tour:

July 2011

• 24 – Comerica Park, Detroit, MI
• 26, 27 – Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec
• 31 – Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL

August 2011

• 1 – Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL
• 4 – Great American Ballpark, Cincinnati, OH