The eighth concert of Paul McCartney’s Out There tour took place at the FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee.
Prior to the show the band visited Elvis Presley’s grave at Graceland, where McCartney left a guitar plectrum in tribute.
Paying Respects #OutThere at #Graceland pic.twitter.com/eCV1FXCzed
— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) May 26, 2013
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).
#graceland
: ) > pic.twitter.com/yZtsd17gJh— abe laboriel jr (@ogabejr) May 25, 2013
Memphis, you move me baby. #Graceland, #Stax #SunRecords tours, the music of my soul makes me feel like
I'll never get old— Brian Ray (@brianrayguitar) May 27, 2013
went to grizzlies/spurs game & graceland. what a day, both superlative! http://t.co/IQTAGshzOY
— Rusty Anderson (@rustyanderson1) May 27, 2013
The setlist
- ‘Eight Days A Week’
- ‘Junior’s Farm’
- ‘All My Loving’
- ‘Listen To What The Man Said’
- ‘Let Me Roll It’
- ‘Paperback Writer’
- ‘My Valentine’
- Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five
- ‘The Long And Winding Road’
- ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’
- ‘I’ve Just Seen A Face’
- ‘We Can Work It Out’
- ‘Another Day’
- ‘And I Love Her’
- ‘Blackbird’
- ‘Here Today’
- ‘Your Mother Should Know’
- ‘Lady Madonna’
- ‘All Together Now’
- ‘Lovely Rita’
- ‘Mrs Vandebilt’
- ‘Eleanor Rigby’
- ‘Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!’
- ‘Something’
- ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’
- ‘Band On The Run’
- ‘Back In The USSR’
- ‘Let It Be’
- ‘Live And Let Die’
- ‘Hey Jude’
Previous Out There tour dates:
- 4 May 2013: Estadio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- 6 May 2013: Estádio Serra Dourada, Goiânia, Brazil
- 9 May 2013: Estádio Governador Plácido Castelo, Fortaleza, Brazil
- 18 May 2013: Amway Center, Orlando, Florida
- 19 May 2013: Amway Center, Orlando, Florida
- 22 May 2013: Frank Erwin Center, Austin, Texas
- 23 May 2013: Frank Erwin Center, Austin, Texas
Also on this day...
- 1980: US album release: McCartney II by Paul McCartney
- 1975: US single release: Listen To What The Man Said by Wings
- 1969: John and Yoko’s second bed-in for peace: Montreal
- 1969: US album release: Unfinished Music No.2: Life With The Lions by John Lennon and Yoko Ono
- 1969: US album release: Electronic Sound by George Harrison
- 1966: Recording: Yellow Submarine
- 1965: The Beatles (Invite You To Take A Ticket To Ride) – the final BBC radio session
- 1964: John and Cynthia Lennon, George Harrison and Pattie Boyd fly to London from Tahiti
- 1963: Live: Empire Theatre, Liverpool
- 1962: Live: Star-Club, Hamburg
- 1961: Live: Top Ten Club, Hamburg
- 1960: Live: Town Hall, Forres, Scotland
Want more? Visit the Beatles history section.
This is the concert that started my love for Paul and the Beatles. I had no clue who Paul was until my husband asked me to go to this concert. Life changing.
Despite them playing “Another Day?” Amazing.
Right across the street from the (now former) Gibson Guitar Memphis factory.