The 37th concert of Paul McCartney’s Out There tour took place at the Estadio de Liga in Quito, Ecuador.
It was the fifth of six shows in South America. The only deviation from McCartney’s standard setlists was a snippet of ‘All You Need Is Love’ during the second encore.
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).
NEW in Quito #OutThere pic.twitter.com/RlJFZW2X6y
— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) April 28, 2014
backstage getting ready for quito show. where's the stage? one leg in the north & one in the south.
— Rusty Anderson (@rustyanderson1) April 29, 2014
Quito soundcheck done #OutThere pic.twitter.com/XkuPgpL3Bx
— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) April 28, 2014
in Ecuador ready to get #outthere with you beautiful people. #whiteunicorn #thuglife http://t.co/i0v5KsRrCd
— Brian Ray (@brianrayguitar) April 28, 2014
Hey Quito, Ecuador!!! What a great show last night!!!
We were so high!!!
You know… 9,300 feet above sea level… Oh you thought…
: ) >— abe laboriel jr (@ogabejr) April 29, 2014
Ecuador – what a night! Thank you. pic.twitter.com/x9a91uiVUK
— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) April 29, 2014
- ‘Eight Days A Week’
- ‘Save Us’
- ‘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’
- ‘New’
- ‘Queenie Eye’
- ‘Lady Madonna’
- ‘All Together Now’
- ‘Lovely Rita’
- ‘Everybody Out There’
- ‘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
- 26 May 2013: FedExForum, Memphis, Tennessee
- 29 May 2013: BOK Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma
- 30 May 2013: BOK Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma
- 8 June 2013: Barclays Center, New York
- 10 June 2013: Barclays Center, New York
- 14 June 2013: Bonnaroo Festival
- 22 June 2013: Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw, Poland
- 25 June 2013: Arena di Verona, Verona, Italy
- 27 June 2013: Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria
- 7 July 2013: Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa, Canada
- 9 July 2013: Fenway Park, Boston
- 12 July 2013: Nationals Park, Washington, DC
- 14 July 2013: Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis
- 16 July 2013: Miller Park, Milwaukee
- 19 July 2013: Safeco Field, Seattle
- 23 July 2013: Plains of Abraham, Quebec City, Canada
- 9 August 2013: Outside Lands festival, San Francisco
- 12 August 2013: Investors Group Field, Winnipeg, Canada
- 14 August 2013: Mosaic Stadium, Regina, Canada
- 11 November 2013: Kyocera Dome, Osaka, Japan
- 12 November 2013: Kyocera Dome, Osaka, Japan
- 15 November 2013: Fukuoka Dome, Fukuoka, Japan
- 18 November 2013: Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
- 19 November 2013: Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
- 21 November 2013: Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
- 19 April 2014: Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay
- 22 April 2014: Movistar Arena, Santiago, Chile
- 23 April 2014: Movistar Arena, Santiago, Chile
- 25 April 2014: Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru
Also on this day...
- 2022: Paul McCartney live: Spokane Arena, Washington
- 2015: Paul McCartney live: Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan
- 2010: George Martin speaks in aid of Deafness Research UK
- 1966: Recording: Eleanor Rigby
- 1965: Filming: Help!
- 1964: Television: Around The Beatles
- 1963: John Lennon and Brian Epstein holiday in Barcelona, Spain
- 1962: Live: Star-Club, Hamburg
- 1961: Live: Top Ten Club, Hamburg
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From an interview on this day in 1969:
“McCartney ended by looking into the future, saying he didn’t want to be playing rock ‘n’ roll at “sixty with grey hair,” but that he’d continue singing and making music until his last days.”
I have a question. I was at the concert in Estadio La Liga in “Quito” and I was very surprise when he played “All You Need is Love” almost at the end of the concert. It was just a little snippet of the song. Usually, Paul only plays one John Lennon’s song in his concerts. In that concert he had already played fully “For the Benefit of Mr. Kite”; so why he played All You Need is Love? Here’s my hypothesis: Ecuador is engaged in a heavy tourism campaign and bought the right to use ‘All you need is love’ song. I believe he was asked to play the song at the concert by some Ecuadorian authorities… perhaps the president itself. Is that possible? How Paul may have felt about it?
Maybe he did not like the use of the All you need is love song so he sang it in order to making a point.