Paul McCartney kicked off his One On One tour with a concert at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California.
It was McCartney’s first concert of 2016, and his first ever performance in Fresno. His previous tour, Out There, grossed $196 million from 60 shows.
There were plenty of surprises in the setlist, including his first ever solo performance of The Beatles’ 1964 song A Hard Day’s Night. McCartney last played the song with The Beatles on 31 August 1965 at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California.
McCartney also brought back a selection of other Beatles songs into his live set, including I’ve Got A Feeling, Here, There And Everywhere, You Won’t See Me and The Fool On The Hill. He also played The Quarrymen’s early song In Spite Of All The Danger, and dedicated a performance of Love Me Do to Beatles producer George Martin, who died on 8 April. It was the first time McCartney had performed the song as a solo artist.
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).
Thank you Fresno and great to meet you Jude, Jet, Amanda & Lisa! #oneonone pic.twitter.com/wh6scztFH7
— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) April 14, 2016
Kicking off the 1 on 1 tour in Fresno, Ca…thanks for the warm welcome! pic.twitter.com/wQFaZbccEY
— Rusty Anderson (@rustyanderson1) April 14, 2016
Fres-no?
More like Fres-yes!!!!!
Let's rock!!!
: ) > #oneonone #stainlesskit #dwpaisteremovicfirth #hellyeah— abe laboriel jr (@ogabejr) April 14, 2016
Great to be back!!!
Thanks Fresno!!!!
: ) > #oneonone pic.twitter.com/AJru6SZDMK— abe laboriel jr (@ogabejr) April 14, 2016
The setlist
- ‘A Hard Day’s Night’
- ‘Save Us’
- ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’
- ‘Letting Go’
- ‘Temporary Secretary’
- ‘Let Me Roll It’
- ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’
- ‘My Valentine’
- Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five
- ‘Here, There And Everywhere’
- ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’
- ‘We Can Work It Out’
- ‘In Spite Of All The Danger’
- ‘You Won’t See Me’
- ‘Love Me Do’
- ‘And I Love Her’
- ‘Blackbird’
- ‘Here Today’
- ‘Queenie Eye’
- ‘New’
- ‘The Fool On The Hill’
- ‘Lady Madonna’
- ‘FourFiveSeconds’
- ‘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’
Also on this day...
- 2016: Ringo Starr cancels North Carolina show over anti-LGBT law
- 2012: World première of Paul McCartney’s My Valentine videos
- 1966: Recording, mixing: Love You To, Paperback Writer
- 1965: Recording: Help!
- 1965: Radio: Pop Inn
- 1965: Paul McCartney buys 7 Cavendish Avenue, London
- 1965: Filming: Help!
- 1964: Filming: A Hard Day’s Night
- 1963: Television: The 625 Show – The Beatles’ first national TV appearance
- 1962: Live: Star-Club, Hamburg
- 1961: Live: Top Ten Club, Hamburg
Want more? Visit the Beatles history section.
Cool! Good luck for him and the boys on the new tour! Although I really don’t understand why he wouldn’t finally drop “Maybe I’m amazed” from the setlist. He just can’t sing it anymore – for a long time now!
About “Love me do”: He DID play it as a medley with “PS: I love you” in the 90s, in quite a “cheesy” 90s version… I understand everybody who thinks this is horrible, but personally I think it’s awesome! 😉
I was in his Cordoba show tonight (may 15). Exactly the same setlist. Oh and very awesome.