Paul McCartney performed The Beatles classic “Help!” in full for the first time in 65 years. This happened at his show at the Santa Barbara Bowl in California, surprising the audience as the song was the opening number. During his solo career, McCartney had already played the track but not in full, just some small parts, this was the first time, since the last time the song was played was by The Beatles after that album was released.
With a capacity of only 4.500 people, the Santa Barbara Bowl is the smallest venue on McCartney’s US tour. Only an outside video is available where you can hear him playing the track, since the crowd was required to store their phones in secure pouches.
Hear Paul McCartney playing “Help!” for the first time since 1965
Setlist
- Help!
- Coming Up
- Got To Get You Into My Life
- Let Me Roll It
- Getting Better
- Let ‘Em In
- My Valentine
- Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five
- I’ve Just Seen A Face
- Love Me Do
- Dance Tonight
- Blackbird
- Now And Then
- Lady Madonna
- Jet
- Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
- Get Back
- Let It Be
- Live and Let Die
- Hey Jude
- I’ve Got a Feeling
- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
- Helter Skelter
- Golden Slumbers
- Carry That Weight
- The End
Next McCartney shows
September
- 29 – Palm Desert, CA Acrisure Arena
October
- 4 – Las Vegas, NV Allegiant Stadium
- 7 – Albuquerque, NM Isleta Amphitheater
- 11 – Denver, CO Coors Field
- 14 – Des Moines, IA Casey’s Center
- 17 – Minneapolis, MN U.S. Bank Stadium
- 22 – Tulsa, OK BOK Center
- 25 – San Antonio, TX Alamodome
- 29 – New Orleans, LA Smoothie King Center
November
- 2–3 – Atlanta, GA State Farm Arena
- 6 – Nashville, TN The Pinnacle
- 8 – Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena
- 11 – Pittsburgh, PA PPG Paints Arena
- 14 – Buffalo, NY KeyBank Center
- 17–18 – Montreal, QC Bell Centre
- 21 – Hamilton, ON TD Coliseum
- 24–25 – Chicago, IL United Center
