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- Paul McCartney paid tribute to John Lennon by singing a duet with a projection of Lennon from the documentary The Beatles: Get Again
- He additionally carried out Assist!” for the primary time in 35 years on Friday, Sept. 26
- The Beatles legend’s present in Santa Barbara featured a variety of songs from the band’s discography together with hits from Wings
Paul McCartney paid tribute to John Lennon in multiple manner at his newest live performance.
Forward of his Bought Again Tour, the Beatles legend remembered his late bandmate, who died in 1980, with a digital duet throughout the encore on the Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 26.
McCartney, 83, carried out the track “I’ve Bought a Feeling” in entrance of a projection of Lennon from Peter Jackson’s 2021 Disney+ documentary sequence The Beatles: Get Again. The pair duetted utilizing Lennon’s vocals and video, per Selection.
The present, which was introduced on Sept. 15, served as a warm-up for his North American trek this fall, which kicks off on Monday, Sept. 29, in Palm Desert, Calif.
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McCartney kicked off the present with Lennon’s Beatles tune, “Assist!” taking part in it stay for the primary time since 1990. Per setlist.fm, different songs he carried out included Beatles hits “Blackbird,” “Love Me Do,” “Woman Madonna” and “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.”
He additionally combined in songs from his band Wings reminiscent of “Jet,” “Let Me Roll It” and “Stay and Let Die.”
Together with the tribute to Lennon, the present’s encore featured “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Membership Band (Reprise)” and “Helter Skelter” together with “Golden Slumbers,” “Carry That Weight” and “The Finish” from Abbey Highway.
Following the present, McCartney shared footage on Instagram. “Wonderful evening in Santa Barbara on Friday! Discover something lacking from these footage? 📸,” he wrote on Monday, Sept. 29, alluding to the shortage of cell telephones within the crowd. “Bought Again 2025 takes flight in North America tonight. See you quickly, Palm Desert!”
All through the Bought Again Tour’s stops this fall, McCartney will carry out 19 reveals throughout 16 completely different cities, together with Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Denver, New Orleans and Montreal, earlier than wrapping up in Chicago for 2 nights.
“With songs like ‘Hey Jude,’ ‘Stay and Let Die,’ ‘Band on the Run,’ ‘Let It Be’ and so many extra, the Paul McCartney stay expertise is every part any music lover might ever need from a rock present and extra: hours of the best moments from the final 60 years of music — dozens of songs from Paul’s solo, Wings and naturally Beatles songbooks which have shaped the soundtracks of our lives,” a press launch stated in July when the reveals had been introduced.
In February, McCartney carried out on the Saturday Evening Stay fiftieth anniversary particular singing “Golden Slumbers,” “Carry That Weight” and “The Finish.”
Days earlier than, he carried out three sold-out shock reveals on the Bowery Ballroom in New York.
