Overview

• McCartney played a one-off show at the Santa Barbara Bowl on Sept. 26 as a tune-up before his North American dates.
• He opened with The Beatles’ ‘Help!’, a song he had not played live since 1990, with Rolling Stone noting it was his first full performance of it since 1965.
• The set mixed Beatles and Wings staples with the 2023 Beatles track ‘Now and Then’ created from archival John Lennon and George Harrison recordings.
• He presented ‘I’ve Got a Feeling’ as a virtual duet with John Lennon using rooftop-performance footage.
• The Got Back tour begins Sept. 29 in Palm Desert, with scheduled stops including Denver, Minneapolis, Atlanta, New Orleans, Montreal and Chicago.