Overview

• Paul McCartney opened the Santa Barbara Bowl show with The Beatles' Help! performed in full for the first time since 1965, a rare choice given his usual focus on his own Beatles material.
• The 4,500-capacity warm-up was announced two weeks earlier, sold out within minutes, and enforced Yondr phone pouches, leaving only brief soundcheck clips publicly available.
• The set combined Beatles staples and Wings favorites with the 2023 Beatles track Now and Then and a virtual duet with John Lennon on I've Got a Feeling.
• Production was pared down for the small venue, with a run time of about 1 hour 45 minutes and roughly a dozen fewer songs than his 2022 SoFi Stadium show.
• The North American leg of the Got Back tour begins Sept. 29 at Acrisure Arena in the Palm Desert area, with further arena and stadium dates scheduled across the U.S. and Canada.