On Saturday night, Paul McCartney wrapped his Freshen Up U.S. tour with a performance at Los Angeles, CA’s Dodger Stadium.
After a marathon set full of material from The Beatles, Wings, and McCartney’s solo songbooks, the famous rocker returned to the stage for his encore with The Beatles (The White Album) favorite, “Birthday”. From there, McCartney introduced a very special, familiar guest who just happened to have celebrated his birthday last week: “We’ve got a surprise for us, a surprise for you, a surprise for everyone,” McCartney mused. “Ladies and gentlemen, the one and only, Ringo Starr.”
After a quick embrace with his former Beatles bandmate, Starr sat down behind the drum kit to keep time for a brief run through “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)” before moving into “Helter Skelter”. Watch the whole Paul McCartney/Ringo Starr collab below:
Paul McCartney w/ Ringo Starr – “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)”, “Helter Skelter”
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Starr thanked the audience and bid them farewell with his patented “Peace and Love” before exiting the stage, allowing McCartney to continue through Abbey Road favorites “Golden Slumbers” and “Carry That Weight” with his core band. As McCartney finished out the B-Side suite with “The End”, one last special guest joined him onstage to add to the closing guitar solo: Joe Walsh of The Eagles, who has also previously played in Starr’s All Starr Band.
As McCartney joked while the crowd applauded the guest-filled encore, “The best part is we didn’t have a clue what we were doing, but we loved it!”
Paul McCartney – “Golden Slumbers”, “Carry That Weight”, “The End” (with Joe Walsh)
[Video: Cal Vid]
Setlist: Paul McCartney | Dodger Stadium | Los Angeles, CA | 7/13/19
Set: A Hard Day’s Night, Jet, Can’t Buy Me Love, Letting Go, Who Cares, Got To Get You Into My Life, Come On To Me, Let Me Roll It, I’ve Got a Feeling, Let ‘Em In, My Valentine, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five, Maybe I’m Amazed, I’ve Just Seen A Face, In Spite Of All The Danger, From Me To You, Dance Tonight, Love Me Do, Blackbird, Here Today, Queenie Eye, Lady Madonna, Eleanor Rigby, Fuh You, Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite, Something, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Band On The Run, Back In The U.S.S.R., Let It Be, Live And Let Die, Hey Jude
Encore: Birthday, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)*, Helter Skelter*, Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, The End^
*with Ringo Starr
^with Joe Walsh
[H/T Rolling Stone]
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