{"id":190817,"date":"2025-09-30T06:14:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/09\/30\/paul-mccartneys-palm-desert-setlist-every-song-from-the-official-first-show\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T06:14:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:14:34","slug":"paul-mccartneys-palm-desert-setlist-every-song-from-the-official-first-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/09\/30\/paul-mccartneys-palm-desert-setlist-every-song-from-the-official-first-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney\u2019s Palm Desert Setlist: Every Song From the\u00a0Official\u00a0First\u00a0Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tMoney can\u2019t buy happiness unless that money is spent going to see Paul McCartney<\/a> on the 2025 version of the Got Back <\/em>tour. On the official kick- off Sept. 29 in Palm Desert, California (McCartney did a shorter underplay at the Santa Barbara Bowl on Sept. 26), McCartney showed it can also buy love, nostalgia, community and just all-around good vibes. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFor 2 hours and 40 minutes, McCartney did nothing but bring joy to 11,000 lucky souls in a world where it is in increasingly short supply. He and his ace band played hit after hit with no sign at all from McCartney of fatigue for songs some of which he\u2019s sung for more than 60 years. He still exudes a school-boy charm.<\/p>\n

\n\tNot to be too hyperbolic\u2014well, ok, to be hyperbolic\u2014watching the greatest musician of the 20th<\/sup> century sing the Beatles\u2019 first hit, 1963\u2019s \u201cLove Me Do,\u201d 62 years later with the same innocent abandon as the original was nothing short of exhilarating and it felt like a miracle that he is still here delivering at such a high quality. There may be the temptation to put some qualifier on it, like \u201cfor an 83-year old man,\u201d but he needs none. It\u2019s remarkable to see anyone at any age playing songs with that energy surrounded by one of the best bands in the world, not to mention performing songs that spanned from 1958 to 2018.<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow are all the songs that McCartney performed on the first official night of the 2025 Got Back<\/em> tour, which, for now, runs through Nov. 25 at Chicago\u2019s United Center. Isolated tickets remain for all shows.<\/p>\n