My Heart Is Like A Wheel

Paul McCartney @ Yankee Stadium 7/16/2011

Magical Mystery Tour / Jet / All My Loving / Junior’s Farm / Drive My Car / Sing the Changes / The Night Before / Let Me Roll It / (brief Foxy Lady instrumental jam) / Paperback Writer / The Long and Winding Road / Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five / Let ‘Em In / Maybe I’m Amazed / I’m Looking Through You / I Will / Blackbird / Here Today / Dance Tonight / Mrs. Vanderbilt / Eleanor Rigby / Something / Band On the Run / Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da / Back in the USSR / I’ve Got A Feeling / A Day in the Life – Give Peace A Chance / Let It Be / Live and Let Die / Hey Jude // Lady Madonna / I Saw Her Standing There (with Billy Joel) / Get Back /// Yesterday / Helter Skelter / Golden Slumbers – Carry That Weight – The End

Paul McCartney “Let Me Roll It” (Live in 2009)

This show was such a thrill; one of the best large-scale shows I’ve ever seen. Aside from the pyrotechnics and fireworks that accompanied “Live and Let Die,” this show was pretty light on spectacle. And really, how much spectacle do you really need when you’re watching a Beatle perform mainly Beatles songs for three hours straight? And yeah, that’s right — three hours, with only two brief encore breaks. McCartney is 69 years old, but performs with the energy of someone a third of his age. He was in great voice; his band was virtually flawless. I don’t think I really need to sell you on the greatness of this man or his body of work, but it’s hard to come out of a show like this without feeling awestruck. It’s rather like when I finally got to see Prince a few months ago — these are living legends who can get by in concert simply by showing up, but they both perform with such skill and passion that you come away realizing that a lot of why they have this incredible stature comes from fully committing, pushing themselves as far as they can go and clearly taking great pleasure in showing an audience a good time.

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