Mexico City

Paul McCartney visited Mexico for two dates in November 2023. One year later, he returned for four performances in the country as part of his 2024 “Got Back” tour. After a first date in Monterrey, he was back in Mexico City for a series of three dates.

On this first date in Mexico City, the novelty came from the usage of drones during “Let Me Roll It“. The drones soared above the stage, forming the emblematic Wings logo and transitioning into various shapes, including hearts.

From La Jornada, November 12, 2024 (auto-translated from Spanish):

There is something overwhelming about thinking about creation from nothing. That instant before the birth of a universe in which everything seems to be about to happen. Paul McCartney played the role of inventor in the popular culture of the 20th century. He was the demiurge who imagined what no one had dared before. It must have been a delight to see him operate before that sonic Big Bang, before George Martin, his seminal producer with The Beatles, amplified that unmistakable guitar chord in Hard Day’s Night that opens that album and one of the most exciting episodes for the post-war youth of the last century.

Because if there is one thing about his songs, whether with the Beatles, Wings or those he published under his own name, it is that they were born memorable. He told this to the famous music producer Rick Rubin in the documentary McCartney 3,2,1. “We realized that we were writing memorable songs. And not because we wanted to, but for practical reasons: we had to remember them the next day,” Sir Paul tells the long-bearded producer. He is referring to the technological limitations of the early sixties, so that the songs had to remain stuck in memory so that Lennon and McCartney could repeat them the next day. That is the key to pop that has lasted until today and they are also pioneers.

Boy, they did it, tonight at the GNP Seguros Stadium, a crowd of fans shudders sixty years after they composed several of these songs. Thousands of veterans who were children or adolescents when this was played on the radio. And also reinforced by armies of young people – did you really think they don’t listen to it anymore? – who sing those phrases and tunes that were born memorable, that were created to be remembered and sung first in a teenage bedroom and then in a stadium for thousands of attendees.

Sergeant Pepper’s outfits are now the family uniform. Tonight we see those bright satin frock coats around us. Daughters who tell us that they convinced their parents to dress like fugitives from that multiform cover. Anything to evoke what their parents inherited because the Beatles are a memory that is passed down like a surname.

That’s why the curtain opens with one of those pieces that almost everyone can repeat: Can’t buy me love. It was printed on vinyl six decades ago and today it looks healthy. Don’t pretend, even your eyes get wet when we hear it in the middle of this crowd. Because what it says is true and for that very reason that song was born memorable.

“What’s up, chilangos?” McCartney asks in Spanish, well aware that Mexicans are won over with language. “Tonight I’m going to try to speak a little Spanish, because it’s cool to be here again. “It’s awesome,” he says with a fairly acceptable accent for someone from the English port city and a knight.

By this time of night and well into the concert, people no longer know if they are Beatlemaniacs or McCartney-ists, because they sing Paul’s repertoire with the same feeling. Although Love me do provokes hysteria as if it were 1963. It doesn’t matter, it’s the same intuitive genius who, without knowing how to read or write music, superimposed styles and melodies as if he were a daring master of the baroque. […]

This man who made a sound that today seems immortal, like himself, at 82 years old has continued his adventures that began six decades ago, when everything was about to happen, and arrives tonight in Mexico City with fireworks in the sky while he ambiguously recommends “Live and let die.”

From La Jornada, November 12, 2024 (auto-translated from Spanish)

Foro Sol

This was the 8th concert played at Foro Sol.

A total of 9 concerts have been played there • 1993 • Nov 25 • Nov 27 • 2010 • May 26 • May 27 • May 28 • 2023 • Nov 14 • Nov 16 • 2024 • Nov 12• Nov 14

Setlist for the soundcheck

1. Instrumental Jam

2. Honey Don't

   Written by Carl Perkins

3. Coming Up

   Written by Paul McCartney

4. I Wanna Be Your Man

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

5. Women and Wives

   Written by Paul McCartney

6. Mrs. Vandebilt

   Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

7. Every Night

   Written by Paul McCartney

8. Ram On

   Written by Paul McCartney

9. Midnight Special (Prisoner's Song)

   Written by Traditional

10. C Moon

    Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

11. Lady Madonna

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

Setlist for the concert

1. Can't Buy Me Love

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

2. Junior's Farm

   Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

3. Letting Go

   Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

4. Drive My Car

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

5. Got to Get You Into My Life

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

6. Come On to Me

   Written by Paul McCartney

7. Medley

1. Let Me Roll It

   Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

2. Foxy Lady

   Written by Jimi Hendrix

8. Getting Better

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

9. Let 'Em In

   Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

10. My Valentine

    Written by Paul McCartney

11. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five

    Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

12. Maybe I'm Amazed

    Written by Paul McCartney

13. I've Just Seen a Face

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

14. In Spite of All the Danger

    Written by Paul McCartney, George Harrison

15. Love Me Do

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

16. Dance Tonight

    Written by Paul McCartney

17. Blackbird

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

18. Here Today

    Written by Paul McCartney

19. Now and Then

    Written by John Lennon

20. New

    Written by Paul McCartney

21. Lady Madonna

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

22. Jet

    Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

23. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

24. Something

    Written by George Harrison

25. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

26. Band on the Run

    Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

27. Get Back

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

28. Let It Be

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

29. Live and Let Die

    Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

30. Hey Jude

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

31. Encore

1. I've Got a Feeling

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

2. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

3. Helter Skelter

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

4. Golden Slumbers

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

5. Carry That Weight

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

6. The End

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

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