Saturday, December 14, 2024
Manchester
Concert • By Paul McCartney • Part of the European leg of the Got Back Tour
Last updated on December 16, 2024
Saturday, December 14, 2024
Concert • By Paul McCartney • Part of the European leg of the Got Back Tour
Last updated on December 16, 2024
Location: Co-op Live
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Dec 13, 2024 • From The Daily Mirror
With guest(s)
On this day, Paul McCartney performed his first UK concert since Glastonbury in June 2022, as part of his 2024 “Got Back” tour. This was the first of two back-to-back nights at Co-op Live, the new indoor arena inaugurated in May 2024. It was also Paul’s first concert in Manchester since his “On The Run” tour in 2011.
“Wonderful Christmastime” was added to the setlist, and Paul and the band were joined by a children choir, the YSBD Theatre Academy.
Simply having a Wonderful Christmastime in Manchester! We’ve been travelling around the world and here we are up north again. It’s good to be back!
Paul McCartney – From Facebook, December 16, 2024
Manchester is like, you know, next to my old hometown. It’s a great city, and we love it really. So that’s going to be good to be there. And then London, we finish it up around Christmas time. So that’s exciting. We’re looking forward to London, and then that will finish this tour, and we’ll all be very glad to have a nice Christmas holiday.
Paul McCartney – Interview with The Mirror, December 13, 2024
The news is out…. This weekend we’re performing at @thecooplive with SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY! It truly is a WONDERUL CHRISTMASTIME!
YSBD Theatre Academy – From Instagram, November 14, 2024
Where to even begin? I am so proud of our YSBD family who performed with @paulmccartney at @thecooplive last night.
What a way to celebrate our 10year Anniversary!
Watching them onstage with such a wonderful, kind and inspirational musical legend was truly a moment I will never forget. Sir Paul you have given us the best Christmas present we could have ever asked for. Seeing their faces light up and the excitement they had the entire evening will be a moment I will treasure forever. From the bottom of my heart thank you.
We simply had a Wonderful Christmastime and cannot wait to do it all again tonight!
YSBD Theatre Academy – From Instagram, November 14, 2024
From The Independent, December 14, 2024:
Paul McCartney got back to Manchester for his first show in the city in over a decade on Saturday, regaling more than 23,000 fans with a career-spanning set comprising songs from his Beatles, Wings and solo catalogues.
At the first of two sold-out shows – part of his celebrated Got Back tour and his first UK gig since 2018 – the veteran artist “duetted” with the isolated vocals of his late bandmate, John Lennon, and paid tribute to his wife, Nancy, who was in the audience along with his daughter, Stella.
“We’ve been travelling around the world; we’ve been in South America and now we’re up north again! And it’s good to be back,” the octogenarian told his audience. He chose to open with a rollicking version of The Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night”, the title track from their third album, which celebrated its 60th birthday earlier this year. […]
Outside the Co-Op Arena, up and running at full steam after its somewhat chaotic opening in May this year, fans were in high spirits despite the rain and December chill, as they spoke with reverence and joy about one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
Married couple Stefan and Steffi, from east Germany, held hands on their way to the arena as they told The Independent of how they first met at The Beatles museum in Halle 23 years ago. Saturday marked the 20th time they had seen McCartney together.
“His music is the soundtrack of our lives,” Steffi said, while Stefan recalled: “We loved seeing him play Liverpool. He’s home, everyone there loves him… You can feel it.”
Sisters Eleanor and Gillian had flown over from Drogheda, Co Louth, as a tribute to their late father, Tony Rogers. A huge Beatles fan and local hero, he had run a taxi firm in the town for 30 years until he died while undergoing surgery in Istanbul, Turkey, aged 62. Tragically, he never got to see his hero play, but his daughters came to Manchester in his honour and carried an Irish flag bearing his name and photo.
“He was loved by everyone – his funeral took over the town,” Eleanor, who was named after Tony’s favourite Beatles song “Eleanor Rigby”, said. “He was a pillar of the community.” […]
Fans certainly seemed delighted about the setlist on Saturday, as they joined McCartney in a rousing singalong to “Something in the Way”, which he opened by playing a ukulele given to him by the late George Harrison (“a ukulele enthusiast”). He got into the festive spirit with a surprise performance of “Wonderful Christmastime”, complete with confetti “snow” and a local children’s choir.
By this point in the tour, many of the social media-savvy fans in the audience knew to anticipate the moment McCartney appears to “explode”, Spinal Tap-style, as smoke machines and pyrotechnics obscured the musician for “Live and Let Die”, Wings’s James Bond theme for the 1973 film of the same name.
Then came yet another singalong, this time to “Hey Jude”, before an encore starring the famed “duet” with Lennon on “I’ve Got a Feeling”. It’s a “nice feeling for me”, he told the crowd, “because I get to sing with John again”. McCartney was well and truly back, and his fans couldn’t have been more thrilled. “There’s only one thing left to say,” he said, closing the show. “See you next time!”
From The Independent, December 14, 2024
This was the 1st concert played at Co-op Live.
A total of 2 concerts have been played there • 2024 • Dec 14• Dec 15
Instrumental Jam
Written by Carl Perkins
Written by Carl Perkins
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Midnight Special (Prisoner's Song)
Written by Traditional
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Medley
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Jimi Hendrix
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by John Lennon
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by George Harrison
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
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