Sir Paul McCartney Rocks Albany,Resumes Touring

McCartney rocks Albany,NY(photo by Associated Press)

After two months of touring hiatus due to an unexpected illness, Sir Paul McCartney went back to the stage July 5 at Times Union Center in Albany,NY.

Paul has 19 stops in the US most of which were rescheduled after the former Beatle postponed the June dates of his US tour to October.

The former Beatle was hospitalized in Tokyo last May prompting him to cancel the entire Asian leg of his tour that includes what would've been his first concert ever in South Korea.

Opening his set with "Eight Days A Week",Paul rocked Albany with 40 songs in his setlist under a three hour time frame.Some of the hits were Beatles classics that became regulars on his concert tours like "Hey Jude" and "Let It Be".His wife Nancy,is also in attendance where Paul dedicated the song "My Valentine" to her.With one new song on the set "On My Way To Work" wherein Paul took reference to his absence and even stating that the song was performed live for the very first time.

McCartney also paid tributes to his late bandmates John Lennon and George Harrison by singing "Here Today" and "Something" with the latter where he did his trademark ukelele intro and getting a full band rendition build up like what he first did 12 years ago at Concert For George.

And like some of his shows,he brought a couple onstage during the second encore where a man proposed to his girlfriend making the former Beatle the best matchmaker,yet.

McCartney also paid tribute to his friend and late rock musician Jimi Hendrix by doing an instrumental interlude of "Purple Haze".McCartney closed the show with three songs from the Abbey Road medley:Golden Slumbers,Carry That Weight and The End.

Last winter,Sir Paul marked the 50th anniversary of the Beatles coming to the United States along with former bandmate Ringo Starr who is also on the road this summer.His 2014 tour also include the historic farewell concert to Candlestick Park in San Francisco where the Beatles held their final concert back in 1966.

Paul McCartney's Albany Concert Set List:

1.Eight Days A Week
2.Save Us
3.All My Loving
4.Listen To What The Man Said
5.Let Me Roll It
6.Paperbackwriter
7.My Valentine
8.Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
9.The Long And Winding Road
10.Maybe Im Amazed
11.I've Just Seen A Face
12.On My Way To Work
13.We Can Work It Out
14.Another Day
15.And I Love Her
16.Blackbird
17.Here Today
18.New
19.Queenie Eye
20.Lady Madonna
21.All Together Now
22.Lovely Rita
23.Everybody Out There
24.Eleanor Rigby
25.Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite
26.Something
27.Obladi Oblada
28.Band On The Run
29.Back In The USSR
30.Let It Be
31.Live And Let Die
32.Hey Jude

Encore:

33.Day Tripper
34.Hi Hi Hi
35.Get Back

Encore 2:

36.Yesterday
37.When I'm Sixty Four
38.Golden Slumbers
39.Carry That Weight
40.The End




Paul McCartney Albany,NY (photo by AP)

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