New
‘Out There!’ tour launched in Belo Horizonte
Last
night, Saturday 4th May, Paul thrilled a sold out audience of 55,000
people in
the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The show at the massive Estadio
Mineirao marked the opening of his all new "Out There" tour, which
will travel
across six countries in the coming months.
The
show opened with Eight Days A Week, which Paul had previously
only
played live once with The Beatles in 1965. The setlist included
many more
treats for the fans with the first live performances of
Beatles classics Your
Mother Should Know, Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!,
Lovely
Rita and All Together Now. Paul also performed his solo
classic Another Day for the first time since 1993. Wings
favourites
Listen To What The Man Said and Hi, Hi, Hi were
also added to the setlist
having never been performed at a Paul McCartney solo
show before.
We Can Work It Out was also added back into the
setlist, Paul last performed
it at the Glastonbury Festival in 2004.
The show was packed with Paul’s biggest hits spanning his career that
have
become firm live favourites in his shows including Band on
the Run, Hey Jude,
Live and Let Die, Yesterday and Let
It Be.
The
brand new production, which fills over 31 trucks worth of equipment,
also saw spectacular lasers and lighting, huge pyrotechnics, state of the art
video
displays and a special riser that saw Paul raised up 20ft above the
stage to
perform Blackbird and Here Today acoustically
on his own.
During Hey Jude the audience held up home made
‘Thank You’ signs, a surprise
for Paul organised by fans on social network
sites.
The
city of Belo Horizonte gave Paul a warm reception with billboards
across the
town welcoming him. Fans camped outside the stadium in
the days running up
to the show in order to secure the best position when the
doors opened. Local
papers declared ‘Beatlemania’ had come to Brazil as
Paul’s every move since
landing in the city on Friday morning became headline
news with hundreds of
fans lining the streets around the hotel he was staying in.
Last
year local fans had started their own petition on Facebook to get Paul to
play
in Belo Horizonte. After securing the endorsement of thousands of
residents
the petition was delivered to Paul’s London office. One of the fans,
Adriana Mundo (28), who had supported the petition said:
“When we heard
Paul was coming here we couldn’t actually believe it.
It’s a dream come
true for us. We’ve never had anything like this here before.
It’s such an
honour for our city.”
At the end of his show Paul got the girls up on stage from the audience
who
originated the petition – Priscila Brito (27), Luisa Mattos (25),
Camila Flores
(25) and Cecilia Cury (21) – who were shocked by the
recognition they received
from their idol. Paul publicly thanked the girls
and also signed Cecilia’s
Beatles tattoo.
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Belo Horizonte Setlist:
• Eight Days A Week
• Junior's Farm
• All My Loving
• Listen To What The Man Said
• Let Me Roll It
• Paperback Writer
• My Valentine
• Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
• The Long And Winding Road
• Maybe I'm Amazed
• Hope Of
Deliverance
• We Can Work It Out
• Another Day
• And I Love Her
• Blackbird
• Here Today
• Your Mother Should Know
• Lady Madonna
• All Together Now
• Mrs Vandebilt
• Eleanor Rigby
• Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
• Something
• Ob-La-Di,
Ob-La-Da
• Band on the Run
• Hi, Hi, Hi
• Back in the U.S.S.R.
• Let It Be
• Live And Let Die
• Hey Jude
Encore:
• Day Tripper
• Lovely Rita
• Get Back
Second
Encore:
• Yesterday
• Helter
Skelter
• Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End
people in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The show at the massive Estadio
Mineirao marked the opening of his all new "Out There" tour, which will travel
across six countries in the coming months.
only played live once with The Beatles in 1965. The setlist included
many more treats for the fans with the first live performances of
Beatles classics Your Mother Should Know, Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!,
Lovely Rita and All Together Now. Paul also performed his solo
classic Another Day for the first time since 1993. Wings favourites
Listen To What The Man Said and Hi, Hi, Hi were also added to the setlist
having never been performed at a Paul McCartney solo show before.
We Can Work It Out was also added back into the setlist, Paul last performed
it at the Glastonbury Festival in 2004.
become firm live favourites in his shows including Band on the Run, Hey Jude,
Live and Let Die, Yesterday and Let It Be.
also saw spectacular lasers and lighting, huge pyrotechnics, state of the art
video displays and a special riser that saw Paul raised up 20ft above the
stage to perform Blackbird and Here Today acoustically on his own.
During Hey Jude the audience held up home made ‘Thank You’ signs, a surprise
for Paul organised by fans on social network sites.
across the town welcoming him. Fans camped outside the stadium in
the days running up to the show in order to secure the best position when the
doors opened. Local papers declared ‘Beatlemania’ had come to Brazil as
Paul’s every move since landing in the city on Friday morning became headline
news with hundreds of fans lining the streets around the hotel he was staying in.
play in Belo Horizonte. After securing the endorsement of thousands of
residents the petition was delivered to Paul’s London office. One of the fans,
Adriana Mundo (28), who had supported the petition said:
“When we heard Paul was coming here we couldn’t actually believe it.
It’s a dream come true for us. We’ve never had anything like this here before.
It’s such an honour for our city.”
who originated the petition – Priscila Brito (27), Luisa Mattos (25),
Camila Flores (25) and Cecilia Cury (21) – who were shocked by the
recognition they received from their idol. Paul publicly thanked the girls
and also signed Cecilia’s Beatles tattoo.
Paul McCartney sings unperformed Beatles tracks on tour
Sir Paul McCartney gave his first ever live rendition of a selection of classic Beatles tracks at the opening night of his world tour in Brazil.
The singer performed tracks such as Your Mother Should Know and Lovely Rita on the first night of his Out There tour in the city of Belo Horizonte.
Many later Beatles tracks were never performed live, after the band called an end to touring in 1966.
The Out There tour will include the US, Canada, Italy, Austria and Poland.
Sir Paul will play three concerts in Brazil this week - before continuing to Florida in the US in the middle of May.
Saturday's gig also saw Beatles' tracks Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite and All Together Now given their first live rendition.
Sir Paul sang Eight Days A Week live for only the second time. The Beatles played it just once in 1965.
The show, attended by 55,000 fans, saw the veteran star performing solo acoustic versions of Blackbird and Here Today on a platform some 20ft above the stage.
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