The first third of the show peaked with songs including “Maybe I’m Amazed” and “We Can Work It Out.” The middle of the show took a step back in time to the late ’50s when McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison formed their pre-Beatles band the Quarrymen with two other Liverpool teens. A sweet idea a decade ago, it was startling on Friday to see Depp on the massive video screens given the ongoing courtroom battle between Depp and ex-wife Amber Heart this month. The 2012 video featured actors Johnny Depp and Natalie Portman performing the lyrics in sign language. ![]() ![]() That latter tune also perhaps points to a kind of naivete in McCartney’s worldview. Sweetly, he remains unabashedly sentimental at times, with songs such as the Wings’ “Let ‘Em In” still a gentle simple ditty, and the more recent “My Valentine” a sweet open-hearted song written for his wife Nancy. That innate musical ability, that many marveled at in Peter Jackson’s recent docuseries “Get Back,” which gave this tour its name, is undimmed as McCartney effortlessly switched from bass to guitar, piano to mandolin and ukulele throughout the night. ![]() His voice is clear and stronger than most any of his peers who still play live. A pair of Wings songs, “Junior’s Farm” and “Letting Go,” followed, before dipping back into the Beatles catalog to race through the horn-fueled “Got To Get You Into My Life.”Īnd that, with the addition every so often of a solo McCartney song here and there, was more or less the way the night unfolded.Ī month shy of his 80th birthday, McCartney is ever the ageless lad from Liverpool. The show opened with “Can’t Buy Me Love,” an early Beatles classic, which had fans on their feet to loudly singalong for the first of many times.
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