Paul McCartney pulled out a couple of different songs he hasn't done often lately -- "And I Love Her" and "Got To Get You Into My Life" -- for a benefit for the Old Vic Theater Thursday in the UK.
Here's the setlist:
1. Got To Get You Into My Life
2. Highway
3. All My Loving
4. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five
5. The Long And Winding Road
6. And I Love Her
7. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
8. Back In The USSR
9. Let It Be
10. Hey Jude (reportedly joined by Kevin Spacey)
Encore
11. Get Back
In a statement posted on his website, he said, "It was a great pleasure to come and rock out for the old vicars! Such a great event for a good cause. I particularly like the outreach programmes they have for the youth around the area that encourage young kids. When Kevin strong armed me into doing it, as he does, we were only too pleased to show up and step up to the plate. We had a great evening, we rocked out and the crowd did too. We couldn't have asked for more."
Backstage, McCartney and the crew paid a tribute to the late John Roden, a friend and longtime crew member who passed away three years ago. In a tribute just after his death, McCartney remembered bantering with him before shows. "Every time I came into a soundcheck I'd always say 'Hi' to John, and we'd always say something daft to each other. It was just a long succession of very silly moments and beautiful, you know. It went on for a long time, because we worked together for so long."
“I always remember him with a laugh – I can’t think of him any other way. He was just always there – with a smile,” McCartney said on a website in Roden's memory.
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Comments
Paul hasn't done "Got To Get You Into My Life" lately? Wha??? It's been featured on nearly EVERY tour he's had since 1989.
He does GTGYIMY all the time!
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