Taking an obvious cue from the popularity of Peter Jackson’s recent “The Beatles: Get Back” documentary, Paul McCartney has announced what he’s calling his “Got Back” tour, a 13-city, 14-gig outing through the U.S. that begins just a little more than two months from now.
“I said at the end of the last tour that I’d see you next time. I said I was going to get back to you. Well, I got back,” McCartney said in an announcement for the spring tour, representing his first live shows since he went out for 39 dates in 2019.
The tour will visit a mixture of stadiums and arenas. Among the former is a date May 13 at L.A.’s SoFi Stadium, marking a fairly quick comeback to the area after he capped his 2019 tour with a triumphant appearance at Dodger Stadium.
A handful of shows take place in cities McCartney has never played before, starting with the very opening night of the tour, which takes place at the Spokane Arena. Besides that Washington city, McCartney is described as making his live debut in three other locales: Hollywood, Florida, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
He’s also hitting a few areas that may feel they’re overdue for a McCartney appearance — Baltimore, where he hasn’t played since the Beatles came through in 1964; Fort Worth, which last saw a McCartney show since his first post=Beatles outing with the “Wings Over America” tour of 1976; and Oakland, which he last visited 20 years ago.
Other venues of note range from the venerable Fenway Park in Boston to the brand new Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, the only location that’s getting a two-night stand.
(Excerpt) Read more in: Variety