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Thursday, October 26, 1989

Milan

Concert • By Paul McCartney • Part of the The Paul McCartney World Tour

Last updated on May 11, 2019

From the “New World Tour” tour book, remembering the 1989/90 tour:

I remember Milan was what we called a designer audience. Everyone in town seems to be a clothes designer, all these guys who are about my age, but rich and famous in their field so they have a kind of detachment.

For us, there’s a couple of numbers, Let It Be or The Long And Winding Road, where you get used to the audience holding up lighters, it’s lovely, you just feel ‘I reached them’. But the designer audience, they don’t smoke so, naturally, they don’t have lighters. Which makes it look as if the guys in suits don’t like Let It Be. It isn’t true, of course, but on stage you’re wrestling with all these feelings about what’s going on. I got a bit thrown by all that early in the show. Anyway we figured the promoter was expecting a few free suits out of that night.
 
Normally, we make sure the ‘special guests’ get seats by the mixing desk so that the kids can come up the front. I’ll never forget in Barcelona with The Beatles when we played the Plaza De Toros and all our audience was outside — they couldn’t afford to get in and the Lord Mayor, the councillors and every bullfighter in town, the nobs, were all in there. We only met our audience in the tunnel the bus went through to get into the gig.
 
But, of course, when you’re my age, a lot of the fans are nobs, and there’s nothing wrong with that. I have to change my mind-set. I mean, when I go to a Prince concert I suppose I look like a nob. I’ll have a reasonable suit on, I won’t be dancing and shouting, I’m sat there appreciating it, a bit embarrassed cos everybody else is dancing, and I feel like telling everyone around me, No, really, I’m into it, don’t worry. But maybe Prince is looking down thinking, That bastard McCartney doesn’t think much of it then.

Paul McCartney

Palatrussardi

This was the 1st concert played at Palatrussardi.

A total of 2 concerts have been played there • 1989Oct 26thOct 27th

Setlist for the soundcheck

The setlist for this soundcheck is incomplete, or we have not be able to confirm in an accurate way that this was the setlist. If you have any clue, pls let us know and leave a comment.

  1. C Moon

    Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney

    Album Available on The Long And Winding Road

    Album Available on The Long And Winding Road / C Moon

    Album Available on The 7” Singles Box

    Album Available on All My Trials

    Album Available on All My Trials

    Album Available on All My Trials

Setlist for the concert

  1. Medley

  2. Let It Be

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

  3. The Hustle Snippet

    Written by Van McCoy

  4. Hey Jude

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

  5. Encore

    1. Yesterday

      Written by Lennon - McCartney

    2. Get Back

      Written by Lennon - McCartney

    3. The End

      Written by Lennon - McCartney

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