Rock and Roll at the Hollywood Bowl! • Tuesday, March 30, 2010

ConcertBy Paul McCartney • Part of the 1st North American leg of the Up And Coming Tour
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Country:
USA
City:
Los Angeles
Location:
Hollywood Bowl
Attendance:
33,916 / 33,916 (for the 2 dates at Hollywood Bowl)
Revenue:
$5,351,425 (for the 2 dates at Hollywood Bowl)

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Paul McCartney performed the first of two consecutive nights at the Hollywood Bowl, USA.

From Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2010:

It’s hard to think of much in the pop music world more impressive than a 67-year-old musician holding forth for nearly three hours, outdoors on a chilly March night, while delivering some three dozen songs, the least of which would be a career highlight for almost any other artist.

Perhaps the only thing more mind-boggling than that description of Paul McCartney’s sold-out show Tuesday on the first of his two nights this week at the Hollywood Bowl was the realization that without much trouble and no serious dip in quality, he could have filled another set of that magnitude with all the choice Beatles, Wings and solo tunes he didn’t get around to: “She Loves You,” “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “Getting Better,” “She’s Leaving Home,” “Maybe I’m Amazed,” “Hi Hi Hi,” etc., etc., etc.

It was a no-brainer that he opened Tuesday’s concert with “Venus and Mars” / “Rock Show,” what with its line in the chorus celebrating “rock ‘n’ roll at the Hollywood Bowl.” The rest was a romp through nearly half a century of some of the most enduring rock music ever written.

And that’s just McCartney’s portion of it. He did, of course, make generous nods to his two departed colleagues, merging “A Day in the Life” and John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance” pretty much as he did it at Live 8 five years ago, then saluting George Harrison with a reading of “Something” that went from a light-hearted opening, played on the ukulele Harrison gave him, to deeply moving, something McCartney does effortlessly.

It was 40 years ago this month that the world read the news that the Beatles would go on no more. If we’d known then what McCartney demonstrated so confidently Tuesday night — that the group’s music and memory would be alive and well decades into the future — the breakup might not have hit quite so hard. For years after that, given the bitterness in the dissolution, McCartney distanced himself from the group and what he’d created with it, focusing on his solo and Wings music while touring in the ’70s and ’80s.

But as he communicated when he sang the poignant “Here Today,” his ode to Lennon after the death of his songwriting other half, many things people take for granted in their youth become more precious as time goes by. So over the last decade or two, McCartney has fully embraced his role in the Fab Four while still looking forward to new vistas, such as the Fireman, his groove-minded side project represented Tuesday with a pair of songs.

He was the gracious and politic host he’s always been, dedicating his 1973 hit “My Love” to the woman who inspired it, Linda McCartney, who died in 1998. The closest the show came to a barb was the subtle placement of “I’m Looking Through You” right after that. With its caustic message of romantic disillusionment — “I thought I knew you / What did I know?” — it was hard to resist thinking that he might have had ex-wife Heather Mills in mind as he sang that Beatles chestnut. But that’s not McCartney’s style.

McCartney’s ace four-piece band re-created the sound of the various original recordings accurately, without being slavish, although some string and horn parts delegated to keyboardist Paul Wickens to handle by way of synthesizers were a disappointment in “Eleanor Rigby,” “Lady Madonna,” “Got to Get You Into My Life” and “Yesterday.”

If Paul McCartney can’t scare up some bona fide orchestral players, in Hollywood no less, who can?

The show’s star was relaxed as ever, downplaying his musical achievements, and even if it wasn’t spontaneous, his brief pause early on to step back from the microphone, cast his gaze around the Bowl’s expansive territory — where the Fab Four had made historic visits 4 1/2 decades ago — and “drink it all in” was clearly heartfelt.

The set hewed considerably closer to the mainstream than his edge-exploring performance last year at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, and it included a couple of selections he said he’d never played in the U.S. before this tour: “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five” from “Band on the Run” and the Beatles’ “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.”

That perfectly suited Hollywood’s middle-of-the-road crowd, consisting of old-school Beatles fans revisiting their formative years side by side with a sizable contingent of teens and preteens smack dab in the middle of theirs, with McCartney and the Beatles as the bond between them.

Musician Sir Paul McCartney performs onstage at the Hollywood Bowl on March 30, 2010 in Hollywood, California.

Last updated on November 23, 2020

Hollywood Bowl

This was the 6th concert played at Hollywood Bowl.

A total of 7 concerts have been played there • 1964Aug 23rd1965Aug 29thAug 30th1993Apr 16th1998Jul 19th2010Mar 30thMar 31st

Setlist for the soundcheck


1.

Honey Hush

Written by Joe Turner


2.


3.

Jam


4.





8.

Venus And Mars

Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney

Instrumental version


9.

Rock Show

Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney

Instrumental version


10.

Jet

Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney

Instrumental version




13.


14.





18.


19.


20.

Yesterday

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Setlist for the concert


1.

Medley



2.


2.

Jet

Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


3.

All My Loving

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


4.


5.


6.

Highway

Written by Paul McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


7.

Medley



2.

Foxy Lady

Written by Jimi Hendrix

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


8.



10.


11.

My Love

Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


12.

I'm Looking Through You

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


13.

Two Of Us

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


14.

Blackbird

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


15.

Here Today

Written by Paul McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


16.

Dance Tonight

Written by Paul McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


17.


18.

Eleanor Rigby

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


19.

Something

Written by George Harrison

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


20.

Sing The Changes

Written by Paul McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again



22.

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


23.

Back in the U.S.S.R.

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


24.

I've Got a Feeling

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


25.

Paperback Writer

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


26.

Medley


1.

A Day In The Life

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


2.

Give peace a chance

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


27.

Let It Be

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again



29.

Hey Jude

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


30.

Encore


1.

Day Tripper

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


2.

Lady Madonna

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


3.

Get Back

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


31.

Second Encore


1.

Yesterday

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


2.

Helter Skelter

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


32.

Second encore



33.

Second Encore


1.

The End

Written by Lennon - McCartney

Album Available on Wings Flies Again


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