Saturday, October 4, 2025
Las Vegas
Concert • By Paul McCartney • Part of the 2nd North America leg of the Got Back Tour
Last updated on October 21, 2025
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Concert • By Paul McCartney • Part of the 2nd North America leg of the Got Back Tour
Last updated on October 21, 2025
Location: Allegiant Stadium • Las Vegas • USA
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This was the second concert of the 2025 US leg of the “Got Back” tour, following the performance in Palm Desert. Paul McCartney had last performed in Las Vegas in June 2019 as part of his “Freshen Up” tour.
From Consequence Of Sound, October 5, 2025:
The past feels very present for Paul McCartney — at least in the way he talked on stage about those he’s lost during the Las Vegas stop on his “Got Back” tour. “Let’s hear it for John,” he said the first time he mentioned the late John Lennon, like Lennon was waiting in the wings, about to come out and duet with him. “Let’s hear it for George” came as he swapped a guitar for the ukulele George Harrison once gave him, which he then used to plink out a stripped-down version of “Something.”
That ukulele performance of “Something” represented one of the few quiet moments of the show, as McCartney’s goal was to keep the crowd on its feet for, as he proclaimed early on, “the biggest party in Vegas.” It perhaps wasn’t quite as raucous as that (perhaps because the crowd demographic leaned heavily towards people who were calling my 40-something ass “young lady”), but McCartney without question delivered a great two-and-a-half-hour hang without a single break in the music.
The October 4th, 2025 show at Allegiant Stadium blasted open with the nuclear-powered energy of “Help!” — notable given that the “Got Back” tour is the first time McCartney’s performed the song live in 35 years — and it’s hard to imagine a better way to get a crowd on its feat and ready to dance. From there, McCartney promised that the setlist for the evening would include “some old ones, some new ones, and some in between.” That said, his definition of “new” proved a bit loose just a few minutes later, when he launched into “Come On to Me,” released in 2018. “Relatively new,” he said wryly. “It’s new enough.” […]
From People, October 6, 2025:
Céline Dion stepped out to enjoy a concert from another legendary performer — and it was a family affair!
The singer, 57, made a rare appearance at Paul McCartney’s Las Vegas concert on Saturday, Oct. 4. Dion was spotted in the crowd of the Allegiant Stadium show, part of his ongoing Got Back Tour, with her three sons, according to the outlet. […]
From Paul McCartney | News | Penned on the Run: ‘GOT BACK’ Tour Diary 2025:
“The biggest party in Vegas!”
If Palm Desert’s Acrisure Arena doubled down on the size of the Santa Barbara Bowl, Las Vegas’s Allegiant Stadium upped the ante considerably (all puns intended): a sold out crowd of more than 50,000 would welcome Paul to Sin City, nearly five times the capacity of Acrisure and more than ten times the size of the Bowl.
One would be hard pressed to come up with a more imposing structure to house the first stadium play of this North American run. Allegiant’s massive reflective black exterior conjures visions of an invading alien armada’s mothership, so sleek and futuristic with its impossibly fluid angles and lines. Upon moving inside, the domed ceiling somehow achieves the seemingly impossible task of covering the sprawling interior, resulting in a sort of biosphere / city in outer space effect — at least before it’s filled with 50,000+ Macca devotees who’ve come to rock, roll and sing their hearts out.
It’s easy to imagine the gargantuan scale of everything in the Allegiant as intimidating, and perhaps to many it would be. But as anyone who’s seen Paul rock a stadium, festival ground or various other sprawling environs knows, the bigger the space, the bigger he plays. And Paul made his intent more than clear after blazing through the first few numbers of the set, “I’m getting the feeling we’re gonna have a bit of a party tonight! The biggest party in Vegas!”
And it was one for the ages, with too many standout moments to count — so let’s focus on the most paradoxical ones, specifically the quieter moments that filled the enormous stadium with love, song and Paul’s unmistakable and peerless presence: ‘I’ve Just Seen a Face’ sported a notable pep in its step (and in Rusty Anderson’s literal footwork during his lead), ‘In Spite of All the Danger’ was transformed from an early demo by a scrappy band of Liverpool lads to a resounding 50,000+ strong call and response series of “Whoa-OH-oh-oh’s,” ‘Love Me Do’ elicited tens of thousands of Beatles screams (TM) and was buoyed by Paul “Wix” Wickens flawless take on the original’s immortal harmonica motif. ‘Dance Tonight’ found Paul establishing the bonafides of the mandolin as stadium rock instrument while Abe Laboriel Jr. modulated his arsenal of beguiling dance moves to enchant the upper tiers.
Then there was Paul alone and unaccompanied, rising high above a starry stage to hold the teeming crowd in thrall with only his voice and acoustic guitar, filling the monolithic Allegiant with a note-perfect ‘Blackbird’. ‘Here Today’ followed, a study in power through vulnerability, as Paul and the masses in attendance shared the regret of having waited too long to tell a friend you love them. A crowd the size of a small city’s population witnessed, in total and reverent silence until the torrent of applause that greeted the song’s conclusion.
All of which is not to say that the evening was without its fair share of rockers. ‘Help!’ nearly blew the dome off the starship Allegiant, ‘Let Me Roll It’ had the entire stadium in the palm of Paul’s hand, ‘Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five’ was downright rambunctious, ‘Get Back’ simmered and grooved, and ‘Live and Let Die’ positively destroyed, blowing minds and eardrums with the first stadium-scale pyro and fireworks onslaught of the tour so far.
‘Hey Jude”’brought the main set to a close, proving once again that some songs are simply meant to be sung by tens of thousands of voices in unison. ‘I’ve Got a Feeling’ kicked off the encore with the 2025 stadium debut of Paul’s virtual debut with John, ‘Helter Skelter’ smoldered, and ‘Golden Slumbers’ began the medley that would sing the overflowing Vegas crowd a lullaby.
And that was Paul McCartney’s first show at Allegiant Stadium, an unforgettable two and a half hours that had the LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL speaking for us all: “Thanks for all the music.”
Steve Martin – Paul’s US publicist – From Paul McCartney | News | Penned on the Run: ‘GOT BACK’ Tour Diary 2025
This was the 1st and only concert played at Allegiant Stadium.
Instrumental Jam
Written by Carl Perkins
Written by Carl Perkins
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
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Written by Paul McCartney, Paul Epworth
See soundcheck statistics for “Got Back Tour”
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Medley
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by John Lennon
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by George Harrison
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