Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Des Moines
Concert • By Paul McCartney • Part of the 2nd North America leg of the Got Back Tour
Last updated on November 14, 2025
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Concert • By Paul McCartney • Part of the 2nd North America leg of the Got Back Tour
Last updated on November 14, 2025
Location: Casey’s Center • Des Moines • USA
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This was the fifth concert of the 2025 US leg of the “Got Back” tour, and Paul McCartney’s first concert in Des Moines since July 2017 and his “One On One” Tour.
From The Daily Iowan, October 15, 2025:
When the Beatles made their U.S. debut in 1964, they were met in New York City by mobs of screaming, fainting, and sobbing women. The band’s popularity at the time was unparalleled, and this choir of crying fangirls has been etched in American iconography since.
As a 21-year-old woman in 2025, I am still one of those girls.
I grew up on the Beatles, Paul McCartney, and several other classic rock staples. However, I had the misfortune of being born much past most of their primes, or even lives.
I missed John Lennon by many decades, George Harrison by just three years — getting a chance to see a living Beatle in concert felt pretty impossible. Impossible until Oct. 14.
Peering out into a sea of silver hair, the greatest rock musician in the world stood on stage looking as unbelievably cool as he did 60 years ago. Paul McCartney swaggered on stage, grabbed his guitar, and lit up the Casey’s Center in Des Moines, Iowa, kicking the concert off strong with the beloved Beatles hit “Help.” The audience erupted in cheers and instantly started singing along with the band. I may have also let out a hysterical yelp or two. […]
Aside from myself, a good portion of Generation Z are also fans of the Beatles and McCartney. University of Iowa third-year student Sam Dietz was in attendance at McCarney’s concert with his dad and brother. He said he’s been listening to the Beatles since birth. “We’re all pretty big Beatles, and especially Paul McCartney fans, so we saw he was in Des Moines, and we decided we had to go before he dies,” Dietz said.
Although it may sound morbid, that’s a reality the Gen Z Beatles fan, or any other classic rock band fan, has to face — their favorite artists dying before they have a chance to experience their greatness in person. This year we lost Ozzy Osbourne. I don’t want to think about who could be next. Neil Young canceled his 2024 Denver, Colorado, show I had tickets to due to health reasons. I saw Bob Dylan perform in Davenport, Iowa, in April, and I could hardly understand a word he said.
My idols may be aging, but my adoration and celebration of their music has many years to go. And I can safely say most of the women screaming at Beatles concerts in the ‘60s are also still devoted to the artists they loved so deeply, as I saw in Des Moines.
From Paul McCartney | News | Penned on the Run: ‘GOT BACK’ Tour Diary 2025 Part 2:
There’s an important lesson that one learns over the course of many years of touring with Paul McCartney: Never underestimate the smaller cities. Sure, Paul’s return to Des Moines for the first time since 2017 on the One on One tour was the biggest gig in town (the rechristened Casey’s Center, formerly Wells Fargo Arena — fun trivia fact: Paul was reportedly the first artist to play the arena under each name), but relatively modest by GOT BACK standards, being sandwiched between stadium spectacles in Denver and Minneapolis.
But wow could that arena full of Des Moinesians make a noise… Casey’s Center was 100% Paul’s for nearly three hours — holding the jam-packed arena in rapt delight, receiving supercharged adoration from a crowd that the DAILY IOWAN contained a notable contingent of younger Macca fanatics: “Aside from myself, a good portion of Generation Z are also fans of The Beatles and McCartney.”
Truly testimony to Paul’s enduring, multi-generational appeal — as the 21-year-old journalist who wrote the review quoted above would have been 13 years old the last time Paul had played Des Moines.
For raucous renditions of ‘Come on to Me’,’Let Me Roll It’,’Get Back’ and ‘Helter Skelter’, Paul and the band virtually transformed the Iowa arena into a hot, sweaty rock club, albeit a rock club with approximately 15,000 patrons. And Casey’s Center would undergo a series of successive transmogrifications at Paul’s hands throughout the show: It would become a backwoods juke joint for the stripped back roots set kicked off by Quarrymen demo ‘In Spite of All the Danger’ and debut Beatles single ‘Love Me Do’, then something more akin to a house of worship for the somber and reverent reception given Paul’s solo acoustic interlude of ‘Blackbird’ and ‘Here Today’. It also became a time capsule at several key points in the show, not least of which being the video accompanying the recently unearthed last/lost Beatles song ‘Now and Then’, featuring modern day Paul and Ringo interacting with their younger selves as well as playing with John and George.
Night after night, GOT BACK has enthralled each and every soul filling these arenas, stadiums and intimate surprise shows, keeping everyone in attendance completely and totally in the moment — a phenomenon unwittingly acknowledged by the DES MOINES REGISTER, who wound up a rave review with the following passage: “The night ended, perhaps to everyone’s dismay, fittingly with ‘The End,’ a song that felt like it was written specifically for the audience at Casey’s Center at that very moment.”
Steve Martin – Paul’s US publicist – Paul McCartney | News | Penned on the Run: ‘GOT BACK’ Tour Diary 2025 Part 2
This was the 3rd concert played at Casey’s Center.
A total of 3 concerts have been played there • 2005 • Oct 27 • 2017 • Jul 21 • 2025 • Oct 14
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