Friday, October 17, 2025
Minneapolis
Concert • By Paul McCartney • Part of the 2nd North America leg of the Got Back Tour
Last updated on November 14, 2025
Friday, October 17, 2025
Concert • By Paul McCartney • Part of the 2nd North America leg of the Got Back Tour
Last updated on November 14, 2025
Location: U.S. Bank Stadium • Minneapolis • USA
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This was the sixth concert of the 2025 US leg of the “Got Back” tour, and Paul McCartney’s first concert in Minneapolis since May 2016 and his “One On One” Tour.
From Twin Cities, October 17, 2025:
It didn’t take long after Paul McCartney took the stage Friday night at U.S. Bank Stadium, that the 83-year-old proved why he can still pull a crowd.
He opened with his trademark violin-shaped Hofner bass strapped across his chest, barking out the lyrics to the Beatles’ “Help,” a song mainly written by John Lennon. While he maintains that Dick Clark-like eternal boyishness, McCartney’s voice has definitely weakened since we last saw him, at a two-night stand at Target Center in 2016.
But after tearing through his solo smash “Coming Up” and two more Beatles songs, “Got to Get You Into My Life” and “Drive My Car,” McCartney’s voice started to warm up. Even if he sometimes yelped, McCartney remains a compelling performer. […]
Between numbers, McCartney often chatted up the fans. At one point, he read off a pair of signs from the audience: “100 shows since 1976” and “Paul, sign my butt,” which earned a chuckle from the Cute Beatle. But he also got serious, too. After “Blackbird,” McCartney told a story about a Beatles concert in Florida when the band refused to play a racially segregated concert and convinced the promoter to allow for an integrated audience. […]
To wrap things up, McCartney ended with — what else? — “The End.” It felt even more poignant than usual given that this will likely stand as McCartney’s final performance in the Twin Cities. Thanks for the memories, Paul.
From Paul McCartney | News | Penned on the Run: ‘GOT BACK’ Tour Diary 2025 Part 2:
Paul’s been no stranger to the Minneapolis stage over the last decade or so—in 2014 he gave a sold out Target Field crowd an unforgettable evening on his Out There tour, returning in 2016 for a packed to the roof indoor doubleheader at the Target Center on the One on One tour.
So where to go from there, but up: US Bank Stadium, which opened its doors barely two months following Paul’s 2016 Minneapolis shows, and has been home to the Minnesota Vikings ever since, as well as the site of 2018’s historic Super Bowl LII.
Dominating the skyline and street view to the point of rendering Maps apps redundant, US Bank Stadium is the sort of monolithic futurist/brutalist combo that might seem imposing, even frightening to an artist on the approach to a first headline gig in the sleek reflective behemoth — if that artist were not Paul McCartney.
In Paul’s case, the gargantuan stadium was yet another venue for him to cast his spell, the one that makes everyone from the front row to the 300 sections feel like he’s singing and chatting directly to them — similarly, I think there were fans who saw Vikings purple in the marching band montage that accompanied ‘Let ‘Em In’.
The evening abounded with moments of impossible intimacy with a crowd of more than 50,000. ‘Something’ was especially poignant in its study in contrasts: Paul’s gentle ukulele and vocal solo intro bursting into the full band lead break, as deeply personal images of George Harrison and his best friends and bandmates towered over the man giving these immortal songs life for this one night. Magical moments, like the songs themselves, that will never be repeated nor replicated.
Speaking of contrasts, a few songs later a mellifluous and downright inspirational ‘Let It Be’ preceded a massive ‘Live and Let Die’, which erupted in its full stadium pyrotechnic fury, Paul, the band and the Hot City Horns literally engulfed in towers of flame, percussive flash bangs, kaleidoscopic lasers and a fireworks display to delight all ages — even those who jumped at the impact of that final surprise “bang!”… and what followed was the only song capable of doing so, ‘Hey Jude’, once again proof positive that some songs are simply meant to be sung by 50,000+ voices in unison.
The encore wrapped with an emotive Abbey Road medley that BROADWAY WORLD called “the perfect curtain call to a show that felt like a gift,” adding a summation of the show as a whole as “a living, breathing tribute to the power of music to last, to move, to bring people together. Watching him smile, crack jokes, pay tribute to Lennon and Harrison, and still hit those notes — it was more than nostalgic. It was inspiring.”
Steve Martin – Paul’s US publicist – Paul McCartney | News | Penned on the Run: ‘GOT BACK’ Tour Diary 2025 Part 2
From PageSix, October 18, 2025:
[American actor] Pete Davidson surprised his pregnant girlfriend Elsie Hewitt with a private jet date to see Paul McCartney in concert on Friday.
“Pete is taking me on a surprise date,” she wrote via her instagram Stories alongside a photo of Davidson, 31, who sat across from her on the private plane. After their flight landed, the comedian then informed the model that they had landed in Minnesota to attend Paul McCartney’s show at U.S. Bank Stadium.
“I’m crying he’s so cute,” Hewitt wrote via her Stories after revealing her boyfriend’s plan.
The former “Saturday Night Live” star also arranged for the couple to meet with McCartney, 83, backstage.
“That was really like a special lil bucket list moment for me,” Hewitt, 29, raved in a later post. “[Paul] is pretty much the one person I’ve always wanted to meet. Do I have the sweetest, most thoughtful [boyfriend] or what?” […]
This was the 1st and only concert played at U.S. Bank Stadium.
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Medley
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Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
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Written by Paul McCartney
Written by John Lennon
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Encore
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