San Antonio

This was the eighth concert of the 2025 US leg of the “Got Back” tour, and Paul McCartney’s first concert in San Antonio since October 2014 and his “Out There” Tour.

From San Antonio Current, October 26, 2025:

San Antonio got the rare chance Saturday night to see a living Beatle when Sir Paul McCartney graced the stage of the Alamodome, the venue he christened back in 1993. During a three-hour set with no opener, McCartney drew from every era of his career, from pre-Beatles material through the golden age of the Fab Four to Wings and his solo work.  Crowds thronged to the downtown stadium, spilling through its doors and overtaking the seemingly understaffed venue as if Beatlemania had never ended. […]

The Beatles never played the Alamo City. As a solo artist, McCartney has, but not since a 2014 benefit concert for the then-brand-new Tobin Center. Prior to that, he performed the inaugural concert at the Alamodome more than three decades ago.

Throughout the set, McCartney touched on social commentary that hinted at the current day’s political strife. During the Sgt. Pepper’s track “Getting Better,” a post-apocalyptic landscape flashed onscreen behind him, showing a toppled Statue of Liberty. While McCartney sang the reassuring refrain “it’s getting better all the time,” flowers began to bloom on the scorched wasteland behind him, sending a clear and poignant message of hope for America’s future.

During “Let ‘Em In,” a song that references Martin Luther King Jr., the screen onstage featured Black marching bands and, at one point, someone waving a Pride flag. “Lady Madonna,” a jangle-pop classic written primarily by McCartney, featured activist Greta Thunberg onscreen. 

McCartney also told the story of when the Beatles played Jacksonville, Florida, in 1964 and the promoter informed them the audience would be segregated. “Well, that’s just stupid,” McCartney recalls the band saying, adding that the group refused to play under such conditions. It became the first major integrated concert in the Southeast. […]

Love was in the air, and it wasn’t just the ballads. At one point, a newly wed couple held a sign near the front that said “Marry Us Paul!” “But I’m already married,” the Beatle quipped. A few songs later, the couple exchanged rings with McCartney’s blessing on stage in front of the crowd of close to 60,000 people. […]

Slightly detracting from the evening was the onslaught of AI generative art on the screen behind him, depicting the Beatles artificially brought back to life rather than drawing from a deep well of unadulterated archival footage, which would have better suited the raw authenticity of the lyrics. AI art even included bizarre Salvador Dalí-esque camels with the faces of the Beatles, and threatened to pull us out of our journey back in time. […]

From San Antonio Current, October 26, 2025

From Paul McCartney | News | Penned on the Run: ‘GOT BACK’ Tour Diary 2025 Part 3:

It’s humbling and exciting to bear witness to history coming full circle.

That’s what happened on Saturday, October 25 when Paul McCartney returned to the Alamodome for the first time since opening the massive stadium in 1993—and marking 11 years since he last stepped onto a San Antonio stage for a historic fundraiser at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.

Got Back’s return to the Alamodome meant that considerably more than the just under 2000 that fit into the Tobin Center would be experiencing some Macca magic on that enchanted evening — quite literally, Paul’s show fell on the same weekend as San Antonio’s Muertos Fest, a vibrant and bustling celebration of the Day of the Dead drawing huge crowds with its elaborately decorated floats, parades, altars, costumes, dance, food and more.

Needless to say, there were multiple traffic/travel advisories in effect throughout downtown San Antonio that weekend.

As the Alamodome filled with tens of thousands of Paul’s fans, there was a noticeable air of celebration in effect. No one was keeping count, but it seemed there were more attendees dressed for the occasion than the usual Lonely Hearts Club Band members decked out in their shiniest Sgt. Pepper regalia, and in a more ornate and diverse assortment of costumes than typically spotted.

Paul’s return to the Alamodome was nothing if not a family affair. Over the course of the evening, he dedicated “My Valentine” to wife Nancy who was in attendance, later noting that daughter Mary — the baby in Paul’s jacket in the visuals that accompany “Maybe I’m Amazed” — was in the crowd, along with two of Paul’s grandsons.

“Imagine that, watching your granddad rockin’,” Paul mused.

Speaking of family, Got Back at the Alamodome bore witness to the beginning of one: A young couple wielding a “MARRY US PAUL” sign caught Paul’s eye and were invited onstage where their wish would be granted — sort of. The young couple, Brenda and Gera, were actually married that morning (their wedding song was “Calico Skies”). It was the realization of a mutual promise that the next time they had the chance to see Paul play, they would commemorate the show by getting married. They shared their story with Paul, who gave their union his personal blessing, making their wedding day that much more special and memorable. “We got our lives made by meeting Paul and getting our marriage blessed by him,” Brenda said later. “It was an unforgettable experience that we will treasure our whole lives.”

In truth, approximately 50,000 people shared an unforgettable experience to treasure for the rest of their lives as well that night, as Paul powered through nearly three hours and more than 30 classics spanning every era of his singular songbook. With a crowd this huge and effusive, it was virtually impossible to discern which numbers drew the most wall-shaking response — Beatles bangers “Get Back,” “Got to Get You into My Life,” “Drive My Car,” Wings favorites “Jet,” “Band on the Run,” “Live and Let Die,” or solo showstoppers “Dance Tonight,” “Here Today’… the audience response was akin in volume to a sustained near-three-hour Beatles scream.

Not long after the evening had wound down with a sublime triptych of “Golden Slumbers,” “Carry That Weight” and “The End,” the AUSTIN CHRONICLE summed up succinctly that Paul’s Alamodome performance “drove home the power of McCartney’s music to make his shows feel at once personal and unifying. They’re reflections of a man whose whole career has been geared toward changing lives not by indulging in performative political grandstanding, but by fostering love. Even after nearly 70 years of performing, he’s positively bursting with it and remains steadfast in his mission to highlight humanity’s universal capacity to harness and share it for good.”

Steve Martin – Paul’s US publicist – From Paul McCartney | News | Penned on the Run: ‘GOT BACK’ Tour Diary 2025 Part 3

Alamodome

This was the 2nd concert played at Alamodome.

A total of 2 concerts have been played there • 1993 • May 29 • 2025 • Oct 25

Setlist for the soundcheck

1. Instrumental Jam

2. Matchbox

   Written by Carl Perkins

3. Flaming Pie

   Written by Paul McCartney

4. Fuh You

   Written by Paul McCartney, Ryan Tedder

5. Coming Up

   Written by Paul McCartney

6. Women and Wives

   Written by Paul McCartney

7. Let 'Em In

   Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

8. From Me to You

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

9. Mrs. Vandebilt

   Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

10. Ram On

    Written by Paul McCartney

11. Midnight Special (Prisoner's Song)

    Written by Traditional

12. New

    Written by Paul McCartney

13. Lady Madonna

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

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Setlist for the concert

1. Help!

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

2. Coming Up

   Written by Paul McCartney

3. Got to Get You Into My Life

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

4. Drive My Car

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

5. Letting Go

   Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

6. Come On to Me

   Written by Paul McCartney

7. Medley

1. Let Me Roll It

   Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

2. Foxy Lady

   Written by Jimi Hendrix

8. Getting Better

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

9. Let 'Em In

   Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

10. My Valentine

    Written by Paul McCartney

11. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five

    Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

12. Maybe I'm Amazed

    Written by Paul McCartney

13. I've Just Seen a Face

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

14. In Spite of All the Danger

    Written by Paul McCartney, George Harrison

15. Love Me Do

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

16. Dance Tonight

    Written by Paul McCartney

17. Blackbird

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

18. Here Today

    Written by Paul McCartney

19. Now and Then

    Written by John Lennon

20. Lady Madonna

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

21. Jet

    Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

22. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

23. Something

    Written by George Harrison

24. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

25. Band on the Run

    Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

26. Get Back

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

27. Let It Be

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

28. Live and Let Die

    Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney

29. Hey Jude

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

30. Encore

1. I've Got a Feeling

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

2. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

3. Helter Skelter

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

4. Golden Slumbers

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

5. Carry That Weight

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

6. The End

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

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