Wednesday, October 29, 2025
New Orleans
Concert • By Paul McCartney • Part of the 2nd North America leg of the Got Back Tour
Last updated on November 26, 2025
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Concert • By Paul McCartney • Part of the 2nd North America leg of the Got Back Tour
Last updated on November 26, 2025
Location: Smoothie King Center • New Orleans • USA
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This was the nineth concert of the 2025 US leg of the “Got Back” tour, and Paul McCartney’s first concert in New Orleans since May 2019 and his Freshen Up Tour
From OffBeat Magazine, October 30, 2025:
When Paul McCartney bid adieu to his thrilled audience at the end of his 2019 concert in New Orleans, he made a promise: “We’ll see you next time.”
McCartney—the solo star, leader of his 1970s band, Wings, and member of the Beatles—kept his promise Wednesday, October 29, performing for another packed house at the Smoothie King Center. It was his fourth appearance at the arena that sits next door to Caesars Superdome. He also played the Superdome in 1993 and, as many locals remember well, with the Beatles in 1964 at City Park Stadium, a.k.a. Tad Gormley Stadium.
In the middle of a 19-date North American excursion dubbed the Got Back Tour, McCartney and his band rolled through a 35-song set of classic hits, beloved album tracks and some relatively new solo music. He opened with “Help,” a Beatles song originally sung by his late bandmate, John Lennon. “When I was younger, so much younger than today,” the 83-year-old McCartney sang during his spirited rendition of the title song from the Beatles’ 1965 film, Help. […]
Wednesday’s concert moved at a well-oiled tempo, efficiently from song to song, the music often accompanied by elaborate light displays, nostalgic film clips from Beatles and Wings history and psychedelic animation. There wasn’t much chatting from the show’s star this go around. But before song four of the night, “Drive My Car,” McCartney stopped the music momentarily. A man who loves his work, he said: “Oh, yeah, man, you are some crowd. I’m gonna take a moment here just to drink it all in for myself.”
A second brief break happened before Wings’ “Let Me Roll It” while McCartney removed his black double-breasted jacket. Perhaps in a reference to the dozens of in-concert costume changes made by Taylor Swift and other arena- and stadium-level stars these days, he said: “Okay. That is the one and only wardrobe change of the whole evening.” […]
From OffBeat Magazine, October 30, 2025
From Paul McCartney | News | Penned on the Run: ‘GOT BACK’ Tour Diary 2025 Part 3:
The six-year span between Paul’s 2019 and 2025 New Orleans appearances was one of the shorter gaps on this run, but you wouldn’t have known it from the deafening reception that greeted him at the sold-out Smoothie King Center as he and the band tore into “Help!” to kick off a musical tour de force for a hugely appreciative Big Easy audience.
The Hot City Horns received a particularly warm welcome in their return to the nation’s brass band capital, having become veterans of the Macca roadshow since making their New Orleans debut with Paul at that same 2019 show. Kenji, Mike and Paul took to the stage for the first of multiple numbers with “Coming Up,” and proceeded to add muscular and flavorful accents to “Letting Go,” “Jet,” “Lady Madonna” and the nightly host of others — including a standout performance of “Let ‘Em In” that elicited a spontaneous arena-wide cheer when New Orleans’ own St. Augustine Marching 100 were recognized in the accompanying montage of marching bands.
In a turnout that broke the venue’s record for highest single performance concert gross, the multi-generational crowd was audibly delighted for the duration of the near-three-hour show, smiles plastered across an arena full of faces — including those of local denizens Harry Shearer and Judith Owen, and 93-year-old Preservation Hall Jazz Band saxophonist Charlie Gabriel, among other notables.
The highlights abounded and continued, with “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!” receiving what could only be described as a Mardi Gras-worthy response, a soaring “Blackbird” followed by Paul’s recollection of The Beatles’ refusal to play to a segregated audience in Jacksonville, Florida resulting in the first ever racially integrated rock show at a southern stadium resonated especially strongly with New Orleans and its history as a nexus of so many cultures, cuisines and of course musical genres… Not long after that moment, “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” would have the entire house dancing and singing along to a ska-inflected universal portrait of love and life.
As a boisterous “Get Back” segued into a sublimely emotive “Let It Be,” a cataclysmic “Live and Let Die” and a transcendent “Hey Jude” that unified the record-breaking crowd in the night’s biggest and most enthusiastic of numerous singalongs, it was undeniable that Paul had given one of America’s foremost music cities with yet another historic night. A lap around the stage with British, American, Louisiana and LGBTQ+ pride flags, a virtual duet with John Lennon on “I’ve Got a Feeling,” a “Sgt. Pepper” reprise and a final Abbey Road medley would close the newest chapter in a centuries-long tapestry as rich as any on the planet.
… All that and Paul somehow squeezed in a side trip to New Orleans’ Garden District to post a video of the famed local landmark that is the Skeleton House, spreading a little extra special Halloween cheer to his Instagram followers.
Steve Martin – Paul’s US publicist – From Paul McCartney | News | Penned on the Run: ‘GOT BACK’ Tour Diary 2025 Part 3
This was the 3rd concert played at Smoothie King Center.
A total of 3 concerts have been played there • 2014 • Oct 11 • 2019 • May 23 • 2025 • Oct 29
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Medley
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