Thursday, November 6, 2025
Nashville
Concert • By Paul McCartney • Part of the 2nd North America leg of the Got Back Tour
Last updated on December 7, 2025
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Concert • By Paul McCartney • Part of the 2nd North America leg of the Got Back Tour
Last updated on December 7, 2025
Location: The Pinnacle • Nashville • USA
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This was the twelfth concert of the 2025 US leg of the “Got Back” tour, and Paul McCartney’s first performance in Nashville since October 2014 and his Out There Tour.
The setlist for the 2025 US leg had remained identical across the first eleven shows; however, the Nashville concert introduced a few minor changes. “Dance Tonight” and “Here Today” were dropped, while “Every Night” was added.
Concertgoers at Nashville were also required to put their mobile phones in a secure pouch. This was also the case for the small show at Santa Barbara at the beginning of the tour, but a first for a concert of this size.
Coinciding with Paul’s performance, the Frist Art Museum in Nashville opened its new exhibition, “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64 Eyes of The Storm”
From Rolling Stone, November 7, 2025:
[…] On Thursday night in Nashville, McCartney brought his Beatles, Wings, and more spectacle of 30-plus songs to the Pinnacle, the smallest venue he’ll play on his 2025 North American tour. While not as intimate as the tiny Bowery Ballroom in New York, where Sir Paul delivered three pop-up shows in February, the 4,500-capacity Pinnacle was appropriately cozy and made McCartney’s the hottest ticket in Nashville this week (no small feat, considering Sabrina Carpenter set up shop for two sold-out nights at the nearby Bridgestone Arena).
Those lucky enough to make it inside — from gray-haired Beatles fans holding signs and at least two millennials holding babies, to former Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars and jangle-pop hero Robyn Hitchcock — were treated to a classic McCartney revue. He and his longtime band, seven musicians in all, including the extraordinary Abe Laboriel Jr. on drums and a three-piece horn section, painstakingly recreated Beatles classics like “Got to Get You into My Life,” “Drive My Car,” “Getting Better,” and “Lady Madonna.” They’re also resurrecting “Help!” on this tour, marking the first time McCartney has played the song in its entirety since 1965. Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffield called it the “emotional climax” of the Got Back tour opener in Palm Springs in September. […]
Alas, “Junior’s Farm,” which Wings recorded in Nashville didn’t make the set list, nor did McCartney follow the lead of Ringo Starr back in January and talk about his time in Music City and how it influenced him and the Beatles. He did have some fun, however, by reading aloud signs held aloft in the audience, including one that said, “I’m gay; help me come out.” “Say ‘I’m gay’ three times,” McCartney advised. He also prefaced “Blackbird” with an inspiring story of the time the Beatles threatened to bail on a segregated concert in Jacksonville, Florida, if the promoter didn’t let Black fans sit with white. (The promoter relented.)
After leaving the stage for a quick break following the requisite singalong of “Hey Jude,” McCartney and his band reemerged to play a mini-Abbey Road suite. But first they waved flags: the U.S., the Union Jack, the Tennessee state flag, and a Pride flag. It was a set piece, but one that resonated with fans grasping to find any sign of unity in a country that feels so divided. Maybe for this night, anyway, it was provided by the music of the Beatles, or at least an octogenarian who remains unafraid to offer the piece of advice that gave this great night one of its sweetest moments: “In the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.”
From Rolling Stone, November 7, 2025
From Paul McCartney | News | Penned on the Run: ‘GOT BACK’ Tour Diary 2025 Part 3:
Now this was one for the ages… Not only was Paul returning to the Music City for the first time since his 2014 show at Bridgestone Arena, he was playing the Pinnacle, Nashville’s newest premiere venue. With its capacity of 4500, most of whom would be dancing up a sweaty storm on the general admission floor, the Pinnacle would prove to be either the most intimate gig of Got Back 2025 or the wildest party 4500 Nashville locals had ever attended.
It was ultimately both of those things… and then some. Ticket holders filed in, securing their phones in Yondr pouches, thus insuring that tonight’s myriad memories would be captured by naked eyes and ears and not through screens — a gift that even those most reluctant to part with their digital phantom limbs for a few hours would come to appreciate. Members of the phone-free audience actually conversed with one another, sharing memories of Paul’s 2010 and 2014 Nashville shows, as well as his historic 2013 headlining tour de force at the nearby Bonnaroo festival, all fueling the mounting collective anticipation.
And what a party it was, kicking off with a rip-roaring “Help!” that transported everyone in the shiny and new yet cozy and warm new hall back in time to the days when The Beatles could still play venues this size — including Sabrina Carpenter, Kacey Musgraves, Robyn Hitchcock, Wilco’s Pat Sansone and Mick Mars of Motley Crue fame, all of whom were sighted in the house. “I think we’re gonna have a little bit of fun in this room tonight,” Paul added a few songs later. “No phones.”
ROLLING STONE reported of the Pinnacle gig that “Paul delivered requisite Beatles classics but it was songs from his Seventies era that brought the most juice,” and there’s a case to be made there: “Letting Go” simmered, “Let Me Roll It” boiled over, “Jet” absolutely soared and “Live and Let Die” exploded — albeit without the usual array of flash bangs, towers of flame and fireworks, lest Paul literally blow the roof off of Nashville’s hottest new venue.
Paul’s ‘70s output would also provide one of the night’s biggest surprises in the form of “Every Night,” a rare appearance on the main setlist for the sublime ballad from 1970’s McCartney — the same album that gave us “Maybe I’m Amazed,” a contender for evoking the most tears of joy shed on this once in a lifetime night in Nashville.
“We’re so in this room together,” Paul remarked to the elated crowd — many of whom spent the duration of the show sporting expressions of disbelief at their good fortune to have scored a ticket to see Paul in such close quarters. The main set’s home stretch featured singalongs of “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” and “Hey Jude” whose intensity rivaled those of the stadiums and arenas on the Got Back 2025 trail.
“You’ve been a fantastic crowd here tonight. It’s been pretty hot and sweaty,” Paul noted, opening the encore with a suitably rocking “I’ve Got a Feeling.” A few songs later, as Paul left the Nashville audience with the parting words “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make,” unlocking thousands of phones seemed like a formality — people were living in the afterglow of the singular experience they’d just shared, realizing that being fully present at a show like tonight’s was worth a thousand photos.
Steve Martin – Paul’s US publicist – From Paul McCartney | News | Penned on the Run: ‘GOT BACK’ Tour Diary 2025 Part 3
This was the 1st and only concert played at The Pinnacle.
Instrumental Jam
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Medley
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