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The Best Concerts of 2025 (So Far)
A look at the best concerts and tours of the first half of 2025.
At 6:44 p.m. on the nose, the band — led by McCartney — walked onstage and launched straight into “A Hard Day’s Night,” soaring through a two-hour-ish career-spanning set, from 1963 (“From Me to You”) to his 1970s solo hits and even last year’s “final” Beatles song, “Now and Then.” In between were big crowd singalongs on “Hey Jude” and “Ob-la-di Ob-la-da,” romps through “Get Back,” “Jet” and “Got to Get You Into My Life”; deeper cuts like “Letting Go” and “Mrs. On the night we caught them in L.A., Trump had just bombed Iran, and no commentary was necessary other for Costello to offer a very rare show- opening “(What’s So Funny About) Peace, Love and Understanding” (don’t worry, he also still closed the concert with it, too), followed by “Waiting for the End of the World.” So, even limiting himself to his feisty early days, rock’s most brilliant songwriter has a song for every occasion. Image Credit: Chris Willman/Variety “Let’s go to WeHo in the meantime” doesn’t have the same ring to it, but legendary singer-songwriter and longtime Tennessean resident John Hiatt returned to his old haunts in L.A. to be serenaded by a parade of boldface admirers at the Americana Music Association’s annual Grammy eve salute to a legend.
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