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London Is Simply Having a Wonderful Time as Paul McCartney Comes Home for Christmas: Concert Review
Paul McCartney's “Got Back” tour in London brought the Christmas cheer and a set full of hits.
Macca does not carve his past up into easily digestible eras, but they’re all plated up nicely, from the Quarrymen’s very first recording (a woozily charming “In Spite of all the Danger”) to “Come on to Me” from 2018’s “Egypt Station” – or perhaps “Now and Then”, the “newest” Beatles song, depending on which timeline you’re following. But he also knew exactly when to calm things down, via heartfelt tributes to John Lennon (a duet on “I’ve Got a Feeling” with his former bandmate even larger than life on the big screen) and George Harrison (a version of “Something” that started sparsely on the ukulele and blossomed into a widescreen rock epic). At one point, the brass section popped up in the crowd, “Love Actually”-style, while McCartney forgot to play “My Valentine” in its allotted slot, but added it back in later, following frantic prompting from drummer Abe Laboriel Jr.
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