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Paul McCartney review – a dizzying, bittersweet, life-encompassing journey through time
An eras tour of a different kind finds the 82-year-old former Beatle on tremendous form, packing a three-hour show with hits, flashbacks and real emotion
Tonight, on the 2024 leg of McCartney’s Got Back world tour(it began in 2022, with a memorable pit stop at the Glastonbury festival), it feels like a time capsule opened in an unimaginably different future, where the pace of change, fast then, now approaches greased quantum velocity. Behind them, strange video montages play with time, subbing modern McCartney and recent Ringo Starr into scenes where they lark about with their vintage bandmates and erstwhile selves, like a fantastically expensive advert for the Google Pixel phone’s 2024 “Add Me” feature. This set has all manner of sky-high points – Get Back, Hey Jude, the Beatles’ early anti-materialist anthem Can’t Buy Me Love – but it’s during Here Today, the song McCartney wrote after the death of John Lennon, that unexpectedly seals the deal tonight.
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