Paul McCartney - 2024-12-19 - London, UK (IEM)

Paul McCartney 

2024-12-19

The O2

London UK

IEM Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

CD 1:

01. Introduction

02. A Hard Day's Night

03. Junior's Farm

04. Letting Go

05. Drive My Car

06. Got To Get You Into My Life

07. Come On To Me

08. Let Me Roll It

09. Getting Better

10. Let 'Em In

11. My Valentine

12. Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five

13. Maybe I'm Amazed

14. I've Just Seen A Face

15. In Spite Of All the Danger

16. Love Me Do

17. Dance Tonight

18. Blackbird

19. Here Today

 

CD 2:

01. Now And Then

02. Lady Madonna

03. Jet

04. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!

05. Something

06. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

07. Band On The Run

08. Wonderful Christmastime* 

09. Macca talks about his stolen bass

10. Get Back**

11. Let It Be

12. Live and Let Die 

13. Hey Jude

 

CD 3:

01. I've Got a Feeling

02. Introduction of Ringo Starr

03. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)*** 

04. Helter Skelter 

05. Golden Slumbers

06. Carry That Weight

07. The End

* with The Capital Choir

** with Ronnie Wood

*** with Ringo Starr

Paul McCartney - 2024-12-19 -  London, UK (IEM)

I've seen Sir Paul 9 times, and the last 4, in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2022, I went with both my wife and my twin boys. We started that run back in June 2015, a Father's Day show in Philadelphia, which was also the first concert my boys ever went to! The set list that night included the tune Macca wrote for Destiny, one of my boy's favorite video games. We followed that up with an August 7, 2016 show at Giants Stadium on what what would have been my Dad's 83rd birthday had he not passed away in 2012. Sir Paul broke out Birthday that night, the first time I had ever heard him play that song live. Then on September 15, 2017, at Madison Square Garden on my Mom's 85th birthday, Paul entertained us as almost no other performer can, telling stories, paying tribute to lost friends and lovers, playing over 40 songs scanning almost 60 years of musical history. He played Jet, my boy's favorite McCartney tune, a song that had been missing from the 2 previous shows they attended.  And then, as I mentioned in my Springsteen post earlier this month, he brought Bruce and Miami Steve on stage for what turned out to be back to back renditions of I Saw her Standing There.  Most recently, just a few weeks ago on July 16, 2022, the 4 of us Saw Sir Paul at Met Life stadium, just 2 days before his 80th birthday!  Another 3 hour masterpiece, and another guest appearance by Springsteen, for 2 songs, his Glory days and The Beatles I Wanna Be Your Man, plus he sat in during the closing Abbey Road medley to add some blistering guitar work. The encore included a 2nd guest appearance, by a virtual John Lennon.  using footage from the Rooftop Concert, Paul and John did a virtual duet on I've Got A Feeling, and there wasn't a dry eye in the house. Given Sir Paul's age, I may never get to see him live again, but the memories, especially from the last 4 shows, will last forever. 

This soundboard recording captures Sir Paul in London on December 19, 2024, just 1 year ago today.  Macca had gone back out of the road in late 2024, bringing the Got Back tour to South America, where he had also played in 2023, and to Europe, his first shows on that continent since before the pandemic. This show brought the tour to end in grand fashion, with a performance of Wonderful Christmastime accompanied by The Capital Choir, a guest appearance by Ronnie Wood on Get Back, the reappearnce of his bass guitar that had been missing for 50 years, and finally, a reunion with his fellow surviving Beatle, Ringo Starr on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) and Helter Skelter! By the way, I included an audience recording of the show as well as it contains the soundcheck for the show, which was not part of the IEM recording.