Paul McCartney’s Palm Desert Setlist: Every Song From the Official First Show

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The Beatle played 33 career-spanning songs connected opening night.

9/30/2025

Sir Paul McCartney performs astatine The O2 Arena during his 'Got Back' satellite circuit connected December 18, 2024 successful London, England.

Sir Paul McCartney performs astatine The O2 Arena during his 'Got Back' satellite circuit connected December 18, 2024 successful London, England. Jim Dyson/Getty Images

 
Money can’t bargain happiness unless that wealth is spent going to spot Paul McCartney connected the 2025 mentation of the Got Back tour. On the authoritative kick- disconnected Sept. 29 successful Palm Desert, California (McCartney did a shorter underplay astatine the Santa Barbara Bowl connected Sept. 26), McCartney showed it tin besides bargain love, nostalgia, assemblage and conscionable all-around bully vibes.  

For 2 hours and 40 minutes, McCartney did thing but bring joyousness to 11,000 fortunate souls successful a satellite wherever it is successful progressively abbreviated supply. He and his ace set played deed aft deed with nary motion astatine each from McCartney of fatigue for songs immoderate of which he’s sung for much than 60 years. He inactive exudes a school-boy charm.

Not to beryllium excessively hyperbolic—well, ok, to beryllium hyperbolic—watching the top instrumentalist of the 20th period sing the Beatles’ archetypal hit, 1963’s “Love Me Do,” 62 years aboriginal with the aforesaid guiltless wantonness arsenic the archetypal was thing abbreviated of exhilarating and it felt similar a occurrence that helium is inactive present delivering astatine specified a precocious quality. There whitethorn beryllium the temptation to enactment immoderate qualifier connected it, similar “for an 83-year aged man,” but helium needs none. It’s singular to spot anyone astatine immoderate property playing songs with that vigor surrounded by 1 of the champion bands successful the world, not to notation performing songs that spanned from 1958 to 2018.

Below are each the songs that McCartney performed connected the archetypal authoritative nighttime of the 2025 Got Back tour, which, for now, runs done Nov. 25 astatine Chicago’s United Center. Isolated tickets stay for each shows.