Paul McCartney performed at the Citi Field stadium in New York City, USA, on 17 July 2009.
It was the second show of the Summer Live ’09 Tour, which lasted for 10 dates in July and August 2009.
McCartney’s band was Paul ‘Wix’ Wickens (vocals, keyboards, guitar, percussion, harmonica), Brian Ray (vocals, guitar, bass), Rusty Anderson (vocals, guitar), and Abe Laboriel Jr (vocals, drums).
Citi Field was the successor to Shea Stadium, where The Beatles gave two triumphant concerts in 1965 and 1966.
McCartney performed more than 30 songs, including ‘I’m Down’, the song which closed the group’s 1965 concert. He also dedicated ‘My Love’ to his first wife Linda, “a New York girl”, and invited Billy Joel to the stage for ‘I Saw Her Standing There’.
Concert setlist
- ‘Drive My Car’
- ‘Jet’
- ‘Only Mama Knows’
- ‘Flaming Pie’
- ‘Got To Get You Into My Life’
- ‘Let Me Roll It’
- ‘Highway’
- ‘The Long And Winding Road’
- ‘My Love’
- ‘Blackbird’
- ‘Here Today’
- ‘Dance Tonight’
- ‘Calico Skies’
- ‘Mrs Vandebilt’
- ‘Eleanor Rigby’
- ‘Sing The Changes’
- ‘Band On The Run’
- ‘Back In The USSR’
- ‘I’m Down’
- ‘Something’
- ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’
- ‘Paperback Writer’
- ‘A Day In The Life’/‘Give Peace A Chance’
- ‘Let It Be’
- ‘Live And Let Die’
- ‘Hey Jude’
Summer Live ’09 Tour dates
- 11 July 2009: Halifax Common, Halifax, Canada
- 17 July 2009: Citi Field, New York City, USA
- 18 July 2009: Citi Field, New York City, USA
- 21 July 2009: Citi Field, New York City, USA
- 1 August 2009: FedEx Field, Landover, USA
- 5 August 2009: Fenway Park, Boston, USA
- 6 August 2009: Fenway Park, Boston, USA
- 15 August 2009: Piedmont Park, Atlanta, USA
- 17 August 2009: BOK Arena, Tulsa, USA
- 19 August 2009: Cowboy Stadium, Dallas, USA