Sir Paul McCartney gave a private concert at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, for delegates attending the Hewlett-Packard Discover Americas trade conference at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.
Prior to the concert, a reception for delegates at the HP conference was held at the MGM Grand. Although it was supposedly a private show, a small number of wristbands were made available to members of the public. Attendance at the conference was priced at $1,595-1,995, and the concert was watched by 9,500 people.
Hewlett-Packard has been working with McCartney to digitise his extensive music, photography, video and memorabilia collection. The Digital Library, which will contain more than a million items, will be mostly private for McCartney’s company MPL, but some elements will be made publicly available.
McCartney had previously performed at the MGM Grand Garden Arena during the Driving World Tour on 5 and 6 April and 26 October 2002, and during the US Tour on 25 and 26 November 2005. He returned there on 21 September 2013 for the iHeartRadio Music Festival.
Concert setlist
- ‘Hello, Goodbye’
- ‘Junior’s Farm’
- ‘All My Loving’
- ‘Letting Go’
- ‘Drive My Car’
- ‘Sing The Changes’
- ‘Let Me Roll It’
- ‘The Long And Winding Road’
- ‘Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five’
- Let Em In
- ‘I’ve Just Seen A Face’
- ‘And I Love Her’
- ‘Blackbird’
- ‘Here Today’
- ‘Dance Tonight’
- ‘Eleanor Rigby’
- ‘Something’
- ‘Band On The Run’
- ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’
- ‘Back In The USSR’
- ‘A Day In The Life’/‘Give Peace A Chance’
- ‘Let It Be’
- ‘Live And Let Die’
- ‘Hey Jude’
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- 2023: Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Thunder Valley Casino Resort, Lincoln
- 2018: Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Flens-Arena, Flensburg
- 2018: Paul McCartney returns to Liverpool for surprise live show
- 2004: Paul McCartney live: Forum Horsens Stadium, Horsens
- 1992: Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati
- 1967: Editing, mixing: You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
- 1966: Recording, mixing: Good Day Sunshine
- 1964: The Beatles live: Princess Theatre, Kowloon, Hong Kong
- 1964: Mixing: A Hard Day’s Night, Things We Said Today
- 1963: The Beatles live: King George’s Hall, Blackburn
- 1962: The Beatles live: Cavern Club, Liverpool (evening)
- 1961: The Beatles live: Top Ten Club, Hamburg
- 1960: The Silver Beetles live: The Institute, Neston, Wirral
- 1957: The Quarrymen enter the TV Star Search competition
Want more? Visit the Beatles history section.
While the HP Discover conference was at the Venetian, the concert was at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. We were all bused from the Venetian to the reception at the MGM Grand.
Reception room: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=36.103495,-115.166448&ll=36.10457,-115.166824&spn=0.006952,0.009892&sll=36.104746,-115.167567&sspn=0.006295,0.006295&num=1&t=h&z=17
Garden Arena: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=36.104734,-115.168542&sll=36.103833,-115.168862&sspn=0.006068,0.008025&num=1&t=h&z=17
Thanks for the info Dean. I’ve amended the article – hopefully it’s all correct now.