A few account into his set at Albany's Times Union Center endure night, Paul McCartney took a moment to admeasurement up the sold-out crowd. "Good evening, Albany," he said with a big grin. "I've a activity we're traveling to accept a little bit of fun tonight."
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It's a bandage he's apparently acclimated in a thousand added cities over the years, but endure night, that affiance had a little added than accepted benumbed on it: It was McCartney's aboriginal appearance aback a virus beatific him to a Tokyo hospital in May, banishment him to cancel or adjourn a cord of dates in East Asia and the U.S. What affectionate of night were we in for? Would he assume tired, or tentative?
Not a chance. You'd never accept estimated that McCartney had afresh been ill from the absolutely answerable 40-song set he put on. If you've apparent him at any point in the endure 5 or so years, you apperceive how abundant fun his well-oiled amphitheatre apparatus is these days: Nearly three hours of breakable ballads, agrarian rockers, ardent tributes to John Lennon and George Harrison, cocktail-party badinage about Jimi Hendrix and the Soviet aegis minister, eyebrow-singing pyrotechnics – and, oh yeah, a brace dozen of the greatest pop songs anytime written. Endure night, McCartney did it all with, if anything, an added birr of bedrock & cycle aplomb.
He took the date about 8:15 in a royal-blue blazer, pumping his fists in the air and endlessly abbreviate in apish abruptness at the crowd's agog roar. Then he and his longtime abetment bandage jumped appropriate into "Eight Canicule a Week," just like any added night. He absolutely hit his stride a few songs afterwards with "Let Me Cycle It," switching from his signature Hofner bass to a cherry-red electric guitar and aptitude into the mic with all the hound-dog bluster he had in 1973. He agitated it into the next tune, "Paperback Writer," carrying a ripping electric abandoned that bled into a gnarly acknowledgment coda.
McCartney has spruced up his set in the accomplished year by bringing reside rarities like 1971's "Another Day" and Sgt. Pepper classics "Lovely Rita" and "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" into full-time rotation. All three were audible highlights endure night. He aswell formed several bright, active tunes from his a lot of contempo album, 2013's New, into the set – although he accustomed that accepting the army on lath for newer actual can be a challenge. "When you do one of your absolutely old songs, that's if you see the phones appear out," McCartney acclaimed wryly.
McCartney angry 72 in June. He's fabricated abundant money in his activity to accept retired absolutely calmly continued ago, and he's asperous abundant accident over the years that no one could absolutely accept abhorrent him if he fabricated that choice. But with anniversary new tour, the abstraction of retirement seems added distant. Endure night, you could see the amusement in his eyes every time the army animated – the unfakeable joy at accepting to play his music for an adherent arena.
About an hour into the show, afterwards McCartney rose top aloft the admirers on a Watch the Throne-style video belfry and played a candied abandoned acoustic "Blackbird," a accumulation of adolescent women beneath him al of a sudden screamed in excitement. "Don't do that to me! Those canicule are gone," he said, hardly abashed (but acutely admiring it). He smiled added as the absolute amphitheatre did its best Beatlemania scream. "Oh," he added. "Maybe they're not."
Around 11 p.m., in the final encore, McCartney arrive a middle-aged brace onstage. They'd been continuing against the foreground of the abode all night, bouncing analogous signs: His apprehend "I HAVE THE RING AND I'M 64," chastening said "HE WON'T MARRY ME TIL HE MEETS YOU." Now the adventurous admirer knelt, proposed, and sang a few all-a-quiver confined of "When I'm 64." (She said yes.) Afterwards they left, anybody in the abode accept to accept accepted McCartney to sing a adulation song – maybe "I Will" or "Michelle" or "Can't Buy Me Love." Instead, he tore into "Helter Skelter" with a abandoned grin, and the army went even wilder.
"Listen, guys," he said afterward, asthmatic and happy. "You couldn't accept accustomed us a bigger acceptable back."
Set List:
"Eight Canicule a Week"
"Save Us"
"All My Loving"
"Listen to What the Man Said"
"Let Me Cycle It"
"Paperback Writer"
"My Valentine"
"Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five"
"The Continued and Winding Road"
"Maybe I'm Amazed"
"I've Just Apparent a Face"
"On My Way to Work"
"We Can Work It Out"
"Another Day"
"And I Adulation Her"
"Blackbird"
"Here Today"
"New"
"Queenie Eye"
"Lady Madonna"
"All Together Now"
"Lovely Rita"
"Everybody Out There"
"Eleanor Rigby"
"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite"
"Something"
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
"Band on the Run"
"Back in the U.S.S.R."
"Let It Be"
"Live and Let Die"
"Hey Jude"
Encore
"Day Tripper"
"Hi, Hi, Hi"
"Get Back"
Second Encore
"Yesterday"
"Helter Skelter"
"Golden Slumbers"
"Carry That Weight"
"The End"
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