Paul McCartney wows the crowds in Manchester with stonking three-hour set – and Beatle John Lennon makes appearance too
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REVIEW: SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY: GOT BACK TOUR. MANCHESTER'S CO-OP LIVE ARENA, DECEMBER 14, 2024. ★★★★★. "I’ve a feeling we are going to have fun tonight," cheered Sir Paul McCartney as he greeted the capacity crowds at Manchester's Co-op Live Arena.
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“Alright Manchester,” he chipped, “it's good to be back.”. Yet this - the welcome at Sir Paul's first Got Back tour date on home turf for 2024 - was perhaps the understatement of the year. This was a show filled with fireworks - literally, snow - albeit the paper kind, and a tear-jerking performance of I've Got A Feeling with an AI version of his late The Beatles bandmate, John Lennon.
![[The 82-year-old put on a set filled with fireworks and fun]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/paul-mccartney-wows-crowds-manchester-957576219.jpg?strip=all&w=668)
The icon, in one of a handful touching moments on-stage, fought back tears as he hailed it “great, because I get to sing with John again.”. So, the fact there was one-quarter of The Beatles in an M11 postcode on a Manchester derby weekend was, by far, the least surprising thing of the night.
![[Sir Paul promised the northern crowd they'd 'have fun tonight' - and he lived true to every word]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/sir-paul-mccartney-performing-stage-957487612.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Sir Paul, quite simply, brought the magic to a typically rainy northern night - and made it shine in a way only the Jet hitmaker can. A setlist crammed with The Beatles hits - some rarely heard - and his subsequent band Wings kicked off with A Hard Day's Night and wrapped with a psychedelic Golden Slumbers soundtrack two hours and 45 minutes later.
![[Sir Paul was joined by an AI version of John Lennon in an emotional moment]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/paul-mccartney-wows-crowds-manchester-957576218.jpg?strip=all&w=668)
No support act, no huge delay on a start time, no lengthy breaks between songs - just a joke that whipping off his blazer would be "the one big wardrobe change of the evening.". In a set underpinned by emotive references to The Beatles band which saw the 82-year-old rocket to fame decades before, the thread between Paul and his three best mates is clearly one that endures.
![[This was a setlist filled with more than 30 songs from Wings and The Beatles eras]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/paul-mccartney-wows-crowds-manchester-957576216.jpg?strip=all&w=668)
