[Surferdude]

My Christmas present from my daughter. We can walk to the venue from her unit.

Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

Gonna be awesome.

Here's a list of his three hour performance in Perth the other night.


Here is the amazing 3-hours-plus 40-song Set List from Perth...
1. A Hard Day's Night
(The Beatles song)
2. Junior's Farm
(Wings song)
3. Can't Buy Me Love
(The Beatles song)
4. Letting Go
(Wings song)
5. All My Loving
(The Beatles song)
6. Let Me Roll It
(Wings song) (with “Foxy Lady” outro)
7. I've Got a Feeling
(The Beatles song)
8. My Valentine
9. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five
(Wings song)
10. Maybe I'm Amazed
11. I've Just Seen a Face
(The Beatles song)
12. In Spite of All the Danger
(The Quarrymen song)
13. You Won't See Me
(The Beatles song)
14. Love Me Do
(The Beatles song)
15. And I Love Her
(The Beatles song)
16. Blackbird
(The Beatles song)
17. Here Today
18. Queenie Eye
19. New
20. Lady Madonna
(The Beatles song)
21. FourFiveSeconds
(Rihanna and Kanye West and Paul McCartney cover)
Play Video
22. Eleanor Rigby
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
23. I Wanna Be Your Man
(The Beatles song)
Play Video
24. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
(The Beatles song)
25. Something
(The Beatles song)
26. A Day in the Life
(The Beatles song) (with "Give Peace a Chance" outro)
27. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
(The Beatles song)
28. Band on the Run
(Wings song)
29. Back in the U.S.S.R.
(The Beatles song)
30. Let It Be
(The Beatles song)
31. Live and Let Die
(Wings song)
32. Hey Jude
(The Beatles song)
Encore:
33. Yesterday
(The Beatles song)
34. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
(The Beatles song)
35. Helter Skelter
(The Beatles song)
36. Mull of Kintyre
(Wings song)
37. Birthday
(The Beatles song)
38. Golden Slumbers
(The Beatles song)
39. Carry That Weight
(The Beatles song)
40. The End

[mickd]

The fact that it's a 3 hour show speaks volumes of the man.
Soak it up and enjoy  !  👍

[beerman]

Say hi to the Sister in Law for me.

Anything from his most excellent Tug of War Album?

[Dazzler]

The fact that it's a 3 hour show speaks volumes of the man.
Soak it up and enjoy  !  👍

Yes, pretty impressive effort for a 75 y/o. Many of his counterparts are pushing up daisies by then. Not like he needs the money. Worth over 600 million apparently!

Enjoy it Trevor.   

[Surferdude]

Say hi to the Sister in Law for me. 

Anything from his most excellent Tug of War Album?

[beerman]

I hope the light show dosen't put him off. Its very dark here.

Bureau of Meteorology, Queensland on Twitter: "Updated #SEQld warning for damaging winds and large hail. Keep up to date with warnings at:

[eye30]

If you get the chance say hi from me as we are oldie friends from way back when he played at the Cavern and other venues around liverpool.

[Dazzler]

If you get the chance say hi from me as we are oldie friends from way back when he played at the Cavern and other venues around liverpool.

Impressive!  Or are you joshing? He might Roughley remember you I suppose...

[Shambles]

I bet they were booze buddies

[Surferdude]

I hope the light show dosen't put him off. Its very dark here.

Bureau of Meteorology, Queensland on Twitter: "Updated #SEQld warning for damaging winds and large hail. Keep up to date with warnings at:

Storm was over before the show.
And his light show, fireworks and sound effects were way more impressive than the storm.

[CraigB]

I bet they were booze buddies

Paul once tripped over Lester in a pub

[Surferdude]

I bet they were booze buddies

Paul once tripped over Lester in a pub

Which is why I decided NOT to mention him to Paul. 

[Surferdude]

I really needed a few days to “come down” from this experience in order to be able to write about it.

Way back, I remember an interview with the Beatles when they were at their peak. Someone asked how long they though the “Beatles Phenomenon” would last. Paul made a comment along the lines of,
Well, I really can’t see us jumping around on stage like this at the  age of 40”.

Paul is now 75 years old. And, while I’m not a regular live performance attendee, I cannot imagine anything that would better this.

From the opening “It’s Been a Hard Day’s Night” until the close, three hours later I lost myself in nostalgia. #3 and #5, “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “All My Loving” literally brought tears to my eyes and shivers up and down my spine.

There were so many highlights I can’t even remember them all but “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” had pretty much every one of the 40,000 fans singing (screaming?) along. “Live and Let Die” was probably the loudest, complete with explosions around the stage and fireworks from the roof of Suncorp Stadium above the stage.

We walked to the stadium from my daughter's unit, through one of the most vicious storms to his SE Qld in some time, but the rain pretty much stopped before the show, although all those platinum and gold seats in the infield continued to cop showers most of the evening.

Suncorp Stadium (originally Lang Park) is probably the best rugby league stadium in the world with the capacity around 55,000. Obviously with the stage and other infrastructure, one end of the stadium was out of use but the whole infield was filled with seating. It is used for other shows (and recently the Jeff Horne fight) as well as soccer and rugby union. However, this night belonged to Sir Paul and his band. Two other guitarists, a keyboard player and an absolutely brilliant drummer.

My daughter has always been a Beatles fan but I’d have to say as much as 25 -30% of the people there were in the 15 to 40 age bracket. And they all knew all the words.
The band took a break about 75 minutes in, but Paul played on solo for two songs until they came back. His only break was 2 or 3 minutes before the encore of another 8 songs. Included here was “Yesterday” and “Mull of Kintyre”, complete with about 30 members of a pipe and drum band.

He only had Sydney and Auckland to go to finish his world tour yet he was never still, never out of breath between songs when he told stories about their history. A wonderful performer.
Oh. And he made the point that apart from his wife, 17 of his family members were in the audience. “All Aussies” as he said. I’m guessing they must also live in Qld or northern NSW or they’d have gone to the Sydney or Melbourne show.

If you’re getting the message my daughter and I enjoyed this, you’d be right.


Now, off to Star Wars VIII this Saturday night. 

[Dazzler]

I must say, without even seeing the show, when I read reports about his pretty much non stop 3 hour/ 40 song show, I was extremely impressed with his stamina for a 75 y/o.

[eye30]

Ps
Paul rang me yesterday to say he saw you in the audience and you had to be calmed down by your daughter.

[Surferdude]

Ps
Paul rang me yesterday to say he saw you in the audience and you had to be calmed down by your daughter.

[Surferdude]

A few pics. Sorry they're blurry.

[Surferdude]

Ps
Paul rang me yesterday to say he saw you in the audience and you had to be calmed down by your daughter.

We had a beer afterwards.
He told me it was nice to have an intelligent drinking companion for once.

[mickd]

Thanks for the pics,  glad you both had a great time. 
Must say, that girl a couple of rows being you looks like she's been hit by a vampire. 

[Surferdude]

Thanks for the pics,  glad you both had a great time. 
Must say, that girl a couple of rows being you looks like she's been hit by a vampire. 

Yeah. I noticed that. Obviously some sort of reflection off her phone but what the hell was she looking at?

[eye30]

Ps
Paul rang me yesterday to say he saw you in the audience and you had to be calmed down by your daughter.

We had a beer afterwards.
He told me it was nice to have an intelligent drinking companion for once.

So who was he with?

[Lakes]

I must say, without even seeing the show, when I read reports about his pretty much non stop 3 hour/ 40 song show, I was extremely impressed with his stamina for a 75 y/o.

we have got 75 year old pushy riders that still go hard ( next Monday last before a xmas break 51k dirt tracks ) know an 81 year old still rides and work's.
think lack of activity exercise , not good but some people just lucky.

good to see him still going strong, was he miming?

wish Elvis was still alive!! now I can hear again!!

[Surferdude]

No John. He wasn't miming.

[mickd]

Thanks for the pics,  glad you both had a great time. 
Must say, that girl a couple of rows being you looks like she's been hit by a vampire. 

Yeah. I noticed that. Obviously some sort of reflection off her phone but what the hell was she looking at?

I've figured it out!

Someone was streaming the concert  !!!   

[Dazzler]

Thanks for the pics,  glad you both had a great time. 
Must say, that girl a couple of rows being you looks like she's been hit by a vampire. 

Yeah. I noticed that. Obviously some sort of reflection off her phone but what the hell was she looking at?

I've figured it out!

Someone was streaming the concert  !!!   

Sounds crazy, but probably not far from the truth! 

[Surferdude]

Thanks for the pics,  glad you both had a great time. 
Must say, that girl a couple of rows being you looks like she's been hit by a vampire. 

Yeah. I noticed that. Obviously some sort of reflection off her phone but what the hell was she looking at?

I've figured it out!

Someone was streaming the concert  !!!   

Sounds crazy, but probably not far from the truth! 

Good thought. But at that stage, we were still 15 minutes from kick off.

[Dazzler]

Thanks for the pics,  glad you both had a great time. 
Must say, that girl a couple of rows being you looks like she's been hit by a vampire. 

Yeah. I noticed that. Obviously some sort of reflection off her phone but what the hell was she looking at?

I've figured it out!

Someone was streaming the concert  !!!   

Sounds crazy, but probably not far from the truth! 

Good thought. But at that stage, we were still 15 minutes from kick off.

Technology is getting pretty clever. The live performance you saw might have been delayed. 

[Surferdude]

Thanks for the pics,  glad you both had a great time. 
Must say, that girl a couple of rows being you looks like she's been hit by a vampire. 

Yeah. I noticed that. Obviously some sort of reflection off her phone but what the hell was she looking at?

I've figured it out!

Someone was streaming the concert  !!!   

Sounds crazy, but probably not far from the truth! 

Good thought. But at that stage, we were still 15 minutes from kick off.

Technology is getting pretty clever. The live performance you saw might have been delayed.