Paul McCartney performed at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday night as part of his Out There Tour, marking 49 years since The Beatles historically played the venue.
The audience got a world exclusive as Paul performed The Beatles song Another Girl from the Help! soundtrack for the very first time – it was never even performed by The Beatles!
Paul said of the show “It was sensational and quite emotional remembering the first time and then experiencing this fantastic audience tonight. It was thrilling for us and we think it was probably the best show we did in Japan and it was great to be doing the Budokan 49 years later. It was crazy. We loved it.”
The ‘Out There’ tour comes to the UK in May and includes two nights at The O2 Arena on May 23rd and 24th.
Speaking about his return Paul said: “It’s very exciting to be returning to the Budokan because it is a very special place and was the first place we played in Japan. There was a lot of controversy at the time but I now know that it is a regular venue for a lot of people. But for me it has a very special place in my memory.”
Paul McCartney, Tokyo, April 29, 2015 set list
Main Set
Can’t Buy Me Love (from the Beatles’ A Hard Days Night, 1964)
Save Us (from New, 2013)
All My Loving (from Meet the Beatles!, 1964)
One After 909 (from the Beatles’ Let It Be, 1970)
Let Me Roll It (from Band on the Run, 1973)
Paperback Writer (Beatles’ single, 1966)
My Valentine (from Kisses on the Bottom, 2012)
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five (from Band on the Run, 1973)
Maybe I’m Amazed (from McCartney, 1970)
I’ve Just Seen a Face (from the Beatles’ Rubber Soul, 1965)
Another Day (single, 1971)
Dance Tonight (from Memory Almost Full, 2007)
We Can Work It Out (Beatles single, 1965)
And I Love Her (from the Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night, 1964)
Blackbird (from The Beatles (White Album), 1968)
New (from New, 2013)
Lady Madonna (Beatles single, 1968)
Another Girl (from the Beatles’ Help!, 1965)
Got to Get You Into My Life (from the Beatles’ Revolver, 1966)
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (from the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967)
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (from the Beatles’ The Beatles (White Album), 1968)
Back in the U.S.S.R. (from the Beatles’ The Beatles (White Album), 1968)
Let It Be (from the Beatles’ Let It Be, 1970)
Live and Let Die (from the soundtrack of Live and Let Die, 1973)
Hey Jude (Beatles single, 1968)
Encore
Yesterday (from Help!, 1965)
Birthday (from the Beatles’ The Beatles (White Album), 1968)
Golden Slumbers (from the Beatles’ Abbey Road, 1969)
Carry That Weight (from the Beatles’ Abbey Road, 1969)
The End (from the Beatles’ Abbey Road, 1969)
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