![]() And had they gone another 20 minutes? I'd have been OK with that. They made their way through such obvious highlights as "Out on the Weekend," a super sweet "Harvest Moon," a raucous "Words (Between the Lines of Age) and "Powderfinger," all before bringing the set to an electrifying climax with an epic performance of "Down By the River" that a friend of mine tells me was 25 minutes long. “Love Me Do” is on “The Beatles 1,” the marketing of which did for Millennials what the red and blue albums did for kids like me in Generation X - the gateway drug into the most important catalog in rock and roll. I'm thinking that it’s probably because they’re just too young for those songs. The highlights of McCartney’s set were probably determined by which songs you’re more familiar with, given the two guys I saw leaping to their feet for “Love Me Do” after sitting through post-Beatles classics as timeless as “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five” and “Maybe I’m Amazed.” And here's the thing. ![]() It’s kind of weird to hear McCartney sing, “Hold me back, I’m ‘bout to spaz,” but to fair, that line sounds weird when Kanye sings it, too. And he brought us right up to the 21st century with “Queenie Eye” from “New,” his latest effort, and a raspy read on “FourFiveSeconds,” his collaboration with Kanye West and Rihanna. He reached back to the Beatles' brief flirtation with not being famous for a sweet “In Spite of All the Danger” and made his way through any number of their most iconic songs, as well as Wings and solo staples. And then McCartney returned to the matter at hand - a 31-song survey of the man’s career. ![]()
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